The California governor has clashed with Trump in recent days over the president's deployment of the National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California called on Americans to stand up to President Trump in a nationally televised address.

Gavin Newsom won praise on Wednesday for his speech Tuesday night seen by a national audience, something many Democrats saw as a shot across the bow to President Donald Trump that they can fight Trump -- and one that sparked new talk of Newsom as the party's standard-bearer in 2028.

Gavin Newsom made a stand for American democracy in a fiery speech Wednesday condemning Donald Trump for deploying nearly 5,000 troops in LA over ICE raids protests. In a quickly organized near primetime address coming on the fifth day of unrest in the City of Angels,

Elected officials, as well as social media influencers, had wide-ranging opinions of the governor’s prime time address warning that democracy is in danger.

"It clearly will not end here, other states will be next, democracy is next," the California governor says in a speech Tuesday night

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is being mocked online for an “embarrassing" televised address that experienced several technology meltdowns leaving his speech without sound.