Trump has repeatedly made false claims that California's 2026 elections were fraudulent, despite no evidence supporting these allegations. He has a long history of making similar baseless fraud claims about multiple elections, including 2016 and 2020, as well as other races. These repeated allegations have been widely debunked and documented by major news outlets. The notable inconsistency is that Trump is using the same fraud-claims playbook he deployed after 2020, but this time when his party actually won the presidency — making it harder to square his fraud narrative with his own electoral success.