Trump casts doubt on midterm results: ‘How could the polls be so wrong?’

President Trump on Monday asked how the polls could have been "so wrong" after Democrats won back control of both the House and Senate in the midterms, raising questions about whether last week's elections were "honest" after signaling he'd accept the results.

"Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???" Trump wrote on TruthSocial.

The president suggested that some early voting dumps were "so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote" and argued that "it's all about the machines" without providing specific evidence.

Days ahead of the election, Trump said he would respect the results if they were "honest."

On Tuesday, Trump told the New York Times that he was "absolutely willing" to accept the results of the midterm elections and was prepared to work with Democrats as his party took a shellacking, despite his campaign trail blitz and plea for GOP voters to "pretend" he was on the ballot.

Many polls ahead of the election had forecast a good day for Democrats amid poor approval ratings for Trump and Republicans on the economy, immigration and the war in Iran, though some experts cautioned that a sweep wasn't set in stone.

Ultimately, Democrats won more Senate and House seats than had been expected, and also notched key wins in governor's races across the country -- marking a massive blue wave seen by many as a rebuke against the Trump White House.

Some key races, including the Senate fights in Mississippi and Alaska, were still being counted as of Monday, but Democrats were projected to win significant majorities in both chambers on Capitol Hill.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans said ahead of the election that polls showing big leads for Democrats were underestimating Republicans . After Tuesday's results, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) ribbed Johnson that "the polls were wrong" in that they underestimated Democrats.

"Donald Trump's pathetic return to election denialism was inevitable," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a post on X, responding to the president's latest election comments.

"He can whine all he wants, but nothing will stop this inescapable truth: For the last two years of his presidency, Trump will face the largest Democratic congressional majorities in decades, all because he has been an unprecedented failure," Schumer said.

Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly, who said last week that the GOP needs to "learn how to win without daddy on the ballot, shared Trump's post with the comment: "just stop."

Trump has continued to raise unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud during the 2020 election, when he lost his reelection bid to former President Biden — which has frustrated some in his own party who want to move on. His refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power led up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.