President Donald Trump questioned the honesty of last week’s midterm elections on Monday, six days after saying he was willing to accept the results.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump asked whether anybody really believed the election was honest, pointed to early voting totals and voting machines, and said the polls were wrong. He offered no evidence for the claims.
Election officials across the country have described this year’s voting as largely routine, NBC News reported.
On election night, Trump told the New York Times he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results and said he looked forward to working with Democrats. In a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday, he blamed the Republican losses on the war, high gasoline prices and weak candidates.
His tone started to shift on Saturday, the day he replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller. That day he reposted a user who questioned how so many states could swing by 15 percent in the midterms.
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar told NBC News the claims were “completely false.” “The systems worked,” he said, and he called the election “a massive rebuke of his leadership.”
Asked by reporters later on Monday whether he believed the midterms were rigged, Trump pointed to the early vote numbers, then turned to the Senate race in Alaska, which had not yet been called.
Source: USA Today
