\u201cI don\u2019t know Haley, I\u2019ve never met Haley, but Haley said what few people are willing to say,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI\u2019d love her to join the Republican Party, actually, I think that could happen maybe. But she showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the great people of Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then branded Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, as a \u201cjihadist,\u201d continuing a line of a Islamophobic attacks against the progressive Democratic Senate nominee.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you imagine, we\u2019ll have to put him through metal detectors\u2026\u201d Trump mused, likening El-Sayed to a terrorist in a remark that drew on anti-Muslim stereotypes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s the deal, Donald, listen,\u201d El-Sayed responded on Thursday<\/a> after Trump made this same suggestion. \u201cI\u2019ll go through a metal detector if you\u2019ll sit for a lie detector. Simple. I got nothing to hide. You\u2019ve got so much to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.33 EST<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Edward Helmore<\/p>\n Donald Trump closed out his address in Kansas saying \u201cwe\u2019re hotter now than ever before and hotter than we\u2019ve ever been. We\u2019re going to go up a long ways from here.\u201d<\/p>\n double quotation markIt\u2019s my honor to be your president during such an exciting time in the history of our country \u2026 There\u2019s no greater honor.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump may campaign in 2028, but this election marks the end of the campaign rallies \u2013 with their unique blend of politics and entertainment \u2013 which will directly affect his ability to govern from the White House.<\/p>\n Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking at a campaign rally at Salina Regional Airport in Kansas. Photograph: Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n double quotation markWe\u2019ve been doing this for eleven years, and there\u2019s never been anything like it, and it probably never will be again. There will never be the crowds. They\u2019ll never be the feeling. I don\u2019t think it can ever happen again. This is a unique thing that\u2019s taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n He concluded:<\/p>\n double quotation markSo let\u2019s go out and do what we do best, which is to win, win, win. Let\u2019s make the next two years bigger and better and stronger than ever before, because together we will make America powerful again wealthy again, healthy again, strong again, proud again, safe again, and most importantly, we will make America great again.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Continued from last post<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cXavier Becerra \u2013 he\u2019s familia,\u201d said Angelica Salas, an immigration activist who leads the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n double quotation markXavier Becerra dreams the way we dream.<\/p>\n Lucky Longoria, a 51-year-old nurse, said federal cuts enacted by Trump\u2019s so-called big beautiful bill have disproportionately impacted low-income, and Hispanic patients. She trusts Becerra\u2019s experience at HHS will help expand affordable healthcare and address the nursing shortage in the state.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing led by someone who knows the struggle, someone who knows how hard it is to come from underneath,\u201d Longoria said. \u201cIt gives us hope.<\/p>\n double quotation markI guarantee you that the next leader of this state \u2013 of this country \u2013 and it could be years down the line, will be a child who saw this race and thought that could be me one day.<\/p>\n Xavier Becerra shakes hands with supporters at the campaign event at the Hollywood Palladium. Photograph: Jill Connelly\/APShare<\/a> Xavier Becerra doesn\u2019t talk often about the history he will make if he\u2019s elected governor of California on Tuesday. The son of immigrants from Mexico, Becerra would become the first Latino governor in modern California history. (The last time was in 1875.)<\/p>\n At the Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday night, supporters became emotional thinking about Becerra ascending to the governor\u2019s mansion next year, particularly at this moment, where so many immigrants and Latino Californians feel \u201chunted\u201d and \u201ctargeted\u201d by the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stakes could not be higher,\u201d said California senator Alex Padilla, also the son of immigrants from Mexico, who became the face of the administration\u2019s militarized immigration crackdown when federal agents forcibly removed him from a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve known better than anybody what these last two years have been like,\u201d Padilla said of Californians.<\/p>\n double quotation markWe have endured relentless attacks on our communities by Donald Trump and his rogue ICE agents.<\/p>\n \u201cXavier Becerra \u2013 he\u2019s familia,\u201d said Angelica Salas, an immigration activist who leads the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. \u201cXavier Becerra dreams the way we dream.\u201d<\/p>\n Continued next post<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a022.42 EST<\/p>\n Edward Helmore<\/p>\n As Donald Trump took the stage in Kansas at his second midterm rally of the day, he reminded the crowd that he\u2019d won the state three times.