The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha was critical of Democratic leadership in Los Angeles and California and their response to riots being held to oppose U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in the city.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deployed 2,000 National Guardsmen into Los Angeles to combat the rioters, whom the secretary described as “violent mob assaults” against the deportation of illegal immigrants. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has condemned Hegseth’s “deranged behavior” for deploying U.S. Marines “against its own citizens,” prompting Concha to argue the governor is against “a 99-1 issue.”