{"id":442532,"date":"2026-10-30T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442532\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:32:08","slug":"live-updates-trump-to-rally-for-gop-candidates-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442532\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump to rally for GOP candidates in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"16\">Trump said this morning that he doesn&#8217;t know whether Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan can win re-election in Alaska given that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/mike-dunleavy-orders-investigation-mary-peltola-campaign-dan-sullivan-rcna606316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another candidate with the same name on the ballot<\/a> could siphon off votes from him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"19\">&#8220;I will tell you, he\u2019s a great senator, and what they tried to do, and he would, you know, he would have won,&#8221; Trump said in an interview with Kansas City talk radio host Pete Mundo. &#8220;I don\u2019t know how he can win here because you\u2019re splitting up the vote illegally. I think it\u2019s a total fraud.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1c\">The president said that the other candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan, should have been thrown off the general election ballot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1f\">Trump was referring to the revelations from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/alaska-dan-sullivan-conspiracy-peltola.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times report <\/a>that Democratic candidate Mary Peltola&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee allegedly recruited the candidate with the same name as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-elections\/alaska-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incumbent senator. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1i\">The president accused Democrats in Washington of orchestrating the reported scheme. The Senate Democrats campaign arm has denied any involvement, and at a campaign event last night, Peltola denied having any knowledge of the reported ballot-stacking effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1n\">Trump compared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/mike-dunleavy-orders-investigation-mary-peltola-campaign-dan-sullivan-rcna606316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">situation <\/a>to the 2020 presidential election, falsely claiming again that it was rigged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1q\">&#8220;Nobody\u2019s ever seen voter fraud like this,&#8221; Trump said this morning. &#8220;This is as bad, it\u2019s the same thing, actually, but it\u2019s as bad as what we went through in 2020, and what we always go through &#8230; We got rigged. We had a rigged election in 2020. We cannot ever let that happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1t\">Trump also claimed that you need a &#8220;190 IQ to figure out the ballot&#8221; in Alaska now that another Dan Sullivan appears on it. The president alluded to the fact that the sitting senator is described as the incumbent on the ballot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1w\">&#8220;Most people don\u2019t know in Alaska, and a lot of other states too, what does incumbent mean? They don\u2019t know what incumbent means,&#8221; he claimed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1z\">The president was scheduled to travel to Kansas tomorrow and Iowa on Sunday to rally for Republican candidates in competitive races, but canceled those yesterday in favor of holding tele-rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump said this morning that he doesn&#8217;t know whether Republican Sen. 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