Trump campaigning in Republican strongholds amid slide in polls

In the usually red state of Texas, early voting in the midterm election has already started. It's a state Donald Trump won by 14 points in 2024. And now, if the polls are right, Democrats could win. I want to vote for Democrats because I think that we are in really great trouble in this country. In most polls, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, James Talarico, holds a narrow lead over the Republican, Ken Paxton, who's supported by Donald Trump. Rising prices at the gas pump, driven by the war in Iran, along with Trump's widely unpopular tariffs, have helped drive the president's approval rating to a record low, which has sunk to the low to mid-30s. And yet the president has hit the campaign trail, asking his supporters to pretend that he's on the ballot. In Kansas, he likened Democrats to rioters in France. When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember that is what the radical Democrats want to do to America. And here's a graphic that speaks a thousand words. It shows Trump's campaign stops in October, mainly in deep red states, which he carried by double digits in 2024, and even in Alabama and Oklahoma, where he won by more than 30 points. The Democratic Senate candidate in deep red Kansas, Adam Hamilton, could make history as the state hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. It's saying that people who are reliably red state are saying what's happening in Washington, D.C. is not okay. But Republicans are hoping massive spending might turn the tide in their favor. The Republican National Committee has just pumped $50 million dollars into the midterm races. Hundreds of millions of dollars have also come from GOP donors such as Elon Musk, leaving Democrats outspent by Republicans by almost three to one.