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That\u2019s okay with me. I\u2019ll just charge them more.\u201dWhen he announced the pipeline project in an Oval Office ceremony on Wednesday, the president claimed that the Korean investment was part of a deal he struck in 2025, to lower tariffs on imports from South Korea in return for billions of dollars of investments in the US.\u201cThey said they didn\u2019t sign it?\u201d Trump asked the reporter on Friday. \u201cTell them if they don\u2019t sign shortly, I\u2019m going to double it up, okay?\u201dAs he apparently threatened to double tariffs on imports from South Korea, Trump repeated his incorrect claim that tariffs on imports are fees paid by the country that exports goods to the US. In fact, tariffs are, as the US supreme court clarified when it ruled many of Trump\u2019s tariffs an illegal form of taxation on Americans, paid by US importers.Key events11h agoClosing summary11h agoDemocratic lawmakers push to keep Trump administration from closing archives in California and Illinois12h agoTrump concludes remarks to supporters in Alabama claiming 'the most successful presidency in history'12h agoTrump regales supporters in Alabama with familiar tales, some imaginary15h agoTrump personally directed spending of taxpayer funds on ads celebrating himself \u2013 report15h agoAs fears grow over US economy, Trump calls his ballroom project 'pretty cool' and claims his new helipad 'is getting all sorts of awards'16h agoTrump expresses sympathy for Cornell students accused of rape, 'because they won\u2019t get a fair shake' from New York attorney general Letitia James16h agoTrump threatens to double tariffs on South Korea if they do not pay for Alaska natural gas pipeline17h agoKash Patel commissioned classified report to examine FBI's alleged 'failures' \u2013 report17h agoHere's a recap of the day so far18h agoEnvironmental groups sue Trump administration for slashing fuel economy rules18h agoNew polling shows that a majority of Americans blame Trump for cost of living struggle19h agoTop Republican Super Pac pauses ad spend in North Carolina, focuses on Kansas \u2013 reports20h agoWill Democrats take Congress from Trump? The key midterm races \u2013 mapped20h agoKennedy Center Honors to be held off site for the first time21h agoWhite House touts tepid jobs report as proof that Trump's 'reindustrialization agenda is working'21h agoHegseth announces 'one-day stand-down' for service members to vote in midterm elections22h agoTrump claims Europe has agreed to release diesel oil reserves as he weighs export ban23h agoTop Democrats slam 'Trump's failing economic agenda' following jobs report that experts call 'mediocre'24h agoJobs report shows weaker growth than expected, while unemployment sees uptick ahead of midterm elections1d agoCalls grow for US death penalty halt after \u2018torturous\u2019 botched execution of Christa Pike1d agoNew York governor to provide update on Cornell gang-rape case after appointing special prosecutorClosing summaryThis concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:\n \n Confronted with the fact that South Korean officials say they did not agree to invest $54bn to build a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, as Donald Trump announced they had on Wednesday, the president threatened to double tariffs on South Korean goods imported to the US unless they agree to make the investment.\n \n Ignoring public sentiment, that his war with Iran and failure to tackle inflation has hurt the country, Trump told supporters in Alabama that his second term is \u201cthe most successful presidency in history.\u201d\n \n Trump regaled supporters in Alabama with a version of his rally speech that included many of his familiar boasts and grievances, a number of which were based on entirely imaginary claims previously debunked by the Guardian.\n \n A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from constructing a border wall at Big Bend national park in Texas until a lawsuit opposing it is resolved.\n \n Ignoring the economic anxiety of the public, Trump boasted to reporters at the White House that his new helipad is \u201cgetting all sorts of awards\u201d and described a massive crane towering over the ballroom he is constructing as \u201cpretty cool\u201d.\nDemocratic lawmakers push to keep Trump administration from closing archives in California and IllinoisSenator Adam Schiff reaffirmed his support on Friday for legislation introduced this week by Democrats that would stop the Trump administration from closing archives of government records in California and Illinois.\u201cThe administration is threatening access to historical and irreplaceable records, including closing down one facility in California that is home to countless photos and family heirlooms,\u201d Schiff said in a statement. \u201cCongress must exercise its oversight power to save decades of regional and national history.\u201dSchiff and his California colleague Alex Padilla joined two Illinois Democrats, Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, to introduce the National Archives Protection Act, which would ensure archival records remain accessible to the public.One of the facilities the administration reportedly plans to close, in the San Francisco Bay area, hosts original records from the US supreme court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that the constitution grants birthright citizenship to anyone born in the US.Trump concludes remarks to supporters in Alabama claiming 'the most successful presidency in history'The blessed sound of YMCA has just been heard in Mobile, Alabama, signaling that Donald Trump\u2019s rally speech is over.In his remarks, which included a plea to supporters to \u201cjust close your eyes and pretend I\u2019m on the ballot,\u201d Trump mentioned various Republican candidates in passing, but mainly made the case for himself, casting his second term in office as an unalloyed triumph, marred only by \u201cbad press\u201d.Donald Trump spoke to a less-than-capacity crowd at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Friday. Photograph: Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters\u201cIf you want to keep America the strongest, most successful nation the world has ever seen \u2013 we are right now more respected than at any time in the history of our country, and that\u2019s where the bad press,\u201d Trump said, \u201cyou have to vote Republican.\u201d\u201cJust think of what the Trump administration and our Republican majorities have accomplished in less than two years\u2019 time,\u201d he went on. \u201cNobody\u2019s ever seen this before. Nobody\u2019s ever done it. We have the most successful- it\u2019s not two years; it\u2019s substantially less - the most successful presidency in history.\u201dLate in the speech, Trump named Republican candidates and elected officials who were on hand, including senator Katie Britt, who achieved viral fame this week for the look of horror on her face as her colleague Eric Schmitt badly botched an attempt to make former special counsel Jack Smith look bad.Video of Republican senator Katie Britt\u2019s face during a Senate hearing on 29 September 2026, as a colleague\u2019s conspiracy theory about former special counsel Jack Smith fell apart.Trump then singled out the far-right, anti-Muslim influencer Laura Loomer for praise.\u201cA great Republican strategist, a great person, a killer,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWhen she\u2019s angry at you, it\u2019s a very terrible situation. Laura Loomer. Thank you. Laura. She\u2019s great.\u201dLoomer, an influential outside Trump adviser whose extreme views and statements led to criticism of Trump during the 2024 campaign, when she traveled with him to events, posted a photograph of herself with Trump on Air Force One earlier in the day.Trump regales supporters in Alabama with familiar tales, some imaginaryDonald Trump is regaling supporters in Alabama with a version of his rally speech that includes many of his familiar boasts and grievances, a number of which are based on entirely imaginary claims.To take one example, Trump once again claimed that he was instantly blamed for high prices by the media after just one day in office.\u201cI took over and in my first news conference on January 21st \u2026 a day after that beautiful day we had in quite cold weather, the inauguration. A day later, I had a news conference and they said, \u2018affordability\u2019. I said, \u2018I just got here. What do they mean?\u2019\u201d Trump insisted, despite the fact that he was, in fact, asked no questions about affordability at all during that news conference.Donald Trump attends a rally, ahead of the midterm elections, at The Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on 2 October. Photograph: Jessica Koscielniak/ReutersIn the first weeks of his administration, Trump repeatedly claimed that prices were dropping and then, at a cabinet meeting two months into his second term, claimed for the first time that he had been unfairly blamed for high egg prices. \u201cWhen I came in, after one week, they were screaming at me about eggs. Eggs had nothing to do with me,\u201d the president said on 24 March 2025. He has repeated the false claim that reporters blamed him for high food prices dozens of times since.Later in the address, Trump said, as he has dozens of times since he visited Saudi Arabia in May 2025, that the Saudi king had praised him for almost instantly turning around the US economy.\u201cLess than two years ago, our country was dead,\u201d Trump told supporters in Alabama on Friday night. \u201cRemember that? I told you, the king of Saudi Arabia was talking to me. He said, you know, \u2018Sir, just a short time ago, your country was dead. The whole Middle East, the whole world was laughing at you. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.\u2019\u201dAs the Guardian has reported previously, Trump did not meet the Saudi king, who is elderly and not often seen in public, during his visit last year. Instead, he was hosted by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. There is also no evidence that the Saudi prince made this statement to Trump, but there is video of Trump making a version of that claim to bin Salman during an address to a US-Saudi investment event in Riyadh on 13 May 2025.