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President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One for a campaign rally in Columbia, Mo., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Video of cop killer becomes Trump campaign push

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Nacogdoches County Elections Commission worker Peggy Avant doles out pens among voter booths set up at the county courthouse annex ahead of early voting opening on Monday, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 in Nacogdoches, Texas. (Tim Monzingo/The Daily Sentinel via AP) **FILE**

Democrats, Republicans struggle to control the narrative as voters head to polls

By Matt Mackowiak

President Donald Trump talks to reporters about wanting to change the Fourteenth Amendment's right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil, as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House for a short flight to Andrews Air Force Base then on to Fort Myers, Fla., for a campaign rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress to take up 10 percent tax cut for the middle class next year: Trump, Brady

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 10, 2016, file photo, Republican candidate Clay Higgins, with his wife, Becca, addresses supporters after his victory in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District run-off election in Lake Charles, La. (Lee Celano/The Daily Advertiser via AP, File)

‘Cajun John Wayne,’ other incumbents look safe Nov. 6

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Bojangles' Coliseum, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump to employ ‘unconstitutional’ Obama method to end birthright citizenship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 27, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Ill. Eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections, Trump on Oct. 29 escalated his threats against a migrant caravan trudging slowly toward the U.S. border as the Pentagon prepared to deploy thousands of U.S. troops to support the border patrol. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

The Latest: Ryan, Trump at odds on birthright citizenship

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In this Oct. 27, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Southern Illinois Airport in Murphysboro, Ill. Eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections, Trump on Oct. 29 escalated his threats against a migrant caravan trudging slowly toward the U.S. border as the Pentagon prepared to deploy thousands of U.S. troops to support the border patrol. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Trump targets citizenship, stokes pre-election migrant fears

By CATHERINE LUCEY and JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, looks on as he arrives to cast his vote in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. Bolsonaro is running against leftist candidate Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party. (Ricardo Moraes/Pool Photo via AP)

What Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro wants to change

By BEATRICE CHRISTOFARO - Associated Press

"More Americans are working today than at any point in the history of our country. How good is that as a sound bite?" Mr. Trump said in a speech to the Future Farmers of America convention in Indianapolis. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump uses economy as Republican campaign advantage

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mother and daughter carry flags on their tricycle during a rally in support of right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Brazil is preparing for general elections to be held Sunday, Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil elects far-right congressman Bolsonaro to presidency

By SARAH DiLORENZO and PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009 file photo, Joseph Rannazzisi, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Office of Diversion Control, testifies during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary crime and drugs subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The former top Drug Enforcement Administration official has ripped into Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s suggestion that a 2016 law she co-sponsored amid the opioid crisis may have had &quot;unintended consequences.” Rannazzisi said he told U.S. House staffers Blackburn worked with during a July 2014 call that the bill would hamper DEA’s ability to go after illicit opioid distribution. Blackburn faces Democratic ex-Gov. Phil Bredesen for Senate. She said she’s working with both parties to solve the crisis.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Ex-DEA official says Blackburn had warning on opioid law

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

In this May 13, 2014 file photograph, U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., addresses an audience in Waveland, Miss. Palazzo, the incumbent for Mississippi's Fourth Congressional District seat, faces two opponents in the general election next month. (Tim Isbell/The Sun Herald via AP, File)

Democratic youth meets GOP experience in Mississippi race

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. The Trump administrations ongoing courtship of Saudi Arabia is on pause over allegations that the key U.S. ally is involved in the mysterious disappearance of a Saudi writer and dissident who went into his nations consulate in Turkey but never came out. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pulling out the stops ahead of the midterms

By Donald Lambro

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. make their way to Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. The sprawling caravan of migrants hoping to make their way to the United States set off again, forming a column more than a mile long as the group trekked out of the town of Mapastepec in southern Mexico before dawn. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Trump sending troops to border, an issue that fires up base

By ROBERT BURNS and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence appears with Republican U.S. House of Representatives Pennsylvania 17th District candidate John Chrin at a rally at the Wilkes-Barre/Wyoming Valley Airport in Forty Fort, Pa. on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. (Christopher Dolan / The Citizens' Voice via AP)

In campaign swing, Pence warns Dems will undo Trump agenda

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

In this Oct. 17, 2018 image, California U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher speaks to supporters at party offices in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Thirty years ago, Rohrabacher campaigned for Congress as the face of the Reagan revolution. This year, locked in a tight race in a Southern California district much changed from the one where he first was elected, even a Republican Party mailer makes no mention of him being a Republican. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

California Rep. Rohrabacher sheds GOP focus in tough race

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump looks the the cheering audience as he leaves a campaign rally at Minuteman Aviation Hangar, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Missoula, Mont. Trump’s 2016 campaign was defined by his fiery immigration rhetoric, visions of the undocumented flowing across the border to assault Americans and steal their jobs. Now, in the final weeks before midterm elections, he’s back at it as he looks to stave off Democratic gains in Congress. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s campaign mode revives fiery immigration talk

By ZEKE MILLER and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to campaign stops in Montana, Arizona and Nevada. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump: Saudi arrests in Khashoggi death ‘a good first step’

By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS - Associated Press

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., left, and Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., shake hands before a U.S. Senate debate, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)

The Latest: Trump says Obama took Biden off ‘the trash heap’

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President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Minuteman Aviation Hangar in Missoula, Mont., Thursday Oct. 18, 2018. Trump is in Missoula to rally support for Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. (AP Photo/Lido Vizzutti)

Trump revives fiery immigration talk for ‘caravan’ election

By ZEKE MILLER and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press