President Donald Trump Thursday falsely claimed that Democrats are \u201cstealing\u201d California\u2019s primary election \u2014 and used the bogus assertion to continue pressuring lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLook what\u2019s happening in California, the Dumocrats, right before our very eyes, are stealing the Vote,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on Truth Social. \u201cI hope the Republicans are watching so that they can finally pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!\u201d<\/p>\n California notoriously takes a long time<\/a> to count votes, mostly because of the widespread use of mail-in voting and the state\u2019s ballot receipt deadline, which allows ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to seven days later to be counted. As a result, elections in the Golden State \u2014 particularly close ones, like several of Tuesday\u2019s elections \u2014 can take days, or even weeks, to tally up all the votes.<\/p>\n As Trump and other Republicans eagerly await to see if GOP candidates in closely watched races earned enough votes to advance to November\u2019s general election, the prolonged process is fueling conspiracy election theories<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump and the GOP are closely watching two particular elections in California: The gubernatorial primary, where Republican candidate Steve Hilton is currently leading with 56% of the votes in; and the Los Angeles mayoral race, where Spencer Platt (R) sits in second place with 62% of the votes counted.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since mail-in ballots tend to be the cause of California\u2019s slow vote-counting process, Trump seized the opportunity to push Congress<\/a> to act on the perpetually stalled SAVE America Act, which, among other provisions, would ban vote by mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ever since the Senate failed to pass the voter suppression bill in April \u2014 effectively dooming it<\/a> for the foreseeable future \u2014 Trump has continuously pressured Congress to find other ways to pass the bill. Last month, the president suggested<\/a> Congress pass the SAVE American Act by attaching it to housing and foreign intelligence surveillance legislation. Trump also suggested <\/a>the Senate fire the parliamentarian, under the belief that she\u2019s the one who is somehow obstructing the bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump Thursday falsely claimed that Democrats are \u201cstealing\u201d California\u2019s primary election \u2014 and used the bogus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-346918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346918","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=346918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}