Trump, Gavin Newsom and California
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The president deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests.
Seventy percent of Californians disapprove of the president in a new survey. But recent national polls paint a less drastic picture.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr slams Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit over Trump’s National Guard deployment, calling the claims ‘nonsense.'
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have both opposed deployment of the National Guard and Marines to the city.
An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.
The governor highlighted his work with ICE in California but said that President Trump was “trying to gin things up to create problems” at protests.
Locked in an online showdown with Trump over the L.A. protests, Newsom is styling himself as an internet-era champion of the left.