Election 2026 live updates: Judge orders Trump administration to stop intimidating election officials

What to know today MICHIGAN TENSIONS: Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., are trading barbs ahead of a planned joint campaign rally over an outside progressive group's ad which Stevens has said is anti-Semitic. El-Sayed is not affiliated with the group who produced the ad. Stevens said in a statement that she expected El-Sayed to condemn the ad. ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump had rescheduled two weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa after initially cancelling the appearances in favor of tele-rallies. Trump is now set to participate in the two rallies on Sunday. ELECTION ORDER: A federal judge issued an order on Friday evening blocking the Trump administration from threatening or intimidating election officials amid pressure tactics from the administration in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The order prohibits any actions meant to "threaten, intimidate or coerce" election officials to stop processing ballots of individuals the federal government alleges are ineligible to vote.

A federal judge said that Trump administration officials has engaged in a “campaign to intimidate, threaten, and coerce” election officials ahead of the midterm elections.