It took longer than I thought it would, but here we are...... again..............
Trump Questions Midterm Election Results After Saying He’d Accept Them
President Donald Trump on Monday directly questioned whether the midterm elections were “honest” and blamed voting machines, escalating doubts he had raised over the weekend by repeatedly sharing posts questioning Democrats’ gains. The remarks came days after Trump said he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of an election that cost Republicans control of Congress.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday morning. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.”
“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Trump added. The president did not provide evidence in the post that voting machines had improperly affected the election results.
The comments represent a significant escalation from Saturday, when Donald Trump shared other users’ posts questioning Democratic vote totals nationally and in Texas but stopped short of himself saying the results were dishonest. They also mark a sharp departure from election night, when he acknowledged Republicans’ losses and said he would accept the results.
Later Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump shared additional posts questioning the results, including one that asked of a chart showing Texas Senate vote totals: “Does anyone believe this at all?”
Trump also shared a lengthy post claiming an unusually consistent shift toward Democrats across 59 Senate and gubernatorial races and calling for ballot-level scrutiny, including paper ballot hand counts and comparisons of poll-book records with votes counted.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that America had taken a "giant step back in History with the results of the last Election."
Monday’s post went substantially further by explicitly questioning whether the election was “honest” and suggesting that voting machines were responsible for the results he questioned. He did not provide evidence in the post to support that claim or explicitly say that he was withdrawing his election-night acceptance of the results.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983Trump Shares Post Calling Texas Midterm Numbers ‘Looney Tunes’
One of the posts shared by Trump Saturday was from writer and commercial fisherman Donald Ward, who argued on X that unusually high Democratic turnout in Texas could not be explained by weak Republican participation.
Ward noted that Republican Governor Greg Abbott received roughly 100,000 more votes than in his 2022 reelection but lost to Hinojosa, who received substantially more votes than Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O'Rourke had four years earlier.
“The problem is Gina Hinojosa gained 1.7 million votes more than Beto O’Rourke,” the post said. “Those are Looney Tunes numbers.” Ward added that if the turnout reflected genuine enthusiasm, “lines should have been around the block at every polling station.”
Ward also compared Hinojosa’s total with those of Democratic presidential nominees Kamala Harris in 2024 and Joe Biden in 2020. The post called the numbers “not normal midterms numbers.”
Minutes later, Trump shared another post, this one from Kevin Bass who writes about science, nutrition, history, and politics, featuring a chart comparing the nationwide House popular vote in 2022 with projected totals for 2026.
“Republican votes stayed the same. Democrats materialized 20 million new votes,” the X post said.
The accompanying chart listed 54.2 million Republican and 51.3 million Democratic House votes in 2022, compared with projected 2026 totals of 55.6 million Republican and 70.4 million Democratic votes. The graphic itself noted that the 2026 numbers were projections based on 85 percent of the expected vote being counted and estimated remaining ballots at the then-current rates.
Neither post provided evidence that the reported results were inaccurate or the product of fraud.
Trump also shared a separate graphic highlighting the longstanding historical tendency for the president’s party to lose House seats during midterm elections. That material did not question the validity of this year’s results.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983Trump Said He Would Accept 2026 Midterm Results
Donald Trump’s Monday remarks contrast sharply with his response as the scale of Republican losses became apparent on election night.
“I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” Trump told the New York Times on election night. “We’ll work with the Democrats, and we’ll, you know, look forward to working with them. We’ll probably work something out.”
Trump had been less definitive before Election Day, saying he would accept the outcome if the elections were “honest.”
In other election-night remarks, Trump sought to distance himself from the Republican defeat, writing on Truth Social: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”
He nevertheless gave Democrats credit for their showing, telling Fox News: “I think the Democrats did a good job. I really do. They fought hard.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983Who didn't see this on their Bingo card?
