The California governor's Trump-like social media posts and redistricting push are resonating with Democrats who are eager for a fighter to go on offense against the GOP.

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.

Gavin Newsom’s legal challenge of President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces to Los Angeles was back in court last week. Newsom and state officials argued the move marked an overreach of executive power and may have violated the Posse Comitatus Act,