# Post ts_117509280703799414

- Post ID: `ts_117509280703799414`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-26T21:15:27.145Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
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## Post text

> Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in Minnesota. She's running a great race. Don't allow them to play with the Votes after the race is over. The Federal Government will be watching closely. The only way she can lose is if they cheat by playing games with the Ballots as they come in. We can't allow that to happen, because I won Minnesota three times, but they didn't give me the Victories, and Minnesota hasn't been “won” since 1972, when Richard Nixon claimed the trophy. Michele Tafoya has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Senator from the Great State of Minnesota — She will not let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-11-02T21:02:25.202Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-27T00:15:22.011Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

An endorsement of Michele Tafoya for Senate in Minnesota leaves the day's template after two sentences and turns to Trump's own Minnesota record: "I won Minnesota three times, but they didn't give me the Victories." He lost the state in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The post settles in advance what a Tafoya loss would mean: "The only way she can lose is if they cheat by playing games with the Ballots as they come in." It also tells Minnesota's state-run election system that "The Federal Government will be watching closely." With election day eight days off, and three days after he said he had ordered a suit to block Alaska's Senate results if Republicans lost, the post lays groundwork to contest results instead of making a one-off complaint. Denial and distortion handle the documented losses, and splitting divides the field into a loyal candidate and a cheating "they." The 1972 Nixon detail is accurate, and the drift from candidate to self is goal-directed, so the text shows no departure from his cognitive baseline. Danger is held down because "they" is never named and nothing is asked of followers beyond vigilance. It is raised by putting federal authority behind a fraud accusation against state election workers.

## An endorsement that turns into a recount of his own losses

The post appears in a run of same-day endorsements (Tijerina, Flores, De La Cruz, Murphy, Higgins) that all follow one template: "It is my Great Honor to endorse…", a résumé, then the list of policy planks ("Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A."). The Tafoya post drops that template almost entirely. It has no résumé and no policy list. The candidate gets two sentences ("She's running a great race"). The remaining five are about vote counting, federal oversight, and Trump's own record in Minnesota. Only the last line, "Complete and Total Endorsement… She will not let you down!", brings back the house style.

That shape tells us more than any single phrase. The endorsement opens a grievance that the post never resolves: "I won Minnesota three times, but they didn't give me the Victories." The candidate becomes a vehicle for a 2016/2020/2024 injury, and the stated reason for vigilance on her behalf is his own history: "We can't allow that to happen, because I won Minnesota three times." Logically the "because" makes no sense, since his past results can't be the reason her ballots need watching. Emotionally it holds together, and it shows how the post's priorities are ordered: his injury first, her race second.

## The pre-loaded verdict

"The only way she can lose is if they cheat by playing games with the Ballots as they come in." This sentence works as a preemptive attack. Eight days before the November 3 election, it decides in advance what a loss would mean. A Tafoya defeat in a state that has not elected a Republican senator since 2002 would count, under this framing, as proof of fraud and not as an electoral outcome. The claim can't be falsified, which makes it epistemic closure: no result could disconfirm it. The 1972 aside makes the conspiracy longer. The scare quotes in "hasn't been 'won' since 1972" imply that the 54-year Democratic presidential streak was itself never a real win.

The defenses here are denial and distortion working together. Three documented losses, by margins of 1.5, 7.1 and 4.2 points, are recast as wins that were withheld ("they didn't give me the Victories"). Rationalization supplies the mechanism ("playing games with the Ballots"). Splitting sorts the cast into one candidate who "will not let you down" and an unnamed "they" who cheat. A projective element is likely given the week's context. Three days earlier he said he had ordered a lawsuit to block Alaska's Senate results if the GOP lost. The party pre-positioning to contest a count is accusing the other side of tampering with one. Confidence is medium, because the post itself names no plan of his own.

