US midterms: Six days left – who leads in the polls as Trump, Obama rally

With six days to spell earlier the November 3 midterm elections successful the United States, Democrats are starring Republicans successful nationalist polls, but respective cardinal Senate races look excessively adjacent to call.

President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaigning, holding 2 Republican rallies successful Texas connected Tuesday earlier heading to Ohio connected Wednesday. Ex-President Barack Obama and erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris are besides hitting the run way successful Georgia for the Democratic Party.

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Here is what the latest polls say, what happened connected the run way and what to expect connected Wednesday.

What bash the latest polls suggest?

With little than a week to spell earlier the midterms, a Reuters/Ipsos canvass suggests the Democrats are up of the Republicans by 9 points.

According to the October 22-26 survey, 47 percent of voters enactment the Democrats, compared with 36 percent who enactment the Republicans. When undecided voters’ leanings were taken into account, Democrats pb with 50 percent compared with Republicans’ 41 percent.

Trump’s support standing improved by a percent constituent to 32 percent, with 73 percent of US adults saying the outgo of surviving was going successful the incorrect direction.

In Texas, wherever Democrats person not won a Senate predetermination since 1988, James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are virtually tied successful the polls.

Trump has made respective trips to the authorities up of the midterms, but the polls bespeak a overmuch tighter contention than the president has suggested.

“The bully radical of Texas person astir apt ne'er seen truthful overmuch of President Trump. Four visits successful 7 weeks, which, to enactment that into context, is doubly arsenic galore arsenic we saw astatine the comparable play starring up to the 2024 election, which possibly shows conscionable however acrophobic Republicans are,” Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle said, reporting from the Texas coastal metropolis of Corpus Christi.

Lavelle said section investigation suggested much Republicans person voted aboriginal than Democrats, but Talarico has besides been courting Republicans dissatisfied with Trump.

“That doesn’t mean Republicans are voting for Republican candidates,” Lavelle said.

In Michigan, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers are besides competing successful a intimately contested Senate race.

“I was a Republican forever, but I became an autarkic successful the past 2 elections,” Michael Alexander, a Native American backing El-Sayed, told Al Jazeera.

“I don’t truly ballot for a enactment immoderate more. I ballot for who I deliberation volition bash the champion job.”

Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, but Republican incumbent Roger Marshall present faces a adjacent contention against Democrat Adam Hamilton.

The contention has brought Trump and his deputy, JD Vance, to the state.

“There’s a crushed wherefore we’re seeing not lone US President Donald Trump but besides Vice President JD Vance heading to Kansas due to the fact that it’s really successful play,” Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane said.

According to The Associated Press quality agency, some parties and their allied groups person committed astir $71m to run advertizing successful the Kansas race, making it the astir costly Senate contention successful the state’s history.

What happened successful the US midterm campaigns implicit the past 24 hours?

Trump addressed 2 run rallies successful Texas connected Tuesday successful enactment of Paxton.

In Corpus Christi, Trump pointed to a tanker that helium said was carrying 1 cardinal barrels of Venezuelan lipid and called it a triumph for his administration. He besides suggested the thought of making Venezuela the 51st US state. The Trump medication has signed an lipid woody with Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, aft abducting socialist President Nicolas Maduro successful a subject cognition successful January.

Trump besides announced plans to rotation backmost the Biden-era restrictions connected methane emissions from lipid and state production, stating that it would assistance bring down vigor prices.

Trump applauds aft speaking astatine a midterm run rally astatine the Port of Corpus Christi successful Texas, October 27, 2026 [Kent Nishimura/AFP]

Fuel prices person go a immense predetermination contented arsenic the US-Israel warfare connected Iran continues. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has besides joined Trump for a uncommon campaign-trail quality successful Texas.

In Alaska, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has backed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for politician alternatively than Bernadette Wilson, the Trump-endorsed candidate.

What’s adjacent for Democrats and Republicans connected Wednesday?

Trump heads to Ohio connected Wednesday for his 3rd rally successful the authorities this month, arsenic Republicans effort to support a Senate spot being challenged by erstwhile Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.

The US president is scheduled to talk successful Chillicothe astatine 23:00 GMT. Republican Senator Jon Husted, who took implicit Vance’s spot erstwhile helium became vice president, is facing Brown, who is seeking a instrumentality to the Senate aft losing his spot successful 2024.

The 2 are successful a intimately contested race, with much than $400m spent oregon reserved for run advertizing arsenic of October 8, according to an Axios report.

Republicans are peculiarly acrophobic successful Texas, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa, wherever adjacent a fewer percent points for a 3rd enactment could plaything the outcome.

Trump is scheduled to clasp rallies successful Ohio connected Wednesday and Iowa connected Sunday.

Vance volition beryllium successful Kinston, North Carolina, campaigning for Republican Senate campaigner Michael Whatley, who is moving against erstwhile Democratic Governor Roy Cooper. The vice president is expected to talk astatine 16:30 GMT.

In Georgia, erstwhile President Obama volition run successful Atlanta alongside Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and gubernatorial campaigner Keisha Lance Bottoms astatine 20:00 GMT.

Ossoff is moving against Republican Mike Collins, portion Bottoms faces Republican Rick Jackson successful the governor’s race. Trump won Georgia successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Former Vice President Harris besides begins a three-day sojourn to Georgia connected Wednesday, with aboriginal in-person voting owed to extremity connected Friday, October 30.

In Wisconsin, Marquette Law School volition people its latest statewide canvass astatine 18:15 GMT.

Wednesday’s canvass volition besides analyse voters’ views connected inflation, tariffs, the US-Israel warfare connected Iran and Trump’s presidency.