Trump heads West in latest swing to bolster GOP in rocky lead-up to midterms
President Trump is campaigning across Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Georgia this week, trying to shore up Republican Senate and House majorities three weeks before midterms, with his approval rating around 37% per the New York Times. The Cook Political Report rates seven Senate races as toss-ups, including Alaska, Ohio and Texas, as an eight-month war in Iran pushes up gas and fertilizer prices.
The travel follows a federal judge's weekend ruling ordering the administration to stop airing taxpayer-funded ads — about $20 million from DHS — that cast Trump favorably. In Ohio, he's backing Senate candidate Jon Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, while Vance campaigns separately in Georgia and Michigan.
Trump is also expected to reference Monday's DOJ and Homeland Security Investigations raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home, an unusual step weeks before an election. Omar and Minnesota's Somali community have been a recurring target of the president's rhetoric, following a Minneapolis deportation drive during which federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and prompted Kristi Noem's resignation as DHS secretary.
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