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The Voting Machines Made Me Do It

A week after the blue wave, the president offered a new explanation as to why his team lost the midterms:

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. 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,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter! President DJT.”

While the president may be searching for something to blame at the ballot box, much of the GOP is looking inward. Republicans have spent the past week or so identifying failures within the administration and Congress rather than giving claims of voter fraud any daylight.

Some have blamed the GOP’s approach to Israel, the war in Iran, rising domestic costs for farmers, high gas and diesel prices, lackluster deportation numbers, perceived corruption within the White House, a weak Congress, and the president’s own cratering approval rating.

Nonetheless, the president is pivoting to revive claims of election fraud and polling misses.

Honestly, it’s lazy, but it shouldn’t be surprising.

It’s the only explanation that absolves him of any accountability.

In 2020, Trump and his allies deployed armies of lawyers, mounted court challenges, and centered their entire messaging platform around the idea that the election was stolen. Granted, in 2020, the administration at least came armed with what it claimed was evidence of voter fraud. Since then, however, the GOP campaign machinery has made every possible effort to satisfy the president’s concerns about election integrity.

The White House has claimed the 2026 midterms should be the “most........

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