Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is blowing past warnings about dialing down the rhetoric following the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk and is back to casting President Donald Trump and his allies as threats to the future of the country. 

Newsom, who is in the middle of a high-profile redistricting fight with national consequences, said Tuesday if he didn’t win, “we’ll lose this republic, we’ll lose this democracy.”

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