{"id":952269,"date":"2026-10-30T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952269\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:52:13","slug":"trump-reverses-course-reinstates-cancelled-campaign-rallies-us-midterm-elections-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952269\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reverses course, reinstates cancelled campaign rallies | US Midterm Elections 2026 News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The decision marks a sharp reversal after the US president said he didn\u2019t feel like he had to hold the events.<\/p>\n

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A day after announcing he would cancel a pair of campaign rallies, United States President Donald Trump has reversed course, opting to put those events back on the calendar.<\/p>\n

A source\u00a0close to the Trump administration\u00a0told Al Jazeera on Friday that Trump will be headlining, in person, the previously cancelled rallies in Kansas and Iowa ahead of Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRallies are BACK ON!\u201d the source said. \u201cNo one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, Trump was due to travel<\/a> to Kansas on Saturday and Iowa on Sunday. But now both rallies will take place on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The source said the events were rearranged to include more tele-rallies, which allow Trump to attend virtually.<\/p>\n

Republican officials have also not ruled out that an additional campaign event could be added to the president\u2019s schedule before the midterm election.<\/p>\n

The decision marks a sharp reversal after Trump told reporters on Thursday, \u201cI don\u2019t feel I have to go to Kansas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have a strong \u2060Tuesday night,\u201d Trump said of the midterms.<\/p>\n

Iowa and Kansas are states that are normally friendly to the president\u2019s Republican Party. Not since 1932, for instance, has Kansas elected a Democrat to a full term in the Senate.<\/p>\n

But according to early polling data, voters in both states have trended more towards Democratic Senate candidates this campaign cycle.<\/p>\n

In Kansas, for instance, Republican Senator Roger Marshall is in an increasingly competitive race with his Democratic challenger, megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton.<\/p>\n

A poll from Emerson College on Friday found Hamilton in the lead, with 49 percent support compared with Marshall\u2019s 45 percent.<\/p>\n

Analysts have warned that Republican candidates could feel backlash at the polls over issues like the cost of living, with fuel prices higher than normal due to the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n

Prior to Friday\u2019s reversal, Marshall defended Trump\u2019s decision to cancel his Kansas rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey think that I\u2019m doing so well in the polls that he\u2019s probably got better places to spend his time,\u201d Marshall said<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

Democrats, however, were quick to accuse Trump of abandoning Republican candidates with less than four days remaining until the vote.<\/p>\n

David Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, described the cancellation as a \u201cstrategic retreat<\/a>\u201d in a post on social media.<\/p>\n

The Republican National Committee argued the virtual appearances would be more efficient, allowing Trump to reach more voters.<\/p>\n

Trump is expected to speak at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday to help boost two of the state\u2019s Republican candidates: US Senate nominee Ashley Moody and gubernatorial hopeful Byron Donalds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision marks a sharp reversal after the US president said he didn\u2019t feel like he had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,3411,893,43,44,714,41,39,42,40,772,1690,272304],"class_list":["post-952269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-midterm-elections-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}