Oct 6, 2026 · 24 min · 13 segments
Four weeks from Election Day, Republicans face tightening Senate races in several states as President Trump heads to Nebraska and Vice President Vance campaigns in Alaska. U.S. officials are pressing…
Megyn KellyHost
[upbeat music] Four weeks from election day, President Trump and Vice President Vance hitting the campaign trail as Republicans fight to hold seats in states the party carried comfortably just two years ago.
The president campaigning in Nebraska yesterday for Republican Senator Pete Ricketts, who is facing a competitive challenge from independent Dan Osborne, while Vice President Vance traveled to Alaska to rally for Senator Dan Sullivan.
The push coming as new polling shows an increasingly difficult map for Republicans.
In Kansas, Senator Roger Marshall locked in a dead heat with Democrat Adam Hamilton, despite President Trump winning the state by more than 16 points two years ago.
Hamilton, a first-time candidate and senior pastor of the country's largest United Methodist congregation, posting the strongest favorability rating of any candidate tested across the five Senate races.
Adam Hamilton is popular.
Take a look at this.
Okay, key Senate races, the highest net favorable rating of any of the candidates that The New York Times tested is Adam Hamilton in Kansas, the Democratic nominee.
His net favorable rating is plus 12 points.
The average candidate that the Times tested was actually a point underwater.
This, to me, is potentially a mathematical perfect storm.
A historically unpopular Republican in Kansas in Donald Trump, and a historically popular Democratic Senate candidate in Adam Hamilton.
That may be the equation that gets Kansas its first Democratic senator in 94 years.
Democrat James Talarico leading Republican Ken Paxton by six points in the latest Times polling, matching a string of recent surveys showing an extremely competitive race.
President Trump's approval rating among likely Texas voters falling to 38%, while Paxton is the least popular of the 10 Senate candidates tested across the five states.
According to The New York Times, Talarico now leads Paxton among independents by 23 percentage points.
Paxton also dramatically underperforming in another core voting block, says CNN's Enten.
How about this? Texas evangelical voters, Texas evangelical voters, if you can't read it, Trump won them by 73 points back in 2024.
[upbeat music] Four weeks from election day, President Trump and Vice President Vance hitting the campaign trail as Republicans fight to hold seats in states the party carried comfortably just two years ago.
The president campaigning in Nebraska yesterday for Republican Senator Pete Ricketts, who is facing a competitive challenge from independent Dan Osborne, while Vice President Vance traveled to Alaska to rally for Senator Dan Sullivan.
The push coming as new polling shows an increasingly difficult map for Republicans.
In Kansas, Senator Roger Marshall locked in a dead heat with Democrat Adam Hamilton, despite President Trump winning the state by more than 16 points two years ago.
Hamilton, a first-time candidate and senior pastor of the country's largest United Methodist congregation, posting the strongest favorability rating of any candidate tested across the five Senate races.
Adam Hamilton is popular.
Take a look at this.
Okay, key Senate races, the highest net favorable rating of any of the candidates that The New York Times tested is Adam Hamilton in Kansas, the Democratic nominee.
His net favorable rating is plus 12 points.
The average candidate that the Times tested was actually a point underwater.
This, to me, is potentially a mathematical perfect storm.
A historically unpopular Republican in Kansas in Donald Trump, and a historically popular Democratic Senate candidate in Adam Hamilton.
That may be the equation that gets Kansas its first Democratic senator in 94 years.
Democrat James Talarico leading Republican Ken Paxton by six points in the latest Times polling, matching a string of recent surveys showing an extremely competitive race.
President Trump's approval rating among likely Texas voters falling to 38%, while Paxton is the least popular of the 10 Senate candidates tested across the five states.
According to The New York Times, Talarico now leads Paxton among independents by 23 percentage points.
Paxton also dramatically underperforming in another core voting block, says CNN's Enten.
How about this? Texas evangelical voters, Texas evangelical voters, if you can't read it, Trump won them by 73 points back in 2024.
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