\u201cThe days of economic misery under the last administration are rapidly giving way to the greatest economy in the history of the world,\u201d Trump said before directly addressing the crown prince in the audience. \u201cWe are rocking. The United States is the hottest country, with the exception of your country, I have to say, right? \u2026 No Mohammed\u2026 You\u2019re hotter. At least as long as I\u2019m up here, you\u2019re hotter. But groceries, gasoline, energy and all other prices are down with no inflation. We have no inflation.\u201dTwo weeks after his return to the US, Trump began saying that this observation had been made not by him, but to him. \u201cI went to Saudi Arabia,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on 28 May 2025. \u201cThe king told me, he said, \u2018you got the hottest com-\u2019 we have the hottest country in the world right now.,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSix months ago this country was stone cold dead. We had a dead country.\u201dAs he repeated the story, again and again, Trump began to also attribute his own claim, that the US was \u201cdead\u201d under Joe Biden, to the Saudi king as well. In remarks at the Nato summit in the Hague in June 2025, Trump insisted that the Saudi king had told him: \u201cA year ago, your country was dead. You had a deadhead running it. You had a country that was dead\u201d.Since then, Trump has repeated the tale dozens of times.Donald Trump is basking in cheers from his supporters in Alabama where he started by fondly recalling his first visit to Alabama in 2015, when he spoke to 30,000 wildly enthusiastic fans at a football stadium in Mobile, including a school teacher smiling broadly while holding her infant up to Trump. An image of that moment went viral on social media, in an early indication of how deep Trump\u2019s support might be.As Donald Trump\u2019s war against non-partisan reporting on his presidency continues, the White House released a supercut of him insulting CNN a dozen times since he returned to office last year, and posted it on a government YouTube channel on Friday.The video, which shows Trump railing against the people running the news network, soon to be controlled by his supporters, also includes a clip from June of the president deriding one CNN correspondent, the former Daily Caller journalist Kaitlan Collins, because she \u201cnever smiles\u201d while asking him questions.A White House video of Donald Trump insulting CNN a dozen times.Senator Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, just concluded remarks at the campaign rally in Mobile Donald Trump is headlining.Tuberville, who is running for Alabama governor against Democrat Doug Jones, urged Trump supporters to \u201cgo out and vote\u201d in the midterms to send a message \u201cto all the states across the country that we\u2019re here as Alabamians, and we\u2019re here to stay.\u201d\u201cAnd if you want to move here, move, but don\u2019t bring you down politics with you when you come,\u201d Tuberville added.Alabama added 30,000 new residents in 2025, AL.com reported, \u201cthanks to a continued influx of new arrivals from other states.\u201d\u201cYou\u2019re here for a treat tonight from a guy that again I call my friend,\u201d the former football coach said. \u201cEverybody\u2019d give up on him after the first election,\u201d Tuberville added, apparently in reference to Trump\u2019s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.Tuberville was one of the Republican senators Trump called during the Capitol riot on January 6 2021 to urge him to help delay the certification of Biden\u2019s electoral college victory, according to the House select committee that investigated Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the results of that election.A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from constructing a border wall at Big Bend national park in Texas on Friday. US District Judge Kathleen Cardone\u2019s ruling means that the construction will have to cease until a lawsuit opposing it is resolved.In August, crews contracted by US Customs and border protection (CBP) began bulldozing at the mouth of Big Bend National Park\u2019s famed Santa Elena Canyon. The plan was to construct new border security infrastructure, which was dubbed the \u201csmart wall\u201d.The plan was met with swift backlash from local leaders and landowners for its fast-moving plans. Construction was briefly paused in mid-August but resumed at the beginning of September.In a statement following Judge Cardone\u2019s ruling, Tiernan Sittenfeld, the CEO of the National Parks conservation association, said:\n double quotation markToday\u2019s court ruling halting the destruction is a victory for Big Bend and for all of America\u2019s national parks. While national park advocates are grateful for this halt to border construction in Big Bend, the devastating toll it has already taken on this national park must be studied and remediated. The administration must repair the damage it has done to the beautiful, fragile desert ecosystems that make Big Bend National Park one of America\u2019s most iconic places.