Trump Heads to Iowa and Kansas for Sunday Rallies as the Early Vote Passes 52 Million
Two days before an election that will decide control of Congress, the president campaigns in two Farm Belt states Republicans expected to hold comfortably - while his administration's ballot fights in California and Alaska run alongside the rallies.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Sunday with rallies in Iowa and Kansas, Republican-leaning Farm Belt states where his party is fighting to hold U.S. Senate seats, two days before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, Reuters reported.
Neither state was supposed to be this interesting. Trump won Iowa by double digits in 2024, but polls now show Democrats tied with or leading Republicans in many of the state's races, and his approval among rural Americans fell to a new low of 45 percent in October, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. Kansas, which last elected a Democratic senator in 1932, is facing an unexpectedly close race. Trump spent Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida after weeks of near-daily campaigning. Thirty-five Senate seats and all 435 House seats are on Tuesday's ballot; Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority and a narrow edge in the House, and losing either chamber would let Democrats block his agenda and open investigations.
The rallies land on top of an electorate that has already largely voted. More than 52 million Americans have cast ballots in person or by mail, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab - a record for a midterm, up from nearly 46 million who voted before Election Day in 2022.
The legal fights are running on the same clock. The administration said Saturday it would likely take its fight over thousands of California mail ballots to the Supreme Court, after a federal judge rejected a Justice Department request to block the counting of ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters the department alleges are likely noncitizens; California says its safeguards are robust. In Alaska, federal prosecutors are investigating whether aides to Democratic challenger Mary Peltola helped recruit a retired schoolteacher, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., to run against Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan because they share a name - an allegation Peltola, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Sullivan Jr. all deny. And in Michigan, it remained unclear whether Rep. Haley Stevens would attend a Sunday event billed as a show of unity with Abdul El-Sayed, the rival who beat her in the Democratic primary, after his campaign asked her to skip his events through Election Day.
