Trump promotes Iowa and Kansas rallies he briefly canceled in final election push

President Donald Trump posted back-to-back Truth Social promotions at 11:31 p.m. ET on Oct. 31 for rallies Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, and Salina, Kansas. Both events had been canceled on Thursday and then quickly reinstated — underscoring anxiety within the GOP over closer-than-expected races in previously safe states.

They are slated to be his last scheduled in-person stops of the midterm campaign, with telerallies planned for Monday.

The Republican National Committee announced the cancellations Thursday, saying it was “maximizing opportunities for President Donald J. Trump to speak to voters across the country.” That same day, Trump told reporters he did not need to go to Kansas: “I’m not going to Kansas because he’s doing very well,” Trump said, apparently referring to Sen. Roger Marshall. “I don’t feel I have to go to Kansas.”

On Friday, however, the RNC said both rallies were back on and rescheduled for Sunday: “No one does a rally quite like him, and that’s how he wanted to close out the cycle.”

“The rallies were rearranged for scheduling purposes to accommodate nearly 20 additional tele-rallies that were recently added to the President’s schedule,” a source familiar with the president’s plans told NBC News.

At a Daytona Beach rally on Oct. 30, Trump said: “I thought this was going to be my last one. … I thought I could relax.” But he claimed callers from both Iowa and Kansas had asked for “a little rally of about 50,000 people each.”

In Iowa, Trump is backing Rep. Ashley Hinson for Senate and Zach Lahn for governor. In a Sioux City rally on Oct. 22, Trump said Hinson was “always calling me and asking me for things, like, for Iowa. Sir, could you give a little bit more money to the farmers? I said this woman is such a pain. But ultimately, that's nice, I guess.”

In Kansas, he is backing Marshall for reelection and Ty Masterson for governor.

Marshall faces Democrat Adam Hamilton in a race NPR said was too close to call. Recent Emerson College and Washington Post/George Mason University polls showed Hamilton leading Marshall, though the margins differed significantly. On Friday, Trump said he had heard Marshall had “a close race” on his hands.

The stop will be Trump’s second Kansas rally for Marshall this month. At an Oct. 19 rally in Park City, Trump used the antisemitic slur “shylock” to defend Marshall from criticism of lawsuits the Senator had filed against patients with outstanding medical debts in his past career.