Election Eve: 54 Million Have Already Voted as Trump Makes His Closing Pitch and Congress Hangs in the Balance

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (TodayViralUSA) — Americans head into the final day of the 2026 midterm campaign with more than 54 million ballots already cast and control of both chambers of Congress in play, as President Donald Trump prepares a closing event at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Democrats scramble to contain a damaging split in Michigan.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. The early-vote figure comes from the University of Florida’s Election Lab, CBS News reported, up from more than 53 million a day earlier.

Trump’s last stop before the vote

Trump wrapped up his rally schedule Sunday night in Salina, Kansas, after an earlier stop in Dubuque, Iowa. Both states have produced unexpectedly tight Senate races. “This is my 30th rally, and I’m closing it down tonight,” he told the Kansas crowd, urging support for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who faces Democrat Adam Hamilton. In Iowa he campaigned for Senate candidate Ashley Hinton and gubernatorial hopeful Zach Lahn, and again attacked Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed.

On Monday afternoon, the president plans an event at the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, which he said he chose “just to show how beautiful it is.” The site has been a sore point: the administration resurfaced it this year in what Trump called “American flag blue,” but the water soon turned green and paint began peeling. Trump blamed vandals, but the Justice Department later acknowledged in a court filing that a “botched installation” by the contractor was the cause.

What is at stake

Republicans hold a razor-thin House majority of 218 seats, plus an independent who usually votes with them, against 214 for Democrats, with two vacancies. CBS News has identified 47 House districts likely to decide the majority, 27 of them held by Republicans. The network’s Battleground Tracker estimated on Oct. 25 that Democrats were on course for about 229 seats, though its range ran from 215, short of a majority, to 237.

The Senate picture is less settled. CBS News counts 11 key contests, and Michigan’s open seat became even harder to read after Rep. Haley Stevens, whom El-Sayed beat in the August primary, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday. In a CNN interview that night, Stevens said she still “absolutely” wants Democrats to win the Senate. El-Sayed’s campaign said it raised more than $1.2 million after the endorsement.

A national NBC News poll released over the weekend found registered voters favored a Democratic-controlled Congress by 52% to 45%.

Courts and last-minute changes

In Alaska, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the state’s Senate result if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, ruling that the department lacked standing. The suit centered on a second, unrelated Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot. Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola.

In Texas, Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton’s campaign dropped a previously advertised eve-of-election event at the Alamo. His Monday schedule instead lists stops in Conroe and Allen, CBS News reported.

Voters in many states will also decide ballot measures on issues ranging from voting rules and taxes to abortion and drug policy, according to the Associated Press.