It is becoming increasingly clear that the trumpies are creating a pretense upon which they (and mike johnson, speaker/house) will declare California's elections invalid for at least some races (those in which D's win.)
(Johnson is thought to be preparing to fire the Clerk of the House and hire a flunky replacement who will refuse to swear in those D winners on next January 3.)
"Justice Department subpoenas California officials in escalation of its scrutiny of elections"