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Trump questions midterm elections integrity after previously accepting results
Trump has previously cast doubt on the integrity of US election results
US President Donald Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the midterm election results in which Republicans suffered sweeping losses, days after saying he would accept the outcome.
"Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong?" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
This appeared to contradict what he told the New York Times on election night that he was "absolutely willing" to accept the results.
Democrats retook both chambers of Congress in last week's elections. State and local officials across the US said voting had been mostly problem-free.
Some key races, including Senate contests in Alaska and Mississippi, have yet to be called.
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In the Truth Social post, Trump made vague claims about polling, voting "dumps", and "machines" without providing specific evidence of what this referred to and whether he believed there had been error or wrongdoing.
The reporting of vote counts on election night proceeded as normal, according to Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
"We saw across the nation the standard patterns we see in terms of when the votes are reported," he said.