Almost a week after Democrats swept the midterms with historic gains in Congress and downballot races, Donald Trump denied the legitimacy of election results across the country and resurrected old conspiracy theories about voting machines.
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump posted on social media Monday morning. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”
Democrats saw historic, sweeping gains across the country last week. They won the largest majority in decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, flipped party control of the U.S. Senate and clinched control of local governments in numerous states.
Exactly. We were there on the first day of early voting. Especially because when you vote in person in this state, you have to vote at the exact precinct to which you are assigned. In a blue bubble next to a red metro in a red state, NO WAY we were waiting for whatever shit he had planned for last Tuesday.
He said to vote like he was on the ballot. He talked loudly about an “October surprise” while he performatively placed National Guardsmen at a ballot box in DC. He talked about “DoJ presence” at polling places and tried very hard to float the credible threat of ICE violence at voting sites. He talked a lot of shit. This time, I took him at his word.
And we’re not the only ones who believed it because never before have I ever seen a line during early voting, and certainly never at the midterms, but we actually had to wait a bit to get in.
Honestly, you know you’re hated when midterms have this much of a turnout. Most people seem to only turn out for voting every 4 years, and skip the midterms.