WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump questioned the integrity of midterm election results on Monday, citing polling irregularities and early vote totals as potential evidence of fraud.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.”
Most polls showed Democrats with a slight edge heading into the Nov. 3 elections, and the party outperformed expectations, winning the majority of toss-up races and flipping seven U.S. Senate seats, including in the traditionally Republican states of Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina, and Texas. Mississippi is also likely to change hands, with counting still underway.
Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress, dropping seven Senate seats and 44 House seats so far.
Trump told reporters last week that he would accept the result after many of the races were called in Democrats’ favor.
The president has repeatedly described the 2020 election as stolen after President Joe Biden received 81.2 million votes, the most ever cast for a candidate in American history, in the midst of a pandemic.
Questions of election integrity have lingered in several of the nation’s elections since the “hanging chad” situation in Florida resulted in the Supreme Court ordering that ballot counting stop in 2000, thus awarding the victory to President George W. Bush over former Vice President Al Gore.
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