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Introduction Candidates are hustling across Michigan in the final week before the November midterm election, with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers making their closing pitches to voters in a U.S. Senate race that could help decide control of the chamber. El-Sayed campaigned Monday in Alpena, alongside U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, while Rogers spoke Monday in Midland about what he believes is at stake. The dueling appearances captured the closing dynamic of a race that has tightened into one of the most closely watched Senate contests in the country. According to the Michigan Secretary of State, more than 1.2 million Michiganders have already voted in the general election, including 138,000 who cast early in-person ballots over the weekend. With Election Day set for Tuesday, November 3, the final week is now a turnout fight — and both campaigns are treating every day as decisive. The final-week map Rogers, speaking in Midland on Monday, framed the election as something...

Introduction Senator Jon Husted and former Senator Sherrod Brown remain deadlocked in Ohio's U.S. Senate race less than a week before Election Day, according to a new poll released Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The Suffolk University/USA TODAY Ohio Network survey of likely voters showed Brown leading Husted 47 percent to 44 percent, a margin well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. The result suggests the race is anyone's ballgame as Brown and Husted enter the final days of a nationally watched campaign that could set new records for advertising spending in Ohio. The poll lands on the same day President Donald Trump travels to Chillicothe, Ohio, for a rally aimed at lifting the Republican ticket — the latest in a string of Ohio visits by the president and former President Barack Obama, who headlined a Cleveland rally for Brown and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton in the final stretch. With six days to go until November 3, the...

Introduction President Donald Trump travels to Chillicothe, Ohio, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, for a midterm campaign rally less than a week before voters head to the polls on November 3. The stop, announced by the Republican National Committee, puts the president in southern Ohio at a decisive moment in the campaign, with the state's high-profile Senate race and governor's race both on the ballot. The rally will be held at the Shoemaker Center on the Ohio University Chillicothe campus, at 101 University Drive. Doors open at 3:30 p.m., the program begins at 5:30 p.m., and the president's remarks are scheduled to start at 7 p.m., according to the Republican National Committee announcement. Admission is free, but guests must RSVP in advance, and sign-ups are limited to four tickets per person, with registrants required to confirm by text message before their tickets are valid. The Chillicothe stop is the latest in a string of recent Ohio-area visits by the president, follo...

Introduction Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has opened a lead of about six percentage points over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race with less than a week to go before Election Day, according to a new statewide survey that finds voters ranking the economy as a top factor in their choice. El-Sayed drew about 51.4 percent support in The Detroit News/WDIV-TV (Channel 4) poll of 600 likely voters, while Rogers drew 45.1 percent, with 3.6 percent of voters still undecided. Among voters who said they "definitely" plan to vote on November 3, the lead narrows to 4.2 percentage points, with El-Sayed at 50.7 percent and Rogers at 46.5 percent. The contest is one of the most costly, bruising and closely watched Senate races in the country this year. El-Sayed, a former public health official from Ann Arbor, and Rogers, a former seven-term congressman from White Lake Township, are vying for the seat of retiring U.S. Senator Gary Peters. The outcome could help determine ...

Introduction President Donald Trump closed out a two-rally Texas day on Tuesday night, October 27, 2026, with a raucous evening rally at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in support of Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton — while Democratic nominee James Talarico held a dueling rally across town the same night. Trump took the stage to chants of "USA" just before 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, tossing his signature red "Make America Great Again" hats into the crowd as Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" played. "Hello Texas, I've been all over the place all day long," Trump told the crowd, after an afternoon rally in Corpus Christi earlier in the day. "There's one week left. I did more rallies than I've ever done for myself. It's much easier, you know, when you do them for yourself." The Lubbock stop was the second half of an extraordinary double-header for a single candidate — Trump himself noted that he does not typically ...

Introduction President Donald Trump brought his closing midterm argument to the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, headlining a rally at the Port of Corpus Christi in support of Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton one week before Election Day. Speaking for more than an hour in the final week of early voting, Trump praised Paxton, mocked Democratic nominee James Talarico as "Talafreako," and repeatedly urged Republicans to turn out as though he himself were on the ballot. The rally was the first of two Texas stops on Tuesday — Trump was scheduled to travel on to Lubbock on Tuesday evening, where Talarico was holding a competing rally the same night — and it marked Trump's second visit to Corpus Christi this year and his fourth visit to Texas since Labor Day. The Texas Senate race is one of the contests that will decide control of a Senate Republicans currently lead 53-47, and it has drawn an extraordinary amount of national attention and money for a state that...