\u201d\nTrump personally directed spending of taxpayer funds on ads celebrating himself \u2013 reportDonald Trump personally directed the use of $20m in taxpayer funds to purchase advertising time on national television to air a series of political ads that celebrate his presidency in the run-up to the midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Friday.The campaign, which has featured four pro-Trump ads so far, has been called illegal government propaganda by critics.\u201cThe money for the ads was freed up on Sept. 19, when the Office of Management and Budget shifted $20 million in Customs and Border Protection funds to a budget category called One Big Beautiful Bill Commemorative Events,\u201d the Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the spending.The first pro-Trump ad, broadcast on Fox News last week, uses audio of Trump telling supporters in Las Vegas last month: \u201cTogether we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America,\u201d and a rapid-fire montage of images of Trump beneath the onscreen text: \u201cAmerica will never be a communist country,\u201d as a chorus sings the words \u201clove me\u201d, taken from a song of that name by JMSN. In the original speech, Trump explicitly identified the enemy as \u201cDumocrat communists in Congress\u201d.The last 10 seconds of the ad included text at the bottom the screen saying: \u201cPaid for by the US government.\u201dA still image from a White House-produced ad for Donald Trump. Photograph: White HouseThe second ad was a White House produced highlight reel of Trump\u2019s address at Mount Rushmore on the weekend of 4 July.The third ad was a recycled 2024 Trump campaign ad showing a moody, black-and-white shot of Trump staring into the camera as the soundtrack plays the closing riff of a campaign speech he gave dozens of times in 2023 and 2024. The ad was played on giant screens during the 2024 Republican national convention before Trump\u2019s speech accepting his party\u2019s nomination.The most recent ad, first broadcast this week, is a celebration of Trump\u2019s decision to start a war with Iran, and features audio taken from the president\u2019s 28 February declaration that the United States military had begun major combat operations there. That ad concludes with images of Iranians in New York celebrating the initial strikes the next day. It makes no mention of the fact that the war is ongoing, seven months later.A screenshot from a Trump administration ad showing supporters of his war on Iran celebrating in New York on 1 March 2026. Photograph: White HouseAs fears grow over US economy, Trump calls his ballroom project 'pretty cool' and claims his new helipad 'is getting all sorts of awards'Donald Trump is now flying to Alabama for a campaign rally but, before he left the White House, he took a moment, as fears grow over a US economy that added just 29,000 jobs last month, to boast about his new helipad and point to a massive crane towering over the White House ballroom he is constructing.Donald Trump pointed to the construction site of the White House ballroom on Friday before leaving for Mobile, Alabama. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters\u201cI hope you like what you\u2019re seeing here,\u201d Trump told reporters, pointing to the new helipad. \u201cThat\u2019s getting all sorts of awards,\u201d he said, without explaining who, exactly, was handing out awards for White House home improvement projects.\u201cAnd the best of all,\u201d the president continued, turning to point at the ballroom construction site. \u201cLook at that. You see the new crane? The red boom, that\u2019s one of the biggest cranes in the world; that lifts up the steel for the roof. Pretty cool, right?\u201dTrump expresses sympathy for Cornell students accused of rape, 'because they won\u2019t get a fair shake' from New York attorney general Letitia JamesSpeaking to reporters as he left the White House for Alabama on Friday, Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the Cornell University students accused of gang-rape, saying \u201cthey won\u2019t get a fair shake\u201d from Letitia James, the state\u2019s attorney general, who has been charged with investigating the alleged gang-rape as a special prosecutor.Trump was asked by the Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy to comment on the appointment James by Kathy Hochul, the New York governor.\u201cLetitia James is a corrupt person,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cI feel badly for whoever she\u2019s looking at, because they won\u2019t get a fair shake.