{"id":899523,"date":"2026-10-30T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:46:11","slug":"trump-scraps-another-red-state-rally-as-he-shifts-strategy-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899523\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump scraps another red-state rally as he shifts strategy ahead of midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c-gettyimages-2302314133.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump leaves the stage after delivering remarks during a campaign rally at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on October 27 in Lubbock, Texas.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1601\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e4ij00033b6up4sewrsx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            President Donald Trump is scrapping plans to headline rallies this weekend in Iowa and Kansas, which officials say will allow him to conduct more tele-rallies.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67y00043b6umkmoq6w3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But that\u2019s a lot different than the last time he was president and fighting to get GOP candidates across the finish line.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67z00053b6uwsf6e0x5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the final 72 hours before the 2018 midterms on November 6, Trump held seven rallies in as many states, a review of news reports at the time shows. He went to Montana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67z00063b6u5lvno26q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Addressing the cancellation of his Kansas rally this time around, Trump said Sen. Roger Marshall, the GOP candidate there, was \u201cdoing very well.\u201d And he lashed out at a reporter who inquired about his health.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67z00073b6uxivmjhl6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe reason is, I don\u2019t feel I have to go to Kansas. I\u2019m going to Florida tomorrow, and I\u2019ll do \u2014 if something else comes up,\u201d he said. \u201cBut he said, \u2018You\u2019re not going to Kansas, sir. Are you feeling well?\u2019 You\u2019ve been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67z00083b6ukaejsydu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            At a rally earlier in the day, Trump had boasted about how hard he was working on the trail.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmvu8e67z00093b6ur3vs3czi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe one thing I can say is that no president has ever worked so hard on a midterm. You know, most presidents, including me, the first couple of times, you sort of take it easy, stay home,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is scrapping plans to headline rallies this weekend in Iowa and Kansas, which officials say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-899523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}