Trump Midterm Election Rigging Claims, Digi Mart USA News: On the first morning of Stephen Miller’s service as Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, the President signaled he intends 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 posted on Truth Social on Monday that he now believes the election was rigged.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” he wrote, without using a question mark. He also asked, “How could the Polls be so wrong???”
The final opinion polls of the midterm cycle were indeed inaccurate, but not in the way Trump suggests. They significantly understated the scale of the Democrats’ victory.
Some top Democratic strategists believe the party could have won even more races, particularly in additional southern states, had the polling more accurately reflected contests that ended 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,” Trump claimed. This may refer to Texas, where Democratic senator-elect James Talarico won more votes in early voting alone than his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, received in total.
Democrats are likely to argue that Talarico’s margin reflects the weakness of Paxton’s campaign and the poor judgment of Trump’s earlier move to push out John Cornyn, the state’s respected Republican senator, who may well have won re-election had his name remained on the Texas ballot.
Trump’s Monday post again centered on claims about voting machines, a problem that has been disproven. “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” he insisted.
He did not explain whether he still believes, as he claimed after Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win, that a vast international conspiracy involving the Venezuelan government, Hungarian-born financier George Soros and the “deep state” compromised America’s voting machines.
No legal challenge by Trump’s supporters has produced evidence for those claims. However, voting machine manufacturer Dominion has secured more than $854 million from Fox News and Newsmax after accusing the two right-leaning networks of defamation following the 2020 presidential campaign.
Appetite in the United States for another prolonged effort by the President to undermine the electoral system appears limited. Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly responded to his post on X with the words “Just stop.” No Cabinet members rushed to endorse his claims.
Meanwhile, conspiracy claims have circulated over the past week. Covid lockdown critic Kevin Bass produced charts claiming that “Democrats materialized 20 million new votes” in 2026 compared with 2022.
Trump amplified Bass’s claims on Truth Social on Sunday. The President’s former spokesperson, Liz Harrington, suggested Democrats had “over cheated” and inadvertently revealed the scale of their fraud.
No evidence supports these assertions, and Trump himself has repeatedly blamed his midterm loss on weak Republican candidates and soaring fuel prices.
It remains unclear whether Trump genuinely intends to fight the midterm outcome. As he published his post, Democrats who won last week’s election were arriving on Capitol Hill for their official orientation, intended to help them learn their way around the corridors of power before they begin work in early January.
