Trump held a campaign rally in Kansas on October 19, 2026, his first in the state since 2018, campaigning for Roger Marshall. Cars lined up two to three miles to get in, and that line remains the central evidence in the argument over whether his base has held despite the midterm polling. The discussion moved onto his treatment of the polls themselves, calling them fake while citing them, then widened to the Department of Agriculture's $8 billion harvest fuel relief program and to Marshall saying bankruptcies and suicides are up in Kansas but farmers still support Trump. On October 30 Trump canceled the in-person Kansas and Iowa rallies for 19 tele-rallies, saying Marshall is doing so well; a Trump ally…