Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election – US politics live
Summary
President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama criticized each other at campaign events in the final week before the U.S. midterm elections. Democrats were favored to win the House by nonpartisan analysts, while control of the Senate was considered close; a federal judge also rejected a Justice Department request to set aside some California ballots.Key Facts
- Thirty-five Senate seats and all 435 House seats were up for election the following Tuesday.
- Obama criticized Trump and Republicans at a rally in suburban Atlanta.
- Obama joked that the White House had mobilized government officials in response to his Cheesecake Factory remark about Trump’s renovations.
- Trump defended the White House renovations and said the building had been in poor condition before he addressed it.
- Nonpartisan analysts generally favored Democrats to gain a House majority and viewed the Senate contest as close.
- A federal judge declined to order California officials to separate and withhold about 20,000 ballots identified by the Trump administration as belonging to non-citizens.
- Jason Turkish, engaged to Democratic Representative Haley Stevens, said he planned to vote for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. Trump said he had barred Jeffrey Epstein from his club years earlier.
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