Trump Restores In-Person Rallies in Iowa and Kansas Before Midterms

Donald Trump will hold in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday, reversing a cancellation announced earlier in the week, according to CBS News. NBC News reported that the two events will be held back-to-back on Sunday.

The reversal came within a day. On Thursday, five days before election day, the Republican National Committee, the party's national organization, said Trump would no longer host the Kansas and Iowa rallies. Instead, he would take part in a large number of tele-rallies, remote events in which he speaks to audiences without travelling to the states. The committee said the party was in a strong position in both states.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that he believed Republicans would have a strong Tuesday night, and that he did not feel he had to go to Kansas. "I'm not going to Kansas because Republican Senator Roger Marshall is doing very well," he said.

On Friday, a source familiar with the matter said the Kansas and Iowa rallies were back on. According to the source, they had been rearranged to fit around 19 tele-rallies in which Trump is also participating.

Those tele-rallies are set for Saturday and target 19 states. The Guardian reported that the list includes Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas and South Carolina, all states with competitive Senate races. Senate contests decide one of the two chambers of the U.S. Congress, and the states on the list are among those where control of seats is in play.

The 2026 U.S. midterm elections, the national votes held during a president's term, are scheduled for November 3, according to Reuters.