Trump-Backed CA Gov. Candidate Steve Hilton Distances Himself from President’s ‘Rigged’ Election Claims

Steve Hilton, the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Donald Trump, publicly distanced himself from the president’s claims that California’s election results were “rigged” as he argued his team had “seen nothing” to suggest this was the case. Speaking on CNN’s OutFront on Monday, Hilton was pressed by host Erin Burnett on Trump’s repeated allegations, without evidence, that both the California governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayoral contest were “crooked” and “rigged.” “Just in terms of where you stand, are you worried that there’s fraud right now? Or are you just frustrated that the count is slow, but that...