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The Facts About the California Primary and Its Lack of Integrity

As always, the media says Republicans are spreading conspiracy theories about the California primaries. However, there are many documented reasons to distrust California’s election system.

California held its statewide primary on June 2, 2026. Under the state’s top-two jungle primary system, adopted in 2010 and in use since 2011, the two highest vote-getters in any primary advance to the general election regardless of party, meaning the November ballot can feature two democrat candidates with no republicans.

In the 2026 governor’s race, that scenario remains live. Republican Steve Hilton leads Democrat Tom Steyer by less than half a percentage point for the second spot, with roughly one-third of ballots still uncounted.

California voters could arrive at the polls in November and find two Democrats, Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer, and no Republican.

The level of support currently shown for a Republican candidate in California is itself unusual and suggests that many Californians are growing weary of Democratic leadership.

Apart from the top-two system, Republicans point to numerous concrete facts to support their claims that California elections are vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

California does not require voters to show identification at the polls in most circumstances, and a 2024 state law signed by Gov. Newsom prohibits local governments from imposing their own ID requirements.

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Democrat Nithya Raman Just 1 Point Away From Knocking Spencer Pratt Out of LA Mayor’s Race After Pratt Railroaded in Latest Ballot Dump – Pratt Responds!

Another damning ballot dump in the rigged Los Angeles mayor race put Democratic City Councilwoman within striking distance of Spencer Pratt, now trailing by just 1% with nearly 200,000 ballots remaining to be counted. 

They’re counting ballots that came in after election day! Who could trust these results?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has already been projected to advance to the November runoff. The top two candidates will advance if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.

After the Saturday results came in, Pratt now leads by just 7,494 votes, roughly 1.1% of the total ballots counted. The nearly 200,000 remaining ballots are expected to continue favoring the Democrats.

This comes after Pratt surged with a massive lead over Raman in early vote results on election night.

Analysis of the Saturday vote tally shows that Nithya Raman received more than twice as many votes as Pratt, 23,514 votes to Pratt’s 10,336.

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US Attorney Observes Los Angeles Election Center as Feds Launch Multiple Voter Fraud Investigations

Multiple election fraud investigations in California are currently underway with the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, as ballot counting for Tuesday’s primary election continues. 

First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said his office is conducting a “comprehensive audit of California’s voter rolls” with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division on Friday. His office also has “multiple election fraud investigations underway” in coordination with the FBI.

This comes after Trump sounded the alarm on Thursday, telling reporters in the Oval Office, “You see what’s happening in California. They’re rigging the election.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton also sounded the alarm on Thursday evening, telling Fox’s Laura Ingraham that, according to USPS whistleblowers, California is indiscriminately counting mail-in ballots without verifying the date they were sent. “It’s insane. This election system that they’ve created here is just another monument to their uselessness, another version of high-speed rail,” Hilton said as roughly 4 million ballots remain uncounted in his race.

On Thursday, Democrat Xavier Becerra, former Health and Human Services Secretary for Biden, advanced in the governor’s primary race 48 hours after the polls closed on Thursday evening. Still, Hilton is in first place, leading Democrat Tom Steyer by seven points with 59.7% of expected votes in as of 3:18 pm ET, and his fate remains uncertain with California’s lawless election system.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been projected to advance to the November runoff in the mayor’s race, where she will face either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman. Pratt, after taking an early lead over Democratic Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass by a slim margin, is still in second place. Pratt is leading Raman by six points with 64.3% of expected votes counted as of 3:18 pm ET.

“The most recent mail-in ballots that were processed are favoring Democrats, as many analysts suggested they would. Inside the ballot processing center here in LA County, any ballot that was postmarked by Election Day, Tuesday, must be counted by law,” Fox’s Matt Finn reports from outside LA County’s ballot processing center.

“The process takes so long, in part because each ballot must have its signature verified, and if there’s an issue, there’s a 10-day period to have it cured,” he continued, noting that it’s “very likely” counting will continue into next week.

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“A Total Joke” – Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton GOES OFF on California’s Shady Elections, Vows to End Mail-In Voting Scam

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Friday went off on California’s rigged election system and the “completely outrageous” weeks or month-long counting process. 

