By Andrew DeMillo | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning and happy Election Day, Advocate readers! Polls are open until 7:30 p.m. across the state in the midterm election. Candidates spent election eve traversing Arkansas and making their final pitches to voters. We have a rundown of the biggest questions looming over the election.
Be sure to bookmark the Advocate site for all your election news today. We have a live blog with updates throughout the day, and will post live results tonight from The Associated Press.
A car speeds past a voting location at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock’s Pleasant Valley neighborhood on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Andrew DeMillo
Tuesday’s midterm election comes as Democrats hope a favorable national environment could create upsets in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide or federal office in 16 years.
Voters make their selections on touchscreen machines on the last day of early voting for the midterm election at the Pulaski County Regional Building in Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. (Photo By Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Antoinette Grajeda, Tess Vrbin and Ainsley Platt
Arkansas’ statewide and congressional candidates held dueling rallies and met with voters throughout the state Monday, on the eve of a midterm election where Democrats hoped to break Republicans’ lock on the top elected offices.
President Donald Trump, in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, stands next to enlarged photos showing the pool’s renovations, on Nov. 2, 2026. (Screenshot from C-SPAN)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By DC Bureau
WASHINGTON — One day before his party is forecast to lose control of the U.S. House, and possibly the Senate, President Donald Trump gathered guests and press at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to tout the “magnificent” renovation of the monument — a monthslong project plagued by algae, reclosure and false accusations of vandalism.
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