California counts votes slowly. Trump falsely cries fraud.

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  I'm Ashley Lopez.

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  I cover politics.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  And I'm Mara Liasson, Senior National Political Correspondent.

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  And we're recording this today at 12:36 p.m.

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  Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. Today on the show,

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  we're talking about voting in California's primary, which ended a week ago.

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  But we still don't have full results in several key races, including the race for governor.

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  At the time we're recording this podcast, Democrat Javier Becerra is advancing to the November election.

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  But it's not clear yet whether he will be facing Republican Steve Hilton or Democrat Tom Steyer in November.

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  And President Trump is claiming that these delayed elections.

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  Yeah, there's kind of a couple different parts of this, but one is just administratively.

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  We should start with the fact that California mails all registered voters in the state a mail ballot.

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  And so most voters choose to vote by mail.

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