WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
2:25 p.m.
President Donald Trump appears to be distancing himself from the fate of House Republican candidates two days before the midterm elections.
Trump told reporters as he left the White House en route to a pair of rallies Sunday that he thinks "we're going to do well in the House, but as you know, my primary focus has been on the Senate, and I think we're doing really well in the Senate."
Trump is also telling reporters that Republican enthusiasm is off the charts and that the "level of fervor" is very high.
And he's crediting the dozens of rallies he's held on behalf of candidates, saying that they "have really been the thing that's caused this big fervor" to start and to continue.
Trump will be holding rallies in Georgia and Tennessee on Sunday.
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1:30 p.m.
Democratic Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Phil Bredesen (BRED'-uh-sen) is anticipating some biting criticism from President Donald Trump at an upcoming rally.
In prepared remarks for a speech Sunday at an interfaith prayer lunch in Chattanooga, Bredesen said Trump will "have plenty of derogatory things to say about me."
Bredesen says politics "is a blood sport — but I've come here to show that there are other ways to campaign and to present your case to the people of Tennessee."
He says, "We should vote people in and out, not shout them in and out."
Bredesen added that he's not running against Trump. He says if Trump "is for something that is good for Tennessee, I need to support him in that. If it's bad for Tennessee, I need to oppose him."
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Noon
With two days left before polls close, President Donald Trump is traveling to two traditionally Republican states as he looks to help put GOP candidates over the top.
Trump is throwing his political muscle behind Republican statewide candidates ahead of midterm elections that could dramatically reshape his presidency.
The GOP is facing greater headwinds in the House of Representatives.
Trump is campaigning Sunday in Macon, Georgia, for Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp and in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn.
Trump's final sprint will take him Monday to Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.
He plans to spend Election Day conducting get-out-the-vote interviews with local media at the White House, where he is set to watch returns come in.
