Obama jokingly compared Trump’s White House to the restaurant chain, then out came the fun police.

Republican insiders are worried that because Trump isn’t on the ballot, some Republicans — enough to make a difference — may stay home for this midterm election.

The comments are rare for a secretary of state race in a red state, where the GOP would typically have the race locked down.

Ain’t no one better than former President Barack Obama at hitting the stump, and that’s what he did Saturday with twin rallies in Ohio and Michigan on behalf of the Democratic tickets in both

Watch the new Air Force One, a gift to President Trump from Qatar, as it makes a flyover ahead of a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, on Oct. 14.

The famed Lockheed aircraft flew over Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Monday evening after returning from a deployment to RAF Fairford.

“Early Voting, in-person, is UNDERWAY NOW in the Great State of North Carolina,” Trump wrote. “If you have a mail-in ballot, return it immediately, and, if not, GO VOTE at the Polls RIGHT NOW, and get everyone you know to VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN IN EVERY RACE, UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!”

Yet, despite all the pomp and pageantry of their recent meetings, including Trump’s assertion that “tremendous strides” have been made and “we’ve never gotten along better,” comparatively little has been agreed,

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, in Washington, as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Vice President JD Vance and Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission listen. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The front line of the war in Ukraine stretches 750 miles, almost the distance between Chicago and Dallas. Armies of drones fly over all of it, constantly. They watch. They hunt. They strike. It makes for a new kind of battlefield, one where anything that moves is a target.