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BREAKING: Senate Republicans re-elect Sen. John Thune as their leader for the next Congress<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Days after saying he was \u201cabsolutely willing<\/a>\u201d to accept the massive Republican losses<\/a> in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump suggested Monday on social media that the Democratic victories weren\u2019t \u201chonest.\u201d
\u201cDoes anybody really believe that this \u2018Election\u2019 was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting \u2018dumps\u2019 were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social<\/a>, implying there was something nefarious about elections carried out under different processes in different states.
\u201cIt\u2019s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!\u201d the post concluded, without elaborating. Election officials nationwide have reported that voting this year was largely routine.
Trump, speaking to reporters later in the day, was asked whether he thought the midterms had been rigged.
\u201cWell, I think the numbers were terrible in terms of those early votes. You look at all those early votes,\u201d he said, before he pivoted to talking about the still-undecided Senate race<\/a> in Alaska.
A White House official, asked earlier in the day about the president\u2019s post, noted that Trump had told reporters ahead of last week\u2019s elections that he would respect the results \u201cif they\u2019re honest elections.\u201d
In the lead-up to the election, the Justice Department sent a number of legal letters raising the specter of noncitizen voting and fraud in a number of Democratic-led states, which a judge found <\/a>was an attempt to intimidate election officials.
Trump has a history of denying election results. His previous false claims include that the 2016 Iowa caucuses were rigged <\/a>against him when he lost to Sen. Ted Cruz, that he won the national popular vote <\/a>in 2016 despite losing it by almost 3 million votes, and that he won the 2020 election<\/a> despite losing it by 7 million votes.
Yet, by the time election night arrived last week and the scale of Democrats\u2019 victory became clear, Trump suggested he would accept the midterm results \u2014 while noting that he was not on the ballot.
\u201cI\u2019m absolutely willing to accept those results,\u201d Trump told The New York Times in an interview<\/a> Tuesday night.
\u201cI\u2019m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!\u201d he wrote that night on Truth Social.
\u201cI wasn\u2019t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!\u201d he wrote in another.
In an interview with \u201c60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d that aired Sunday, Trump ran through a number of reasons why Republicans lost, including that his deportation policies \u201cmight be too tough<\/a>\u201d and that voters \u201cdidn\u2019t like the war. They didn\u2019t like that gasoline was up.\u201d
\u201cIn some cases, they didn\u2019t like the candidates, and that\u2019s their prerogative,\u201d Trump said in the interview, which was taped Friday.
\u201cI was not on the ballot, but I campaigned hard for some people, and I think if I was on the ballot, it would have been a much different situation, because you saw the level of popularity and love,\u201d he said.
His stance seemed to start to shift Saturday, after he replaced longtime chief of staff Susie Wiles with MAGA favorite Stephen Miller.
That was the day Trump on Truth Social reposted an X user<\/a> who questioned how so many states could have had their votes swing by 15% in the midterm elections.
\u201cA pattern this even demands answers at the ballot level: paper ballot hand counts, poll-book check-ins against votes counted, and voter files showing who actually turned out,\u201d the post said.
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, told NBC News that Trump\u2019s claims about the election are \u201ccompletely false.\u201d
\u201cThe systems worked,\u201d and \u201cthe election was a massive rebuke of his leadership,\u201d Aguilar said in a phone interview.
\u201cHe\u2019s upset because he lost and people are holding him accountable,\u201d he added.
Claims about a rigged election were sparse as polls opened and results came in. Most focused on casting a conspiratorial shadow<\/a> on real mishaps caused by bad weather in Arizona and malfunctioning machines in Westchester County, New York. In the latter case, election officials followed established contingency plans to use backup machines and said all votes cast would be counted.
The incidents got little pickup from influential accounts, and Trump paid them little mind on his own social media channels.
Researchers at the University of Washington who were tracking false narratives on election night told reporters their early analysis shows the spread of such rumors was much smaller at the onset of the night than during elections past. Immediately following election night, those rumors died down.
\u201cWhat\u2019s missing for election denialism this cycle? Widespread shared grievance,\u201d Kate Starbird, a professor at the university, wrote in a series of social media posts<\/a> Sunday analyzing the rigged election rumors, noting that the false narrative seems to have drifted back to the fringes even as the president puts renewed effort into boosting them.
In an interview Monday, Starbird said that Trump\u2019s post caused an immediate spike in election denialism chatter on X. But she said Trump is still missing some of the ingredients he would need in order to mobilize his supporters into real-world action, as he did after the 2020 presidential election.
\u201cIt\u2019s a trial balloon. He\u2019s going to see if his audience likes it,\u201d she told NBC News.
\u201cHe can walk away from it or he can double down,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it\u2019s just the hardcore conspiracy theorists reposting him, he may lose energy if he can\u2019t push it beyond that group.\u201d
One person who quickly raised questions online about the integrity of the election after Democrats made larger-than-anticipated gains in the House, the Senate and various state legislatures was MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, a Trump ally who\u2019s made numerous debunked claims about the 2020 election.
Lindell was hit with a $2 million defamation judgment<\/a> related to those claims last year.
While Lindell had previously made unfounded allegations about foreign interference, the allegations this time around are focused on \u201cmatching algorithmic patterns.\u201d
Trump now appears to be focused on the numbers, as well, but it\u2019s unclear which polls he was referring to when he wrote, \u201cHow could the Polls be so wrong???\u201d
The polls this election cycle underestimated the size of Democrats\u2019 winning margin, although they \u201ccaptured the direction of this year\u2019s election,\u201d the Pew Research Center said in a preliminary analysis<\/a> posted Friday.
Trump had previously said the \u201cactual\u201d polls showed Republicans winning and dismissed polling that showed Democrats would take control of the House and might take control of the Senate as \u201cfake.\u201d Democrats wound up overperforming in even those polls.
\u201cThe Radical Left Democrats are going CRAZY with Fake Polls,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social<\/a> in August.
\u201cThey\u2019re putting them out at levels never seen before. They\u2019re called, \u2018Demoralization Operations,\u2019 where they try to demoralize Republicans so that they don\u2019t go out and vote \u2014 But the actual Polls are tremendous, and the Spirit in our Country has never been higher. We\u2019re winning against EVERYONE,\u201d he wrote.
Aguilar said that \u201celection officials cannot and do not pay attention to\u201d opinion polls. \u201cWe follow the law,\u201d he said.
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Jane Lytvynenko is a senior technology reporter for NBC News.
© 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n

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