President Donald Trump spent Sunday, Nov. 1, two days before the midterm elections, flying from Palm Beach, Fla., to rallies in Dubuque, Iowa, and Salina, Kan., which he called his last stop (). He took questions from reporters after Air Force One landed in Dubuque with Speaker Mike Johnson, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Secretary of State Marco Rubio nearby, spoke for more than two hours in Dubuque (KCRG) and closed the night in a hangar at Salina Regional Airport (KWCH). This edition covers 7:13 a.m. PST Sunday to 7:13 a.m. PST Monday and quotes him from Factba.se transcripts and his own posts. Topics run by policy weight, then attention.

Highlights. He said the US and Canada have “the concept of a very good deal” that would include Canada building the Keystone pipeline and an end to tariffs on US farm goods (transcript). He defended the Iran war and its fuel costs as “a very small price to pay” (transcript). And on the day a federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s Alaska suit, he called the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot “voter fraud at the highest level” (transcript; CNBC).

1. Canada, Keystone and farm tariffs. Asked whether the Canada trade deal had come back, he said, “we have the concept of a very good deal with Canada,” that “we've been losing money for many years with Canada,” and “I spoke with the prime minister the other day. I spoke to him again yesterday” (transcript; ). Asked whether the Keystone pipeline formed part of the talks, he said, “Yeah, it is… They're gonna build the Keystone Pipeline. They're gonna pay for it. They're gonna pay for all of it. We're gonna give them the route that's largely been determined” (transcript; ). He added that US farmers “were paying as much as 400% for milk products and other things” and “part of the agreement is that our farmers will have to pay no tariffs” (transcript; ). Carney said he and Trump built on “recent constructive discussions” toward a deal that would “fully respect Canada’s languages, culture and sovereignty”; the talks collapsed in August, Bloomberg reports (Bloomberg via Straits Times). CNA reports that the US tariffs imposed after August hit about US$20 billion of Canadian goods and that Biden shelved Keystone XL (CNA). Neither side has published terms.

2. Iran and gas prices. In Dubuque he said of Iran, “they started this war. We didn't start it. We're finishing it,” and “We might have gone a little far with their leaders” (transcript). He said gas prices would come “plunging” once the war ends, “getting back to the $1.85 that I saw in Iowa,” and “it's a very small price to pay for the security of this country and for the world” (transcript; KCRG). He said “I paid for the cost of the war 10 times over with Venezuela alone” and “at some point we're going to have to give them the hammer” (transcript). In Salina he said, “I'm gonna call the Hormuz Strait the Trump Strait” (transcript). Asked whether he discussed the Iran war with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said, “I did” (transcript). The desk could not verify the Venezuela payback claim.

3. The $5,000 pledge and the economy. He repeated, “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000,” called it “the $5,000 Trump dividend,” and said in Salina, “The only caveat is that the Trump dividend is that you have to spend the money in the United States of America” (Salina transcript; Dubuque transcript). He said that if Democrats win, “you will have a 1929-style economic depression” (transcript). He cited “$22.5 trillion” in investment (transcript), inflation of 1.7% over the last three months (transcript), and a Harvest Fuel Relief Program “providing our farmers with $8 billion” plus tax-free red-dye diesel (transcript; ). The desk did not verify these figures, and no bill for the $5,000 payments has passed Congress in the sources it read.

4. Alaska’s second Dan Sullivan. At the gaggle, told that Alaska’s Republican-run attorney general’s office had called the Justice Department suit meritless, he said, “I think it's one of the most meritful things… That's voter fraud at the highest level” (transcript). In Dubuque he said Democrats “put a man named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in order to confuse the public” and that Mary Peltola “should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted” (transcript; ). On Truth Social he wrote, “The Fake Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr., has DISAPPEARED!” and called Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Reid Hoffman and Neville Roy Singham “CRIMINALS” (). He also posted a ballot graphic stamped with the word SCAM, showing the four Senate candidates (). Judge Gleason ruled in a 20-page decision that the government had not shown legal standing and “did not resolve whether another Sullivan had been recruited to confuse voters,” CNBC reports (CNBC). A DOJ spokesperson told CBS News the judge ruled on procedural grounds but “did not dispute” the government’s argument (CBS News). Peltola’s campaign called it a “sham investigation or baseless lawsuit from a weaponized Department of Justice” (CNBC).

5. Michigan: Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. After Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over her party’s nominee, he wrote, “Wow, this is BIG!” and “It’s a thing called bravery” (). At the gaggle he said El-Sayed “would destroy our country,” that “I'd love to have her” in the GOP, and “He's a Muslim Brotherhood guy. Yeah, I'd say she's in danger” (transcript; ). In Dubuque he called El-Sayed “this jihadist lunatic” and said he gathered signatures at mosques that “called America ‘the house of Satan’” (transcript). The desk found no support for those claims in the sources it read. Stevens said, “I'm not turning my back on Democrats. It is one vote”; El-Sayed said, “None of this matters”; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called her move a “despicable betrayal”; and Rogers said she “showed courage and bravery in putting Michigan first,” NPR reports (NPR).

