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| A New Beto O’Rourke Ad and Last-Minute Canvassing: Scenes From the Final Day Before the Midterms | |
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| After all the debates, rallies, ads and barbs, it’s almost here: Election Day is Tuesday. Voters across the United States will choose the winning candidates for 435 seats in the House of Representatives and nearly three dozen seats in the Senate. Thirty-six states will elect governors, including in high-profile contests in Florida and Georgia. | After all the debates, rallies, ads and barbs, it’s almost here: Election Day is Tuesday. Voters across the United States will choose the winning candidates for 435 seats in the House of Representatives and nearly three dozen seats in the Senate. Thirty-six states will elect governors, including in high-profile contests in Florida and Georgia. |
| New York Times journalists are reporting from around the country as candidates make their final pitches to the voters who will help reshape the United States for the next two years. | New York Times journalists are reporting from around the country as candidates make their final pitches to the voters who will help reshape the United States for the next two years. |
| • Here’s a guide to how, when and where to vote on Tuesday. | • Here’s a guide to how, when and where to vote on Tuesday. |
| • Make sense of the people and ideas shaping the election — and its aftermath — with our politics newsletter. | • Make sense of the people and ideas shaping the election — and its aftermath — with our politics newsletter. |
| SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — For all the talk about small government in Texas, it sure has a lot of them – 254 counties, the most of any state in the nation. | |
| Representative Beto O’Rourke, the El Paso Democrat trying to thwart Senator Ted Cruz’s re-election, has been to all 254, as everyone in Texas knows by now. It’s a staple of his speeches and the focus of a new campaign ad, titled “On The Road Again” and featuring Willie Nelson. | |
| But it’s hard for non-Texans to appreciate the enormity of such a feat. The state consumes more than 260,000 square miles, making it twice the size of Germany. Most Texas politicians don’t even bother trying to visit all the counties because of the time, travel and cost, let alone the ratio between energy expended and votes won. | |
| The congressman’s smallest town hall was likely the one near Lubbock in Dickens County. The population of Dickens County: about 2,200. The population of Mr. O’Rourke’s event at J & M Caprock Café: about 8. | |
| — Manny Fernandez | |
| ORLANDO, Fla. — Nancy Batista is a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant with a file full of voters to contact and a message for President Trump. | ORLANDO, Fla. — Nancy Batista is a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant with a file full of voters to contact and a message for President Trump. |
| “How many more things can we tolerate?” she said, canvassing with a half-dozen Latinos on a sleepy cul-de-sac. “We all feel like we have been targeted.” | “How many more things can we tolerate?” she said, canvassing with a half-dozen Latinos on a sleepy cul-de-sac. “We all feel like we have been targeted.” |
| Ms. Batista oversees the Florida operation for Mi Familia Vota, a Latino civic group that says it has registered some 30,000 new voters in the state this cycle, about half of them Puerto Ricans. | Ms. Batista oversees the Florida operation for Mi Familia Vota, a Latino civic group that says it has registered some 30,000 new voters in the state this cycle, about half of them Puerto Ricans. |
| [Read more: Who are we talking about when we talk about Latino voters?] | [Read more: Who are we talking about when we talk about Latino voters?] |
| While Ms. Batista said the group takes care to avoid partisan advocacy for individual candidates when engaging with voters, it has not been subtle about its feelings toward Mr. Trump. Most recently, it released an advertisement featuring a dramatization of Mr. Trump slapping Latinos across the face. Its title, “Trumpadas,” is a play on the Spanish word “trompada,” which is a punch. | While Ms. Batista said the group takes care to avoid partisan advocacy for individual candidates when engaging with voters, it has not been subtle about its feelings toward Mr. Trump. Most recently, it released an advertisement featuring a dramatization of Mr. Trump slapping Latinos across the face. Its title, “Trumpadas,” is a play on the Spanish word “trompada,” which is a punch. |
| “We are very anxious,” Yadhira Barrios, 39, a canvass organizer, said in Spanish, after a mostly unsuccessful door-knocking swing. | “We are very anxious,” Yadhira Barrios, 39, a canvass organizer, said in Spanish, after a mostly unsuccessful door-knocking swing. |
| But “good work,” she added, “is never in vain.” | But “good work,” she added, “is never in vain.” |
| — Matt Flegenheimer | — Matt Flegenheimer |
| Handshakes. Rallies. A “tax ax.” The New York Times has 16 photographers fanned out across the country covering the final days of campaigning for the midterm elections. Keep up with the latest images here. | Handshakes. Rallies. A “tax ax.” The New York Times has 16 photographers fanned out across the country covering the final days of campaigning for the midterm elections. Keep up with the latest images here. |
| PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Standing on a small podium set up in a shopping mall food court, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona had a message for the hundreds of thousands of people who have moved into his state during his time in office. | PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Standing on a small podium set up in a shopping mall food court, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona had a message for the hundreds of thousands of people who have moved into his state during his time in office. |
| “Are you ready to keep the state of Arizona red?” he asked the audience of Republican retirees in Prescott. “Welcome back to America, and remember why you left California.” | “Are you ready to keep the state of Arizona red?” he asked the audience of Republican retirees in Prescott. “Welcome back to America, and remember why you left California.” |
| In the final days of the tumultuous midterm campaigns, Republican candidates in Arizona are appealing to their state’s moderate to conservative voting history, reminding audiences that despite all the demographic changes, it is not that liberal bastion to the west. | In the final days of the tumultuous midterm campaigns, Republican candidates in Arizona are appealing to their state’s moderate to conservative voting history, reminding audiences that despite all the demographic changes, it is not that liberal bastion to the west. |
| At least not yet. Strategists on both sides say Arizona’s early voting numbers show strong support for Democrats. That’s unlikely to affect Mr. Ducey, who has a broad lead in the polls, but it has made Democrats more confident about the chances of Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the party’s Senate nominee. | At least not yet. Strategists on both sides say Arizona’s early voting numbers show strong support for Democrats. That’s unlikely to affect Mr. Ducey, who has a broad lead in the polls, but it has made Democrats more confident about the chances of Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the party’s Senate nominee. |
| — Lisa Lerer | — Lisa Lerer |
| TUCKER, Ga. — “Will you give me a hug like you kind of like me?” Stacey Abrams asked a child. | |
| “Tell me your name,” the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor said to person after person. | |
| “Do you think I’m going to share?” she said with a grin after a Nothing Bundt Cakes employee asked how many forks she wanted for the lemon and white chocolate confections. “That’s so cute.” | |
| Clear away the weekend’s high-wattage rallies and blizzard of advertisements, and you find that most candidates spent the final days of their campaigns practicing their very personal art of retail politicking, which has always been about more than a simple handshake. | |
| It is also a blend of anecdote-summoning, child-noticing, clothing-complimenting, conversation-starting, conversation-ending, and, in 2018, selfie-taking. | |
| “Your goal is to make contact with any voter that’s open to making contact with you,” said Steve Dettelbach, a candidate for Ohio attorney general. “You put your hand out to somebody and the vast majority of people will shake your hand.” | |
| Even seasoned politicians acknowledge that glad-handing can be something of an acquired skill — for the wooer and the wooed. | |
| “I talk to everyone, but you can usually see micro-signals with people who do not want strangers coming up to them while they’re eating,” Ms. Abrams said with a chuckle. “I’m an introvert by nature, so I know what to look for.” | |
| Mr. Dettelbach was more blunt about the challenge: “It’s not a normal thing to engage total strangers.” | |
| Most candidates will shake more hands at Tuesday’s election watch parties. That will bring another test: remembering the names of people from campaign stops long ago. | |
| — Alan Blinder and Sydney Ember | |
| BISMARCK, N.D. — In an unusual calculation for a sitting president, Mr. Trump has campaigned relentlessly for Republican candidates and urged voters to see the election as a referendum on his own presidency. His rhetoric appears to have stuck with his base here in a deep-red state that elected him by 36 points — one he has visited three times in support of Representative Kevin Cramer, who is looking to unseat Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat. | BISMARCK, N.D. — In an unusual calculation for a sitting president, Mr. Trump has campaigned relentlessly for Republican candidates and urged voters to see the election as a referendum on his own presidency. His rhetoric appears to have stuck with his base here in a deep-red state that elected him by 36 points — one he has visited three times in support of Representative Kevin Cramer, who is looking to unseat Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat. |
| “Trump saying, ‘A vote for Republicans is a vote for me’ — well it is, because he is our president,” said Melanie Udell, a volunteer at the G.O.P. office in Bismarck. “He’s just trying to turn the country around.” | “Trump saying, ‘A vote for Republicans is a vote for me’ — well it is, because he is our president,” said Melanie Udell, a volunteer at the G.O.P. office in Bismarck. “He’s just trying to turn the country around.” |
| Maggie Dosch, a party delegate here, said a Republican Congress was needed to protect Mr. Trump from political attacks from Democrats. | Maggie Dosch, a party delegate here, said a Republican Congress was needed to protect Mr. Trump from political attacks from Democrats. |
| “If given the opportunity, some people would try to impeach him, and I think the man should have a fair chance to run the country,” she said. “He got North Dakota working again. There is a loyalty to that.” | “If given the opportunity, some people would try to impeach him, and I think the man should have a fair chance to run the country,” she said. “He got North Dakota working again. There is a loyalty to that.” |
| — Catie Edmondson | — Catie Edmondson |