California counts votes and Trump makes baseless voter fraud claims
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
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We are still waiting for some results from last Tuesday's primary in California.
That election will determine who is on the ballot this fall in the races for governor, Los Angeles mayor, and key congressional districts.
But the state is one of the slowest to count votes in the country, and in the meantime, President Trump is pushing familiar – and false – claims of election fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this, where every day we go deep on one big news story. |
| 0:05.9 | Today, President Trump uses California's slow vote count to revive baseless claims of election fraud. |
| 0:12.6 | It has been almost a week since Californians went to the polls, and yet several races have yet to be called. |
| 0:19.2 | During the wait, President Trump has brought back election |
| 0:22.4 | fraud claims, like here, speaking this past weekend with NBC's Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. |
| 0:27.7 | It's four days in California. It's, no, they're not there. They're dropping fast because |
| 0:33.5 | it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with it. You know why they're doing that? Because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days, and they aren't even close to coming |
| 0:39.2 | up with it. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. |
| 0:42.7 | Do you have evidence to support that? All I have to do is look. |
| 0:46.3 | Trump leader ended that interview abruptly after Welker pressed him for evidence. |
| 0:51.4 | Your elections in this country, we're like a third world country. |
| 0:55.2 | Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked, and Mr. Press is crooked, and so is ABC and |
| 1:01.6 | CBS and CNN. |
| 1:04.2 | Your one-sided crooked networks, right, let's call it quits, because I've had it on. |
| 1:08.5 | Thank you, darling. |
| 1:09.2 | Have a good time. |
| 1:10.5 | Consider this. |
| 1:11.5 | With his claims about California, Trump is returning to a familiar playbook. |
| 1:16.3 | Is this a preview of what the midterms could look like? |
| 1:22.6 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
| 1:35.8 | It's considered this from NPR. |
| 1:40.5 | We are still waiting for some results from last Tuesday's primary in California. |
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