LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

In the national struggle over U.S. House control, perhaps no politician has more at stake than the California governor, who has emerged as the leading Democratic adversary to President Donald Trump in what many see as a lightly masked trial run for his own future White House bid.

The liberal former San Francisco mayor, who is nearing the end of a spotty tenure in Sacramento, is being cheered by Democrats and party activists who see his scrappy, Trump-mocking, profanity-tinged speeches and snarky social media posts as signs of new life in a party left dispirited and rudderless after 2024 election losses.

Newsom "has been doing what I’ve wanted a Democrat to do for a long time,” radio host Charlamagne Tha God said on his syndicated “Brea

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