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is my thirtieth rally and I\u2019m closing it down tonight. I\u2019ve been doing it for one simple reason \u2013 to stop America-hating communists and jihadists\u201d from taking over the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to be so big, we\u2019re going to win by so much,\u201d the president said. That prediction is not supported by polling, but the visit has a single objective: \u201cAll I\u2019m asking you to do is one more thing: get out and vote,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n double quotation markIf you do, we\u2019re going to have a tremendous success.<\/p>\n Trump leaned heavily into his support from Christians, saying that Roger Marshall had supported him from before he announced his first run for presidency in 2015.<\/p>\n Trump said the incumbent Republican senator had acknowledged he \u201cmay not recite Biblical verse well, but he\u2019s the strongest leader, and he will take us Christians to the promised land\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I\u2019ve done that,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n Donald Trump at the campaign rally at Salina regional sirport in Salina, Kansas. Photograph: Nathan Howard\/Reuters<\/p>\n Trump also leaned his support of gun rights, and warned that Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton \u201cwill totally open your borders\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump described Hamilton as a \u201cwoke pastor\u201d, though Hamilton\u2019s platform is centrist. \u201cHe\u2019s bad news,\u2019\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n double quotation markHe would be a disaster. He\u2019ll go against guns, and he\u2019ll go against every single thing that we all stand for.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s address in Salina was delayed, he said, because he didn\u2019t want to interfere with the NFL game between Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos \u2013 a game that Kansas led but ultimately lost 24-28.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe I should have,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was a nasty ending, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a022.27 EST<\/p>\n Becerra says he’ll stand up to ‘dangerous authoritarianism’ A beaming Xavier Becerra took the stage in Los Angeles and vowed as governor to take on Trump \u2013 and expand healthcare, protect immigrant communities, preserve access to abortion and address the climate crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cI have stood up to dangerous authoritarianism before and I\u2019m ready to do it again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n double quotation markI\u2019m ready to be what the haters fear most \u2013 a proud son of immigrants with a law degree and a union card governing America\u2019s most diverse and successful state.<\/p>\n But he added:<\/p>\n double quotation markI want to make one thing abundantly clear: I\u2019m not running to make history. I\u2019m running to make a difference.<\/p>\n Xavier Becerra, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, at the rally in Los Angeles. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/ReutersXavier Becerra (C) with (L-R) Senator Alex Padilla, former US vice-president Kamala Harris, California governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Adam Schiff. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a022.37 EST<\/p>\n Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom didn\u2019t exactly share a stage \u2013 they spoke one after the other. But any signs of the sibling rivalry that\u2019s been a source of speculation as the Californians weigh 2028 bids were not evident on Sunday night \u2013 which was squarely focused on 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was Kamala Harris in the house. A big round of applause,\u201d Newsom bellowed, taking the stage as Harris exited. The crowd happily obliged.<\/p>\n Both received a homestate welcome in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m glad to be home,\u201d the former vice-president said, noting that she\u2019s been campaigning in Nevada, Michigan, New Hampshire and Georgia \u2013 all states critical to the 2028 map.<\/p>\n But the evening was spent rallying supporters behind the Democrats<\/a> running to flip the five redrawn House seats \u2013 and the state\u2019s first Latino governor.<\/p>\n Newsom said he was proud to represent the most \u201cun-Trump state\u201d in the country, and then, in something of a passing of the baton, introduced Xavier Becerra, whom he called a \u201cfierce advocate for the values that define\u201d California.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pictures have begun coming in of Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom at the Los Angeles rally for Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra, the favourite to become California\u2019s next governor.<\/p>\n Former US vice-president Kamala Harris at the \u2018Stop the power grab\u2019 rally at the Hollywood Palladium. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/ReutersCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.44 EST<\/p>\n Democratic senator Adam Schiff, one of Trump\u2019s favorite political adversaries, railed against the \u201cwannabe despot\u201d in the White House during remarks at the Hollywood Palladium.<\/p>\n Schiff said:<\/p>\n double quotation markThink about the fact that the greatest threat to our elections is not some hostile foreign power. It is the meddling of our own president.<\/p>\n The Trump administration<\/a> has sought to block the vote count in the state, an effort that courts have repeatedly rejected.