{"id":213292,"date":"2026-06-10T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-returns-to-old-playbook-of-undermining-us-election-integrity-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:27:56","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-returns-to-old-playbook-of-undermining-us-election-integrity-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-returns-to-old-playbook-of-undermining-us-election-integrity-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president returns to old playbook of undermining US election integrity – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts worry Trump\u2019s administration \u2013 now stocked with loyalists and election deniers<\/a> \u2013 may not stand up to attempts to sabotage upcoming elections \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 9 June at a glance
Donald Trump is \u201cinventing fraud\u201d in California\u2019s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have warned.
Trump has repeatedly<\/a> called the California results into question as ballot-counting continued in the country\u2019s most populous state. In the LA mayor\u2019s race, Trump said it was \u201cnot possible\u201d that the former reality TV star and registered Republican Spencer Pratt could have lost, despite the fact that LA is a deeply liberal city.
While the US president has used this playbook for years \u2013 from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election \u2013 election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different.
\u201cCalifornia\u2019s election is not the problem here,\u201d said Omar Noureldin, senior vice-president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, a pro-democracy watchdog group. \u201cThe problem is that we have a president in the Oval Office who continues to lie and sow doubt over elections instead of facing accountability from voters.\u201d
Trump\u2019s recent outburst and abrupt exit<\/a> during a recent Meet the Press interview showcased a feature of Trump\u2019s approach if results don\u2019t go his way: he quickly declares them rigged, rallying his supporters and rightwing media to spread similar messages. California is the latest \u2013 and largest \u2013 test of this technique in this election cycle.
This year\u2019s midterms will serve as an example of how the president will wield the federal government\u2019s power at cities and states in a crusade to ensure his party maintains power.
In contrast to 2020, when his false claims of voting fraud helped set the stage for an insurrection inside the Capitol after Joe Biden\u2019s presidential election victory, Trump now has an administration stocked with loyalists \u2013 and election deniers<\/a> \u2013 who may not stand up to an attempt to undermine election results.
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House<\/a> Republicans<\/a> on Tuesday approved a $70bn bill funding through the duration of his term the agencies leading Donald Trump\u2019s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, ending a months-long standoff with Democrats that at one point forced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shutter.
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The US has launched \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d against Iran after Donald Trump<\/a> blamed Tehran for downing a US army helicopter near the strait of Hormuz, imperilling a shaky ceasefire that was announced by the two countries in April.
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A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC<\/a>) finds hard-right groups have increasingly expanded their influence across the US government, which is pursuing a federal fraud case into the civil rights organization.
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Donald Trump<\/a> met with the House speaker, Mike Johnson<\/a>, at the White House on Tuesday as pressure mounts on the president to nominate a permanent director of national intelligence, the step some Republicans now believe is the only way to save a controversial and powerful surveillance law before it expires by the end of the week.
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Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s longtime executive assistant, is testifying on Tuesday before the House oversight and reform committee<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>as lawmakers on the panel continue their investigation into the late convicted sex offender.
The US vice-president, JD Vance, asked the Department of Justice to investigate Tim Walz<\/a><\/strong>, his rival in the 2024 election, after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation over fraud schemes in Minnesota<\/a>.
Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters<\/a><\/strong>. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the temporary ban on Tuesday.
The White House has urged the UK not to impose a social media ban for under-16s<\/a><\/strong>, saying such restrictions could impose a \u201cdisproportionate\u201d burden on US tech firms.
Hospitality and food service workers in several US cities hosting World Cup games are warning of looming labor disputes and possible strikes<\/a> <\/strong>as the largest single sport tournament in the world gets ready to kick off on 11 June.
People in the US are poised to endure another summer of unusually ferocious heat and there will be little respite in the years ahead, with a new study finding that the coming 15 years could see a doubling in hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses<\/a><\/strong>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Monday 8 June<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Experts worry Trump\u2019s administration \u2013 now stocked with loyalists and election deniers \u2013 may not stand up to attempts to sabotage upcoming elections \u2013 key US politics stories from Tuesday 9 June at a glanceDonald Trump is \u201cinventing fraud\u201d in California\u2019s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}