# Who rigged the election?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [November 5, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-rigged-the-election/1034504 "2026-11-05T17:59:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-rigged-the-election/1034504/1 "2026-11-05T17:59:09Z")

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The elections went smoothly, in every state. How did this happen?

As the bad results came in,

I expected Trump to tweet in all caps: “the election was rigged!” .

I expected to hear reports of Republican election officials refusing to certify the counts.

I expected Republicans to file court cases demanding recounts, or verifying signatures on mail-in ballots , or whatever.

I expected to see news conferences similar to Rudolph Giuliani at the Four Seasons warehouse.

I expected to see demonstrations of Maga fanatics holding signs “stop the steal” .

But no…there has been complete silence.

For years now, there has been serious discussion: That Trump and the Repubs will not honor elections. That Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller are working behind the scenes to disrupt the elections. That Trump will refuse to leave the White House in 2028.

There was a lot of talk during the ICE invasion of Minneapolis that Trump was hoping for violence so that he would have an excuse to declare martial law and cancel elections,

With all the excitement about the election, I haven’t seen much comment on the most mundane–but most important!-- aspect of it : _that the system worked._

Is this silence a major sign that MAGA is weakening? That democracy is safe?

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