Last Thursday, members of President Donald Trump’s administration met in Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the Buckeye State’s ongoing fight against fraud. Ohio is the first state in the country to share corporate registration records with the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Detection Center, granting investigators immediate access to important information. The announcements made last week highlighted how federal and state forces are working together in concert. Nine defendants are being charged at the federal and state levels for allegedly defrauding the government to the tune of $42 million through Medicaid or COVID programs. In addition, the Small Business Administration announced the suspension of 27,486 Ohio borrowers connected to approximately $1.1 billion in suspected fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan activity.  @SBA_Kelly in Ohio: "Today, I’m here to announce suspensions for over 27,000 Ohio borrowers tied to $1.1B in suspected PPP fraud… This task force is exposing the fraudsters, making them return what they stole, and sending them to jail." pic.twitter.com/WPxiBmXn6I— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026 A press release from the SBA called the suspension a “victory” for the White House task force on fraud. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler praised the head of Trump’s anti-fraud task force by name, saying, “Vice President JD Vance’s leadership of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud represents a historic partnership that is delivering unprecedented wins in the fight to root out fraud and recover taxpayer dollars, while past administrations looked the other way at known criminal activity.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the partnership between Ohio and the federal government is “one that can serve as a template partnership for other states in this country.” .@DAGToddBlanche announces the indictment of multiple individuals, including Ohio state employees, for defrauding taxpayers:"Today, the @TheJusticeDept is announcing significant fraud enforcement in the state of Ohio, as well as a historic fraud-fighting partnership with state… pic.twitter.com/nTofxeyrAe— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026 Mehek Cooke, who attended Thursday’s event, expressed relief at involvement from the federal government. “As I have continued to expose fraud in Ohio and the lack of meaningful oversight, I am encouraged that Ohioans’ prayers are being answered. The federal government is paying attention, and it is focused on prevention, detection, and prosecution,” she said. “This partnership is a major step forward because Ohio is sharing corporate-registration data with federal investigators, allowing them to follow the corporate trail behind the billing trail and identify the networks hiding behind suspicious claims.” Former Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who also attended the event, said that fraud has “never had the level of interest and support from the federal government under any administration that you’re witnessing here today.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: I have been doing Medicaid investigations and prosecutions for almost 16 years, and "I have NEVER had the level of interest and support from the federal government, under any administration, that you're witnessing here today." pic.twitter.com/VOzRwmlmdq— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026 Reporting from The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak has highlighted concerns with home health centers. Beneficiaries can receive services at their own homes rather than at a nursing home. However, the program allows family members to sign up to perform basic services and get paid to do so, which could bring in $90,000 a year per family, according to Rosiak’s reporting. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, who also came to Ohio for the event, shared that the Buckeye State has suspended 49 home health providers identified as “high risk.” The Ohio Department of Medicaid mentioned how this aligns with fraud prevention initiatives from Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. “These initial suspensions mark a critical step forward in ensuring accountability and deterring abuse within the Medicaid system,” ODM Director Scott Partika said in a statement. “We will continue using advanced analytics and enforceable action to protect Ohioans and preserve program integrity.” in Ohio, @DrOzCMS announces actions taken to root out healthcare fraud:— Suspending 49 Ohio home healthcare providers who've been identified as high-risk to the Medicaid program— Granted a 6-month moratorium for all new home healthcare services and hospices in Ohio— CMS and… https://t.co/9UqKulx0I1 pic.twitter.com/e53WIwVt0t— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026 According to Cooke, the announcements demonstrate a good start but more remains to be done. “There is still more work to do. We must break down the silos that prevent agencies from sharing information and allow fraudsters to hide in the gaps,” she said. “This is what can happen when state and federal leaders work together with urgency. Every state should open its books and make it harder for fraudsters to hide in plain sight.”

