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California Governor Gavin Newsom 's defiant message to President-elect Donald Trump has gone viral on social media. Trump's victory in Tuesday's election means Newsom, a Democrat who may have ambitions on the national stage , is once again poised to be a leading figure in his party's resistance campaign against Trump's presidential agenda. "I want our president to succeed," Newsom said in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter , on Saturday.
"And our job, my job, is not to wake up every single day and get a crowbar and try to put it in the spokes of the wheel of the Trump administration." "I'm not naive either, and we're pragmatic, and we will stand firm," he added. I revere this country.
The institutions. The Presidency. I want our nation to succeed.
But I'm not naive. Donald Trump has a playbook. They wrote it out for us.
922 pages. With 270 specific points he has publicly supported. If our American values and freedoms are attacked,.
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twitter.com/vL9oqq6yvG In the post, which has since received more than 8 million views and 100,000 likes, Newsom referenced Project 2025 , the Heritage Foundation's mandate for the next Republican administration, calling it the president-elect's "playbook" and "to-do list." "They wrote it out for us.
922 pages. With 270 specific points he has publicly supported," Newsom wrote in the video's caption. "If our American values and freedoms are attacked, we will not stand idly by.
" Newsweek contacted Newsom's office and representatives for Trump for comment via email. Following Trump's electoral victory, Newsom called for California lawmakers to convene a special session to safeguard the state's progressive policies ahead of the Republican's second term in the White House. On Thursday, Newsom's office said he wanted lawmakers to give the California attorney general's office more funding to "pursue robust affirmative litigation against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration, as well as defend against federal lawsuits aimed at undermining California's laws and policies.
" Newsom and lawmakers are ready to "Trump-proof" California's state laws, his office told the Associated Press. In a Friday post on Truth Social, the president-elect called the Democrat "Governor Gavin Newscum." He accused Newsom of "trying to KILL" California and "using the term 'Trump-Proof' as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to 'Make California Great Again.
'" Other governors and attorneys general from blue states are likewise preparing to counter Trump's proposals , including his plan to launch the biggest deportation program in the nation's history. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said her state would "absolutely not" assist the Trump administration with mass deportations, while New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy spoke of fighting "to the death" against proposals that counter his state's values. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul has convened a task force to develop strategies to protect New Yorkers in key areas that "are most likely to face threats from the Trump administration," including immigration, reproductive rights and civil rights.
"It's Democratic governors who are once again the last line of defense for our rights and values," Meghan Meehan-Draper, the executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, said in a statement after Trump's win. She also said: "As we brace for the potential for the same lawlessness and extremism that Donald Trump repeatedly promised to bring to the White House again, Americans can look to Democratic governors to continue standing up for fundamental freedoms and our democracy.".
