Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.In today’s edition, we have the latest midterm campaign trail updates from our reporters in the field.Plus, Kristen Welker shares the top Senate races she will be watching Tuesday.— Adam WollnerThe final countdownWith the midterm elections reaching their conclusion in just four days, NBC News reporters are spread out across the country, speaking with candidates, operatives and voters about the dynamics shaping the biggest races on the map.
Here are our latest dispatches from the campaign trail.Ohio governor: The fallout from Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of his opponent, Amy Acton, has been a galvanizing moment for Democrats in a state that became redder with President Donald Trump’s rise in politics after a long run as one of the nation’s most competitive battlegrounds, Henry J.Gomez reports from Liberty Township.
A private poll paid for by a Republican group this week showed Ramaswamy trailing Acton by 8 percentage points — a 6-point drop from an earlier survey, said a GOP strategist who works on Ohio races.Similar numbers have rattled around Republican circles for days.Michigan Senate: During a campaign event for Republican Mike Rogers, Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, described Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — who, if elected, would be the first Muslim senator — as “a theocratic zealot” and “jihadist leprechaun” whose election would put American service members at risk because, if presented with national secrets, he would be likely to share them with terrorist groups.Cruz, like other Republicans, sought to link El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group the Democrat has condemned.As Allan Smith writes from Grosse Pointe Woods, Cruz’s message has become a staple of the anti-El-Sayed messaging, with Republicans leaning int...