California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is expected to use a Fourth of July speech to wade into the national debate over election integrity, releasing a prerecorded address at noon that directly counters President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the United States’ voting system is fundamentally flawed and easy to rig.Newsom taped the speech this week at the governor’s mansion in Sacramento and plans to publish it across social media on Saturday as the nation marks 250 years of independence, the governor’s office told the Washington Examiner. The address centers on Trump’s longstanding attacks on mail-in voting and his recent criticism of California’s lengthy vote-counting process, arguing against the belief that delayed results are evidence of widespread fraud or a corrupt election system.The speech follows months of escalating attacks from Trump over how California administers elections. After the state’s June 2 primary, Trump blasted the state’s extended ballot-counting process as evidence of a “crooked” system and has continued to portray mail voting as vulnerable to fraud despite repeatedly casting absentee ballots himself in Florida. His administration has also sought to restrict mail voting nationally, though key portions of those efforts have been blocked in court.