Parties Make Final Midterm Pitch as $158 Million Texas Race Highlights Trump Backlash
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 2
Parties Make Final Midterm Pitch as $158 Million Texas Race Highlights Trump Backlash
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 2
Summary
Both parties entered the campaign’s final full day with sharply different closing messages in a midterm shaped by economic anxiety, backlash to the Iran war and broad disapproval of President Trump’s second-term agenda.
Republicans, bracing for losses, intensified attacks portraying Democratic challengers as radical and anti-American, while Democrats kept their focus on affordability, corruption and what they call chaos in the Trump administration.
Michigan Republicans also seized on a late endorsement of Senate nominee Mike Rogers by Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate Democrat who lost her primary, giving the party a last-minute opening in a key race.
In Texas, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico accused Republican Ken Paxton of being controlled by Elon Musk, who has poured more than $158 million into the contest, underscoring Democrats’ closing corruption argument.