US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have begun their final push ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, with Republican and Democratic candidates spreading out across the United States for a last day of campaigning. Trump is scheduled to deliver his closing campaign message at 2pm ET ( ) on Monday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC. Republicans are trying to hold their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives despite Trump’s low approval ratings and polls predicting that the Iran war, high energy prices, and the affordability crisis could mean a strong night for Democrats.
Closing the campaign at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, is a departure from Trump’s recent strategy. The US president has staged more than 25 rallies in largely conservative areas over the past month, and wrote that Sunday’s rally in Kansas was the “last stop” of his 2026 midterm campaign tour. The reflecting pool is also politically awkward.
Trump’s renovation of the historical landmark ran nearly three months late and cost more than 10 times the initial budget. The “American-flag blue” liner also began peeling after he declared the work complete, according to the . In an interview on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, Trump said that, in the event of having to work with Democrats, he’ll become “Mr.
They set stuff up, you veto it. After a month or two of getting things vetoed, they come over, and you make a deal,” he said. Vance was due in Rome, New York, early Monday to boost Republican candidates for the House of Representatives Anthony Constantino and Kailee Buller at a rally that began at 9:15am ET ( ).
Constantino is running to succeed longtime Republican Representative Elise Stefanik, who is not seeking re-election. A Siena Research Institute poll shows the race could be close despite a Republican registration advantage of about 80,000 voters. In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is holding a “Get-Out-The-Vote” canvass rally at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti on his last morning of the campaign.
He is then due in Flint at 1:30pm ET ( ), Royal Oak at 3:30pm ET ( ) and Detroit at 4:30pm ET ( ) for a final rally. In Texas, Democrats James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa are making final pushes for Senate and governor, respectively, with a joint rally in Austin at 6:30pm CT ( on Tuesday). Talarico’s opponent, Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, is scheduled to appear in Conroe at 12pm CT ( ) and Allen at 6:30pm CT ( ).
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