Trump heads to rallies in Arizona and Montana after campaign stop-off in Alaska – US politics live

President Donald Trump is spending Wednesday at rallies in Arizona and Montana after a stop in Alaska, where Democrats see a real chance to win a Senate seat. Polls show Democrat Mary Peltola level with, or slightly ahead of, Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, even though Trump won the state by 14 points in 2024. Voters are unhappy about the cost of living and the unpopular war with Iran. Trump has favored conservative-leaning areas of competitive states over more mixed ones. In Alaska he pardoned two repair shop owners convicted of stripping pollution controls from diesel engines, urged Republicans to vote by mail, and repeated his claim that Iran was two weeks from a nuclear weapon, which US intelligence assessments do not support, according to The Guardian.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported annual inflation of 3.7% for September, up from 3.4% in August, in the last such report before the midterms. Gasoline, up 34% from a year earlier, drove more than half of the increase. Senator Elizabeth Warren said real wages have fallen behind prices for six straight months.

In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said 188,600 people voted on the first day of early voting, a record.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →