Former President Donald Trump could have said he had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning California, but he used another religious analogy.
“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.”
Trump’s statement can in an interview with “Dr. Phil” McGraw, a television psychologist, The Hill reported.
“Democrats play a different game. And you have ballot harvesting, but you also have people getting ballots,” Trump said. “I mean, in California, you have people getting seven ballots.”
Trump blaming mail-in voting for part of the problem.
“I go around California, they have Trump signs all over the place,” he said. “It’s a very dishonest [state]; everything is mail-in. They send out 38 million ballots, I think it is.”
The Hill reported there has not been there is voter fraud in California.
California historically votes Democrat as shown by President Joe Biden winning the state by close to 30 points in 2020.
The last Republican presidential candidate to win California was George H. W. Bush in 1988.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s team responded to Trump’s allegations in a statement Tuesday.
Trump “reached a level of delusion difficult for even Dr. Phil to diagnose,” the statement said.
The Harris team also pointed actions Trump took at the end of his term, including denying the results of the 2020 election and for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022.
“As Donald Trump’s friend Dr. Phil says, ‘you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge,’” Sarafina Chitika, a Harris campaign spokesperson, said in a statement.
“And he still doesn’t acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election four years ago – despite the violent insurrection launched in his name,” Chitika said. “While Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge the facts, voters know Vice President Harris is the candidate to lead us into the future.”
One California congressman wrote about Trump’s words In a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“I’m just an ordinary Catholic, but I’m thinking that Jesus probably wouldn’t come down for a man found liable by a jury for sexual assault,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) wrote. “And since Jesus invented the laws of the universe, including math, He would certify that Trump lost California. And GA, NV, AZ, WI, MI, PA.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had a different take on Jesus’ plan for Trump.
“Jesus Christ DID have his hand on Donald Trump that day in Pennsylvania. God wanted him alive,” she wrote on X. “God has chosen Donald Trump to save America.”
“Thank God he’s alive,” she added.
