SAN ANSELMO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is accusing the Democratic Party of not yet performing a thorough autopsy on what went wrong in its devastating loss of the White House and Senate majority in November.

In an exclusive sit-down interview with The Hill on Monday, Newsom said that if the party wants to find its way back from the wilderness, it has to be willing to look inward at what led to the losses — and the failure to win back the House majority.

“We have not done a forensic of what just went wrong, period, full stop,” Newsom said. “I don't think it, I know it. I mean, to the extent that I'm marginally part of this party, I represent the state larger than 21 state populations combined, and I can assure you there’s not been a party discussion that I'm aware of that has included the state of California."

Later in the interview, Newsom said he wasn’t sure what the Democratic Party truly represents, who is leading it or where it wants to go.

“I don't know what the party is,” he said. “I'm still struggling with that.”

Newsom, who is widely seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, also used the interview to argue that his state is actually a microcosm of the rest of the country, and not just the land of Hollywood and Silicon Valley it is sometimes stereotyped as being.

Governing the state, he said, has helped him get a better........

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