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VANDALIA, Ohio — President Donald Trump rallied Saturday for Republicans in Ohio’s competitive races for Senate and governor, predicting that the party will defy expectations in a choppy midterm election climate.

“I think we’re going to have a big surprise, because they don’t know what’s happening,” Trump said while speaking onstage inside a high school gymnasium near Dayton.

“Just get out and vote,” Trump added. “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big. And we’re going to shove it up their ass.”

The visit, part of what White House officials have told NBC News will be a push through at least 17 states between now and Nov. 3, was aimed at boosting Sen. Jon Husted and GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.

Trump, who won Ohio three times by comfortable margins, opened his speech with praise for both before moving into broader remarks to promote himself and his administration. He also offered support for local Rep. Mike Turner and for several House candidates in attendance, including Derek Merrin, the Republican running against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in northwest Ohio.

Husted’s bid to keep the Senate seat — which he was appointed to after JD Vance was elected vice president — has become a subject of concern among Republicans in Ohio and Washington. In August, the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned in a memo that Husted’s past enthusiasm for building data centers was hurting his campaign. Others have expressed worries that Husted, who has long wanted to be governor, has not put his full heart into the race.

The battle is one of the most expensive and competitive Senate races in the country this fall. Along with a handful of other key contests, the clash between Husted and Brown could determine partisan control of the chamber. This week, the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, poured another $14 million into Ohio to prop up Husted, bringing the group’s investment in the state to $93 million.

“Sen. Jon Husted votes to put Ohio first, and he votes all the time,” Trump said before relating conversations he’s had with Thune and others: “They think he’s phenomenal.”

The high school gym where Trump spoke Saturday night was a smaller venue than has been typical for his rallies. The home court of the Butler High School Aviators seats up to 5,000. There were several stretches of empty seats in upper bleachers as Trump took the stage — and many more by the time he finished speaking 93 minutes later.

In Ohio and elsewhere, Republicans are wrestling with how to win at a time when polls show Trump and the war with Iran are highly unpopular and when voters most loyal to Trump might stay home because he’s not on the ballot.

“As a lifelong Republican who’s voted in every election since I was 18 and in every primary election as a Republican, I have real concerns that we’re going to be able to turn out the every-four-year Trump voter,” Nick Owens, a former GOP chair in Ohio’s Brown County and former member of the state Board of Education, told NBC News last month. “I have real concerns that those voters just will not come to the polls.”

Trump acknowledged that dynamic explicitly Saturday and repeated an argument he’s been making on the campaign trail this fall.

“When I run, we win,” Trump said. “But for some reason, when I don’t run, they draw 44% less people. So what I’m going to do is ask you to just pretend that I’m running, because if we do, and if you draw the people, you’re going to win, and we’re going to win big.”

Husted, speaking to reporters before the rally, described Trump as a unique asset in his race.

“Well, he won Ohio by 11 points in the last election, and if we get those same voters to turn out in this election, we’ll win,” Husted said.

Alex Triantafilou, the Ohio GOP chair, told NBC News that the rally was “hugely important” in the effort to motivate those low-propensity, Trump-loyal voters.

“We know in Ohio that if we turn out the same electorate that we turned out in 2024, that we’ll win every race,” Triantafilou said in an interview. “Nobody speaks to that crowd better than President Trump.”

The Saturday rally included a cameo from Jon Gruden, the former NFL coach who years ago was a teammate of Husted’s on the University of Dayton football team.

“Jon Husted is a lot more than my friend,” an animated Gruden told the audience. “He was a great player. … He will never quit on you or anybody.”

Trump marveled about Husted’s football-playing days, of which he said he was unaware until hearing about them from Gruden.

“Nobody told me you were a great athlete,” Trump said, before taking a jab at his Democratic rival: “And Brown was not — he was not an athlete. That guy can’t tie his shoes.”

For its part Saturday, the Brown team sent a mobile billboard linking Husted’s support for the Iran war to higher gas prices through Dayton and on the streets near the rally.

“Jon Husted has turned his back on working families — he’s only looking out for his billionaire buddies and special interests,” Brown said in a statement from his campaign.

