Trump promotes posts questioning midterm results 

President Donald Trump spent part of Saturday reposting online content that questions the results of this week’s midterms, in which the GOP suffered stunning losses.

It comes after Trump pledged on election night to accept the results. And it makes clear, if any more evidence were needed, that Trump’s and MAGA’s election denialism remain alive and well heading into the president’s last two years in office.

On TruthSocial, Trump re-posted several posts that used cherry-picked data to suggest the results must have been manipulated.

One post re-posted by Trump pointed to uniform Democratic gains across the country — though it excluded some races that didn’t fit the pattern — and declared: “A pattern this even demands answers at the ballot level: paper ballot hand counts, poll-book check-ins against votes counted, and voter files showing who actually turned out.”

Another looked at the vote totals from Democrat James Talarico’s resounding win over Republican Ken Paxton in Texas’ Senate race and asked: “Honest question. Does anyone believe this at all?” 

Others simply showed large jumps in Democratic vote totals, suggesting the increases were too large to be plausible. 

None of these claims offer evidence of irregularities. 

Numerous indicators show Democratic vote totals increased sharply in red, blue, and purple states from the last two elections, driven both by higher enthusiasm among Democratic voters and by swing voters supporting the party at higher rates.

Trump told the New York Times on election night that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of the midterms — comments that the mainstream media loudly trumpeted.

But less than four days later, he has returned to his long-time habit of promoting false claims about elections that go against him and his party.