Asked to provide any evidence of fraud in California, the best Trump could come up with over the weekend was, "All I have to do is look, and I listen." As one journalist pointed out: "That's not evidence."

Musk’s boosting of baseless claims about the primaries in California follows similar efforts by President Donald Trump to discredit the process as fraud without any evidence.

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