WATCH LIVE: Trump rallies in Iowa as part of final push before Election Day

With Election Day two days away, President Donald Trump is spending the last weekend of a rocky midterm campaign in Iowa and Kansas, states he has carried comfortably before. PBS NewsHour, citing the Associated Press, reports that the stops point to a Republican party playing defense, with more than 52 million ballots already cast. Trump began Sunday in Dubuque, where the GOP is fighting to keep a Senate seat, the governorship and a competitive House district, and then heads to Salina, Kansas, where Adam Hamilton hopes to become the first Democrat in 94 years to win a Senate seat there. Voters, including past backers, are questioning the economic effects of his tariffs and the war in Iran.

Democrats, meanwhile, hit turbulence in Michigan. Haley Stevens, who lost the Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, saying the nominee had told her to stay away. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand pledged unified backing for El-Sayed, and Bernie Sanders played down any rift. Retiring Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska warned that tariffs are unpopular in the Midwest, while Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina said he was confident Republicans would hold the Senate.

Summarized by PolitiKool from PBS NewsHour’s reporting. Read the full story at PBS NewsHour →