On October 22, NPR reported that Democratic surrogates including Obama, Harris and Sanders were campaigning in competitive and red-state Senate races ahead of the midterms. Harris's stop in Mississippi for Scott Colombe, who would be the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction, is the race drawing the sharpest attention. The travel has been read as a shadow 2028 primary, with Trump countering by rallying with Hyde-Smith in Corinth and Buttigieg campaigning with Colombe. Reporting now notes Black turnout is up in the first days of early voting in some Southern states, and Detroit set a record for day-one early voting, surpassing 2024, with at least 27 million early votes cast nationwide. What remains open is whether the surrogate push moves…