California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned that the 2028 presidential election will be a “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin election” if his party doesn’t “stand up.”

“I'll tell you what, we won't have a country. We won't have an election that's fair and free if we don't stand up, we won't. There will not be a fair and free election — it’ll be a Putin election. Was it 87 percent or is it 87.3 percent?” Gavin Newsom told ABC News’s Jonathan Karl in a new interview.

"That's what [President] Trump wants," he added."

Trump in recent days has said he would "love" to run for a third term as president, but signaled he is unlikely to do so. Some allies, including Steve Bannon, have flirted with the president doing so.

“It’s a very interesting thing. I have the best numbers for any president in m

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