President Donald Trump dinged California for its delay in reporting all the results from this week’s primary elections.
During his opening remarks at an agriculture policy roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Trump alleged without evidence that the delay was due to California “rigging the election.”
“Can you imagine?” Trump asked the roundtable and surrounding crowd. “It’s four days and they still aren’t even close to telling you who won. You know why? Because they’re rigging the election, that’s why.”
Trump then compared California’s vote counting to that of Spain, with California having a population of about 39 million people compared to Spain’s 48 million.
“I’m not a big fan of Spain, to be honest with you, it’s gone very far left, but they had an election,” he said. “Similar size to the state of California, little larger, actually, and every vote was in by 10 o’clock in the evening and counted.”
Trump said the slow tallying of votes in California was further proof of why Congress should pass the Save America Act, which requires voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote.
“It’s a crooked state, we have crooked third-world elections in a lot of our states, and we should pass our Save America Act,” the president said.
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Many races from Tuesday night’s jungle primary elections remain too close to call, including the governor’s contest between former Fox News anchor Steve Hilton and former Biden Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra.
California election law stipulates that votes are valid if they arrive up to a week after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday, though the process must conclude within 13 days of the election, or next Monday.