Former President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think his chances of winning electoral votes in California are great, as he shared during a recent interview that he would need “Jesus Christ” as the vote counter to win.
The comments from Trump came while he was speaking with television psychologist “Dr. Phil” McGraw.
Trump said that “Democrats play a different game” while also alleging that some unsavory actions take place, like ballot harvesting. The former president went as far as to say that in California, “you have people getting seven ballots.”
“If Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK?” Trump said later on. “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.”
McGraw seemed surprised by Trump’s remarks, and when he asked him about them, the former president doubled down, adding some criticism for mail-in voting.
“I think so. I do. I see it. I go around California, they have Trump signs all over the place,” Trump said. “It’s a very dishonest [state]; everything is mail-in. They send out 38 million ballots, I think it is.”
Trump’s claims of massive amounts of voter fraud in California came without evidence during the interview.
The state has largely been blue for much of the last four decades. The last time a Republican won in the state was the 1988 election when George H. W. Bush secured its electoral votes.
In 2020, Biden won the state by nearly 30 points.
Following Trump’s interview with Dr. Phil, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign released a statement, saying that the Republican nominee has “reached a level of delusion difficult for even Dr. Phil to diagnose.”