And lo, on the first morning of Stephen Miller’s service as Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, it came to pass that the US President did intend to contest the outcome of the midterm elections after all.
After spending almost a week indicating that he accepted the Democratic Party’s landslide win as fair, Trump suddenly took to his Truth Social account on Monday morning to announce that, in fact, he thinks it was rigged.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest”, he asked, possibly rhetorically since he deployed no question mark at the end of the sentence. “How could the Polls be so wrong???” he went on to enquire.
To be fair to Trump, the final opinion polls of the midterm cycle were indeed wrong, but perhaps not in the way that he believes. Rather, they dramatically understated the scale of the Democrats’ tsunami. Some top Democratic strategists believe the party could have swept up even more victories, particularly in additional southern states, if only the polling had offered a more accurate guide to races that ended up with narrow Republican wins.
“Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote”, he claimed. That is a possible reference to the fact that in Texas, for example, Democratic senator-elect James Talarico won more votes in early voting alone than his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, secured in total.
Democrats will argue that the scale of Talarico’s win simply demonstrates the weakness of Paxton’s campaign, and the foolhardy nature of Trump’s defenestration earlier this year of John Cornyn, the state’s respected Republican senator, who may well have won re-election if his name had remained on the Texas ballot.
Trump’s intervention on Monday was once again rooted in the proven falsehood that there is a problem with the nation’s voting machines. “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Trump insisted. He did not explain whether he still believes – as he claimed after Joe Biden’s presidential win in 2020 – that a vast international conspiracy involving the Venezuelan government, Hungarian-born financier George Soros and the “deep state” has somehow infected America’s voting machines with compromised components.
No legal challenge mounted by Trump’s supporters has ever come up with the goods to support those conspiratorial claims. But one voting machine manufacturer – Dominion – has secured more than $854m from Fox News and Newsmax after accusing the two right-leaning TV networks of defamation following the 2020 presidential campaign.
The appetite in the United States for another protracted bout of efforts by the President to smear the electoral system is limited. Reacting to his post, conservative commentator Megyn Kelly simply wrote “Just stop” on her X account. There was no rush by any of Trump’s Cabinet members to endorse his claims.
But the conspiracy mill has been quietly grinding away over the past week.
One set of charts developed by Covid lockdown critic Kevin Bass claims that “Democrats materialized 20 million new votes” in 2026 compared to 2022. Trump amplified Bass’s claims via Truth Social on Sunday, and perhaps by Monday morning had convinced himself of their veracity.
The President’s former spokesperson, Liz Harrington, added fuel to the fire by suggesting Democrats had “over cheated” and accidentally revealed the scale of their fraud. There is not a scintilla of evidence to support those claims, and, problematically for the conspiracy theorists, Trump himself has repeatedly attributed his midterm loss to weak Republican candidates and soaring fuel prices.
Whether he is indicating a genuine determination to try to fight the outcome of the midterms is unclear. But even as he was pressing “publish” on his social media post, Democrats victorious in last week’s election were descending on Capitol Hill for their official orientation, aimed at ensuring when they start work in early January, they will know their way around the corridors of power.
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