State and local officials reported mostly smooth elections this year
BBC News, in a report by Kayla Epstein, said President Donald Trump questioned the integrity of the US midterm election results on Monday. His challenge came days after Trump said on election night that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the outcome.
Trump’s Truth Social post asked: “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest”. BBC News said the post appeared to reverse course from his election-night position.
On election night, Trump told the New York Times he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results. The report said Democrats retook both chambers of Congress in the election and described the outcome as sweeping losses for Republicans.
Trump’s Monday post questioned whether the election producing those congressional results had been honest. The question came days after his earlier statement and appeared to reverse the public position he had described on election night.
State and local officials across the US reported mostly smooth elections this year. BBC News also noted that some key races, including US Senate contests in Alaska and Mississippi, had yet to be called.
The report nevertheless described Democrats as having retook both chambers of Congress. Its account paired an apparent change in Trump’s public position with official assessments of mostly smooth elections and some races whose outcomes remained unresolved.