Trump Heads to Iowa and Kansas for Final-Weekend Rallies as His Party Fights to Hold Senate Seats
The president campaigns Sunday in two Republican-leaning Farm Belt states where Senate seats are in play — while his administration presses an Alaska investigation and weighs a Supreme Court run at the California ballot fight.
President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on 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 the midterm elections, Reuters reported. It is the closing-argument geography of a party defending a narrow Senate majority: not the swing states of the presidential map, but the seats that decide who runs the chamber on Wednesday morning.
The campaigning runs alongside the legal campaign. As Trump rallies, his administration is pressing a criminal investigation in Alaska's pivotal Senate race — the same race whose certification lawsuit a federal judge threw out on Sunday — and said on Saturday that it would likely take its fight over thousands of California mail ballots to the Supreme Court. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told Fox News that any request would come before Tuesday's election, which would put the justices in the position of ruling on the counting of ballots from about 20,000 voters on the administration's noncitizen list on the eve of the vote, after two lower courts refused.
For Texas, the weekend's map is a mirror. The state's own Senate race is one of the close ones the national fight is built from, and both parties here are in their own final-weekend push. What is different about this cycle is the second front: in state after state, the argument about the result has started before the result exists, in courtrooms and investigations rather than at rallies. Tuesday will produce the numbers. The weekend is producing the challenges to them.
