President Trump is not letting California sit on its slow vote count without a fight.
On Thursday morning he alleged “big cheating” by Democrats in the state and said the delay is now under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.
The timing is everything here. Republican candidates came out of election night in strong position, and the longer counting drags on, the more late batches have broken for Democrats.
🚨 JUST IN: Investigations are being launched as mail-in ballots take SUSPICIOUSLY LONG to count in Los Angeles, Nithya Raman is GAINING on Spencer Pratt with 322,000 votes remaining
Polls have been CLOSED for almost *36 HOURS* and only 62% of the vote is counted.
Pratt leads… pic.twitter.com/05609svu60
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 4, 2026
The two races at the center of this are the open primary for Los Angeles Mayor and the California gubernatorial primary.
Reality TV star turned candidate Spencer Pratt has been running ahead of left-wing LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman while trailing incumbent Karen Bass by a slim margin. Businessman Steve Hilton has been leading the field for governor.
The Gateway Pundit reported the announcement and laid out where things stood:
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 left-wing 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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The remaining ballot universe is large enough to change both races.
Eric Daugherty posted on X that Los Angeles still had 322,000 votes outstanding and only 62 percent counted nearly 36 hours after polls closed.
He also tracked a late ballot drop in the governor’s race, citing VoteHub, that showed Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer winning the batch while Hilton’s lead came under pressure.
That is the pattern. Election night looks one way, and then the late counts keep landing for the other side.
🚨 NOW: A late mail-in ballot drop just came in and Republicans LOST it by a LOT, and the total votes remaining to count WENT UP
CALIFORNIA IS INSANE
California Gov ballot drop, LA, per VoteHub
🔵 Xavier Becerra: 26,434 (35.4%)
🔵 Tom Steyer: 22,025 (29.5%)
🔴 Steve Hilton:… pic.twitter.com/uY7nkUbXlA— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 3, 2026
No one has proven fraud here, and Trump himself framed it as cheating he believes is underway and an investigation he says has been launched.
But voters do not need a verdict to ask the obvious question. A modern state should be able to count ballots faster than this, and the federal interest now puts real pressure on Los Angeles to explain the holdup.
Republicans went into these races with the wind at their backs. With federal investigators watching the count, California will have a much harder time running out the clock in the dark.
