Trump accuses fraud after Republican defeat in elections

O American President Donald Trump again today launched accusations of electoral fraud, without presenting evidence, after the Republican defeat in the mid-term elections on November 3, which gave the Democrats control of the two chambers of Congress.

“ Does anyone really believe that these ‘elections’ were honest? How could polls be so wrong?”, Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.

The Republican President also called into question the size of the early vote and the functioning of the electronic systems used in the elections.

“ Some ‘waves’ of anticipated votes were so great that it was impossible to win, regardless of how many people would vote,” Trump said.

“ Everything revolves around machines, which are much more important than the voter!”, added the American leader.

The Republican leader, who last Tuesday evening (November 3rd) had promised to accept the results of the mid-term elections, once again returned to his allegations of fraud, but without naming the Democrats this time, who conquered the Republican Party the control of the House of Representatives (low chamber) and the Senate (high chamber).

The President, who questions publicly for the first time the legitimacy of these interparliaments, did not in his message provide evidence of electoral irregularities supporting his suspicions.

Trump has a history of contesting US electoral processes, continuing to refuse to acknowledge defeat in the 2020 presidential elections, which gave the victory to Democrat Joe Biden.

The head of state has also repeatedly questioned the reliability of the correspondence vote, one of the mechanisms used by US voters to participate in the elections.

In the last week, Trump even admitted that some of his government's decisions might have contributed to the Republican defeat.

Among the factors pointed out by the President were the war initiated by the United States and Israel against Iran and immigration policies, which, he acknowledged, may have led some voters to vote against Republicans.

Trump had also expressed willingness to work with the Democratic majority in Congress from January, when the new members of the House of Representatives and Senate took office.

The November 3 elections allowed Democrats to gain control of the two chambers of Congress, changing the balance of power in Washington during the last two years of Trump's second presidential term.

Voters were called to renew the 435 seats of the House of Representatives and about a third of the Senate, in addition to choosing state governors and other local officials.