“First of all, however long it takes, we are confident that we’re going to be in the top two at the end of this process. There is nothing that we’re seeing that changes our assessment that we will be in the top two once all the votes are counted,” he said. “And what does that mean? That means change is coming!”

Hilton continued, “This shambles is absolutely shameful for our state. India counts over 640 million votes in a day. California cannot count less than 10 million votes in a month. Thanks to the Democrats in charge of our state, we have become a national and an international laughing stock.”

“And then, when you dig into what is actually happening here, you see the reason,” he added, highlighting Ventura County, which won’t have another update on vote totals until Tuesday, June 9, one whole week after election day.

Hilton then laid out his plan to ensure the integrity of elections and eliminate the unchecked mail-in voting with three common-sense reforms if elected governor.

“Mail-in ballots must arrive by election day if they’re going to be counted,” he said.

“Mail-in ballots can only be offered by request, as it used to be. We shouldn’t send out mail-in ballots to everyone on the voter rolls when we know the voter rolls are completely wrong.”

And, he said, “We should be pre-counting these votes, just like Florida does, so it doesn’t end up being this mad backlog that takes a month or so to count. It’s completely ridiculous.”

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Trump Says “They’re Rigging the Election” in California as Counting Continues – “They Found a Lot of Mail-in Ballots Last Night”

President Trump sounded the alarm on California on Thursday, telling reporters, “They’re rigging the election,” as counting continues across the state and key races for California governor and Los Angeles mayor remain undecided. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt had surged on election night, taking an early lead over Democratic Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass by a slim margin. The two top vote-getters will advance to a runoff if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote.

However, the late-arriving mail-in votes, which are expected to be roughly a third of the total vote, will take days to arrive under California’s lawless vote-by-mail system.

As of 2:47 pm ET, 62% of ballots in the Los Angeles mayor’s race had been counted. Only Bass has been projected to advance to the runoff in November, where she will face either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman.

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President Trump Announces Investigation into California’s Extremely Slow Vote Counts Just as Suspicious Late Drops Slash GOP Leads in Two Critical Races

President Trump is fed up with the election shenanigans in California and is taking action.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, highly popular reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and businessman Steve Hilton emerged on election night seemingly in good shape to advance past the open primary for Los Angeles Mayor and California Governor, respectively.

Pratt is currently leading Marxist LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and trailing Bass by a slim margin. Hilton leads all candidates for governor. Few votes have been tallied since election night, but the ones counted so far have been good for Democrats.

Are Democrats beginning to execute the steal?

Trump thinks so. On Thursday morning, Trump alleged “big cheating” by the Democrats and announced an investigation had been launched by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in LA.

There’s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks.”

“Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???”

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Democrat Xavier Becerra Advances in California Governor’s Primary Race as Mail-in Ballots Flood In Two Days After Polls Close

Democrat Xavier Becerra, former Health and Human Services Secretary for Biden, advanced in the California governor’s primary race 48 hours after the polls closed on Thursday evening.

On Tuesday evening, Republican candidate Steve Hilton was in the lead shortly after the polls closed, and he is still holding on.

Two days later, and only 57% of the ballots have been counted in the California governor’s race.

Mail-in ballots pouring in after election night have favored Democrat Becerra and Tom Steyer.

Xavier Becerra currently has 1,468,875 votes at 26.04%

Steve Hilton still has a comfortable lead, holding on with 1,532,530 votes at 27.17%.

Democrat Tom Steyer has 1,139,578 votes at 20.18%

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Graham ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Platner Goes Into Hiding From the Media As His Campaign and Poll Numbers Implode

Graham Platner, the Democratic Socialist (communist) who is running for U.S. Senate in Maine, has gone into hiding from the mainstream media as scandals tank his campaign and his poll numbers.

Platner reportedly met with Senate Democrats this week, who wanted to know if another shoe was going to drop on him and his campaign. Most people believe that the worst is yet to come.

He is already dealing with fallout from having an actual Nazi tattoo for 20 years, countless hateful comments on Reddit about women, black people, gay people, and rape victims. It’s hard to imagine how things could get worse for him.

