Becerra Rebukes Trump's California Fraud Claims After 2026 Primary as All-Democratic Runoff Takes Shape
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Updated · LatinTimes · Jun 5
Becerra Rebukes Trump's California Fraud Claims After 2026 Primary as All-Democratic Runoff Takes Shape
3 articles · Updated · LatinTimes · Jun 5
Summary
Hours after CNN projected Xavier Becerra into California's November governor runoff, he accused Donald Trump of undermining trust in the state's elections and called him a "repeat loser" in California.
Trump had alleged without evidence that Democrats were engaged in "BIG cheating" and questioned why ballots from Tuesday's primary were still being counted.
Late-arriving ballots lifted both Becerra and Tom Steyer, shutting out Trump-backed Republican Steve Hilton and ensuring California's next governor will be a Democrat.
Becerra's response signals an early general-election strategy: cast himself as a defender of California against Trump rather than focus first on Steyer in the all-Democratic contest.
That approach revives a familiar role for Becerra, who as California attorney general joined dozens of lawsuits against Trump's first administration before serving as Biden's HHS secretary.