President Donald Trump and top Republicans are doubling down on unsubstantiated fraud claims in California’s primary elections this month, a dispute that election experts say points to a bigger threat heading into the 2026 midterms than the country faced in 2020.
Trump called the California primary “rigged” on NBC’s Meet the Press on June 7, pointing to the pace of the count and Republican candidates losing ground as mail ballots were tallied. Pressed by host Kristen Welker for evidence, he replied: “All I have to do is look.”
Speaking at a roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, last Friday, Trump claimed, without evidence, that Democrats were rigging the election: “It’s a crooked state,” he said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said last Friday that it had opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a…
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