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President Donald Trump reacted to the slow, ongoing count of voters’ ballots in California, arguing that the race was fixed against Republican candidates.
Despite the election having taken place on Tuesday, many of the mail-in votes are yet to be counted, according to NBC News, with nearly 17 percent of the vote left in Los Angeles as of Monday and the state at large.
“Has anybody been watching the CROOKED Election going on in California,” President Trump penned in a Sunday post to Truth Social.
He continued, “”Two great Republican Candidates are being cheated, and so is America, which if the Dumocrats are able to fulfill their mission, great trouble and consternation will follow. Watch this ‘Election’ closely!!!”
Republican candidates include Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, while the gubernatorial race may see Steve Hilton become victorious.
The president’s comments come shortly after he abruptly ended an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, during which he accused host Kristen Welker and the network of being a “one-sided crooked network.”
He ridiculed Welker after she insisted that he had failed to provide any proof that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against him and that the ongoing gubernatorial and mayoral races in California were also fraudulent.
“You’re a one-sided crooked network,” President Trump fumed during the interview, which aired Sunday. “Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.”
“I sat in the rain with you for an hour,” he continued. “On and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press,” he added. “A country can never be great with a dishonest press.”
Welker reportedly spoke to the president again after the incident, and the president agreed to another interview with her, though the specifics are so far unconfirmed, according to the New York Post.
The heated exchange began at the end of the interview, when Welker pressed the president on a proposed $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund aimed at providing cash payouts to victims of federal lawfare.
The president has called the fund a “great idea” and said he would be disappointed if this did not receive approval.
However, when pressed on whether January 6, 2021, rioters at the Capitol Building should be included, the focus turned to the 2020 election.
“Now, I don’t know what’s going to happen with the weaponization fund. I love the idea,” the president said. “People like stupid [Joe] Biden, he’s not smart enough to know what’s going on, but people that surrounded him—what they did to the lives of people, they destroyed people. They sent people to jail who did nothing wrong.”
Welker said there was “no evidence” that the elections were fraudulent, a claim President Trump disputed.
“The election was rigged. It was a dirty election,” President Trump snapped about the election, which he lost to Biden before winning in 2024 against Democrat Kamala Harris.
