The Hosts of “Fox and Friends” Are Pushing Bogus Voter Fraud Claims Ahead of California’s Recall Election

The hosts of “Fox and Friends” are pushing unsubstantiated claims of elector fraud up of California’s callback election, which volition find whether incumbent Governor Gavin Newsom volition stay successful bureau amid blimpish backlash against Covid-19 restrictions.

“The degradation of that authorities nether his [Newsom’s] enactment is truly rather apparent,” 1 of the hosts said during an interrogation with Larry Elder, Newsom’s Republican opponent, aboriginal adding, “I’m disquieted astir fraud… You know, erstwhile they recovered that meth addict with 300 ballots successful the trunk of his car.”

She past pitched to Elder: “Are you proceeding immoderate different stories similar that and however disquieted are you that that mightiness beryllium portion of this election?”

Fox & Friends is leaning hard into preemptive allegations that the California callback predetermination volition beryllium tainted by fraud pic.twitter.com/h4adPe13pA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021

The comments referred to a caller study that a antheral had been arrested successful Torrance, California aft having been recovered passed retired successful a car that contained drugs, a firearm, aggregate driver’s licenses, and 300 callback ballots.

The antheral “was arrested connected suspicion of a fig of offenses, including weapons violations, narcotics and forgery violations,” according to a study from KTLA.

Police person pointed retired that this was an “isolated incident” and not indicative of wide elector fraud.

“Investigators are trying to fig retired however the predetermination ballots ended up successful the suspect’s conveyance and what their intent was successful having them,” constabulary officials said successful a statement. “This is an isolated incidental and is not related to immoderate further thefts of predetermination ballots.”

California’s callback predetermination is time and Republicans person “struggled to grow the recall’s appeal,” according to a report from The New York Times, which pointed retired that “California Republicans deficiency a single, unifying person who has the quality to entreaty beyond the hard right” and that “they person been incapable to person the populist choler astatine the politician implicit his handling of the pandemic into a broad-based backlash from voters who are right, near and determination successful between.”

The bulk of Californians are opposed to recalling Newsom, according to a caller canvass conducted by the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies for the Los Angeles Times, which recovered that 60% of California voters would cull recalling Newsom compared to conscionable 39% who accidental they enactment removing Newsom from office.