President Donald Trump will hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas after initially opting for telerallies instead.
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Trump → hold → telerallies
Democrats had questioned his crowd sizes.
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Democrats → question → sizes
Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with particularly sharp increases in states hosting competitive Senate races, according to an Associated Press analysis of voting data from five days before Election Day.
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voting → outpace → Day
The Justice Department has subpoenaed California elections workers to appear before grand juries, prompting voting groups to ask for restraining orders.
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Department → subpoena → orders
And with the GOP talking up the ballot-stacking controversy in the Alaska Senate race, Democrat Mary Peltola says Republicans are bullying because they can’t run on their record.
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they → talk → record
ExxonMobil and Chevron beat revenue expectations as higher prices benefit oil majors
ExxonMobil reported quarterly revenues up 33% to $113 billion on Friday.
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ExxonMobil → beat → Friday
Chevron’s revenue surged 36% to $67.8 billion.
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revenue → surge → billion
Besides the disruption caused by the wars in Iran and Ukraine that have driven up the fuel costs, both companies have increased oil extraction, and Exxon reported that its U.S. Gulf Coast diesel production was the second-highest on record.
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production → cause → record
Despite Trump ’s efforts to tamp down soaring energy costs as Americans vote, diesel is about $6.32 per gallon, up 71% since last year, according to AAA.
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diesel → tamp → AAA
Diesel surpassed $6 last month — a record.
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Diesel → surpass → record
Some states have stopped collecting gas taxes to ease costs.
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states → stop → costs
More details on the huge turnout surge
The surge is especially pronounced in Texas, where voters are deciding closely watched Senate, House and governor’s races.
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voters → pronounce → races
More than 6.3 million Texans voted early as of Wednesday, compared with 4.2 million at the same point four years ago, a 50% increase, according to the AP analysis.
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Texans → vote → analysis
In Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, 862,700 people had voted, compared with 564,500 at the same point in 2022.
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people → include → 2022
Texans are choosing between Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico for the U.S. Senate.
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Texans → choose → Senate
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking reelection against Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
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Abbott → seek → Hinojosa
Advance voting has increased more than 30% in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Kansas, states with competitive Senate races.
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voting → increase → races
In South Carolina, where voters are choosing a successor to the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, early voting is up 83%.
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voting → choose → Graham
Stevens wants El-Sayed to apologize for Israel comments ahead of joint campaign appearance
Rep. Haley Stevens is calling on Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to apologize for his past comments about Israel ahead of the former primary rivals’ joint appearance at a Sunday get-out-the-vote event.
Stevens posted Friday morning that she welcomes El-Sayed’s expected condemnation of an advertisement by Rebellion PAC, an independent left-wing group, that links high grocery prices to U.S. support for Israel.
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that → want → Israel
Some Jewish leaders criticized the ad, and Stevens said Democratic Party leaders told her El-Sayed would denounce it.
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Sayed → criticize → it
Stevens’s statement then said the ad echoes comments El-Sayed himself has made, and “I therefore expect him to apologize for those statements as well.”
El-Sayed has not publicly condemned the ad, though his campaign has said it is not affiliated with the group.
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it → say → group
He has apologized for earlier comments about a synagogue attack but remains sharply critical of Israel’s government.
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He → apologize → government
His campaign declined to comment Friday.
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campaign → decline → ?
JD Vance to stump for Republican in Elise Stefanik’s New York district
The vice president is heading to upstate New York on the eve of Election Day to campaign for a Republican in a district that just a few months ago was considered safe for the GOP.
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that → stump → GOP
Vance will host a get-out-the-vote rally alongside Republican congressional candidate Anthony Constantino on Monday in Rome, New York, Constantino’s campaign confirms.
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campaign → host → Rome
The visit comes as Trump and Republican leaders increasingly seek to buttress candidates in red districts ahead of next week’s midterm elections.
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Trump → come → elections
Constantino, a Trump ally, is running against Democratic dairy farmer Blake Gendebien to succeed outgoing Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has represented the seat since 2015.
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who → run → 2015
In 2024, Trump won the rural district by about 21 percentage points and Stefanik defeated her challenger by about 24 points.
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Stefanik → win → points
Trump’s pre-Halloween flyover raises alarm in DC
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flyover → raise → DC
At the White House on Thursday evening, the president paused from passing out candy at an annual Halloween event to watch a low flyover of the Qatari-gifted jumbo jet he often uses as Air Force One.
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he → pause → One
It passed once at about 5:30 p.m. and circled back for a second flyover, passing directly over the White House.
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It → pass → House
Trump looked up and waved as it soared by.
Elsewhere in Washington, some said it was frightening to see what seemed like a passenger jet flying so low over buildings and homes.
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what → look → buildings
In a post on social media, Washington’s city council said the flyover came with little notice and startled many downtown.
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flyover → say → many
Trump to hold rallies in Kansas and Iowa after all
Trump has rescheduled campaign rallies in a pair of critical Midwestern states that he had previously canceled, according to a person familiar with the plans.
The person said Friday the Republican president will now visit Iowa and Kansas for back-to-back campaign rallies on Sunday.
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president → hold → Sunday
The person insisted on anonymity to discuss Trump’s schedule.
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person → insist → schedule
The Republican National Committee initially said in canceling the rallies that Trump would do telerallies instead to reach more voters.
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Trump → say → voters
But the person familiar with the latest plans say the Iowa and Kansas rallies have been rearranged to accommodate the new telerallies added to Trump’s schedule.
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rallies → say → schedule
Democrats seize on Trump’s pull-back from rally schedule
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan who’s in a tight race against Republican Mike Rogers, said Thursday night that the president’s goal of trying to gin up GOP voters has backfired and he has “given up.”
“He’s an old man, he’s a loser,” El-Sayed continued.
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Sayed → seize → voters
“He now understands that he has fully lost the midterms for his party.”
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he → understand → party
Trump’s in-person rallies were being held in smaller venues
A campaign strategist with Republican Senate leadership said there was widespread curiosity about why Trump’s schedule was changing to telerallies.
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schedule → hold → telerallies
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