Tuesday, June 9, 2026

On Snakes, Snails Turtles & "How They Vote In California"




Third time's the charm?  With bug eyes for emphasis, Kristen Welker makes three attempts to tell the President how voting works in California so he won't remain mired in ignorance, without the evidence needed to confirm what he sees, hears and knows. 

"President Trump: They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with the --
    Kristen Welker: That's how they count the votes in California.
President Trump: Do you know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election.
    Kristen Welker: There's -- What? Do you have evidence to support that?
President Trump: It's -- all I have to do is look. All I have to do is look.
    Kristen Welker: But that's not evidence.
President Trump: And I listen. And I listen to people. And let's see what happens.
    Kristen Welker: But sir, that's not evidence --
President Trump:  Do you think it's appropriate --
    Kristen Welker: That's how they count the votes in California --
President Trump:  Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking a winner?
    Kristen Welker:  State and local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging --
President Trump: No, they're crooked.
    Kristen Welker: --they're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote in California."

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-kristen-welker-nbc-meet-the-press-june-5-2026/

2 comments:

MamaM said...

Coffee & Covid News presents an interesting perspective, regarding the SAVE Act as Trump's plan A, with a plan B and Plan C in the works.

"And so we see the two toothy prongs of a red-hot pincer. On one side, SCOTUS appears poised to end the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots. Democrats can still use mail-in ballots, but they’ll have to send them in early, or at least on time. But I’ll bet you a taco truck that all the “shoe dropping” fun will have drained out.

The second claw is the new USPS rules. Once ballots can be tracked and analyzed, and once the feds get hold of and audit absentee voter lists, a wide variety of clever possibilities will evaporate like the morning dew off the mail truck. Between the two prongs, even if there was no fraud to start with (don’t make me laugh), voters can enjoy a new level of confidence in elections.

Even if it accomplishes nothing else, Spencer Pratt’s hard work and lopsided result does this: his vivid example prepares the narrative battlefield for Plans B (SCOTUS) and C (USPS) to more easily survive challenges and take effect soon.

I am not saying that Plan A (requiring ID) has become irrelevant. But Plan A is much less urgent once Plans B and C come online...The glass-half-full view of Spencer Pratt’s sacrifice in Los Angeles is that he just created the best possible example for why both SCOTUS’s decision and USPS’s plans are fair, reasonable, and necessary."


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/keep-on-trucking-tuesday-june-9-2026

edutcher said...

No, they're crooked. He's been waiting a half dozen years to say that.

PS Looks like Hilton is still going to face Becerra. All that hard work for nothing.