Trump to Hit 32-Day Campaign Trail for GOP Before Midterm Elections

President Donald Trump will begin a 32-day tour to support Republican nominees in their campaigns ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, when voters will decide control of the House and Senate.

The president made the comments outside the White House Tuesday, alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson. 

“I’m going to Texas, I’m going to Ohio, I’m going to all different places,” Trump said. 

Election Day remains five weeks out, with control of both chambers at stake. 

Johnson is visiting 22 states ahead of the elections.

Trump’s campaign travel was foreshadowed months ago inside the West Wing. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who helped run the president’s 2024 campaign, said last December that most White Houses try to keep a sitting president out of midterms, but the Trump White House would not.

In the lead up to the midterms, the president had sprinkled in campaign appearances with other items on his schedule, crowded with domestic and foreign policy—particularly since February with the start of the operations against the Iranian regime.

Last week was typical of the mix: Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. The president then made a high-visibility stop the next day in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Texas–Tennessee football game, where he was seen sitting next to GOP lawmakers, including Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) who is running for governor.

Other campaign appearances were included in the president’s schedule, including on Sept. 16, when he headlined a tarmac rally in Gastonia for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for the North Carolina Senate seat Sen. Thom Tillis is leaving. Former Gov. Roy Cooper is the Democrat in the race.

“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend I’m on the ballot just one more time,” Trump said during the approximately hour-long address. “Because essentially, I am.”

Two weeks before Gastonia, Republicans held a first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10. Trump used the opening night to connect the congressional map to a cash promise.

“Here is my promise,” Trump said. “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of ‌them … ⁠because of our tremendous strength and ‌success economically, I will issue a dividend ​to every adult citizen ​in the United States ​of America for $5,000.”

In addition to the president, speakers at the convention included Vice President JD Vance, and GOP congressional candidates who took the stage to highlight Republican policies on border security, low crime, low taxes, and energy abundance.

Now, with just over a month to go before Nov. 3, Trump is pivoting to run a sustained midterm campaign drive.

Meanwhile, the administration is moving to ensure election security. A Sept. 22 memo from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed Cyber Command and Pentagon intelligence offices to treat foreign interference in the midterms as a priority.

“In America, the people rule—and we must ensure that their voice remains sovereign, secure, and entirely undiluted,” the memo said.