Taking on President Donald Trump isn't new for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, but imitating the president on social media is.

Newsom's trolling the last few weeks has been extra spicy, timed around the launch of the campaign for an issue that's the opposite of spicy: redistricting.

"Gavin Newsom has decided, 'Somebody said something brash and reckless. I'm going to say the same thing,'" said Karen North, a professor of digital social media at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

The use of all caps, MAGA phrases, and threats, combined with personal praise, is classic Trump.

Referring to redistricting, Newsom's press office posed on X: "Final warning Donald Trump - maybe the most important warning in history! Stop cheating or California will redraw the maps. And guess

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