In a prime time address, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sharply criticized President Trump for sending in the military to handle the protests in Los Angeles.

California Gov. 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.