Trump Shares Posts Questioning Midterm Election Results
Summary
President Donald Trump shared Truth Social posts questioning Democratic vote totals in the 2026 midterm elections, including projected national House totals and Gina Hinojosa’s performance in Texas’s governor’s race. The posts did not provide evidence of inaccurate results or fraud, and Trump did not say he rejected the results; four days earlier, he had said he was willing to accept them.Key Facts
- Trump shared the posts on Saturday morning, according to Newsweek.
- One repost questioned Hinojosa’s vote total compared with Beto O’Rourke’s result in 2022 and called the figures “Looney Tunes numbers.”
- The Texas post said Republican Governor Greg Abbott received roughly 100,000 more votes than in his 2022 reelection.
- Another repost compared 2022 House popular-vote totals with projected 2026 totals.
- The chart projected 55.6 million Republican votes and 70.4 million Democratic votes in 2026.
- The chart said its 2026 figures were projections based on 85 percent of the expected vote being counted.
- Newsweek reported that the posts offered no evidence that the results were inaccurate or fraudulent.
- On election night, Trump told The New York Times he was willing to accept the results and work with Democrats.
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