<p style="font-weight: 400;">President Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social broadside on Thursday, accusing California Democrats of stealing the state&#8217;s gubernatorial primary — and given the Golden State&#8217;s long, sordid history of electoral shenanigans, he&#8217;s got plenty of reason to be suspicious.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There&#8217;s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116690093479247202">posted</a>. &#8220;Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hilton-becerra-lead-tight-primary-race-california-governor-2026-06-03/">results</a> from Tuesday&#8217;s jungle primary are indeed dragging. With all precincts partially reporting in the governor&#8217;s race, Trump-endorsed Republican TV host Steve Hilton leads the pack with 27.6% of the vote, while former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sits in second at 25.6% — each clearing 1.3 million votes. Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer lurks in third at 19.8%, and since most California ballots are cast by mail — with postmarked ballots accepted up to a week after Election Day — the final two finalists advancing to November are far from settled.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">If the results hold, California gets the rare spectacle of a true Republican vs. Democrat November showdown, with Hilton facing Becerra for the seat being vacated by term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom. Becerra, if he wins in November, would be the first Latino elected governor of a state where 40% of residents are Hispanic. Hilton — a British-born former Fox News host who became a U.S. citizen in 2021 — is hoping to follow fellow immigrant and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sacramento.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Trump celebrated Hilton&#8217;s early lead, posting that the former television commentator &#8220;will turn California around, quickly — and the Federal Government will be there, with him, to help!&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">But Trump&#8217;s fraud allegations aren&#8217;t coming out of nowhere. California Democrats have spent years engineering the electoral deck.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In November 2025, voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californias-redistricting-ballot-measure-overwhelmingly-passes?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=California%E2%80%99s+Redistricting+Ballot+Measure+Overwhelmingly+Passes">passed Proposition 50</a> — dubbed the &#8220;Election Rigging Response Act&#8221; — which suspended California&#8217;s independent redistricting commission and handed Democrats control of a new congressional map explicitly designed to flip five Republican-held House seats. Newsom and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi championed it. Former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposed it. It passed with 64% of the vote in an election that the state mailed ballots to all voters.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Then, in February 2026, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — himself a Republican gubernatorial candidate — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ag-makes-behind-the-scenes-ballot-move-what-is-he-afraid-of">executed search warrants</a> and seized 650,000 ballots from that very Prop 50 election after a citizen watchdog group identified a stunning discrepancy: 45,896 more votes tallied than physical ballots received. California&#8217;s Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta immediately moved to block the count — and the ballots were scheduled for destruction in May. The question that hangs in the air: if the results were clean, why fight so hard to stop someone from counting the paper?</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">California&#8217;s electoral history offers other reasons for suspicion. In the 2024 congressional elections, Democrats <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-12-07/californias-congressional-races-are-a-bright-spot-for-democrats">flipped three Republican House seats</a> — including one by a paper-thin 187-vote margin that wasn&#8217;t called until a month after Election Day, with both parties deploying armies of staffers to &#8220;cure&#8221; flagged mail ballots. More Democratic ballots were cured than Republican ones — by a margin exceeding the final vote spread.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Republicans are energized heading into November. Early turnout data from the primary showed the GOP outpacing Democrats in several key counties.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">But in California, where mail ballots arrive for weeks and ballot-curing operations can erase narrow deficits, election night results have a funny way of shifting in Democrats&#8217; favor by the time the last envelope is opened.</p>

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