{"id":2328,"date":"2026-06-09T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:04:01","slug":"trump-previews-fall-strategy-with-baseless-claims-of-california-vote-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Trump previews fall strategy with baseless claims of California vote fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON &#8212; For President Donald Trump, any Democratic election victory is suspicious on its face. Even, apparently, in one of the most liberal cities in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2326\">The rise and fall of \u2018The Hills\u2019 star Spencer Pratt\u2019s improbable campaign for Los Angeles mayor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNot possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had,\u201d Trump wrote on social media on Monday. \u201c3rd World Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On election night last Tuesday, Pratt &#8212; the reality-television personality and Trump-endorsed Republican &#8212; led progressive City Council member Nithya Raman for second place to advance to November\u2019s mayoral runoff, behind the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass, who is also a Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>But as election officials spent the following week counting late-arriving mail ballots, which were disproportionately from Democrats, Raman edged ahead of Pratt. On Monday evening, The Associated Press said she had indeed prevailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such fleeting Republican leads are common enough to have a name &#8212; the \u201cred mirage\u201d &#8212; yet Trump, as he did in his own 2020 loss, cast the slow count as proof of theft. By baselessly framing Raman\u2019s rise as a Democratic scam, Trump extended his long-running project to erode public faith in elections &#8212; and gave an unusually clear preview of how he could greet any disappointing results for his party in November, when control of Congress is at stake.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>He has been anything but subtle about his desire to limit the ability of Democrats to vote by mail, implying, with no evidence, that simply choosing that widely used means of casting a ballot is inherently suspect. Addressing a gathering of Republican lawmakers in March, he said the way to hold their majority was to pass a strict voter identification law cracking down on mail ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019ll guarantee the midterms,\u201d he told them, warning that failure would bring \u201cbig trouble.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Privately, according to one senior adviser, he has pressed aides to find ways to \u201cstop them stealing it from us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What is striking so far is how little of this has survived contact with reality. Voting legislation he has championed, the SAVE Act, cleared the House but stalled in the Senate, where Republicans lack the votes to break a Democratic filibuster. Among other things, the bill would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and would compel states to share voter rolls with the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An executive order he signed in March directing the Department of Homeland Security to assemble a federal list of eligible voters and barring the Postal Service from delivering mail ballots to anyone left off it was condemned by election experts as illegal and drew multiple lawsuits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still, even if Trump fails to change election laws or processes, he can sow substantial chaos simply by trying to convince voters that the results were fraudulent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than five years after his supporters, fueled by lies about a stolen election, stormed the Capitol to stop the transfer of power, Trump has tried to recast Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of \u201cpeace,\u201d claiming his supporters were led astray by FBI officers in a false-flag operation. He has produced no credible evidence, yet he has pardoned rioters who breached the Capitol and has entertained paying restitution to some of them, over the objections of even some in his own party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His fraud claims about California could matter especially in November. The House majority rests on a thin margin, with Republicans holding 218 seats to Democrats\u2019 213. After California voters approved Proposition 50 in November &#8212; a constitutional amendment pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to permit a redrawing of the state\u2019s congressional map &#8212; Democrats have a chance to flip as many as five Republican-held seats, potentially enough to take the chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2324\">From tennis to T-ball, the White House\u2019s South Lawn is no stranger to sports. But not like the UFC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of those seats lie in the same Central Valley and Orange County districts whose ballots take days or weeks to tally. In other words, the races that may decide control of Congress could be counted in precisely the slow way Trump reflexively calls fraud. Elon Musk has amplified the message, arguing that the combination of no voter ID and mail-in ballots amounts to legalized fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump has leveled the same accusation at California\u2019s governor\u2019s race, in which Republican Steve Hilton is fighting for the second spot that would set up a November runoff against Democrat Xavier Becerra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After complaining about \u201crigged elections\u201d in his Monday social media post, the president added: \u201cNow they\u2019ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton. Won\u2019t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This year, California had an unusually competitive primary election for governor, driving up turnout and raising the stakes of the statewide count. To add to the issue, many Democrats waited to return their mail ballots as the field shifted and as some were concerned that Democrats could get locked out of the top two spots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked whether Trump had any evidence to support his claims that the California elections were being rigged, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, said he was \u201ccommitted to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of our elections.\u201d That pledge, she added, is \u201cwhy millions of Americans sent him back to the White House,\u201d adding that Trump would implement measures to \u201csecure our elections for generations to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc. in Sacramento and an expert in California voter turnout, said his firm\u2019s data showed that the share of Democratic voters\u2019 ballots being processed has far outpaced the share of Republican ballots in recent days, and that the distance had widened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>California sends every regular voter a mail ballot that can be returned at their convenience. It gives a weeklong grace period for ballots to arrive as long as they are postmarked by election day. The state allows voters registered at old addresses or those not registered at all to fill out provisional ballots that become valid if election officials verify their information and deem them eligible. And it allows voters with mismatched signatures on file to resolve discrepancies once they are detected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of those provisions make voting easier for residents in California than in many other states, but they add various checkpoints in the system to ensure security, each of which costs time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn California and Los Angeles, we have our election laws written in a way that maximizes participation,\u201d said Mike Sanchez, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County registrar of voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mitchell, who is a Democratic consultant, said that, paradoxically, the most effective way to speed up California\u2019s count would be to eliminate security protocols, like cutting ballot signature verification or checks on voter registration for provisional voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think Republicans would want that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other election experts said California suffered from logistical problems. Each of California\u2019s 58 counties is responsible for running its own election, and many lack sufficient resources to verify mail ballots and count votes quickly. They may not have enough workers, space or machines to process ballots in quick order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2322\">Heat, humidity, elevation, long travel \u2014 these countries have the toughest road at the World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><i>This article originally appeared in <\/i><i>The New York Times<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president is using the slow count of mail ballots in California to renew his effort to cast doubt on election outcomes he doesn\u2019t like, despite a lack of evidence of any widespread fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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