Almost a week after Democrats swept the midterms with historic gains in Congress and downballot races, Donald Trump denied the legitimacy of election results across the country and resurrected old conspiracy theories about voting machines.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump posted on social media Monday morning. “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. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

Democrats saw historic, sweeping gains across the country last week. They won the largest majority in decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, flipped party control of the U.S. Senate and clinched control of local governments in numerous states.

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[–] 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The midterm vote was not honest, we know that because of the open and obvious gerrymandering and voter suppression the GOP was leaning fuck you hard on. They fucked up so bad that in an election specifically rigged by them for GOP victories they got absolutely fucking trounced.

“Could it be that we have fomented this unquenchable hatred towards ourselves and that we can only blame our losses on our own abject failures?

….No, it’s the voters who are wrong!”

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The gerrymandering actually backfired on them and magnified their loss. Cherry on top really.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago*

    That was beautiful. They seemed to think that if they gerrymandered those districts out of existence, they also made the votes disappear, but that's now how it works. Those votes still exist, they've just been put into a previously safe red district, thus diluting it, and making it susceptible to a flip. In most elections, it wouldn't matter, but in a once in a century wave, they can ALL flip. And that's exactly what happened.

    Hilarious, and a perfect future lesson to teach students the nuances of gerrymandering.

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