Trump repeats claim that California election was rigged – US politics live

Trump repeats claim that California election is rigged Welcome to our coverage of US politics. Donald Trump has repeated a claim made during an NBC interview on Sunday that he walked out of claiming that the California gubernatorial race is rigged. On Monday, the US president posted a screenshot of congressman Abe Hamadeh ’s post on X, who claimed that California is “incapable of running free and fair elections consistent with our constitution”. Trump posted the screenshot on Truth Social, with the original post by Hamadeh referring to election data platform Decision Desk HQ that Nithya Raman is projected to win the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles mayor non-partisan primary election. In response, Trump wrote: “No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!” This comes after he walked out of an NBC interview aired on Sunday, where he falsely claimed that the California gubernatorial race was “rigged” while asserting untrue claims of cheating in the 2020 US presidential elections. “It’s four days and they aren’t even close to counting [ballots],” he said – as interviewer Kristen Welker argued that this was standard process in California. When he was asked about what his evidence was to suggest that the California election is “rigged”, Trump accused Welker of being “crooked” and later “stupid”. When NBC tried to continue to pose questions to the president, he took off his microphone, and said: “Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. …