Transgender “medicine” has suffered tremendous setbacks in the last two years, but it remains entrenched in much of America’s medical establishment. Although hundreds of health care facilities have distanced themselves from the transgender orthodoxy demanded by the LGBTQ+ activist group the Human Rights Campaign, hundreds of others remain committed to it. HRC ranks health care facilities on a “Healthcare Equality Index” according to several criteria, including their promotion of transgender orthodoxy and their coverage of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care.” “Declining participation in the HRC health care equality index proves our fight against identity politics in medicine is working and we must keep our foot on the gas,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal. The Numbers In 2024, 1,056 health care facilities across the country took part in the HRC survey, and 384 of them received a 100% perfect score (called “leaders”), while 462 received a score between 80% and 95% (called “high performers”). This year, only 741 took part in the survey, 323 scored 100%, and 343 achieved the status of “high performers.” This represents about a 30% drop in participation, a 15% drop in “leaders,” and a 26% drop in “high performers.” The survey considers four major criteria for scoring: non-discrimination and staff training (35 points), patient services and support (30 points), employee benefits and policies (20 points), and patient and community engagement (10 points). It also considers “responsible citizenship,” a criterion on which HRC can deduct either 5 or 25 points, depending on whether the health care provider has committed “major offenses to the LGBTQ+.” The criteria require “baseline” coverage for “gender diverse employees” including “hormone replacement therapies,” “puberty blockers for youth,” and “coverage for reconstructive surgical procedures related to gender affirming surgery.” This accounts for 5 points, and entities cannot achieve a perfect score without it. Other criteria encourage hospitals and other entities to “have an LGBTQ+ specific clinic,” “offer gender-transition related medical and mental health care,” “have a multidisciplinary gender affirming clinic for adults and/or youth,” provide coverage for “gender affirming care above baseline requirements for coverage,” and more. HRC has been bleeding allies recently. While 377 of the Fortune 500 companies participated in a similar survey for businesses in 2025, the number dropped to 131 this year. The Human Rights Campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time. ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ While activists claim that teens who suffer from gender dysphoria—the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite one’s sex—need experimental medical interventions to prevent suicide, the Department of Health and Human Services concluded there is little evidence for positive impacts from such “treatments” for minors. Studies have suggested these interventions cause harm, from increased cancer risks to higher risk of suicidal thoughts. A jury awarded a detransitioner $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit in February, and psychiatrists reportedly agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle another detransitioner’s medical malpractice claim last month. Texas Children’s Hospital announced last month that it would close its gender clinic and open the first detransition clinic. “HHS continues to fight to protect America’s children from irreversible harm outlined in the department’s peer-reviewed report,” HHS Press Secretary Emily Hilliard told the Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “These detrimental procedures do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care, and practitioners who perform sex-rejecting procedures on minors would be deemed out of compliance with those standards.” ‘Deeper Work Lies Ahead’ “Both at the state and federal level, protections are being put in place to stop pediatric sex changes and end DEI in taxpayer funded programs and institutions,” Dr. Miceli, the Do No Harm leader, told the Daily Signal. “Those efforts are a response to years of work by our organization, other coalition members, and countless medical professionals exposing the harms of identity politics.” “However, many hospitals and medical organization continue to hide behind a nonexistent medical consensus pushed by the American Medical Association, Endocrine Society, American Academy of Pediatrics and others that ignore evidence revealing that dangers of child sex changes,” he added. “The fight is far from over.” Genspect, a group of medical professionals, transgender people, detransitioners (those who formerly identified as transgender), and parents who advocate against gender medicalization, celebrated the move against HRC but noted that it will not be easy to uproot transgender orthodoxy from the medical community. “I would hesitate to describe this as a wholesale retreat,” Genspect Director Stella O’Malley told the Daily Signal. “The claims once presented as settled science are now being subjected to the kind of scrutiny that should always have existed,” she explained. “The truth is that there is no reliable, replicable evidence base to support medical transition,” O’Malley added. “These interventions might be intensely desired but they do not offer good long-term outcomes.” O’Malley warned that “this issue cannot be solved simply by shutting down a few clinics,” however. “Medical pathways can migrate online or across borders and trans tourism and [do-it-yourself] hormones are a major growth industry. What ultimately matters is whether the general public comes to a deeper understanding of the trans phenomenon.” “There has been progress, but the deeper work lies ahead,” she urged. “Medicine changes slowly.”

