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.

Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday addressed Californians for the first time in the wake of days of violent protests in Los Angeles that have taken a global stage with President Trump's involvement of the National Guard.

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,

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.

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

Gov. Newsom's speech confronting Trump's immigration raids in Los Angeles boosts his standing among Democrats as he warns democracy is under assault

With California and the White House now in a legal standoff over Trump's deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles, Gov. Newsom is no longer holding back in his fierce criticism of the Trump administration.