Trump calls midterms 'crooked', demands Alaska votes go to Republican candidate
Summary
President Donald Trump called the midterm elections “crooked” and demanded that votes for two minor candidates in Alaska’s undecided Senate race be given to Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, while close Senate races in Mississippi and Alaska remained unresolved in the article’s account.Key Facts
- Trump made the comments to reporters at the White House on Thursday, two days after the midterm elections.
- Trump initially accepted the midterm results, but later called the elections crooked and challenged the Alaska vote count.
- Trump said votes for minor candidates Dan Sullivan and Gerald Heikes should go to Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
- Democrats were projected to hold at least 54 Senate seats, compared with 44 for Republicans.
- Democrats had won more than 250 House seats, their largest majority in almost two decades, according to the article.
- In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom led Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,724 votes, with a small number of ballots left to count.
- In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola had 48.2 percent of the vote and Republican Dan Sullivan had 47.9 percent.
- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republican losses could worsen in the 2028 election if Trump vetoed Democratic legislation.
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