His narcissistic state is vulnerable but in grandiose dress. "Claimed the trophy" treats the state as a prize, and "they didn't give me" is the language of a victor who was robbed. That is a contamination sequence (victory turned into theft) told about himself. Nothing visible today set off the rage. The injury is old and was reactivated by the midterm calendar, so the post reads as maintenance of a standing grievance, not a reaction to fresh news.

## "The Federal Government will be watching closely"

This sentence carries the most weight in the post. Minnesota's elections are run by its secretary of state and county officials. Saying that the federal executive "will be watching closely," in a post that has already framed those officials' expected behavior as cheating, is a warning aimed at state election administrators. It is not a description of routine DOJ monitoring. Together with "Don't allow them to play with the Votes" and "We can't allow that to happen," it gives the post a mobilizing register addressed to followers and to state power at once.

What keeps the danger reading at elevated and not higher is that "they" is never named. No official, county, or office is identified, and no action is prescribed beyond vigilance. The stochastic pattern needs a target, and this post leaves the target generic. The risk lies in the setting. Minnesota election workers received threats after 2020, and this post supplies the grievance and the authority ("the Federal Government") while leaving the target to the reader. No violent or dehumanizing language appears.

## Who wrote which part

At 21:15 UTC the post went out around 5:15 p.m. Eastern, assuming he was on the East Coast as he was for most of that week's stops. Taken alone, that hour slightly favors staff. The text splits. The closing line and the "President DONALD J. TRUMP" signature are template. The middle has the marks of dictation: the non-sequitur "because," random capitals ("Votes," "Ballots," "Victories"), the trophy metaphor, the scare-quoted "won," and the drift from candidate to self. No staffer drafting a Senate endorsement would choose to spend most of it on the principal's three Minnesota losses. The likeliest reading is that Trump dictated or rewrote the body and staff attached the standard close.

## Language and coherence

The drift from endorsement to personal grievance is mild tangentiality, but it is purposeful and it comes back to the candidate in the final line. The 1972/Nixon detail is accurate and placed correctly in time, which counts against temporal confusion. Syntax is simple and coherent, in line with his long-standing short-sentence style. Nothing here departs from his baseline. Its only cognitive interest is the loose causal connective, which looks rhetorical, not like a lapse.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "I won Minnesota three times" | **False** | Trump lost Minnesota in all three runs: 2016 to Clinton (about 46.4% to 44.9%), 2020 to Biden (about 52.4% to 45.3%), and 2024 to Harris (about 50.9% to 46.7%). All results were certified, and no court or review found outcome-changing fraud. |
| "Minnesota hasn't been won [by a Republican presidential candidate] since 1972, when Richard Nixon claimed the trophy" | **True** | Nixon carried Minnesota in 1972. The state has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1976, including 1984, when it was the only state Mondale won. That is the longest active Democratic streak of any state. |
| "Minnesota election officials cheat by playing games with ballots as they come in, and denied Trump his victories" | **False** | The 2020 Minnesota election was upheld in court challenges, and the state's statutory post-election review of randomly selected precincts found no discrepancies of consequence. No evidence of ballot manipulation in 2016, 2020 or 2024 has been established. |

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 70%)

### Indicators

- Body departs from the same-day endorsement template (no résumé, no policy list)
- Non-sequitur causal link: 'We can't allow that to happen, because I won Minnesota three times'
- First-person grievance drift from candidate to self
- Idiosyncratic capitalization: 'Votes', 'Ballots', 'Victories'
- Scare quotes on 'won' and the 'claimed the trophy' metaphor

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 75%
- Agreeableness: 20%
- Conscientiousness: 40%
- Neuroticism: 65%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Low trust (suspicion) with angry hostility

**Motives:**
- Agency: 85%
- Communion: 25%

Primary drive: validation

### Narrative

- **Role:** Cheated winner whose victories were withheld
- **Arc:** contamination
- **Contrasting:** An unnamed 'they' who cheat by 'playing games with the Ballots'