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the president can talk about asses all he wants,\u201d Schiff quipped of Trump\u2019s late-campaign-season fixation<\/a> with Ohio senator Jon Husted\u2019s posterior.<\/p>\n double quotation markWe\u2019re going to throw those asses out of office.<\/p>\n Democratic senator Adam Schiff at the campaign event in Hollywood. Photograph: Jill Connelly\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Edward Helmore<\/p>\n Donald Trump is set to hold his second midterm rally of the day in Salina, Kansas, after an appearance earlier in Dubuque, Iowa.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s Kansas rally would be the second visit in two weeks in support of Republican incumbent senator Roger Marshall.<\/p>\n Republican US Senate reelection candidate Roger Marshall delivers remarks ahead of a planned rally with US President Donald Trump in Salina, Kansas Photograph: Nathan Howard\/Reuters<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s Kansas stop on Sunday is scheduled as his last of the 2026 midterm election cycle. He lasted visited the state on 19 October, with vice-president JD Vance visiting on 26 October and in September.<\/p>\n The race between Marshall and Democrat Adam Hamilton is projected as a toss-up in a state that is reliably Republican \u2013 Kansas hasn\u2019t elected a Democratic senator in nearly a century. But even here, high costs of living and fuel have left the Republican candidate vulnerable.<\/p>\n Marshall told rallygoers ahead of Trump\u2019s appearance that their votes were \u201cnot just choosing a senator, you\u2019re deciding whether your kids and grandkids grow up in Chuck Schumer\u2019s woke, radical America, or in the Kansas that we love\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.30 EST<\/p>\n Trump floats ‘concept’ of new Canada trade deal after talking with Carney<\/p>\n Donald Trump is saying his administration has the \u201cconcept\u201d \u2060of a new trade deal \u2060with Canada while prime \u200bminister Mark Carney says the two leaders had a good conversation on the future of trade between their countries.<\/p>\n The US and Canada have imposed billions of dollars in tariffs on each other in recent months and the tariffs on Canada has \u200cemerged as an issue in some northern US border states like Michigan and Maine before Tuesday\u2019s US midterms.<\/p>\n Trump \u2013 quoted by Reuters \u2013 told reporters in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday:<\/p>\n double quotation markI spoke to him again yesterday, and we have the concept of a deal \u2060that\u2019s going to be great for our farmers, great for our country, and we\u2019ll be fine for that.<\/p>\n Carney said on X<\/a> earlier on Sunday that their exchange \u201cbuilds on recent constructive \u2060discussions on the outlines of a mutually beneficial trade deal\u201d that would create jobs, improve affordability and fully respect Canada\u2019s languages, culture and sovereignty.<\/p>\n double quotation markOur teams \u200bwill now be working in the coming weeks to deliver that \u200coutcome.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a021.16 EST<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got vision here of Donald Trump at the Iowa rally tossing Islamophobic insults at the progressive Abdul El-Sayed while praising Haley Stevens\u2019s switch from the Democrats to support Republican Mike Rogers in the tight Michigan Senate contest.<\/p>\n At the Hollywood Palladium, supporters are holding signs declaring a \u201cBecerra era\u201d is on the horizon. One content creator waved a shirt that read: \u201cSteyer slayer\u201d \u2013 a reminder of the divisive primary contest between Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist who spent record sums attacking his opponent\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n Becerra faces Steve Hilton in general election. Hilton, a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron and a former Fox News host who has been endorsed by Trump, faces strong headwinds in the heavily Democratic state.<\/p>\n Ahead of the rally, supporters began to gather as pop music blared and a banner urged them to \u201cvote blue\u201d. At the entrance, an ofrenda \u2013 an altar decorated with candles and flowers to welcome deceased loved ones during D\u00eda de los Muertos<\/a> \u2013 was on display in honor of Dolores Huerta, the longtime civil rights activist<\/a> who died on Wednesday at 96.<\/p>\n People cheer and hold signs while waiting for Xavier Becerra during the \u2018Stop the Power Grab\u2019 rally at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Photograph: Chris Torres\/EPAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.08 EST<\/p>\n Hello from the historic Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, where Xavier Becerra \u2013 who is heavily favored to be the next governor of California \u2013 will appear shortly alongside the current governor, Gavin Newsom, and former vice-president Kamala Harris. The state\u2019s senators, Democrats<\/a> Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, will also attend.<\/p>\n The high-profile gathering marks the final sprint to the 3 November election on Tuesday. Democrats feel confident in California, where they redrew its House lines to create a more favorable map for the party as a counterpunch to Texas. If successful, House Democrats could net as many as five additional seats here.<\/p>\n But the Democrats were here to talk about ballot measures. Not that <\/a>one<\/a> – the billionaires\u2019 tax, which has sharply divided the party. (Becerra and Newsom are against it.) Instead, they\u2019re warning against Prop 39 , a measure being pushed by Trump\u2019s allies in the state that would add new voter ID requirements.