\u201dThe president has harbored an intense hatred of James since she won a civil fraud lawsuit against him and his family real estate business in 2024, when a New York state judge ruled that he was liable for conspiring to commit fraud by inflating his net worth to obtain favorable loan terms.Trump ended the brief exchange with reporters after taking that question from Doocy. Earlier this week, Trump suggested that Doocy would be a good fit for the job of defending him as his White House press secretary.Trump threatens to double tariffs on South Korea if they do not pay for Alaska natural gas pipelineAs he left the White House for a campaign rally in Alabama on Friday, Donald Trump was asked by a reporter if he had \u201cjumped the gun\u201d by announcing on Wednesday that South Korea had agreed to pay for a $54bn natural gas pipeline in Alaska, only for a Korean official to contradict him on Thursday, saying that Korea had only agreed to \u201cinitiate a review\u201d of the possible investment.\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t jump the gun,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cLet\u2019s see if they don\u2019t want to do it. That\u2019s okay with me. I\u2019ll just charge them more.\u201dWhen he announced the pipeline project in an Oval Office ceremony on Wednesday, the president claimed that the Korean investment was part of a deal he struck in 2025, to lower tariffs on imports from South Korea in return for billions of dollars of investments in the US.\u201cThey said they didn\u2019t sign it?\u201d Trump asked the reporter on Friday. \u201cTell them if they don\u2019t sign shortly, I\u2019m going to double it up, okay?\u201dAs he apparently threatened to double tariffs on imports from South Korea, Trump repeated his incorrect claim that tariffs on imports are fees paid by the country that exports goods to the US. In fact, tariffs are, as the US supreme court clarified when it ruled many of Trump\u2019s tariffs an illegal form of taxation on Americans, paid by US importers.Kash Patel commissioned classified report to examine FBI's alleged 'failures' \u2013 reportFBI director Kash Patel has reportedly commissioned a classified report to examine where the agency \u201cfell short\u201d and to ensure \u201cthose failures are not repeated\u201d, according to MS Now, citing unnamed current and former officials and a copy of an internal memo.The officials told MS Now that while they don\u2019t know the contents of the report, they expect it includes the FBI work into the Russia investigation and the more recent special counsel investigations involving the alleged mishandling of classified documents, and attempts to overturn the 2020 election.The sources also said that by formalizing the so-called \u201cPatel Report\u201d, it will be more difficult to challenge long-running political arguments within the FBI.Hakeem Jeffries has joined the chorus of Democrats using today\u2019s job report to slam the Trump administration\u2019s economic agenda.\u201cInflation is up, job creation is down and the reckless war of choice in Iran has been a disaster,\u201d said the House minority leader, who is hoping for his party to reclaim the majority in the lower chamber this November. \u201cRepublicans have crashed the economy.\u201dHere's a recap of the day so far\n \n New figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that the number of new jobs added in the US was weaker than expected, while unemployment saw an uptick. The US added 29,000 new jobs in September, significantly fewer than the roughly 90,000 economists forecasted. Unemployment increased slightly to 4.2% \u2013 up by 0.1 point compared with last month\u2019s data.\n \n Democrats quickly slammed the figures as emblematic of Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cfailing economic agenda\u201d. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee, added that the president\u2019s leadership \u201ckeeps pushing prices up\u201d. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, noted that \u201cAmerican families are being squeezed on all sides by Trump\u2019s disastrous economy\u201d, in response to Friday\u2019s figures.\n \n The White House, however, projected confidence about the latest figures. Taylor Rogers, a spokesperson, highlighted the addition of \u201c9,000 manufacturing jobs and 12,300 factory construction jobs over the month\u201d as proof that Donald Trump\u2019s \u201creindustrialization agenda is working\u201d. She noted that \u201cwages are up over last year\u201d \u2013 despite the fact they have not kept up with inflation.\n \n Also today, G7 leaders agreed to release up to 100m barrels of diesel reserves within four months, to mitigate the ongoing energy crisis as a result of the US-Israel war on Iran. On Truth Social, Trump welcomed the news after urging European allies to release their diesel reserves as fuel prices continue to rise, and he weighed an export ban. The president added that \u201cthe process will begin immediately\u201d.