President Donald Trump will deliver his closing argument to voters Monday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, making one final push for Republicans on the eve of the midterm elections. At the same time a dramatic Democratic defection is shaking up one of the country’s most consequential Senate races.

Trump is expected to highlight his Washington, D.C., projects and the reopening of the Reflecting Pool before turning to the broader stakes of Tuesday’s elections. His schedule is also packed with tele-rallies aimed at mobilizing Republican voters in the final hours before polls open.

The president has already signaled how he intends to deal with a potential Democratic takeover of Congress, making clear that he plans to use his executive authority to veto Democratic-led legislation if the opposition party wins back power.

But while Trump makes his final appeal, all eyes are turning to Michigan, where the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters has become one of the marquee contests of the 2026 midterms.

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will face off Tuesday in a contest that could help determine control of the U.S. Senate.

Democrats currently hold 47 seats, including two independents who caucus with the party, and need 51 to reclaim the chamber. A 50-50 split would leave Vice President JD Vance with the deciding vote.

And Michigan’s already contentious race has just delivered another political shock.

On Sunday, Rep. Haley Stevens, the Democrat whom El-Sayed narrowly defeated in the primary, endorsed Rogers after the two attended services together at Perfecting Church in Detroit.

“Our Democratic nominee for Senate said I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video. “And he’s right. And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”

The endorsement marked a stunning reversal for Stevens, who had said just days earlier that she intended to vote for El-Sayed.

The two Democrats had been scheduled to appear together Sunday for the first time since August, an appearance that might have offered a public display of party unity heading into Election Day.

Instead, the plans collapsed after Stevens called on El-Sayed to condemn an advertisement from an outside group linking U.S. support for Israel to rising grocery prices.

The dispute has now spilled into the final hours of the campaign, with Stevens throwing her support behind the Republican nominee rather than the Democrat who defeated her.

For Trump, the political stakes extend well beyond Michigan. Tuesday’s results will determine the balance of power in Congress and the extent to which the president will face a Democratic legislative majority during the remainder of his term.

His appearance at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will offer one final opportunity to make that case to voters before they head to the polls.

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