Ohio also is home to what polls show is a close race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Ramaswamy faces Democrat Amy Acton, a physician who served as the state’s health director under DeWine. Ohioans have not elected a Democrat as governor in 20 years, but at a time when high prices are top of mind for voters, there are questions about the billionaire Ramaswamy’s appeal, especially in rural parts of the state.

Ramaswamy, like Husted, addressed the crowd early during the rally, and Trump invited both to return to the stage during his speech. Trump introduced Ramaswamy by noting how he had briefly run against him for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“He was a nasty guy,” Trump said of Ramaswamy. “But you know what? He was smart. He loves the state. He’s actually got a great heart.”

Compared with Husted, Ramaswamy was otherwise less of a focus of Trump’s remarks. Trump, for example, criticized Senate Democrats who this week blocked Husted’s Ratepayer Protection Act, which aims to rein in higher utility costs associated with power-hungry data centers.

Republicans, Trump said, are “taking historic action to ensure that Big Tech data centers benefit local communities.”

Trump then made the argument for data centers, despite the fears it could be a losing issue for Husted.

“We want them,” Trump said. “Look, there’s so much money to be made for Ohio. You can’t just turn them off. They’ll go to China.”

Trump also recited the lyrics to the 1968 Al Wilson song “The Snake” — a recurring, crowd-pleasing bit in his rally speeches — with a new, localized twist. Trump dedicated the song, which he uses as an allegory for trusting communities that welcome immigrants, to nearby Springfield, Ohio.

The city became a flashpoint in the 2024 presidential election after Trump repeated the unsubstantiated and racially charged claim that Haitian immigrants in the city were eating pets.

At another point, the crowd broke into chants of “four more years” for the term-limited president.

“I’d love to do the four-more-year thing,” Trump responded in a teasing tone before suggesting that the press would overplay his remarks.

“We’re driving them totally crazy,” Trump said, referring to the media. “But I love doing it. I love being with you. I really do.”

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

This article originally appeared on NBC News at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-campaigning-ohio-says-midterms-will-bring-big-surprise-rcna601150

Austin Wells turned the New York Yankees’ only hit into their most painful out.

With two outs in the eighth inning and the Yankees trailing by a run, Wells broke up Drew Rasmussen’s no-hit bid with a double down the right-field line. But the catcher tried to stretch the hit into a triple and was easily thrown out, ending New York’s best scoring opportunity in a 1-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Saturday night.

Rays right fielder Victor Mesa Jr. retrieved the ball and threw to shortstop Taylor Walls, whose relay reached third baseman Junior Caminero well ahead of Wells.

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The out prevented Ryan McMahon from coming to the plate with the potential tying run in scoring position and allowed Rasmussen to walk off the mound having completed eight scoreless innings.

Rasmussen limited the Yankees to one hit and two walks while striking out 10 on 101 pitches. He once again tormented a New York lineup he nearly no-hit during Tampa Bay’s division-clinching victory at Yankee Stadium late in the regular season.

Bryan Baker replaced Rasmussen for the ninth and made quick work of the Yankees. Baker struck out pinch hitter Giancarlo Stanton and Ben Rice before getting Cody Bellinger to ground out, completing the combined one-hitter and giving Tampa Bay a 1-0 series lead.

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Jonathan Aranda provided the game’s only run when he drove a Gerrit Cole pitch 417 feet to right-center field in the third inning.

Cole kept the Yankees within striking distance but received no offensive support. The right-hander allowed one run on five hits and one walk while striking out five over five innings and 82 pitches.

Ryan Weathers, Paul Blackburn and Brent Headrick combined to hold Tampa Bay hitless over the final three innings, but New York’s lineup never found an answer for Rasmussen.

The shutout represented a dramatic reversal for a Yankees offense that scored 18 runs during its two-game Wild Card Series sweep of the Boston Red Sox. New York was again without captain Aaron Judge, who was left off the ALDS roster as he continues recovering from a right calf strain.

The best-of-five series resumes Monday night at Tropicana Field. Cam Schlittler, who pitched 6⅓ scoreless innings against Boston in the Wild Card Series, is scheduled to start Game 2 for the Yankees.

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President Donald Trump swept into Ohio Saturday night promoting what he calls a new "golden age" for America, pointing to billions of dollars in investment and new jobs in the Buckeye State as he urged voters to help keep Republicans in power in November.