<\/p>\n Xavier Becerra at a campaign event in San Francisco on Friday. Photograph: Akash Pamarthy1\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.10 EST<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got a full report now on Donald Trump railing against Democratic US Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at that Iowa campaign event a little earlier and repeatedly referring to the Michigan progressive as a \u201cjihadist\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s comments aimed to influence a neck-and-neck race that will play an outsized role in determining which party controls the Senate after Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections, reports Roque Planas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Abdul El-Sayed at a Michigan campaign rally on Sunday. Photograph: Brian Snyder\/Reuters<\/p>\n The president attacked El-Sayed \u2013 a practising Muslim \u2013 in brazenly racist terms, saying that Congress would have to \u201cget a special metal detector for Abdul\u201d if he were elected.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you vote for this jihadist lunatic that wants to destroy you, you\u2019re crazy,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n The Michigan race has drawn national attention<\/a> in recent days as Hayley Stevens \u2013 who lost to El-Sayed in the August primary election \u2013 declined to campaign with him, while demanding that he publicly disavow an outside group\u2019s political ad that posited a link between rising prices and US military support for Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.<\/p>\n El-Sayed responded by telling Stevens to stay away from a campaign event at which they were supposed to appear together on Sunday. Stevens turned around and endorsed Mike Rogers<\/a>, El-Sayed\u2019s Republican opponent.<\/p>\n See the full report here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.44 EST<\/p>\n Two Democratic congressional nominees have reaffirmed their support for Abdul El-Sayed after Haley Stevens\u2019s switch to support the GOP\u2019s Mike Rogers in Michigan.<\/p>\n Daniel Biss (Illinois) and Brad Lander (New York) said in a joint statement:<\/p>\n double quotation markWe are Jewish elected officials who stand with Abdul El-Sayed in his campaign for the U.S. Senate. We are guided by our deeply held conviction that the safety of Jewish people depends on a thriving democracy, and we cannot support a candidate who does not defend it. Through our relationships with Abdul, we know he shares that commitment and will arrive in Congress ready to join us in confronting Trump\u2019s authoritarian ambitions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.26 EST<\/p>\n Gavin Newsom has added his voice to the ongoing fallout over Haley Stevens\u2019 endorsement of Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race.<\/p>\n California\u2019s governor posted on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n double quotation markThe Republican Party is the party of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n A vote for Mike Rogers IS a vote for Trump.<\/p>\n I stand with Dr. @AbdulElSayed<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump predicts ‘tremendous victory’ for elections Tuesday<\/p>\n Trump has just finished speaking at the Iowa rally and predicted that \u201cwe\u2019re going to have a tremendous victory on Tuesday\u201d.<\/p>\n He also repeated his controversial pledge to give every adult American $5,000 if Republicans<\/a> won both the House and the Senate, while warning that Democratic wins in the chambers would plunge the US into a \u201c1929-style economic depression\u201d.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump returns a salute to members of the audience as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally at the Five Flags Event Center. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.59 EST<\/p>\n Edward Helmore<\/p>\n Fallout over Haley Stevens\u2019 endorsement of Rogers continued Sunday, with figures from the progressive left stepping up to back Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n Hasan Piker, the left wing social commentator who has been a focus of Republican efforts to undermine El-Sayed\u2019s campaign, posted on X <\/a>that \u201cStevens is not the spokesperson for democrats, she\u2019s not the spox for Jewish people or black people\u201d.<\/p>\n He continued:<\/p>\n double quotation markShe\u2019s a self interested striver who\u2019s weirdly obsessed with Israel and has been paid handsomely for this strange obsession. This race is about solving the affordability crisis, defending democracy, fighting back against the racialized violence all communities have faced since trump came into power and serving Michigan. Haley and mike rogers serve trump, and trump serves the Epstein class.<\/p>\n Bernie Sanders also joined the controversy, attacking Stevens for what Democrats<\/a> view as an extraordinary betrayal and Stevens accepted El-Sayed\u2019s narrow victory over her in Michagan\u2019s Democrat senate primaries.<\/p>\n \u201cRep. Haley Stevens\u2019 staff is right to resign in disgust,\u201d Sanders posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n double quotation markThey understand that the election in Michigan is far more important than Haley\u2019s fragile ego and that all of us must stand together to elect Abdul, defeat Rogers and end the Republican rubber-stamp control of the Senate.<\/p>\n![\"Lauren](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Lauren_Gambino.png\")
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