Democratic politicians have spent the last few months talking about standing up to President Donald Trump in his second term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the first faced with figuring out what standing up actually looks like.

California Republicans have found ways to convince Trump he’s helping the state rather than Newsom before, one expert said.

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.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) knocked President Trump in a video address late Tuesday, after the Trump administration deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers and Marines to Los Angeles in an effort to quell immigration protests.