**Identity Claims:**
- I won Minnesota three times
- Victor denied his rightful wins
- Wielder of federal oversight ('The Federal Government will be watching')

### State

**Mixed State**

**Trigger:** Preemptive Attack — Defeat (Approaching Nov 3 midterm in Minnesota, reviving his three presidential losses there)

**Rage:** Intensity 35% targeting Unnamed Minnesota election administrators / Democrats ('they')
- Proportionality: 20%

Sentiment: -0.15

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 70%
- Antisocial: 40%
- Paranoid: 70%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- denial (pathological)
- distortion (pathological)
- rationalization (neurotic)
- splitting (immature)
- projection (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 35%

Cognitive Markers:
- tangentiality

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Inclusive 'Let's all get behind' and 'We can't allow that'
- Recruiting followers into his personal grievance as a shared cause
- Direct reassurance to the audience: 'She will not let you down!'

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- Pre-election delegitimization: any loss pre-defined as cheating
- Federal executive power invoked against state-run election administration
- Imperatives to followers: 'Don't allow them to play with the Votes'
- Unnamed 'they' aimed at election officials in a state whose workers faced threats after 2020
- Pattern continuity with the Alaska results-blocking lawsuit remarks (Oct 23)

### Gaslighting

- Denial of three certified Minnesota losses ('I won Minnesota three times')
- Recasting the 1976-2024 Democratic streak as illegitimate via scare quotes on 'won'
- Pre-framing an unfavorable result as fraud, so the audience is told in advance not to believe the count

## Fact Checks (3)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-27._

> I won Minnesota three times

**FALSE**

Trump lost Minnesota in all three runs: 2016 to Clinton (about 46.4% to 44.9%), 2020 to Biden (about 52.4% to 45.3%), and 2024 to Harris (about 50.9% to 46.7%). All results were certified, and no court or review found outcome-changing fraud.

Sources: Minnesota Secretary of State certified results 2016, 2020, 2024

> Minnesota hasn't been won [by a Republican presidential candidate] since 1972, when Richard Nixon claimed the trophy

**TRUE**

Nixon carried Minnesota in 1972. The state has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1976, including 1984, when it was the only state Mondale won. That is the longest active Democratic streak of any state.

Sources: Minnesota Secretary of State historical election results

> Minnesota election officials cheat by playing games with ballots as they come in, and denied Trump his victories

**FALSE**

The 2020 Minnesota election was upheld in court challenges, and the state's statutory post-election review of randomly selected precincts found no discrepancies of consequence. No evidence of ballot manipulation in 2016, 2020 or 2024 has been established.

Sources: Minnesota Secretary of State post-election review reports; Minnesota state court rulings on 2020 election challenges

Overall Veracity: 33%

## Tags

- election fraud claims (90%)
- endorsement (60%)
- Minnesota (80%)
- Michele Tafoya (70%)
- 2026 midterms (80%)
- federal oversight threat (70%)
- grievance (70%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**A million-dollar bounty for voter-fraud convictions, offered eight days before the midterms**

Late Sunday he answered Bill Maher's on-air claim that his approval was slipping, even among Republicans, with a long and personal attack on Maher. Minutes later he posted TV clips saying that support was intact. After a quiet night and morning, Monday afternoon brought a million-dollar reward for reports of voter fraud that lead to convictions, eight days before the midterms. His account then shared articles casting four Democratic candidates as threats because of race, religion, gender or citizenship, and ran through a long string of near-identical House endorsements in about a quarter of an hour. He later said a Minnesota Senate candidate could only lose through cheating, and he ended the afternoon landing in Mississippi for a rally, pleased with the anchors praising him on air.

Full digest for 2026-10-26: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-26/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 26). Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in Minnesota.... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117509280703799414
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in Minnesota. She's..." Truth Social, 26 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117509280703799414. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in Minnesota. She's...," Truth Social, October 26, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117509280703799414.

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