Trump holds virtual rallies at Mar-a-Lago after series of legal defeats in midterm elections: live updates

On Saturday afternoon, President Trump posted more than a dozen messages on Truth Social supporting Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections.

“It is my great honor to support the highly respected and popular State Treasurer, Stacy Garrity, as she runs to be the next Governor of the GREAT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” he wrote in a message.

Trump is scheduled to take part in six telehomings from Mar-a-Lago on Saturday.

Officials in Washington, D.C. and Virginia have sued Donald Trump’s administration to block construction of the president’s proposed triumphal arch, calling the project “patently illegal.”

The lawsuit, filed Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is the latest challenge to the planned 250-foot monument, which is to be erected at Memorial Circle on the banks of the Potomac River. The administration said it could begin work in less than a week.

More than 50 million people in the United States have already voted in the midterm elections.

Before Election Day on Tuesday, about 27.9 million ballots were cast in person, while 22.5 million mail-in votes were cast, according to an NBC News tracker.

About 210 million Americans are registered to vote.

On Saturday afternoon, President Donald Trump denounced Friday a federal appeals court’s refusal to block California from counting ballots associated with its list of approximately 20,000 presumed non-citizen voters.

“Why would they refuse to fix electoral fraud? » Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It’s like the rigged and stolen election of 2020, when we had a great case, but the Supreme Court didn’t want to hear it because they said that I, the President of the United States of America, had NO JURISDICTION to bring such a case.”

The president’s nomination comes two weeks after the Justice Department sued California after a federal review of voter registration records identified about 20,000 registered voters as possible non-citizens.

The administration sought to prevent ballots associated with those names from being counted pending citizenship checks, but election officials disputed the accuracy of the list.

More than 40 percent of names flagged as potential non-citizen voters are not on the state’s voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant rights group.

At his rally in Florida last night, President Trump acknowledged that the midterm election campaign had taken a toll on him.

He made the remarks while discussing his decision to travel to Iowa and Kansas on Sunday, after previously canceling his planned participation in rallies in both states.

“I thought it was over. I thought I could relax,” the president told supporters in Daytona Beach. “Twenty-eight days in a row with this bullshit is a lot, it’s a lot.”

“My voice works at about 49.2 percent,” he said.

President Donald Trump is returning to Mar-a-Lago after spending the day at his Florida golf club, according to a report from the White House Press Group.

Brendan Rascius reports…

As his administration seeks to prevent a Democratic candidate from beating the Republican incumbent in a U.S. Senate race, President Donald Trump has asserted that most Alaska voters don’t know what the word “incumbent” means.

On Saturday, the president released an image depicting Greenland completely covered in tarmac, planes and in the shadow of a huge American flag.

“WELCOME TO GREENLAND,” the caption reads.

The Republican president has repeatedly said he wants Danish territory to be incorporated into the United States, sparking outrage among European allies.

Earlier this year, an agreement was signed that grants the United States permanent basing, access and flight rights.

Mary Peltola, Alaska’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has responded to a federal investigation and election lawsuit stemming from allegations that her campaign helped recruit Dan J. Sullivan to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

“I am deeply offended by these accusations that I am involved in someone else’s candidacy,” Peltola said Friday.

“I’m not looking to solicit more competition,” she added. “I don’t need any help to win this race except from all of you in this room and the overwhelming support we have across this state.”

Also Friday, the FBI contacted people who gave money to Dan J. Sullivan as its investigation into the candidate intensified.