Trump Questions Midterm Results, Citing Voting Machines 6 Days After Democratic Sweep
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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 9
Trump Questions Midterm Results, Citing Voting Machines 6 Days After Democratic Sweep
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 9
Summary
Six days after Democrats’ historic midterm wins, Trump used social media to ask whether the election was “honest” and to suggest, without evidence, that voting machines mattered more than voters.
His post pointed to supposedly wrong polls and large early-vote “dumps,” even though public polling broadly forecast Democratic victories and generally understated the scale of the sweep.
In Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, Democratic Senate candidates would have won on early and mail-in ballots alone — a result Trump cast as suspicious rather than as part of a broad leftward shift across voter groups.
The remarks marked a reversal from last week, when Trump acknowledged it was a bad night for Republicans and said the losses reflected that he was not on the ballot.