# Meet the Press NOW — October 26

https://mins.news/en/video/116529

- NBC News, 2026-10-26 21:52 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x8ZBc8d-bc

> Trump continues campaigning in deep-red Mississippi after escalating his inflammatory rhetoric toward Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Democrat Brian Poindexter, challenging embattled Ohio Rep. Max Miller, discusses the race. Attorney General Todd Blanche defends a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s Senate election.

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