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took place on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious invasion since Xerxes’ invasion of Greece. It might have been much larger, even.  Some 300,000 British, Canadian, and American troops landed on five beaches in Normandy. Probably about 150,000 on land and over 160,000 various naval personnel and airborne personnel. On that single day, more than 10,000 British, American, and Canadian troops were wounded or missing or killed. Forty-four hundred we know Americans, 4,400 were dead among all Allied armies.  Probably most of those were Americans. What was the strategy behind it? The Russians had been pressuring us for a second front. Remember that [Joseph] Stalin had been in league with [Adolf] Hitler since August 23, 1939, and that devilish, diabolical relationship had benefited both sides until Hitler turned on Stalin on June 22, 1941.  And then Stalin all of a sudden became our friend and wanted help. At war’s end, it is true the Russian, Soviet Red Army killed three out of four German soldiers. That’s where most of the bloodletting was. Twenty million Russians died on the Eastern Front, probably 3 million to 5 million Germans. We don’t really know the exact totals of Germans were killed there.  But Stalin felt that if the United States had a second front—that is, if they landed on the beaches of France—then Germany would have a two-front war. That was the strategy. The problem was that the United States, once Hitler declared war on us and we then declared war back on December 11, just a few days after Pearl Harbor, we were in no position to fight a European war.  Our army was the 19th largest in the world. The Portuguese had a bigger army than we did. We were in rapid mobilization and rearming. The British knew that. The Russians knew that. But the problem was we were very confident that we, to end wars, would go straight to Berlin. No fooling around in peripheral theaters.  So George Marshall, the Army chief of staff, demanded that in 1942 or early ’43 we land on the beaches of France and go straight to Berlin. We were not capable of doing that. To do that, you had to have absolute air superiority. We did not have that. You would have had to have absolute naval superiority. In ’42, we did not quite have that.  More important, we didn’t have veteran troops. The people who were stationed in France on D-Day turned out to be some of the most vicious infantry and Panzer divisions in World War II: the Panzer Lehr Division, the Das Reich Division. They had a lurid history—Second and Third Panzer divisions in Russia—of committing atrocities but also being very well equipped with Panther and Tiger tanks, close air support, very deadly.  So we were not up to that. The thinking was we had landed 2 million troops in World War I on the beaches of France and the ports of France, and we thought we didn’t lose more than 50 in transit, so we said we’ll just do the same thing and go right to the German border. But of course, France wasn’t occupied in World War I. It was in World War II.  So we had to get on the beaches and then form an army and then not be pushed off as the British had been in Dunkirk. Churchill was against the idea because he said, “We were surrounded at Dunkirk and we had to evacuate more than 300,000 troops. We almost lost our entire army. It’s very dangerous to have an amphibious landing against crack veteran German troops.”  Nonetheless, we decided then to hit the periphery of the German Third Reich. So we, in November 1942, landed in North Africa; the next summer in Sicily and Italy; and we gained enormous experience in amphibious landings. So some of those commanders, many of those troops, were the veterans that helped school us, along with the British, who had been fighting the Germans much longer, to land on D-Day.  So the idea was we were going to have five beaches. Gold and Sword would be the British, Juno would be the Canadian, and we would have two, the Americans, Utah and Omaha Beach. It’s not the closest route from England across the channel to France. It would have been better to land at Calais. But of course, the Germans were expecting that, and they had fortified it heavily. Normandy was a huge beach, 50 miles long. It gave us chances to spread out. We would not be confined to a peninsula and cut off. It was pretty good ground for armor. And the idea was we could take off to Paris, and we might be there in a week or two.  It was a great success and in some ways a failure. The first day, the British and Canadian beaches were very lightly defended in comparison with the Americans, who had high cliffs, and the wind had blown the Americans off course. The seas were rougher. Many of our tanks that were supposedly floatable sank.  