Pro-Trump election deniers crash against ‘blue tsunami’
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November 8, 2026
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WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — For months, conspiracy-peddling supporters of President Donald Trump spread baseless theories that the vote would be rigged. But those claims all but dried up after Democrats swept the US midterm elections.
Political pundits had anticipated a wave of legal challenges from election deniers seeking to contest the results of last Tuesday’s vote, or efforts by Trump himself to tilt the outcome in his favour — as he did when he tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
But none of that materialised.
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