For the third time in as many nights, Trump rallied supporters outside Dayton for Republicans Sen. Jon Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, casting the midterms as a chance to extend the economic and political gains he said the GOP has delivered since his return to the White House.

And with his own name absent from the ballot, Trump gave voters gathered a simple instruction.

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"Just pretend that I’m running," Trump said. "When I run, we win."

Trump, who carried Ohio in all three of his presidential campaigns, later echoed the same message as he sought to rally his political coalition behind Republicans fighting to maintain control of Congress.

"If you don’t mind, please pretend that I’m on the ballot," Trump said. "And you need to turn out for a midterm victory."

The president used much of the rally to make an economic case for the Republican ticket, declaring Ohio is "booming" as he hailed investments he credited to both his trade and tariff policies.

Trump pointed to a $400 million Stellantis investment in Toledo and an $850 million Electra aerospace investment near Springfield.

Weaving in an anecdote about his daily aspirin habit, the president also featured Bayer’s plans for a $2.2 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing campus near Columbus, which the company says will support approximately 600 permanent jobs and 1,500 construction jobs.

"Your state is booming," Trump told the gathered crowd. "Every state is booming."

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Trump credited the investments to his tariff agenda, arguing the U.S. is finally leveling the playing field after years of other countries using tariffs against American products while giving companies a powerful incentive to build at home.

The president also threw his support behind Husted’s Ratepayer Protection Act, legislation aimed at shielding consumers from additional electricity costs associated with data centers.

"We want them," Trump said of data centers. "There’s so much money to be made for Ohio. You can’t just turn them off. They’ll go to China."

Husted brought the legislation to the Senate floor days before the rally, where it failed to advance. President Trump pledged to sign it if Congress can send it to his desk.

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"I will sign this Ratepayer Protection Act into law immediately," Trump said.

Trump broadened his victory lap from Ohio to the country as a whole, hailing stock market records, manufacturing growth, investment and employment while contrasting his own administration’s economic record with former President Joe Biden's.

"Our nation is doing better now than ever before," Trump said.

He also praised GOP-backed tax provisions, including no tax on tips and overtime, and reiterated his previously announced proposal for $5,000 payments to adult Americans if Republicans retain the House and Senate.

Trump then shifted to immigration and Springfield, Ohio, dedicating his recitation of the poem "The Snake" to the city that became a national flashpoint during the 2024 presidential campaign over an influx of Haitian nationals into the community.

"I dedicate this to Springfield, Ohio," Trump said. "They went through hell."

After finishing the poem, which the president has long admired as an immigration allegory, he told the crowd, "That’s what happened at our border," before hailing his administration’s immigration crackdown.

The president also briefly touched on Venezuela, claiming the U.S. had more than recouped the costs of its military operation against former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro through the country's vast oil resources.

"We paid for the cost of the war many, many times over," Trump said. "We’re making a fortune with it."

Trump repeatedly weaved the election 31 days away into his remarks, urging Ohioans to support Husted, Ramaswamy and Republican congressional candidates.

He also pitched Ohio as a potential home for the U.S. National Space Academy, citing both the state's aviation history and the Wright brothers.

"If we win the midterms, Ohio will be very, very strongly considered for this," Trump said. "I really want you to go out and vote again for John Husted and for Vivek."

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Stephen Halliday scored the winner in the third period and Linus Ullmark made 27 saves as the Ottawa Senators downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday night.

Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist to give him nine points through three games as the Edmonton Oilers won their second game in a row, defeating the Seattle Kraken 3-1 on Saturday.

Cornell University

As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silence with a statement Saturday.

Here’s the latest:

