{"id":80689,"date":"2026-10-30T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/trump-reverses-decision-to-cancel-kansas-and-iowa-rallies-before-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:54:54","slug":"trump-reverses-decision-to-cancel-kansas-and-iowa-rallies-before-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/trump-reverses-decision-to-cancel-kansas-and-iowa-rallies-before-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reverses decision to cancel Kansas and Iowa rallies before midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president cancelled the events in favor of tele-rallies, as Republicans face a fight to retain control of Congress<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump cancelled, and then promptly uncancelled, two in-person rallies in Kansas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/video\/2026\/oct\/28\/will-prairie-populism-defeat-republicans-in-the-midterms-politics-weekly-america\">Iowa<\/a> this weekend as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/30\/government-corruption-us-midterm-poll\">polls<\/a> suggest US midterm election races in the previous Republican strongholds could go down to the wire.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, just five days before election day, the Republican National Committee (RNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/press-release\/rnc-announces-updated-campaign-plans-as-president-trump-continues-nationwide-get-out-the-vote-efforts\/\">announced<\/a> the president would no longer host the Kansas and Iowa rallies and instead participate in \u201ca large number of tele-rallies\u201d. The RNC claimed it felt it was in a \u201cstrong position\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/29\/a-rare-red-line-in-deeply-cynical-times\">in Kansas<\/a> and Iowa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/30\/trump-midterm-rallies-kansas-iowa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president cancelled the events in favor of tele-rallies, as Republicans face a fight to retain control of Congress Donald Trump cancelled, and then promptly uncancelled, two in-person rallies in Kansas and Iowa this weekend as polls suggest US midterm election races in the previous Republican strongholds could go down to the wire. On Thursday, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump reverses decision to cancel Kansas and Iowa rallies before midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/trump-reverses-decision-to-cancel-kansas-and-iowa-rallies-before-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump reverses decision to cancel Kansas and Iowa rallies before midterms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}