Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard, blocking off a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire as law enforcement used tear gas,

The party raises millions in the state from wealthy donors and grassroots supporters, sometimes in a single day.

Newsom called the deployments reckless and “disrespectful to our troops” in a post on the social platform X.