• University president speaks out: “This is a defining moment in Cornell’s history,” Cornell’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, said in the video statement calling Jane Doe’s allegations “deeply disturbing.” Kotlikoff said he supports the governor’s decision to turn the criminal investigation over to the New York Attorney General and welcomes an independent review by an outside law firm into Cornell’s handling of the 2024 case, which he said Cornell’s board would announce next week. He acknowledged the university does not have all the answers and must “do better” to prevent future sexual violence in the community.
• DA declined additional evidence: The Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office in November 2024 declined to review any additional evidence, including more interviews gathered by the campus police department beyond the six-page statement signed by accuser Jane Doe, records obtained by the New York Times show. Prosecutors did not express interest in the additional evidence because they had decided, based on Doe’s statement, “Criminal charges would not be pursued in this case,” a Cornell police investigator said in a note documenting the call.
• Jane Doe’s explicit rape accusation: Doe’s attorney believes his client did not consent to any of the sexual encounters that are the focus of her allegations and was initially “in denial” about what transpired before starting to feel ashamed and finally realizing she had been raped, he told CNN. Doe told Cornell police in 2024 she was “pretty ok” with aspects of an initial encounter but did not consent to other sexual activities later that night, according to a statement CNN obtained from a source familiar with the investigation. In a separate transcript of a November 2024 interview with police, she said, “I can say with 100% confidence I was raped,” according to CNN affiliate WCBS, which obtained the document. Prosecutors did not receive the transcript when Cornell police furnished Doe’s much briefer written statement, according to the local DA and New York’s governor.
• State AG takes over: New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ office has opened a criminal investigation into the allegations, she said. James is replacing Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten in overseeing the case. Although her office is limited in what it can share, it will provide updates “as they become available,” James said Friday morning. Both Van Houten, who has been DA since 2017, and Cornell have said they support James’ appointment. Both are Democrats.
• ‘I want the truth’: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is “deeply disturbed” with how Cornell police conducted the original investigation following the alleged gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024. Vowing to unravel the investigation’s failures, the Democratic governor said Friday, “In what world would the police learn from a victim that she’d been literally gang raped while intoxicated by five men in a fraternity house and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney?”
• Closing a New York law ‘loophole’: It’s time for New York to change its sexual assault law, which excludes victims who willfully became intoxicated, the governor said. She vowed to help ensure the law changes as soon as possible, a shift activists and some lawmakers have long sought. “Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang rape. Period,” Hochul said.
• Professors and students condemn school’s approach: “We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now,” wrote the Cornell chapter of the American Association of University Professors, lambasting the school’s “failures.” Current and former students have also criticized the school, which canceled all social fraternity events this weekend, internal communications obtained by The Cornell Daily Sun show. The national president of Doe’s sorority called the alleged assault “abhorrent and inexcusable.” Cornell student groups plan to protest on campus Monday to “hold our university responsible,” Students for a Democratic Cornell and others posted.

A sign is displayed Thursday at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. - Matt Rourke/AP University president promises answers

Jane Doe’s alleged experiences raise “heartbreaking and troubling issues about sexual assault, dehumanization, and aspects of party culture, alcohol, and drug use,” Kotlikoff said in his video statement.

The Cornell president added the allegations raise questions around the initial investigation, saying the university does not have “all the answers” but is committed to investigating and finding them. He said next week, Cornell’s board of trustees will announce an independent review into the handling of the 2024 case by an outside law firm.

While Cornell had released a statement after Doe filed her lawsuit in September and later launched an FAQ page on the allegations, Saturday’s remarks from Kotlikoff mark his first on-camera statement on the case.

Kotlikoff said he backs legislative efforts to change New York’s sexual assault law and Hochul’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor in the investigation – a move the university previously told CNN it supported.

While the criminal investigation and review are underway, the university will work to strengthen programs surrounding sexual assault prevention and education, mental health and substance use, he added.

Addressing frustrations surrounding Cornell’s communications about the case, he said “we will make a greater effort to explain what we can, to provide context about the actions Cornell has taken, and to be more transparent” within the confines of legal and policy limits.

Toward the end of his statement, Kotlikoff signaled support for reviewing the role of Greek organizations in campus life. “We will reengage students, alumni, and other members of our community to examine how we preserve what is valuable about Greek life while strengthening individual accountability, transparency, and a culture in which every member understands their responsibility to protect the safety and well-being of others,” he said.

Doe’s attorney, Thomas Giuffra, said he is hopeful but wary about the promises Kotlikoff made. “We are hopeful that his statement is backed up by meaningful reforms that leads to real change for the sake of the students at Cornell,” he told CNN in a statement Saturday.

Records offer insight into assault allegations and aftermath

Snapchat messages, a Cornell disciplinary panel’s decision, a cache of documents from the university’s formal Title IX investigation obtained by The New York Times and phone recordings by Jane Doe reviewed by ABC News have shed new light on what may have happened in the fraternity house. The sources also help clarify Doe’s reported frame of mind at points on the night that began October 19, 2024, and how her understanding of the events changed as she processed her trauma in the following weeks.

