{"id":404845,"date":"2026-07-20T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:46:24","slug":"fact-check-president-trump-called-las-vote-count-into-question-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/404845\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: President Trump called LA’s vote count into question. What you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a primetime address to the nation Thursday night<\/a>, President Donald Trump cited L.A.’s mayoral and gubernatorial primary elections as “one example of the insanity” of how Americans currently vote. The speech, which lasted under 30 minutes, was focused on Trump’s longstanding accusations of fraud in U.S. elections \u2014 claims that have not been substantiated. <\/p>\n

Here’s what Trump said, as it relates specifically to our local and state primary election: <\/p>\n

“Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail. As one example of the insanity, California’s recent election for mayor of LA and governor was held on June 2nd, a long time ago, but it was just completed a few days ago on July 10th. Think of that much more than one month. It took a month to count the votes. I wonder what they were doing. This is worse than any third world country. There’s no third world country that has elections like we have.”<\/p>\n

What follows is a fact check of how elections are run in California and details on why the process takes as long as it does. Bottom line: California’s count is slow to ensure all ballots cast are counted. This explainer was originally published June 2, 2026, and updated July 16 with reaction to President Trump’s address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a primetime address to the nation Thursday night, President Donald Trump cited L.A.’s mayoral and gubernatorial primary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-404845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404845","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=404845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}