Trump casts doubt on election results after sweeping midterms loss

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Nov 9, 2026

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President Donald Trump on Monday cast doubt on his sweeping losses in the midterm congressional election, for the first time raising his trademark unsubstantiated claims of voting irregularities.

“Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest,” Trump vented on his social media site. “How could the Polls be so wrong???”

Without offering any evidence, Trump suggested that Republicans were doomed to defeat because Democrats performed so well in early voting.

“Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” he added.

Trump also suggested that voting machines could have somehow been rigged, presumably to hurt the chances of Republicans, again without providing any evidence to back up his claims.

“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Trump said.

Democrats swept to a historic landslide victory in the midterms, winning at least 54 Senate seats and 255 seats in the House of Representatives.

The vote amounted to a major rejection of Trump’s second-term agenda, especially since he repeatedly sought to put himself at the center of the election even though his approval ratings are at rock-bottom lows in the sub-40% range.

Trump previously has sought to cast doubt on the validity of virtually all of his losses, especially his defeat by former President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

He often takes credit for the victories of his Republican allies and claims Democratic critics only win thanks to some kind of voter fraud, even though investigations and court cases have never uncovered any evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Trump and his right-wing allies have also cried foul about alleged voting machine woes, although there has likewise never been any evidence of serious issues much less ones that would favor one party or the other.

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