REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS MAKE MIDTERM CLOSING ARGUMENTS AS MICHIGAN RIFT ROILS SENATE RACE

Democrats sought to contain a rift in Michigan's US Senate race after one of their own crossed party lines to endorse the Republican, while President Donald Trump pressed his legal efforts on Monday to ​intervene in ballot-counting as both parties made their closing arguments a day before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

Over a fast-moving weekend, US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul ‌El-Sayed in a bitter contest, suddenly switched to backing Republican Mike Rogers and appeared with him at a Detroit church. The race is critical to Democrats' hopes of ending the 53-47 Senate majority hold of Trump's Republicans in Tuesday's vote.

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