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Trump: California officials will 'go to jail' if state ignores DOJ voter roll suit

President Trump reupped the Justice Department's (DOJ) warning that California officials could face criminal charges if they include the mail-in ballots of the over 200,000 people the federal government identified as potential non-U.S. citizens in their midterm election count. “They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!” Trump wrote in a...

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