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President Donald Trump sparked the anger of several California Democrats on Friday with a wild claim about the state’s voting systems.
“You know, there are a lot of problems. I like ballot boxes where you can. They do mail-in voting all over the place, which is rigged anytime,” Trump told the co-hosts of Fox & Friends, adding:
Jimmy Carter, they had a commission. He said, “Anytime you have mail-in voting, it’s a crooked election.” Okay, and they’ve got to stop. But I say, so I can’t really say the ballot box, because in some cases, like California, doesn’t have ballot boxes. They send out 38 million ballots. Nobody knows where the hell they’re going. Then they come back. Democrats get more than Republicans. It’s so unfair, the system. And we’re going to fix this system.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) replied to a clip of the comment and added, “An outright lie by the President of the United States.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) replied with some receipts, “I’ve heard so many Trump election lies, but this one’s just lazy. California has plenty of places across our great state for people to drop off their ballots or vote in-person.”
“Some from Santa Clara County,” she added, attached some images of in-person voting locations.
Other social media users, including many California voters, were quick to react to the blatantly false comments:
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