Trump rallies in Iowa, Kansas to maintain Republican control of US Senate

The trips mark President Trump’s return to the campaign trail after taking a break at his ⁠Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Saturday.

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US President Donald Trump is set to rally in Iowa and Kansas, two Republican-leaning states he previously won, in a bid to maintain Republican control of the United States Senate.

His first stop is Sunday afternoon in Dubuque, Iowa, where Republicans are battling to retain a critical Senate seat and the governorship. Trump won Iowa by double digits in 2024.

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The 2nd Congressional District, which includes Dubuque, has also become competitive as the GOP works to protect its fragile majority in the US House of Representatives. The battle is on between Gen Z Republican candidate Joe Mitchell and Democrat Lindsay James.

On Sunday, Trump also plans to visit Salina, Kansas, which last elected a Democratic senator in 1932 but now faces an unexpectedly ⁠⁠close race between incumbent Republican Roger Marshall and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton, a prominent pastor.

The trips mark Trump’s return to the campaign trail after taking a break at his ⁠⁠Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Saturday. He has spent weeks campaigning across multiple US states.

Republicans abruptly cancelled the Iowa and Kansas stops late Thursday, only to reschedule them. A source close to the Trump administration told Al Jazeera on Friday that Trump will be headlining the previously cancelled rallies in person.

“Rallies are BACK ON!” the source said. “No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!”

Early voters line up outside a polling station in Fairfax, Virginia on October 30, 2026 [Ahmed Diab/Al Jazeera]

Polls show Democrats tied with or leading Republicans in many of the states’ races, and Trump’s approval among rural Americans fell to a new low of 45 percent in October, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.

In this campaign, Trump has focused largely on states he has dominated before as voters, including previous supporters, question the economic fallout of his decision to impose tariffs and launch the war in Iran.

Thirty-five Senate seats and all 435 House seats are on the ballot on Tuesday . Republicans currently hold a 53-47 Senate majority and a narrow edge in the House. Losing either chamber would let Democrats block Trump’s agenda for his final two years in office and launch investigations of an administration that has so far faced largely compliant Republican majorities.

More than 52 million Americans have already voted in person or by mail, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab, a record for a midterm and up from nearly 46 million who voted before Election Day in 2022.

此次行程标志着特朗普总统在周六于佛罗里达州的海湖庄园俱乐部休息后重返竞选活动。

特朗普表示，如果选举“公正”，他将尊重美国中期选举结果。

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普计划在爱荷华州和堪萨斯州举行竞选集会，这两个州都是共和党倾向的州，他此前都曾赢得过这两个州的选票。此举旨在保住共和党对美国参议院的控制权。

他的第一站是周日下午在爱荷华州迪比克市，共和党人正在那里为保住一个至关重要的参议院席位和州长职位而战。特朗普在2024年以两位数的优势赢得了爱荷华州。

列表 1/4：特朗普改变策略，恢复取消的竞选集会

列表 2/4：最新民调显示，随着美国中期选举前提前投票人数激增，哪些信息正在酝酿之中

（共四部分，此为第三部分）民主党能否赢得美国参议院？值得关注的十场中期选举

列表 4/4：民调显示，特朗普在中期选举前夕发起最后冲刺

包括迪比克在内的第二国会选区也变得竞争激烈，共和党正努力保住其在众议院的脆弱多数席位。共和党候选人、Z世代代表人物乔·米切尔和民主党候选人林赛·詹姆斯之间的竞争已经打响。

周日，特朗普还计划访问堪萨斯州萨利纳市。该市上一次选出民主党参议员是在 1932 年，但现在却面临着一场出乎意料的激烈竞争，现任共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔和民主党挑战者亚当·汉密尔顿（一位著名的牧师）之间的较量。

此次行程标志着特朗普在周六于佛罗里达州海湖庄园休息后重返竞选活动。此前数周，他一直在美国多个州进行竞选活动。

共和党人周四晚些时候突然取消了在爱荷华州和堪萨斯州的竞选活动，但随后又重新安排了行程。一位接近特朗普政府的消息人士周五告诉半岛电视台，特朗普将亲自出席之前取消的竞选集会。

消息人士称：“集会又回来了！没有人比唐纳德·J·特朗普总统更努力工作、更拼搏、更爱美国人民！”

2026年10月30日，提前投票的选民在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的一个投票站外排队。[艾哈迈德·迪亚布/半岛电视台]

民调显示，在许多州的竞选中，民主党人与共和党人势均力敌或领先；路透社/益普索民调显示，特朗普在农村美国人中的支持率在10月份跌至45%的新低。

在这次竞选中，特朗普主要将重点放在他以前占据优势的州，因为选民（包括以前的支持者）质疑他征收关税和发动伊朗战争的决定所带来的经济后果。

周二将进行参议院35个席位和众议院全部435个席位的选举。目前，共和党在参议院以53比47的席位优势占据多数，在众议院也略占优势。如果民主党失去参众两院中的任何一院，都将使其有机会在特朗普任期的最后两年里阻挠其施政纲领，并对迄今为止一直受到共和党多数派基本顺从的特朗普政府展开调查。

据佛罗里达大学选举实验室称，已有超过 5200 万美国人亲自或通过邮寄方式投票，创下中期选举的纪录，高于 2022 年选举日之前投票的近 4600 万人。