We didn’t have the ability to knock out the German artillery and machine guns on the first day, and more than half the casualties and fatalities on the entire D-Day were at Omaha Beach. Nonetheless, in a series of waves, pretty young kids that had no prior battle experience, 18 and 19, charged right off the beach, right across it, and eventually up over the seawall and captured Germans.  And by the end of the day, they had in their possession Utah and Omaha Beach, and the British and the Canadians had made a successful landing. Part of our luck was that Erwin Rommel, who had the tactical command under Gerd von Rundstedt of the German defenses, was not allowed to release the Panzer or the armor divisions.  Hitler alone could make that decision, and we had a lot of very successful decoy operations, intelligence operations, to fool the Germans into thinking we were going to Calais. As a result, he did not release enough German armor to push us off.  However, we really didn’t break out from June 6 all the way to the end of July. We found, the Americans in particular, that the land on the other side of the beaches was what we call hedgerow or bocage, thick, dense brush with one-acre, tiny little fields, perfect cover for German machine gunners and mortar teams, and that took a lot of casualties.  By the time we, six to eight weeks later, finally got all of the armies united and we had reached the major cities of Caen and Saint-Lô, and we were ready to break out, we had lost about 80,000 casualties.  And we only broke out because finally the U.S. Army Air Force had to come in and bomb the German army with heavy B-24 and B-17 bombers and blast a corridor.  And of course, one of the tragedies of the entire campaign was that George S. Patton, the most gifted of all American generals in the field, had been under discipline for slapping two soldiers. On two occasions he slapped soldiers who he felt were dogging it. One was sick; one was suffering from shell shock, and he was reprimanded.  And for one year he was relieved of active command in the field, and he was stationed in Britain as a decoy. The Germans thought wherever he went, the actual invasion would occur, and he stayed in England, and so they didn’t commit fully their troops to Normandy, thinking Patton would go to Calais.  But there was an irony to it. The ground commander on D-Day, the overall commander was Dwight Eisenhower, in charge of naval, air, and land, but the ground commander was Bernard Montgomery. He was not a thruster. He was not an aggressive commander. He was brilliant on defense, as El Alamein had shown.  But we didn’t have a George Patton. Had we had a George Patton in the month of June and the month of July, I think we could have lessened casualties. When he was finally deployed with the Third Army, he broke out at Falaise Gap, so to speak, and for a month he was traveling at 50 miles an hour eastward toward Germany.  Finally, what was the notion about after D-Day occurred? It became iconic because it was emblematic of fresh troops, as I said, up against some crack Germans. There were a lot of Soviet prisoners who were given a chance to fight and save their lives, and they were not reliable troops.  But very quickly, in the weeks after D-Day, some of the best German divisions were on their way into Normandy. And what was quite stunning was the Americans fought extremely well, just as well as the British and sometimes better. They ground down the Germans. They had superior air superiority and naval support.  And I’ll leave you with this tidbit. It’s maybe an unfair comparison, but the distance from Omaha Beach to Berlin was a little more than 600 miles. On June 6, 1944, the Russian army was about 650 to 700 miles from Berlin.  And it had not moved since 1941. You could make the argument that the Americans had to land on the beach, had to be supplied 100% by amphibious landings on the beach or the Mulberry artificial harbors. They waited at least two months before Cherbourg, Brest, and some of the ports that had been mined and defended and blown up were usable.  And yet the Americans got just outside Berlin at the Elbe River about the same time the Soviets did.  It was a stunning achievement to land on June 6, 1944, and to be across the Rhine and receive the surrender of all Western troops in the German army on May 9 and 10, less than a year later.  So we were in Western Europe for less than a year, and we had fought in North Africa. We had fought in Sicily. We had fought in Italy. We had fought in the Pacific. We had alone defeated Japan with the help of the British.  And so people keep saying the Red Army won World War II. The Red Army did one thing. It destroyed German soldiers in land warfare. It did not have a strategic bombing campaign. It did not have a naval campaign. It did not fight the Italians. It did not fight the Japanese until the last two years of the war.  So the American achievement we should all remember today was quite stunning, and we all are the inheritors of a free and prosperous and secure United States in part because of those young kids who went out of the landing craft, charged at Omaha Beach, and suffered in some cases 90% casualties of their company.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

