Laura Ingraham opened The Ingraham Angle Wednesday night with a verdict on California's election.
California held its primary Tuesday – and 20 hours later still couldn't tell voters who won.
What she said about how Democrats designed that system is something Republicans in Congress need to act on right now.
Gavin Newsom Built California's Mail-In Ballot System to Run for Weeks
Steve Hilton led the California governor's race with 27.8% on election night.
Xavier Becerra sat at 25.4%.
Tom Steyer – the Democrat billionaire who spent $200 million of his own money – trailed at 19.6%.
In California's jungle primary, the top two finishers advance to November.
Eight points separated Hilton from Steyer.
And yet nobody could call the race.
Because California law lets mail-in ballots arrive up to a week after Election Day – as long as they're postmarked by Tuesday.
County officials then get 13 days to finish counting.
Steyer went on camera after the polls closed and called it "democracy at work."
Ingraham wasn't having it: "Yeah, democracy in quotes there."
She then made the comparison that exposes exactly what California Democrats built: Florida – another state with massive mail-in voting – finishes its count on election night.
So does virtually every other Western nation.
California is the exception, not the standard – and it didn't happen by accident.
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Trump Launched a DOJ Investigation Into the California Primary Count
Trump didn't wait for a final count.
On Truth Social Wednesday night he posted: "The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES."
The next morning: "There's BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???"
He then called on Republicans to pass the Save America Act – photo ID, proof of citizenship, and an end to universal mail-in voting.
Gavin Newsom's press office responded by calling the president a liar and suggesting someone take his phone away.
That response – from the office of the man who runs California's elections – tells you everything.
California Mail-In Ballot Delays Have Handed Democrats the Same Advantage Since 2015
Ingraham named the specific danger nobody in the mainstream media would say out loud.
Late-arriving mail-in ballots in Los Angeles break heavily Democratic.
She flagged it directly: far-left socialist Nithya Raman – sitting in third place on election night – could "magically jump eight points" once those ballots come in and knock Republican Spencer Pratt out of the top two entirely.
That's not a conspiracy theory.
In the past five general elections, California counted an average of 38% of its vote after Election Day.
In 2022, half the state's votes came in after election night.
In 2024, one House race wasn't called until December.
Even Nate Silver – no conservative – called California's prolonged vote resolution "insane" and said it isn't common anywhere else in the world.
Ingraham's response: this is exactly how Democrats want it.
Ingraham's conclusion: the longer the count runs, the more time Democrats have to watch results and move the right ballots to the front of the line.
Trump just sent the Justice Department to find out if that's what happened.
Sources:
- Laura Ingraham, "The Ingraham Angle," Fox News, June 3, 2026.
- OAN Staff, "Trump accuses Dems of 'BIG cheating' with mail-in ballots in Calif. primary elections," One America News, June 4, 2026.
- "2026 Primary Election: Slow California vote count criticized by Trump and Republican governor hopeful Steve Hilton," ABC7 San Francisco, June 4, 2026.
- "Why California takes weeks to count votes compared to Florida, other states," CBS San Francisco, November 12, 2024.
