Mike Johnson Says California Vote Count 'Stinks' Without 1 Piece of Evidence
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Updated · ms.now · Jun 9
Mike Johnson Says California Vote Count 'Stinks' Without 1 Piece of Evidence
3 articles · Updated · ms.now · Jun 9
Summary
Mike Johnson told reporters Monday that California’s vote counting “stinks to high heaven,” then conceded alleged wrongdoing is “impossible to prove” and said people know “instinctively” something is wrong.
That formulation underscored the central gap in his claim: the House speaker offered no evidence for election misconduct and framed intuition, rather than verifiable facts, as the basis for suspicion.
Johnson has used the same argument repeatedly, previously saying Americans “intuitively” know terrorist cells exist, that 2020 vote tallies had problems, that Alejandro Mayorkas deserved punishment, and that noncitizens vote in federal elections.
The remarks fit Johnson’s longer record after Trump’s 2020 loss, when he became a leading congressional ally in efforts to overturn the result and echoed discredited Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy theories.