Trump challenges integrity of US midterm elections
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nile Post
Donald Trump questions the integrity of US midterm elections after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. His accusations against polling and the count come days after he said he was prepared to accept the results, reports the BBC.
US President Donald Trump on Monday 9 November 2026 questioned the integrity of the US midterm elections after Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress, reports the BBC cited by Nile Post. On his Truth Social network, Trump questioned the reliability of the election and referred in particular to polls, voting results and machines without providing specific evidence of fraud.
The challenge comes after Donald Trump said on election night that he was “absolutely” willing to accept the results. Democrats won 54 Senate seats and 254 seats in the House of Representatives, giving them a majority in both chambers, while some races, notably the Senate elections in Alaska and Mississippi, remain to be decided, according to the BBC.
State and local election officials said voting had taken place without major problems. Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the counting was following the usual patterns observed in US elections. Ruth Greenwood, director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, also said that the time needed to count votes in some states did not mean that an irregularity was under way, reports the BBC.
Donald Trump had previously questioned the integrity of elections he had lost. He also claimed after the Republican defeat was confirmed that he would have won easily if he had appeared on the ballot. Democrats win US midterm elections, according to our publication of 5 November.
