{"id":74601,"date":"2026-06-08T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/trump-repeats-claim-that-california-election-was-rigged-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:07:34","slug":"trump-repeats-claim-that-california-election-was-rigged-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/trump-repeats-claim-that-california-election-was-rigged-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump repeats claim that California election was rigged \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President posts screenshot on Truth Social attacking Californian election, after walking out of NBC interview after refusing to substantiate his claims of election rigging<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case you missed it yesterday, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> walked out of an explosive interview with NBC\u2019s Meet the Press after he <strong>repeatedly<\/strong> <strong>made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged<\/strong> and <strong>faced questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/07\/trump-january-6-anti-weaponization-fund\">compensation<\/a> for those charged in the January 6 insurrection. <\/strong>(You can watch the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4EusZcKt5fs\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Trump <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/06\/california-slow-vote-count\">falsely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/04\/trump-california-democrats-primaries\">claimed<\/a> that the California gubernatorial race was \u201crigged\u201d<\/strong> while asserting untrue claims of cheating in the 2020 US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/08\/us-politics-latest-news-updates-trump-california-governor-midterm-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President posts screenshot on Truth Social attacking Californian election, after walking out of NBC interview after refusing to substantiate his claims of election rigging Sign up for the Breaking News US email In case you missed it yesterday, Donald Trump walked out of an explosive interview with NBC\u2019s Meet the Press after he repeatedly made &#8230; <a title=\"Trump repeats claim that California election was rigged \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/trump-repeats-claim-that-california-election-was-rigged-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump repeats claim that California election was rigged \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}