\n \n The top Republican aligned Super Pac, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), will pause it\u2019s multimillion-dollar ad spend in North Carolina in support of Michael Whatley, the GOP nominee for the open US Senate seat, according to multiple reports. The SLF initially announced a $71m investment in the North Carolina race back in April \u2013 noting that Whatley \u2013 the former chair of the Republican National Committee with backing from Donald Trump \u2013 was a \u201cbattle-tested leader\u201d. Semafor first reported the news that SLF shifting its spending priority, and is now reserving a seven-figure sum for the Senate race in Kansas \u2013 which has become increasingly competitive as Trump\u2019s approval rating hits a record low nationwide.\n \n Ahead of Donald Trump heading to Mobile, Alabama today, it\u2019s worth pointing out a new poll from AP-Norc which shows that a majority of Americans blame the president for their struggle with the cost of living. More than 60% of respondents say that the economy is worse off since Trump took office, and 52% of Republicans surveyed say that the president\u2019s handling of the cost of living has been worse than expected.\nEnvironmental groups sue Trump administration for slashing fuel economy rulesA group of environmental organizations have sued the Trump administration over its recent move to slash clean-car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles.On Monday, the administration relaxed the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (Cafe) standards that regulate how far new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline.Donald Trump said last week that the less stringent mileage requirements would \u201ctake the waste out of building cars in America\u201d and save families \u201cthousands on a new, beautiful and safe car\u201d, while boosting auto production in the US.Trump has repeatedly pledged to end what he falsely calls an EV \u201cmandate\u201d, referring incorrectly to Joe Biden\u2019s target that half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030. No federal policy has mandated auto companies to sell EVs.Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, hailed the new initiative \u2013 called Freedom Means Affordable Cars \u2013 which the agency said would reduce the average cost of new vehicles by $1,300, and save consumers $138bn over the next five years.The lawsuit is currently a petition to review the Department of Transportation\u2019s move.New polling shows that a majority of Americans blame Trump for cost of living struggleAhead of Donald Trump heading to Mobile, Alabama today, it\u2019s worth pointing out a new poll from AP-Norc which shows that a majority of Americans blame the president for their struggle with the cost of living.This also comes as the latest jobs report shows tepid growth and a rise in unemployment. What\u2019s more, wage growth has not kept up with inflation.More than 60% of respondents say that the economy is worse off since Trump took office, and 52% of Republicans surveyed say that the president\u2019s handling of the cost of living has been worse than expected.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) \u2013 which serves as the official campaign arm for House Democrats \u2013 moved eight districts on their map of targets this midterm cycle to \u201cin play\u201d.Their list now includes, Virginia\u2019s sixth, Washington state\u2019s fifth, North Carolina\u2019s 13th, Kansas\u2019s second, Texas\u2019s ninth, Oklahoma\u2019s fifth, New Jersey\u2019s second and Michigan\u2019s first. This means the DCCC has identified 66 critical districts as competitive, in order for Democrats to reclaim control of the lower chamber.While some forecasters expect the party to win the House, many of the competitions are neck-and-neck. The last time Democrats saw a so-called \u201cblue wave\u201d was in 2018 \u2013\u00a0when they flipped 41 seats.Top Republican Super Pac pauses ad spend in North Carolina, focuses on Kansas \u2013 reportsThe top Republican aligned Super Pac, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), will pause it\u2019s multimillion dollar ad spend in North Carolina in support of Michael Whatley, the GOP nominee for the open US Senate seat, according to multiple reports.Democrats are hoping to flip the Tar Heel state in the upcoming midterm elections, where they need to net four seats in order to reclaim control of the Senate. Roy Cooper, North Carolina\u2019s former governor, is the Democratic nominee and is leading Whatley in every poll, in some cases by double digits.The SLF initially announced a $71m investment in the North Carolina race back in April \u2013\u00a0noting that Whatley \u2013\u00a0the former chair of the Republican National Committee with backing from Donald Trump \u2013 was a \u201cbattle-tested leader\u201d. Semafor first reported the news that SLF shifting its spending priority, and is now reserving a seven-figure sum for the Senate race in Kansas \u2013\u00a0which has become increasingly competitive as Trump\u2019s approval rating hits a record low nationwide.While a Democrat hasn\u2019t won a Senate seat in the Sunflower state in almost a century, the race between Republican incumbent Roger Marshall and his Democratic challenger, pastor Adam Hamilton, has become more of a concern for the GOP. 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