When Doe first went to campus police, authorities documented that she reported “she was recently raped by 8-10 men at the Chi Phi fraternity house,” according to documents reviewed by ABC News. CNN has asked campus police for a copy of the report.

The phrase does not appear in the six-page statement sent to prosecutors.

Cornell is facing scrutiny because the university initially said campus police investigated the allegations in 2024 and “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office.” But the school later changed its statement, now saying police investigated the allegations in 2024 and “shared the victim’s sworn statement and the Snapchat screenshot” with the DA’s office.

Van Houten previously said his office did not bring criminal charges because of Doe’s six-page statement. He later said his office had access to some Snapchat messages exchanged during the alleged assault in a group chat titled, “Chi Phi Actives.” Images of one Snapchat chain obtained by CNN include a photo of Doe in a room at the fraternity house during the time she describes being assaulted.

Doe also made an explicit allegation of rape in her interview that was not included in the six-page statement furnished to prosecutors, according to WCBS. Although Doe did recount being hit and feeling emotionally coerced in the statement, it did not include some stronger language or allegations she used in her interview, according to The New York Times, citing documents it obtained.

Among the documents obtained by the Times also were records showing the district attorney’s office declined to review any additional evidence gathered by the campus police department beyond the six-page statement signed by Doe. A Cornell police investigator spoke to a member of the district attorney’s staff on November 25, 2024, about reviewing additional evidence, the Times said. By that time, university police had conducted more interviews and reviewed chat messages, the Times report said.

But prosecutors did not express interest in the additional evidence because they had decided that, based on Doe’s statement, “Criminal charges would not be pursued in this case,” a Cornell police investigator said in a note documenting the call. When reached for comment, the district attorney staff member referred all questions to the district attorney, the Times reported.

Van Houten told the Times by email that any additional records gathered by the Cornell police were “not pertinent to our analysis because we had Jane Doe’s comprehensive account of the events.” CNN reached out to Van Houten’s office for comment Friday.

CNN obtained a copy of a heavily redacted, 99-page document summarizing key evidence included in a Cornell disciplinary panel’s decision, which supports the Times’ findings about how Doe later came to understand the night’s events as assault. The panel’s decision details more than 50 interviews, including with six of the seven accused men.

Additionally, Jane Doe three weeks after the incident asked the fraternity member who invited her to the house that night, “Do you remember how any of these guys walked in?” her phone recordings reviewed by ABC News indicate.

He made no mention of his group chat invitation, ABC News reported, instead explaining to Doe, “The door was just unlocked. … The party was sort of like crowded. … There was nowhere else to go.”

Doe told him, “If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” she told him, ABC News reported, noting Doe’s recorded phone calls to at least three of the fraternity brothers were later turned over to university investigators.

One of the men Doe has accused of sexual assault reportedly sent her this text message: “I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night,” according to records obtained by The New York Times and corroborated by Doe’s attorney. The sender said he and another male allegedly involved felt terrible and too under the influence of drugs and alcohol to “shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand.”

“I’m so sorry,” another alleged attacker told Doe around the same time in a message ABC News reviewed. “I feel so bad for you, dude.”

The Chi Phi fraternity house is seen Thursday at Cornell. - Matt Rourke/AP

The initial university investigation led to suspensions and expulsions for the accused students, according to Doe’s attorney, the barring of the fraternity chapter from campus and the launch of a sexual assault task force. Four of the Chi Phi fraternity members acknowledged having sexual contact with Doe but said their interactions had been consensual. The others denied participating in sexual encounters, the Times reported.

Amid the renewed investigation, court documents show a Chi Phi fraternity member named as a defendant in Doe’s civil suit has been petitioning New York state courts to invalidate a university disciplinary decision that found him responsible for attempted sexual exploitation.

Help is available: For help in the US, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or chat 24/7 on online.rainn.org.

CNN’s Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan, Jessie Yeung, Gloria Pazmino, Jason Carroll, Alisha Ebrahimji, Jake Tapper and Mark Morales contributed to this report.

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This article originally appeared on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/03/us/cornell-sexual-assault-governor-rebuke

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