Once upon a time, Democrats owned health and wellness. But when they failed to deliver, they could no longer sit at the table. Conservatives figured out how to step up to the plate and deliver on some of the most consequential policies to save Americans, literally. The Daily Signal sat down for an exclusive interview with one of the loudest and most influential voices in the MAHA movement, Alex Clark, host of “Culture Apothecary.” Clark shared what she believes Republicans need in order to win in the midterms, and she offered a look into her fight against one of the most powerful industries in the country. She even discussed her wedding plans. Alex Clark’s Big Secret Revealed!@yoalexrapz, MAHA advocate and host of Culture Apothecary, announced her secret engagement this weekend at Turning Point USA’s annual Women’s Leadership Summit.Watch the full exclusive interview with her on our page: https://t.co/NlH7cQyw01… pic.twitter.com/7Euzm2ySYl— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) June 8, 2026 “MAHA moms will crawl through broken glass to vote for a MAHA candidate,” Clark told the Daily Signal. “I believe if these women are ignored, we’re going to lose the midterms, [and also in 2028].” “If we keep a stronghold on them and we don’t break promises and we keep doing what we said we’re going to do, they will stay loyal to us,” she continued. The party recently saw this strength in Iowa, where MAHA-endorsed, first-time politician Zach Lahn beat MAGA-endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, in the Republican governor’s primary. “We just elected an anti-pesticide farmer in the biggest farming state in the United States that is completely controlled by Big Ag and Big Chem! Like, Bayer runs Iowa!” Clark stressed. “What we’re seeing across the country is that candidates who have these three things are winning: It’s a MAHA endorsement, it’s a MAGA endorsement, and it’s a Turning Point Action endorsement,” Clark said. Lahn was endorsed by Turning Point Action after Clark made the push for it. The coalition has had continuous legislative and electoral wins in the past two years. The U.S. House, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., voted to strip pesticide liability shields from the farm bill. While it still needs to pass the Senate to become law, her amendment received strong bipartisan support, getting approved by a 280-142 vote. Democrats accounted for 207 yeas, and 73 Republicans joined them. Some Republican members expressed their support for the amendment after it passed. Lawsuits Total $16 Billion Clark explained a pesticide liability shield is like the vaccine liability shield, which says a customer cannot sue the producer if they are harmed. If that shield goes into law, over 57,000 chemicals could be protected from legal accountability. While U.S. lawmakers are attempting to strip these liability shields, the fight is being won in the states. “So, if [glyphosate] is safe, why have we settled over $16 billion in lawsuits?” Clark asked. “You don’t settle $16 billion in lawsuits for cancer, by the way, if it’s safe. So, we know that that’s a lie,” she continued. Pesticides have been linked to causing Hodgkin lymphoma, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease. Clark credits MAHA moms for killing the shield laws in Florida, Kansas, and Tennessee. “That happened because of moms’ boots on the ground getting things done and calling legislators and politicians and telling them, ‘I will primary you if you don’t do this,’” she said. Farmers Are Worried—Do They Need to Be? On the other hand, farmers are concerned about MAHA coming after pesticides because they rely heavily on them. “We’re not advocating to take pesticides away overnight,” Clark explained. “It’s an educational process to help farmers know how to wean off these deadly pesticides for their own health and the health of the American people.” Clark, who talks often about regenerative farming on her “Culture Apothecary” podcast, continued her support of Lahn, explaining that he is going to be “instrumental” in this fight because he is a sixth-generation farmer who knows how to farm without relying on pesticides. She also shared her views with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk before his death. “I told Charlie that the future of the conservative movement with women was going to be health and wellness,” Clark said, adding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support of President Donald Trump was important for women. “Women were beside themselves and just ready to vote for Trump when they never were willing to before,” she said. As for the success of her show, Clark said it was “God’s timing that made it all come together so beautifully.” Watch our full interview with Alex Clark here.

