Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he can win the state of California if an “honest” person was counting the votes—Jesus Christ, to be specific.
In an hour long interview with television host Dr. Phil McGraw on Tuesday, Trump suggested that officials in California stole the election by not counting votes ‘honestly’.
“If Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK?” Trump said. “In other words, if we had an honest vote counter, a really honest vote counter—I do great with Hispanics, great, I mean at a level no Republican has ever done—but if we had an honest vote counter, I would win California.”
“You think so?” a surprised Dr. Phil asked.
“Oh I think so,” Trump said. “I see it. I go around California, they have Trumps signs all over the place…It’s a very dishonest [state], everything is mail-in. They send out 38 million ballots, I think it is.”
A Republican presidential candidate has not won the state since George H. W. Bush in 1988. President Joe Biden won California by nearly 30 points in 2020.
In the interview, Trump argued that he lost California due to widespread fraud in mail-in voting.
“It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s a whole different mindset,” he said, referring to mail-in ballots. “Republicans like to go in there Tuesday and vote. And that’s been for, you know, a long time, many years, decades, decades. It’s a custom almost. It’s a family custom. It’s a beautiful thing.”
But, Democrats “play a different game,”Trump claims. “You have ballot harvesting, but you also have people getting ballots. In California, you have people getting seven ballots. Democrats.”
In a statement, Vice President Harris’ campaign said Trump “reached a level of delusion difficult for even Dr. Phil to diagnose.”
