Today, the United States goes to the polls to vote for all seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, but also governors and a variety of other local offices in the mid-term elections.
It is the first major election in the country since Joe Biden was named president in 2020, after which Donald Trump spread allegations of widespread voter fraud.
These accusations have later been proven wrong.
Despite this, polls show that a third of Americans doubt that the last presidential election was fair.
Among Republicans, that figure is as much as 70 percent.
But how did it happen when the lie about widespread election fraud took hold among Americans?
Click on the clip for a timeline from the 2016 presidential election to the present day.
See more about Trump's accusations and how they have affected American politics in the Foreign Office: The big lie in SVT2 at 10 pm and in SVT Play from 8 pm.