As President Donald Trump revives his complaints about 'rigged' election results, CNN host Kasie Hunt reminded viewers that he has been making similar claims for a decade.
The president and other prominent Republicans have criticized a batch of mail-in votes added to the Los Angeles mayoral primary totals on Sunday, which caused their preferred candidate, Spencer Pratt, to drop from second to third place behind progressive city councilmember Nithya Raman.
Trump called the shifting numbers a sign of a sham on Truth Social Monday, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said something 'stinks to high heaven,' despite result delays being common in mail-in ballot-heavy states.
Hunt had former Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) on 'The Arena' to analyze the backlash. McHenry described Trump as the 'largest mouthpiece' for existing skepticism about elections.
'This is also where we are with our politics. Everything is questioned,' McHenry said, adding that both parties have cast doubt on the voting process in recent years.
Hunt noted that since Trump became a presidential candidate, he has consistently claimed elections are rigged. 'And it is worth remembering that the people that support him will believe what he says. He influences their opinions,' she said. 'We have gone all the way back to 2016, the last 10 years. This is what the president has sounded like over that time.'
She then aired a supercut of nine instances where Trump claimed 'rigged' elections to describe results that didn't go his way.
On Monday night, The Associated Press declared that Raman defeated Pratt and advanced to the November runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
