With six days to go before the November 3 midterm elections in the United States, Democrats are leading Republicans in national polls, but several key Senate races seem too close to call. President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaigning, holding two Republican rallies in Texas on Tuesday before heading to Ohio on Wednesday. Ex-President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris are also hitting the campaign trail in Georgia for the Democratic Party.
Here is what the latest polls say, what happened on the campaign trail and what to expect on Wednesday. With less than a week to go before the midterms, a /Ipsos poll suggests the Democrats are ahead of the Republicans by nine points. According to the October 22-26 survey, 47 percent of voters support the Democrats, compared with 36 percent who support the Republicans.
When undecided voters’ leanings were taken into account, Democrats lead with 50 percent compared with Republicans’ 41 percent. Trump’s approval rating improved by a percentage point to 32 percent, with 73 percent of US adults saying the cost of living was going in the wrong direction. In Texas, where Democrats have not won a Senate election since 1988, James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are virtually tied in the polls.
Trump has made several trips to the state ahead of the midterms, but the polls indicate a much tighter race than the president has suggested. Four visits in seven weeks, which, to put that into context, is twice as many as we saw at the comparable period leading up to the 2024 election, which perhaps shows just how concerned Republicans are,” Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle said, reporting from the Texas coastal city of Corpus Christi. Lavelle said local analysis suggested more Republicans have voted early than Democrats, but Talarico has also been courting Republicans dissatisfied with Trump.
In Michigan, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers are also competing in a closely contested Senate race. I vote for who I think will do the best job.” Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, but Republican incumbent Roger Marshall now faces a close contest against Democrat Adam Hamilton. The race has brought Trump and his deputy, JD Vance, to the state.
According to The news agency, both parties and their allied groups have committed about $71m to campaign advertising in the Kansas race, making it the most expensive Senate contest in the state’s history. Trump addressed two campaign rallies in Texas on Tuesday in support of Paxton. In Corpus Christi, Trump pointed to a tanker that he said was carrying one million barrels of Venezuelan oil and called it a win for his administration.
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