2026 Midterms: Candidates Make Final Push Two Days Before Election Day
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With Election Day on Tuesday, November 3, candidates are delivering their closing arguments across key Senate and House races, while President Trump reversed course to schedule in-person rallies and a federal ballot dispute in Alaska intensified.
Election Day falls on Tuesday, November 3, and with two days remaining, candidates in competitive Senate and House races are making their final appeals to voters. CBS News polling shows Democrats holding an edge in the House, while Senate control may come down to toss-up races in Maine, Ohio, Texas and other states. CBS News now rates South Carolina as a GOP-leaning battleground.
President Trump, who had been on a weekslong campaign blitz, reversed an earlier position and announced he would hold in-person rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. He also hosted a series of telerallies, backing Republican candidates in Pennsylvania and Ohio — including GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Jon Husted and Rep. Mike Carey.
In Alaska, the Justice Department pushed to segregate certain Senate ballots amid a probe into independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan, who shares a name with Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. The FBI contacted donors in at least two remote Alaska communities and in Massachusetts. Alaska state officials responded Saturday by filing a motion to dismiss the DOJ lawsuit, arguing it had "no legal basis." Democratic candidate Mary Peltola denied any involvement in recruiting the second Sullivan. A New York Times report had previously found that people associated with Peltola's campaign helped recruit him to run.
A California judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the federal government from requiring state and local officials to separate out ballots from alleged noncitizens, and barred the DOJ from threatening officials with criminal prosecution for noncompliance.
In Michigan, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's campaign asked former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens to stay away from all remaining campaign events, two sources told CBS News.
