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President Trump is not mincing words about what he sees happening in Los Angeles, and frankly, neither should we. When a candidate goes from a 40,000-vote lead to a 3,000-vote deficit days after the election, you do not need a degree in statistics to smell something rotten.
Steve Hilton, the conservative commentator who threw his hat in the ring for LA mayor, dominated the mail-in ballots received by Election Day. That is the will of the people who actually planned ahead and voted on time. But then came the late-arriving ballots, those magical pieces of paper that always seem to favor Democrats in the eleventh hour. Five days of counting later, and suddenly City Councilwoman Nithya Raman is advancing to a runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
Trump called it exactly what it is: a rigged election in what we have become—a third-world nation where counting stops and starts until the right person wins. The prediction markets had Hilton leading. The polling had him more popular than Bass herself. Yet here we are, watching another Republican lead evaporate into thin air amid a fog of unexplained late ballots.
This is not about one mayoral race in one broken city. This is about whether the American people can trust that their votes matter, or whether elections have become theatrical productions with predetermined endings. When Trump speaks out on this, he is not just defending a candidate—he is defending the very idea that elections should have integrity, transparency, and finality. The question is not why he is angry. The question is why every American is not.
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