Donald Trump has used fresh claims of fraud in California's 2026 primary to attack the state's election process, even as federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said they have opened multiple election fraud investigations and sent a prosecutor to observe ballot counting.
The President's remarks, made in a televised NBC interview and repeated later in Wisconsin, have put the California election fraud row at the centre of a growing Republican argument about the midterms, though no public evidence has been produced to back his claims.