Trump Promised 35 Midterm Stops and Made 31 Places — Four of Them Rallies in Texas, Including San Antonio
A USA Today tally of the president's public schedule found 31 places since September, with Texas his most-visited state: rallies in Denton, San Antonio, Lubbock and Corpus Christi, plus the Republican midterm convention in Dallas.
President Donald Trump laid out the plan at a Rose Garden dinner on September 2, USA Today reported in a tally read in full by the desk this cycle: 'I'm gonna take the final 30 days, maybe a little bit more than that, because it's all about 35 races,' he told House Republicans. 'I'm going to go to every one of those 35 places, and we're going to see if we can get everyone elected.' He did not make it to 35 places, though the blitz was still jam-packed, the tally found: since the September announcement, Trump traveled to 31 places for political rallies, including Dallas for the Republican midterm convention, according to an analysis of his public schedule compiled by Factbase.
Texas topped the map. The stops were concentrated in a handful of states, many of which Trump won easily in his presidential races, and Texas drew four rallies — Denton, San Antonio, Lubbock and Corpus Christi — plus the Dallas convention, ahead of Ohio's three rallies and two each in Florida, Kansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Iowa. Of the Senate races rated as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report, Maine was the only place he did not go, where Republican Senator Susan Collins is defending her seat in a state Trump lost in 2024; he also called into tele-rallies for candidates in Virginia, Pennsylvania and more. Asked about the states he did not reach, White House spokesperson Liz Huston said: 'Nobody works harder than President Trump. President Trump has been on the road nonstop, traveling across the country to highlight what his administration has delivered for the American people.'
The president capped the blitz on Monday with remarks in Washington at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, covered as delivered by this station earlier today. On election night he is scheduled to be at the White House, USA Today reported; he has already cast his vote in Palm Beach County, Florida. Texas voters — including the San Antonio crowd that hosted one of the 31 stops — cast theirs on Tuesday.
