Trump Claims He Would Have Won California if ‘Jesus Christ Counted the Votes,’ Calls State Election System ‘Rigged’
Trump repeated baseless claims of rigged voting and said he would have won by counting votes differently, despite losing California by 20 points in 2024.
- On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, President Donald Trump claimed he would have won California if "Jesus Christ" counted the votes, invoking divine intervention to explain his loss by more than three million votes.
- Trump asserted California's mail-in voting system is "rigged," alleging officials sent out 38 million votes with no accountability, though Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber maintains ballots are mailed only to registered voters with signature verification.
- Official records show Trump lost California by more than three million votes in 2024 despite gaining Hispanic support; a New York Times/Siena University poll released May 18 found 71% of Hispanic voters disapprove of his job performance.
- Earlier this week, Trump ordered a federal investigation into Maryland's election process and surprised Senate Republicans by endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the state's GOP primary.
- The president frequently argues he was cheated out of winning Democratic-leaning states including Minnesota and Maryland, leveling baseless claims of voter fraud centered on mail-in voting systems across multiple elections.
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Donald Trump Says He Would Have Won California ‘If Jesus Counted the Votes’
Photo Credit: Kent NISHIMURA | AFP via Getty Images In the build-up to the California gubernatorial election, Donald Trump has issued an outlandish remark about the Republican Party’s chances. While speaking to reporters at a recent conference, the 79-year-old politician boldly claimed that he would’ve easily secured victory in the deep-blue state if Jesus had been counting the votes. Donald Trump makes bizarre comment about California election …
Trump: If Jesus Counted Votes, I'd Have Won CA
The Birmingham News reports: California would have been in Donald Trump’s column, the president claimed Wednesday, if only someone else was counting votes: Jesus. “You have a rigged vote out there, that’s the problem. The votes are rigged,” the president said. “You have a really rigged vote in California. You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are dishonest,” Trump continued. That’s when the pre…
TOTALLY DERANGED: Trump Thinks that If Jesus Counted the Votes, He would Have Won in California
The heartbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is that its sufferers mistakenly think that it’s a malady that inflicts people who frequently criticize Trump. Which makes no sense. That would be a sign rational coherence and good mental health. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky In fact, TDS would be more accurately defined as a pathological disorder that causes one to virtually worship an aspiring cul…
Trump Insists Jesus Christ Counting Ballots Would Prove He Defeated Democrats in California Election
President Donald Trump claimed on 20 May 2026 that only divine intervention in vote counting would have delivered him California, a state he lost by more than three million votes in 2024. The off-the-cuff remark, made to reporters outside the White House as he prepared to board Air Force One for Connecticut, instantly lit up social media and renewed scrutiny of his ever-escalating attacks on the state's elections. Speaking while fielding a quest…
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