{"id":337091,"date":"2025-10-27T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337091\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:23:12","slug":"trump-is-trying-to-subvert-californias-nov-4-election-results-state-attorney-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337091\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is trying to subvert California’s Nov. 4 election results, state attorney general says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0State Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Monday that he anticipates the Trump administration, which last week announced plans to use federal election monitors in California, will use false reports of voting irregularities<\/a> to challenge the results of the Nov. 4 special election.<\/p>\n

Bonta, California\u2019s top law enforcement officer, said on a call with reporters that he is \u201c100%\u201d concerned about false accusations of wrongdoing at the polling places.<\/p>\n

Bonta said it would be \u201cnaive\u201d to assume Trump would accept the results of the Nov. 4 election given his history of lying about election outcomes, including his loss to President Biden in 2020. <\/p>\n

The attorney general also warned that Trump\u2019s tactics may be a preview of what the country might see in the 2026 election, when control of the U.S. House of Representatives \u2014 and the fate of Trump\u2019s controversial political agenda \u2014 will be at stake.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll indications, all arrows, show that this is a tee-up for something more dangerous in the 2026 midterms and maybe beyond,\u201d Bonta said. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice last week announced <\/a>it would send election monitors to five California counties where voters are casting ballots in the Proposition 50 election to decide whether to redraw the state\u2019s congressional boundaries.<\/p>\n

Federal election monitors will visit sites across Southern California and in the Central Valley \u2014 in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties \u2014 the Justice Department said last week.<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move an \u201cintimidation tactic\u201d aimed at suppressing support for Proposition 50 and inappropriate federal interference in a state election.<\/p>\n

While federal monitoring is routine, particularly in federal elections, it recently has been viewed with heightened skepticism from both parties. When the Justice Department under President Biden announced monitoring in 86 jurisdictions across 27 states during last November\u2019s presidential election, some Republican-led states balked and sought to block the effort.<\/p>\n

Democrats have been highly suspect of the Trump administration\u2019s plans for monitoring elections, in part because of Trump\u2019s relentless denial of past election losses \u2014 including his own to Biden in 2020 \u2014 and his appointment of fellow election deniers to high-ranking positions in his administration, including in the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

The California Republican Party requested the election monitors and cited several concerns about voting patterns and issues in several counties, according to a letter it sent to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Bonta, in his remarks Monday questioned the GOP claims, and denied the existence of any widespread fraud that would require federal election monitors. He compared the monitors to Trump\u2019s decision to dispatch the National Guard to Democratic-led cities, despite an outcry from local politicians who said the troops were not necessary. <\/p>\n

More broadly, Bonta told reporters that the Trump administration appears to be ready to fight the Nov. 4 results if Proposition 50 passes. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople vote and you accept the will of the voters \u2014 that\u2019s what democracy is. But that\u2019s not what they\u2019re teeing themselves up to do based on everything that we\u2019ve seen, everything that\u2019s been said,\u201d said Bonta, describing Trump\u2019s recent call on social media for Republicans to \u201cwake up.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

Bonta also said that the state would dispatch observers \u2014 potentially from his office, the secretary of state and county registrars \u2014 to watch the federal monitors at polling places.<\/p>\n

Early voting has already started in California, with voters deciding whether to temporarily reconfigure the state\u2019s congressional district boundaries. The Democratic-led California Legislature placed the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot in an effort to increase their party\u2019s numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives. <\/p>\n

Newsom and other backers of the measure have said they generally support independent redistricting processes and will push for nonpartisan commissions nationwide, but argued that Democrats must fight back against Trump\u2019s current efforts to have Republican states reconfigure their congressional districts to ensure the GOP retains control of Congress after the 2026 election.<\/p>\n

Trump on Sunday urged California voters not to cast mail-in ballots or vote early in the California election \u2014 the direct opposite of the message from state GOP leaders, who have expressed concern about low turnout.<\/p>\n

Republicans have historically sent in their ballots by mail in California elections, while Democrats were more likely to cast ballots on election day. But Trump has long claimed mail-in ballots are not secure, despite assurances by election officials, perhaps explaining why many Republicans now vote in person.<\/p>\n

Natalie Baldassarre, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice, declined to comment on Bonta\u2019s remarks. Baldassarre also declined to say how many election monitors would work in California. <\/p>\n

Federal election monitors observe polling places to ensure compliance with the federal voting rights laws, and are trained to observe and act as \u201cflies on the wall,\u201d David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan and nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, said in an interview last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally, what you do is walk inside, stay off to the side, well away from where any voters are, and take some notes,\u201d said Becker, an attorney who formerly worked in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0State Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Monday that he anticipates the Trump administration, which last week announced plans…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[37717,276,166625,52160,166624,15428,26822,50,52909,142274,11792,115315,290,277,4352,67,132,68,9111],"class_list":{"0":"post-337091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-bonta","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-congressional-boundary","12":"tag-election-result","13":"tag-federal-election-monitor","14":"tag-justice-department","15":"tag-last-week","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nov","18":"tag-polling-place","19":"tag-president-biden","20":"tag-proposition","21":"tag-state","22":"tag-trump","23":"tag-trump-administration","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-voter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115448709426712245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}