US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2026.
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President Donald Trump on Monday revived a pattern of questioning the legitimacy of midterm election results and questioning his own and other Republicans’ electoral defeats.
President Trump’s social media posts raising questions about the election came six days after Republicans suffered historic losses in polls across the country, including in Republican strongholds like Texas and South Carolina.
“Does anyone really believe that this ‘election’ was honest?” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“How could the polls be so wrong? Some of the early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win no matter how many people turned out to vote,” the president said. “It’s all about the machine and it’s much more important than the voters!”
After losing the 2020 election to former President Joe Biden, Trump claimed without evidence that he lost solely as a result of widespread voter fraud.
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