President Donald Trump has revived baseless fraud allegations after initially accepting results and stating that the Democrats did a really good job. Writing on Truth Social, the President questioned if anyone believed the election was honest and asked how the polls could be so wrong.
Trump reversed his earlier acceptance of the results, claiming that voting machines and early ballot counts affected the outcome. This approach follows a familiar playbook of sowing doubt about election outcomes after a wave of Republican losses.
Democratic Senate leader Schumer criticized the poll denialism, describing it as an avoidable return to baseless claims. Trump has long made baseless claims about elections being rigged if they did not go in his favor.
These actions mirror previous behavior, as Trump's questioning of the legitimacy of his loss in the 2020 election culminated with an attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters.