Trump Rallies in Port Huron Against El-Sayed as Michigan's Senate Race Enters Its Final Eleven Days

The campaigns traded the rest of the weekend. El-Sayed's team called Rogers a rubber stamp for the administration, and Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied for El-Sayed in Grand Rapids on Sunday, Fox's live coverage said.

Who is favoured to control the Senate?

Democrats hold 47 seats and need 51 for outright control, since a 50-50 split would give Vice President JD Vance the tiebreaking vote. Yahoo's analysis says they must flip four Republican-held seats and that forecasters now lean their way, though it cautions that polls have been wrong before. Besides Michigan, which Democrats are defending, it lists Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, Alaska, Texas, Iowa and Kansas among the races to watch. Trump's approval stands at about 36.9 percent in the Silver Bulletin average, the Yahoo piece said, citing the New York Times for the claim that it is the second lowest heading into a midterm since 1946.

Is early voting running higher than in 2022?

Yes, with a catch. More than 16 million people in 41 states and the District of Columbia had voted early by Thursday, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab as cited by Spectrum News, more than 40 percent above the same point in 2022. Kansas and Texas have seen huge surges, while Maine, North Carolina and Ohio are each up at least 30 percent. Michigan and Georgia, both with Democratic-held seats, are running roughly level with the last midterm.

That flat line is why the final stretch matters for Democrats in Michigan, and why both parties are spending their candidates' time there. The result will show whether the weekend's rallies moved anyone, or only energised voters who had already decided.