Newsom Says Trump Harming Elections Because He’ll Get ‘Crushed’

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Donald Trump is setting the stage to sow doubts on the outcome of this year’s midterm elections, predicting that the president is heading for a bruising defeat and will dispute the results.

In a wide-ranging interview at a Bloomberg event in San Francisco, Newsom castigated Trump for his actions on immigration, foreign policy and federal funding. He argued that Trump is taking action against democracy itself, referring to a Wednesday FBI raid of a Georgia county election office to seize ballots from the 2020 election.

Gavin Newsom during an interview in San Francisco on Thursday.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

“It’s setting the baseline that the last election, in ...