FACT FOCUS: False claims of rigged elections fade in Democratic rout
Associated Press ·
After President Donald Trump said he accepts the results of his party's midterm route, many of his loyalists reluctantly followed suit. Like the president, his core followers have always been a hair trigger away from branding a losing election rigged. But even some of them conceded Wednesday that the Republican defeat was too big to rig. Great numbers of defeated Republican candidates conceded, congratulated their Democratic opponents and bowed to their fate. A self-described election denier on social media, Rogan O’Handley, said fraud doesn't explain what happened Tuesday. He says: “We lost because we failed to fix the things voters sent us to do."