6. Kansas: Kobach’s gift-card case and Adam Hamilton. He wrote that Attorney General Kris Kobach told him “a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes,” and “This is a Criminal Offense!”, linking Kobach’s release (). Kobach’s office says it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bluestem Kansas after a voter reported a $5 gift-card offer (KCTV5). Salina311 reports that the announcement “describes a single reported offer,” does not say where it happened, that Bluestem operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit rather than a PAC, and that no charges had come (Salina311). In Salina he said Democratic Senate nominee Adam Hamilton “wants to raise your taxes while giving welfare and amnesty to illegals” and attributed to him the line “Christians are more dangerous to this state than the radical Islamic terrorists” (transcript); the desk could not find the original remark. Hamilton, in a video statement, said, “I'll work across the aisle to do what's best for the people of our state” (KWCH).

7. The closing push. He told Iowans, “Pretend I'm on the ballot because, essentially, I am on the ballot” (transcript; CBS2 Iowa), and told Kansans that when he appears on the ballot, “we get 49.2% more people voting,” a figure the desk could not verify (transcript). He urged, “Go to paper ballots, everybody,” and said they “cost 9% of what these crooked machines cost” (transcript). In Salina he said, “This is my 30th rally… And I'm closing it down tonight” (KWCH). On Truth Social he posted early-voting notices for Kansas and Iowa urging Republicans to “SWAMP the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout” (; ), 48 endorsement posts for candidates in Kansas, Iowa and Texas, including Ken Paxton for Senate against “James TalaFREAKO” (), and a post saying Tuesday “will be the Most Important Midterm Election in the History of the U.S.A.” (; ).

8. Renaming places. In Salina he said, “I changed the name Lake Ontario to Lake America… And that took legal effect last week,” and said he had considered calling the Atlantic “the American Ocean” (transcript). The desk found no record of a legal change to Lake Ontario’s name and treats the claim as unverified.

9. Other gaggle answers. Asked whether Nvidia chief Jensen Huang holds a security clearance, he said, “I don't know… he's an outstanding person, and, uh, I can't imagine it would be a problem, but we'll certainly find out about it” (transcript). Told that Sen. Chris Murphy had a stroke, he asked, “How bad a stroke is it, do you know?” and said, “at the right time I would” reach out (transcript); Murphy’s office says he remains “awake and alert” at Johns Hopkins (CNBC). On the Pentagon releasing holds on wind farms he said, “I'm not a believer in wind” (transcript). Of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where he plans an event, he said it “Hasn't worked since 1922” and that vandals “burned it out with acid” (transcript; ).

10. Other remarks and posts. In Dubuque he repeated a claim about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name and marriage that the desk could not verify, and said, “Somalia has ruined the state of Minnesota” (transcript; ). He said Democrats want to “let millions of third world migrants ransack, rape, and plunder your communities” (transcript; ). On Truth Social he shared a Times Union link headlined “NY prosecutor claims Letitia James' office directed him to target Trump” (); that article dates from Aug. 29, and a James spokesperson told the paper, “This is a personnel matter” (Times Union). He also posted a split-face image pairing Elvis Presley with himself, without text (), a link to Right Side Broadcasting Network’s replay of both rallies (; YouTube) and a nine-second crowd video from Salina (). A White House All Saints’ Day message in his name says, “I will always defend the freedom of Americans to express their faith openly and without fear” (White House).

Deep dive: an election-integrity closing argument. Across the gaggle, both rallies and his posts, he framed the final 48 hours around fraud claims in three states: Alaska’s second Sullivan (transcript), a single reported $5 gift-card offer in Kansas that he described as a PAC paying “for votes” (; Salina311), and voting machines he called “crooked” (transcript). Each claim drew a different official answer on Sunday: a federal judge dismissed the Alaska suit without ruling on recruitment (CNBC); Kobach’s office sent a letter but announced no charges (Salina311); and the desk found no evidence offered for the machine claim. Speaker Johnson told the Dubuque crowd to dismiss polls as fake, KCRG reports, while polls show tight races in Iowa and Kansas (KCRG; KWCH).

What the record shows. His spoken wording matches the Factba.se transcripts; White House clips on X paraphrase some lines slightly, so this story quotes the transcripts. The Canada deal exists only as a “concept” with no published terms (Bloomberg via Straits Times). The Alaska fraud allegation, the El-Sayed and Hamilton claims, the Omar claim, the “49.2%” and “$22.5 trillion” figures, the Venezuela payback and the Lake America claim remain unproven. The Times Union story he shared predates this window by two months (Times Union).

Responses. Supportive: Rubio told the Salina crowd, “no president in my lifetime has done that better than the one we have right now” (transcript; ); Burgum called Keystone “a great project” (transcript); and Kobach said, “He gets that voter fraud is real” (Salina311). Critical: Peltola’s campaign called the DOJ case a “sham investigation” (CNBC); Schumer called the Stevens switch a “despicable betrayal” (NPR); and Hamilton pitched working “across the aisle” (KWCH). Sen. Dan Sullivan told CNN, “I'm sure I'm going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery” (CBS News).