Fact-checking Trump’s claims on mail-in voting in California Politics Nov 6, 2025 7:33 PM EST

As Election Day voting was underway Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that California’s vote on new Democratic-backed congressional maps and the voting process itself was “rigged.”

The president has long been a vocal critic of mail-in voting, blaming it for his 2020 election loss and often tying mail-in ballots to unproven claims of voter fraud.

He’s threatened executive action banning mail-in voting , though the Constitution stipulates that states determine how they run elections , and the president has voted by mail himself in previous elections .

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