Trump Rallies in Kansas and Iowa Are Back On for Sunday After Being Canceled
President Donald Trump will hold rallies for Senate midterm candidates in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, November 1, after all — reversing Thursday's abrupt cancellation, with the dates rearranged around the dozens of tele-rallies planned for the final days, USA Today reported.
The final weekend of the midterm campaign has its rallies back. President Donald Trump will hold rallies for Senate midterm candidates in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, November 1, after previously canceling planned visits days before the election, USA Today reported Friday. A source familiar with the plans confirmed the rallies are back on, saying the dates were rearranged to accommodate dozens of tele-rallies Trump is planning for Republican candidates in the final days of the campaign; the Wall Street Journal reported he will also hold several tele-rallies on Saturday afternoon before the Sunday appearances.
Trump addressed the changes to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, October 30, saying he received calls from Republicans in both states asking him to come. "We have a couple of races that are very important, and they said if you could go, it would be better than a tele-rally," Trump said. "And I tried to talk them out of that. I said, 'What about a tele-rally?' But they asked me. So I'm going to go on Sunday." The Salina, Kansas rally was originally scheduled for Saturday, October 31; the Dubuque, Iowa rally stays on November 1.
The reversal follows Thursday's abrupt cancellation of weekend rallies in Kansas for Sen. Roger Marshall and in Iowa for Rep. Ashley Hinson, a change this station covered as the tele-rally switch. The Kansas race is the surprise of the two: multiple polls suggest Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has opened a lead in a state that last elected a Democratic senator in 1932 — a Washington Post poll released Friday found Hamilton ahead of Marshall 52%-43% among likely voters, while a CNN poll found a narrower 4-point lead for Hamilton, within the margin of error. Trump carried Kansas by 16 points in 2024. In Iowa, Hinson leads Democratic nominee Josh Turek by less than 1 percentage point in a RealClearPolitics average; Trump carried Iowa by 13 points in 2024.
Trump has held more than two dozen rallies in the homestretch, and USA Today noted his popularity is underwater in many of the states he is visiting, including Kansas and Iowa, making the appearances a calculated risk for the candidates. His voice has turned hoarse in recent days on the breakneck schedule. He rallied in Daytona Beach, Florida on Friday, and Sunday's Kansas and Iowa stops now close the in-person campaign before Election Day on Tuesday, November 3.