Delayed vote tallies in Calfornia are attributable to the vote-by-mail system and weeklong deadlines for receiving ballots, which undermines confidence in results, election experts say. Tuesday is the deadline for the last of California’s ballots to arrive, where about 80% vote by mail and about 40% of ballots arrive after Election Day in the nation’s most populous state. These are among the factors that contribute to repeatedly delayed results. On Sunday, it appeared that Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt would fall out of contention for the general election after several days of appearing in the top two vote recipients along with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat. Another Democratic candidate, Nithya Raman, appeared to overtake Pratt for second place to face Bass in the general election. The state’s primaries allow the top two vote-getters, rather than party nominees, to advance to the general election. California also doesn’t allow local jurisdictions to require voter ID, and allows 22 days for “curing” ballots. Curing is when a voter’s ballot needs to be corrected or clarified to count, such as fixing illegible marks on the ballot or inserting a missing signature on the ballot envelope. “There are a lot of consequential House races in the general election. We are likely going to have a similar conversation in November,” Andrew Behl, a law team staff writer for Ballotpedia, which monitors election procedures, told the Daily Signal. Similar apparent flips have occured in previous elections in the state, including in races for the U.S. House of Representatives. On election night in 2024, Republican incumbent Rep. Michelle Steel was leading, but that lead turned into a loss days later as Democrat Derek Tran won the seat 22 days after the election. In 2024, 80.8 percent of voters used mail-in voting in California. This figure does not include early in-person voting, according to a Ballotpedia report that contrasted California’s election procedures with Florida’s. Both states have large voter populations. Among the biggest differences between them is that Florida has strict timelines for tabulating and reporting results, Behl said. Florida also allows election officials to count, but not report, early in-person and mail votes before Election Day, in contrast to California, which requires tabulation to wait until after the Election Day polls close. California became an all-mail voting state during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the state Legislature codified all-mail elections in 2021. After this act, every registered voter in the state automatically received a ballot. As long as ballots are postmarked by Election Day, they can arrive up to seven days after the election. “About 23 million ballots were sent to California voters and only about 7 million came back,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal. “California has created a system that is at every stage as insecure as possible,” Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal. He added that California has no laws against ballot harvesting or against third parties delivering or picking up ballots in large quantities. “The desire to get election results on election night cuts across every party,” Snead added. “When people repeatedly see results change, or one candidate concedes and then becomes a victor, it opens the door for speculation.” Over the weekend, President Donald Trump did far more than speculate, effectively declaring the California elections “crooked.” “Thousands of homeless may be fueling Nithya Raman’s impossible late surge in LA. Voter fraud was just busted on Skid Row,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This is why nobody trusts their elections anymore.” BREAKING: Thousands of homeless may be fueling Nithya Raman’s impossible late surge in LAVoter fraud was just busted on Skid RowCA refuses to clean its voter rolls & no voter IDThis is why nobody trusts their elections anymoreHT @EricLDaugh pic.twitter.com/F5iMEsGW9g— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 8, 2026 During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said: “Look at what’s happening in California. Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?” California Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office did not respond to an inquiry from the Daily Signal by publication time. Also, the Los Angeles County clerk’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this story by publication time. Weber posted on X Monday that elections in California are secure, asserting there is “rigorous testing of machines,” strict chain of custody,” and “all signatures are verified.” To learn more about California’s safeguards and security, visit https://t.co/yHFXynNBpY#CATrustedInfo2026 #VoteCalifornia pic.twitter.com/bEyl52wo9A— California Secretary of State (@CASOSVote) June 8, 2026 There is no evidence of impropriety, but the procedures negatively impact voter confidence, said Don Palmer, a former chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, now a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation. “California needs to reform its system because it is not designed for voter confidence,” Palmer, a former director of Florida elections, told the Daily Signal. “After the 2024 election, the California Legislature was forced to make some slight modifications after the long counts. But the system is designed for California Democrats, not California voters.” The problem has affected several U.S. House races in California, including Tran’s late-breaking victory in 2024. In 2020, Republican Young Kim was declared the winner over Democratic incumbent Rep. Gil Cisneros 10 days after the election. In 2018, it took nine days for Democrat Katie Porter to officially win the election over Republican incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters. For nearly a full week after election night, Walters led Porter in the vote count.