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President Donald Trump, without any evidence, accused the Democrats of trying to \u201csteal\u201d California\u2019s Gubernatorial and Los Angeles Mayoral open primaries, as counting of mail-in and drop-off ballots is still ongoing, with a Republican candidate remaining in contention to make the runoff in each of the races.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump looks on during an event in the Oval Office of the White House.<\/p>\n
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In a post on Truth Social, Trump attacked the Democrats and baselessly accused them of trying to \u201cSTEAL\u201d the two races \u201cAWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president didn\u2019t offer any evidence to back his assertions, as he used the ongoing count to attack \u201cvery late and massive numbers of\u201d mail-in ballots, as he appeared to echo false claims he has previously made about the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n
In a follow-up post, Trump again accused the Democrats\u2014derisively calling them \u201cDumocrats\u201d\u2014of \u201cBIG cheating\u201d and claimed votes were \u201call tied up,\u201d and results may not be in \u201cfor weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The President then said that the voting process is \u201cunder investigation\u201d by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Los Angeles, although it’s unclear if he ordered this probe.<\/p>\n
Chief Critic<\/p>\n
The official X account for California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s Office shot back at Trump, tweeting<\/a>: \u201cTrump is lying about California again \u2014 time to take the phone away from grandpa and put him to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n What Is The State Of The Governor\u2019s Race?<\/p>\n According to the Associated Press<\/a>, 56% of the ballots in the Gubernatorial race have been counted so far, and the top two candidates will progress to the runoffs. GOP candidate Steve Hilton is in the lead with 27.6% of the votes, followed by Democrat Xavier Becerra at 25.6%. The only other candidate still in contention is Democrat Tom Steyer, who is in third place with 19.8% of the vote. Steyer will have to win the remaining vote drops by large margins to advance to the runoffs ahead of either Becerra or Hilton.<\/p>\n What Is The State Of The La Mayor Race?<\/p>\n The Associated Press partially called<\/a> the Mayoral race early on Wednesday, noting that Democrat and incumbent Mayor Karen Bass has advanced to the runoff. With 62% of the ballots counted, Bass has secured 35% of the votes. Former reality TV star and Republican Spencer Pratt is in second place with 29.9% of the votes, while progressive Democratic challenger Nithya Raman is in third with 22.8%. The latest count released on Wednesday afternoon saw Raman cut into Pratt\u2019s lead, and local election experts told the Los Angeles Times<\/a> that she could not be counted out of the race yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline President Donald Trump, without any evidence, accused the Democrats of trying to \u201csteal\u201d California\u2019s Gubernatorial and Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,1708,47501,9,8,536,141985,18564,141986],"class_list":["post-346165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-elections","tag-california-governor-election","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-la-mayor-elections","tag-mail-in-ballots","tag-trump-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}