Days After Pledging to Accept Results, Trump Raises Doubts About Midterms

President Donald Trump has shared a series of social media posts questioning the results of last week’s midterm elections, in which Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate.

On Saturday, Trump shared a chart of vote totals in Texas’s Senate race with the caption, “Does anyone believe this at all?” He also reposted a message calling Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s results in the Texas governor’s race “Looney Tunes numbers,” and a post claiming that “Republican votes stayed the same” while “Democrats materialized 20 million new votes.”

Another post he shared claimed an unusually consistent shift toward Democrats across 59 Senate and gubernatorial races, and called for hand counts of paper ballots and comparisons of poll books.

None of the posts provided evidence that the results were inaccurate. Trump himself has not said the elections were fraudulent or that he no longer accepts the results, according to Newsweek.

The posts mark a shift from election night, when Trump told The New York Times, “I am absolutely willing to accept those results.” He also told Fox News that Democrats “did a good job,” and wrote on Truth Social that if he had been on the ballot, “we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

Before Election Day, Trump had been less definitive, saying he would accept the outcome if the elections were “honest.”