As California awaits the results of its special election on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt provided some clarity on potential executive action the president may take to curb what the administration views as troubling election processes.
Leavitt answered a question regarding President Trump’s comments on Tuesday, in which he stated that the mail-in voting system in California was “under very serious legal and criminal review.”
For context, Tuesday’s election in California will determine whether Proposition 50 becomes law. The measure allows temporary congressional redistricting before the 2030 census. It is a direct response to Texas Republicans’ move to kick-start its own congressional redistricting in favor of GOP demographics earlier this year.
If Prop 50 passes, it could flip several Republican-held congressional seats in California blue in next year’s 2026 midterms.
“The White House is working on an executive order to strengthen our elections in this country, and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud as we’ve seen in California with their universal mail-in ballot system,” Leavitt said.
She continued, “It’s absolutely true that there is fraud in California’s elections. It’s just a fact…they have a universal mail-in voting system, which we know is ripe for fraud.”
In 2021, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation making vote-by-mail ballots permanent. Voter ID is also banned in California, where there are, at a minimum, 2.3 million illegal residents.
In President Trump’s comments, he suggested that the voting system in California was “RIGGED.” When pressed on what the president meant by that, Leavitt responded, “Fraudulent ballots that are being mailed in in the names of other people, in the names of illegal aliens who shouldn’t be voting in American elections.”
She confirmed that the White House is looking into taking executive action on this issue, although it is unclear what such an action would look like.
