Trump casts doubt on election results after saying he was absolutely willing to accept them

Days after saying he was “absolutely willing” to accept the massive Republican losses in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump suggested Monday on social media the Democratic victories weren’t “honest.”“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest.How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote,” he wrote on Truth Social, implying there was something nefarious about elections carried out under different processes in different states.

“It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” the post concluded, without elaborating.Election officials nationwide have reported that voting this year was largely routine.

Asked about the post, a White House official noted that Trump had told reporters ahead of last week’s elections that he would respect the results “if they’re honest elections.” In the lead up to the election, the Justice Department sent a number of legal letters raising the specter of noncitizen voting and fraud in a number of Democratic-led states that a judge found was an attempt to intimidate election officials.And Trump has a history of denying election results.His previous false claims include that the 2016 Iowa Caucus was rigged against him when he lost to Sen.

Ted Cruz, that he won the national popular vote in 2016 despite losing it by almost 3 million vote,s and that he won the 2020 election despite losing it by 7 million votes.Yet by the time election night arrived last week and the scale of Democrats’ victory became clear, Trump suggested he would accept the midterm results — while noting that he was not on the ballot.“I’m absolutely willing to accept those results,” Trump told the New York Times in an interview Tuesday night.

“I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!” he wrote in a Truth Soc...