President Donald Trumpclosed out the final weekend of a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in two states he had handily won in the past.
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he → win → past
At the same time, Democrats began to fracture in Michigan, risking their effort to retake the Senate.
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Democrats → begin → Senate
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers as Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election.
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tensions → stun → election
Trump will make his closing pitch of the midterm elections Monday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, pushing his slow, expensive and problem-plagued efforts to repair it back into the spotlight on the eve of Election Day.
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Trump → make → Day
Republicans face a midterm reckoning of Trump’s making
For President Donald Trump, this week’s elections are about him.
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elections → face → him
For his fellow Republicans, the risk is voters will agree.
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voters → agree → Republicans
Midterms almost always serve as a referendum on the president’s party, and losses typically ensue.
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losses → serve → party
But Trump’s decisions to impose tariffs, start a war and oversee extravagant Washington renovations — largely without congressional consultation — have made it harder for Republicans to navigate those historical headwinds.
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Republicans → impose → headwinds
Republicans cannot blame the fallout from those decisions on past administrations when Trump has owned them so fulsomely.
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Trump → blame → them
They also cannot easily distance themselves from an unpopular president who demands loyalty and routinely tells voters the economy is just fine.
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economy → distance → voters
At virtually every juncture before Election Day on Tuesday, Trump has complicated the task of protecting Republican majorities in Congress.
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Trump → complicate → Congress
The Iran war is “making it exponentially harder for Republicans to keep the House and Senate,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans, said in a debate while noting his support for the effort.
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Orden → make → effort
NAACP asks judge to bar federal law enforcement agents from serving as poll monitors
The NAACP is asking a judge for an emergency order limiting which federal staffers can monitor the polls on Election Day.
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staffers → ask → Day
The group wants law enforcement agents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to be barred from the role because they could intimidate voters.
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they → want → voters
“DOJ’s decision to deploy federal law enforcement agents and personnel to election sites is unlawful and serves a plain purpose: to intimidate voters and election workers alike, and to have a chilling effect on in-person voting on Election Day,” the group wrote in its overnight filing.
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group → deploy → filing
The Justice Department has insisted its election monitors around the country on Election Day will be there to observe and will not interfere with voting.
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monitors → insist → voting
Trump administration promises US farmers $15 billion in the weeks before the midterms
President Donald Trump’s administration has made $15 billion in promises to agricultural producers in the weeks before Tuesday’s midterm elections, initiatives intended to offset higher diesel and fertilizer costs that farmers have endured largely due to his tariffs and the Iran war.
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farmers → promise → tariffs
Whether that will motivate more voters to turn out in agricultural states where traditionally Republican seats are now seen as competitive is unclear.
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seats → motivate → states
It may explain Trump’s increased attention on rural areas, including visits Sunday to Iowa and Kansas.
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It → explain → Iowa
Of the $15 billion, more than half will go toward a one-time payment plan for farmers impacted by soaring diesel prices.
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half → go → prices
Beyond the $15 billion, the agency also plans $13.8 billion in payments to offset shortfalls during the 2025 crop year for farmers who grow key crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat and rice.
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who → plan → corn
Increased fertilizer and fuel costs have made it difficult for farmers to turn a profit this year.
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farmers → make → profit
Last year, tariffs drove up expenses for other equipment farmers use, and the trade war with China caused a near boycott of U.S. agricultural goods.
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war → drive → goods
Justice Department defends voter list that it says contains suspected noncitizens
The Justice Department has defended the accuracy of a list that it says has more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens registered to vote in California and suggested that an immigrant rights group should face contempt charges over an analysis of the names.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg had allowed the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights access to data on people the Trump administration alleges are noncitizen voters.
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administration → defend → people
Boasberg ordered the plaintiffs not to disclose any names and to use the data only for arguments about why they have legal standing to challenge its use.
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they → order → use
In a Saturday court filing, the group said more than 40% of the people on the list do not appear in the state’s voter file.
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% → say → file
The filing also identified 22 people who were likely naturalized U.S. citizens while saying that thousands more American citizens appeared to be on it.
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citizens → identify → it
The Justice Department argued Sunday that the group’s filing had nothing to do with its legal standing and therefore violated Boasberg’s order.
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filing → argue → order
The agency also suggested that Boasberg refer the matter for investigation into possible contempt of court.
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Boasberg → suggest → court
Voters on the left and right fear the America they’ve known is slipping away
In dozens of Associated Press interviews across the United States, many voters say the America they’ve known is slipping away.
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they → fear → States
They see lawlessness coming from those who create the laws, hate stirred by politicians and a culture that doesn’t speak to how they live.
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they → see → politicians
The angst was palpable among people who cast ballots at advance polling places or drop boxes ahead of Tuesday’s election, which will determine the political party that controls Congress in the final two years of Republican Donald Trump’s presidency.
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that → cast → presidency
“He’s just destroying us,” Democrat Linda Markle, 72, said of the president.
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Markle → destroy → president
She spoke outside the Warminster Township library in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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She → speak → County
“I am so afraid for this country,” she said.
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she → say → country
“People used to look out for each other.
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People → use → other
Trump supporter Therese Mennell in Ohio said he gets it.
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he → say → it
“There’s that kind of arrogant vibe about him that people don’t like, and sometimes I shut him off because of the way he talks,” the retiree said in Wayne County.
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retiree → ’ → County
“But, I mean, he’s doing the right thing.
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he → mean → thing
He is saving our country.”
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He → save → country
…and 27 more, not listed.
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