Trump says he would win California 'if Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter'

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump told TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw that he would win California "if Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter."

"Democrats play a different game. And you have ballot harvesting, but you also have people getting ballots,” Trump said during the interview that aired Tuesday, The Hill reported. “I mean, in California, you have people getting seven ballots.”

“If Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK?” the former president later added. “In other words, if we had an honest vote counter, a really honest vote counter — I do great with Hispanics, great, I mean at a level no Republican has ever done. But if we had an honest vote counter, I would win California.”

McGraw asked, “You think so?”

“I think so. I do. I see it. I go around California, they have Trump signs all over the place,” Trump said. “It’s a very dishonest [state]; everything is mail-in. They send out 38 million ballots, I think it is.”

California was last won by a Republican presidential nominee in 1988, for George H. W. Bush.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said in a statement Tuesday that Trump “reached a level of delusion difficult for even Dr. Phil to diagnose.”

Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said, “As Donald Trump’s friend Dr. Phil says, ‘you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.'”

“And he still doesn’t acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election four years ago – despite the violent insurrection launched in his name,” Chitika added. “While Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge the facts, voters know Vice President Harris is the candidate to lead us into the future.”