Trump questions fairness of midterm elections, blames voting machines

The post

Donald Trump has questioned the integrity of the midterm elections held in the week before 9 November 2026. In a Truth Social post on Monday, 9 November, he asked whether anyone truly believed the vote was honest and wondered how polls could have missed the result by so much. He also pointed to the early-voting count and to voting machines, which he said mattered more than the voters themselves.

Claims in the post

According to the post, some large batches of early-vote tallies were so big that a candidate could not have won, whatever the turnout. Trump said that everything depended on the machines, and he signed the post as 'President DJT'. The post offered no specific evidence of irregularities or of any change to the result.

Political backdrop

The midterms gave Democrats the win and control of the Senate, while Republicans suffered a defeat, according to coverage of the result. Trump and several Republicans have repeatedly argued that Democrats are looking for ways to influence or alter the outcome. Claims have also circulated that non-citizens could take part in elections and that electronic voting systems could be manipulated. Coverage describes these claims as part of a wider challenge to the reliability of electoral systems that Trump and Republican figures have raised repeatedly.