Trump says no one can believe 2026 election ‘was honest’

President Donald Trump is questioning the integrity of the 2026 election results, which resulted in arguably the worst midterm defeat for Republicans since the Watergate scandal.The president is slated to host Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani, prime minister of Qatar and a key mediator in the war in Iran, at the White House Monday afternoon, but posted on Truth Social Monday morning to cast doubt on the election results.“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. “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Trump has made election security a core platform of the Republican Party following his 2020 general election loss to Joe Biden, and he spent significant time on the 2026 trail suggesting that Alaska Senate race had been rigged by former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) and state Democrats.The president has tried to strong-arm the Senate into passing the SAVE America Act, a voter-identification and election integrity bill, but Republicans have been unwilling to eliminate the filibuster to pass the legislation.TRUMP SAYS VOTES FOR ‘FAKE DAN SULLIVAN’ AND OTHER ‘SLUG’ SHOULD BE GIVEN TO SENATOR SULLIVANHe criticized the chamber’s inability to pass the law over the weekend, telling reporters, “You send things to the Senate when you want it to die. The Senate is killing our country.”Furthermore, the president spent the weekend posting screenshots on social media that amplified fraud claims relating to the 2026 elections, including conspiracies about turnout in Texas and the methods that states use to count ballots, but had not yet outright suggested that the 2026 elections were rigged.