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Posted on 06/09/2026 7:56:21 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Steve Hilton, the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Donald Trump, publicly distanced himself from the president’s claims that California’s election results were “rigged” as he argued his team had “seen nothing” to suggest this was the case.
Speaking on CNN’s OutFront on Monday, Hilton was pressed by host Erin Burnett on Trump’s repeated allegations, without evidence, that both the California governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayoral contest were “crooked” and “rigged.”
“Just in terms of where you stand, are you worried that there’s fraud right now? Or are you just frustrated that the count is slow, but that you believe the process is fair?” Burnett asked.
“Yeah. So look, there’s so many things wrong with the system. I’ve been saying all along that we take it very seriously because we don’t want to let people down and we’ve been very vigilant on it,” Hilton said.
He continued: “We’re keeping an eye on it. We’ve got teams standing by, lawyers standing by, and actually it’s the same answer that actually I’ve been giving for a few days now, we’ve seen nothing that would give us cause to intervene in that way.”
“But more importantly than that, Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney, who’s actually got the full weight of the Justice Department, and he’s there, and he’s taking a look at it. And I trust that if there is anything that needs to be investigated, that he will make sure it happens,” he added
Hilton, however, reiterated his belief that the “whole system needs to be improved” and said that he had offered California Governor Gavin Newsom suggestions on how to “speed things up.”
“One of the reasons it’s so slow is that it’s done county-by-county, there just aren’t enough people in the offices doing the counting. One reason for that is because you’ve got a lot of complexity, a lot of signature verification. One way around that we can actually vote for in November in California, voter ID that would remove the need for all the signature verification that would really speed things up. So there’s a lot of sensible things we could do to avoid this kind of fiasco,” he said.
He said that the slow pace was “making California look like a laughingstock around the world” as he advocated for “positive” and “practical” changes to speed up the counting process and “to prevent the opportunity” for people to look at the state’s elections and suspect there’s “something fishy.”
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Nothing he says publicly between now and November can change that in the slightest. All he's trying to do now is not alienate potential swing voters by not sounding like an "election denier".
The lame stream press is already trying to create the image that both men are at odds w/each other. Pathetic!
He said he trusted the people looking into it. The headline is a bit deceiving.“
Of course it is. MSM is full time kill the stolen election story now
“election denier”
Is that like worse then being a fraud denier?
Come November Trump and his band of misfits will be slaughtered.
Ok Steve, no fraudulent elections in Ca, if you say so.
Lol ;)
Pratt got about 26% of the vote. So the odds that someone didn’t vote for him are 100%-26% = 74%. The odds that two people didn’t vote for him are 74%^2, about 55%.
The chance 20,000 votes in a single batch, would have exactly zero votes for Pratt are .74^20000, which is about 10^-2615. One person is more likely to win the grand prize of a lottery a million times in a row, than that there were zero votes for Pratt in 20,000 consecutively-counted ballots.
Thats how Raman “Won” the hobo vote
It’s simple, voting is a right, but voting by mail is a privilege. If you can’t get your absentee ballot in by, say, 11/1, your vote shouldn’t count!
He’s saving the complaint for after the election shits out Gov Becerra.
Senator Hilton has a nice name.
“It seems to be official Republican policy to not worry about election fraud until it’s too late.”
In the case of the Bush establishment it’s more like “never worry and reward the fraud if you want”.
There was obvious election fraud back when B-1 Bob Dornan lost his House seat to Loretta Sanchez in 1996.
The difference was less than 1,000 votes, and Loretta’s votes included some that used the address of an illegal alien support group.
Dornan wanted a recount but his GOP “buddies” in the House turned him down.
The Bushes were already sucking up to everything latino and that included “not offending illegal aliens”. Which is why brainless Dubya tried to ram through another Amnesty when he was president.
Steve Hilton has the brainpower of another Hilton, Paris!
In California? Almost certainly. And I put it in quotes because that is how the Dems and media will label it to smear him. If he is to have any chance at all, he has to win moderate voters. And the blunt truth is that means he can't be too heavily associated with President Trump. Now, if he loses and believes there was fraud, that's when he has nothing to lose and might as well unload on the fraud.
Why the hell do republican candidates go on Commie News Network or any other DNC media group? There is no benefit even if they want to be “fair” but they exist to destroy anything republican.
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