Oct. 30 (UPI) — President Donald Trump briefly scrapped weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa before shifting schedules Friday to hold both.
Trump said he did not believe he needed to go to Kansas on Saturday for a rally for Sen. Roger Marshall due to him polling well. On Friday he changed course, telling a Kansas City radio show that Marshall is in a “close race.”
“I think that I’m doing so well in the polls that he’s got, probably got better places to spend his time,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told reporters when Trump’s rally appearance was canceled.
It has been almost 100 years since Kansas has elected a Democrat to the Senate. Its governor Laura Kelly is a Democrat.
Iowa is also home to a Senate race that is projected to be close. Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson and state legislator Josh Turek, a Democrat, are polling withing the margin for error with Hinson ahead by two points.
When the cancellations for rallies in the final weekend before Tuesday’s midterm elections were first announced, Trump was then going to hold rallies by phone across 19 states in a “72-hour sprint,” the Republican National Committee said.
The president has attended 25 rallies in October, including some on back-to-back days. Trump’s latest rally was in South Carolina campaigning for Sen. Darline Graham, sister of the late Lindsey Graham who died in July.
Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to appear at a rally in Minnesota on Friday. The state has been the focus of the Trump administration’s investigation into widespread fraud in government public service programs.
Vance leads the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. He and other members of the task force were expected to appear at the rally to make an announcement. FBI Director Kash Patel, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz will make the announcement on Friday afternoon instead.
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