‘Giant scam’: Trump calls for changes to voting after Democratic wins on election night

President Donald Trump called for making major changes to U.S. voting systems after Democrats won big on Election Day.

Democrats won races on Tuesday for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and passed a measure in California aimed at adding more Democratic seats in the House of Representatives.

Trump responded to the Democratic victories with a Truth Social post in which he called for voter reform, including voter identification and banning mail voting, according to Newsweek.

Earlier on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the White House was exploring an executive order to ban mail voting. She specifically criticized voting in California, which she said, without evidence, encouraged “blatant” fraud, according to PBS News.

Trump said in a separate Truth Social post that voting in California was a “giant scam” and was under “very serious legal and criminal review.”

Trump routinely criticizes election results as fraudulent when they don’t go his way. He has long been critical of mail voting in particular.

After his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, he said fraud was responsible, even though that’s false. Numerous investigations found no evidence of fraud that tipped the result of the race toward Biden.

Trump also blamed Tuesday’s disappointing results for Republicans on the fact that he wasn’t on the ballot, according to CNN. He said the government shutdown played a role as well and called on Republicans to end the Senate filibuster to move his legislative priorities forward.

“I don’t think it was good for Republicans; I don’t think it was good, I’m not sure it was good for anybody,” Trump said of Tuesday’s results while at the White House on Wednesday morning, according to CNN. “But we had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot, and we’re going to talk about that.”