A new League of American Workers poll in Wisconsin finds David Crowley (D) leading Tom Tiffany (R) in the governor’s race, 48% to 45%.

“Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan, who lost to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a bitter Democratic primary for Senate in August, has grown increasingly critical of him as the election draws near, injecting unusual intraparty tensions into the final days of a pivotal midterm contest,” the New York Times reports.

“While Ms. Stevens reiterated Wednesday night that she plans to vote for Dr. El-Sayed, she did so through seemingly gritted teeth in a televised interview just hours after her fiancé said that he would be voting for former Representative Mike Rogers, Dr. El-Sayed’s Republican rival.”

“Florida, the onetime swing state Republicans spent a generation transforming into a conservative stronghold, is looking like a political battleground once again,” Bloomberg reports.

“After writing off the state as too red to win for nearly a decade, some of the Democratic Party’s biggest names are making a last-minute push they hope will pay off with major upsets on Nov. 3.”

A new Tufts University Public Opinion Lab poll finds Democrats leading Republicans nationwide in congressional races, 52% to 40%.

The survey had an interesting twist: “Unlike most polls which use a generic house ballot question that only provides the party labels, our House vote question piped in candidate names (with their party labels) to more accurately reflect how people actually vote in these races.”

“President Donald Trump and Republicans are ratcheting up their efforts to brand Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan-born Muslim whose parents emigrated from Egypt, as an ‘extremist’ in the final days of the state’s critical Senate race,” Politico reports.

“It has sparked concern among some El-Sayed supporters, who fear the deluge of attacks could break through to some undecided voters. It has infuriated some of the president’s one-time Muslim and Arab allies in the state with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, who view the comments as Islamophobic and racist. And it has caused some of them to lose hope in Republicans.”

“Adam Hamilton’s campaign tests whether Democrats can find religion,” the New Yorker reports.

“The ground you have is the ground you have, and you have to fight on it.”

— A Trump strategist, quoted by The Atlantic.

A new UMass Lowell/YouGov poll in New Hampshire finds Chris Pappas (D) leading John E. Sununu (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 41%, with Edmond LaPlante (CONS) at 4%.

New Yorker: “Talarico has an uncanny ability to say the same things over and over again. His memorized speeches sound as if he is reading from a teleprompter, without false starts or stutters—he repeats himself only when trying to speak over the crowd’s applause.”

“Now, in the final stretch, his closing message attempts to cover everything, from the etymology of the word ‘Texas’ to the mythos of Beyoncé and Selena.”

A new Texas Southern University poll in Texas finds James Talarico (D) leading Ken Paxton (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 47%, with Ted Brown (L) at 3%.

The same poll in Texas finds Greg Abbott (R) leading Gina Hinojosa (D) in the governor’s race, 50% to 47%, with Pat Dixon (L) at 2%.

“In the final week of the 2026 midterm election, ad spending data suggests the core battle is less about stopping a Democratic wave in the House, and more about figuring out how high it crests,” NPR reports.

“An NPR analysis finds the final competitive House landscape is expansive, including 70 districts where both parties are investing at least six figures per district into their final days of messaging.”