Is there any wonder why he’s hiding from the press?

FOX News reports:

Graham Platner avoids mainstream press as scandals surrounding Maine Democrat grows

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been largely avoiding the press in the wake of his most recent scandal.

The presumptive Democratic nominee came under controversy over the weekend after reports revealed that Platner had sent explicit messages to at least six women while he was married. In the days following the reports’ release, Platner has continued to make public appearances at rallies but has stopped speaking to mainstream news outlets.

In a newsletter on Monday, News of the United States (NOTUS) reported that Platner had dropped out of a rescheduled phone interview on Sunday after the initial story broke on Saturday.

“It’s been hard to pin down Platner over the past few days. Igor [Bobic] was supposed to interview him Thursday in Maine, but Platner’s team said he didn’t have time. Platner’s staff then offered Igor some time to speak with him by phone on Sunday, but after the story broke Saturday, the interview was canceled again,” NOTUS reported.

The Maine Wire, a conservative local news outlet, also shared video on Sunday of Platner’s staff blocking reporters from speaking with the Maine Democrat as he left a rally.

People know this is not a winning campaign.

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Democrats in New Jersey Give Primary Win to Candidate With Ties to Al-Qaeda – In District That’s Final Resting Place for the Man Who Said ‘Let’s Roll’ on 9/11

Democrats in New Jersey just handed a primary win to Adam Hamawy, a candidate with actual ties to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, which is credited with carrying out the attacks of 9/11.

This is in a district where Todd Beamer is buried. You may remember Todd Beamer as the airline passenger on Flight 93 who famously said “Let’s roll” as his last known words, referring to other passengers as they prepared to retake control of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania instead of somewhere in DC.

This is what Democrats have come to. Utterly shameful.

The New York Post reported:

‘Squad’-backed NJ Democrat who volunteered with Al Qaeda-linked group wins primary to replace Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman

Adam Hamawy, an Egypt-born former combat surgeon who once volunteered with an Al Qaeda-linked group in Bosnia, emerged victorious Tuesday in the Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman’s (D-NJ) seat.

Hamawy — a staunch critic of Israel who was endorsed by “Squad” Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), as well as socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — was the top vote-getter in the crowded Democratic primary race for the Garden State’s deep-blue 12th Congressional District.

An Iraq War veteran, Hamawy has made national headlines for saving Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill) life after a helicopter crash as well as for his volunteer work in the Gaza Strip…

Hamawy also had a yearslong relationship with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995 after his followers carried out the bombing of the World Trade Center two years earlier.

Guy Benson of FOX News wrote on Twitter/X:

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

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Spencer Pratt Advances to November Runoff in LA Mayoral Race with Strong Second-Place Finish, Declares ‘The Communists Already Lost’

Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt will advance into the November general election runoff for Los Angeles mayor.

With roughly 50 percent of the expected vote counted early Wednesday morning, Bass led with approximately 36-37 percent while Pratt pulled in a strong 29.2 percent.

Progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman trailed far behind in third at 21.4 percent.

Under California’s top-two primary system, Bass and Pratt will face off in November, giving Pratt five more months to campaign.

Pratt decided to run on cleaning up the city after becoming fed up with rampant crime, homelessness, and losing his home in the devastating 2025 wildfires, which he, and many others, largely blame on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass’ extreme failures.

Though the election is non-partisan, with no listed parties, Pratt is personally a registered Republican.

The Hills star’s Pacific Palisades home was destroyed in last year’s wildfires. He announced his bid on the one-year anniversary of the destruction, positioning himself as the candidate who lost everything to government incompetence and is now fighting to fix it.

Pratt campaigned on aggressive homeless sweeps, tougher policing, business revival, and accountability for the Bass administration’s handling of disasters and street disorder.

Around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday night at his watch party at Don Antonio’s Mexican restaurant, Pratt stepped outside to address reporters after early results showed him advancing.

In a fiery statement to the gathered press, Pratt declared, “I didn’t know I’d be here tonight, but this is obviously God’s plan, and I’m going to go all the way, and I’m going to show everybody that I’m their mayor.”

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