Midterm elections live updates: Judge dismisses DOJ suit seeking to block Alaska election results certification

A federal judge on Sunday dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the election in Alaska if the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate wins, dealing yet another setback to the Trump administration as it seeks to impose itself on state-run elections just days before the midterm elections.

The Justice Department filed the extraordinary lawsuit last week at the behest of President Donald Trump. Federal prosecutors requested a delay in the certification of the outcome to allow time to investigate whether confusion over two candidates with the same name, Dan Sullivan, could effect election results.

U.S. Judge Sharon Gleason wrote in part that the Justice Department’s suit fails on the law, but also on the practicality of the request.

“The United States provides no workable plan as to how it proposes to segregate ballots cast for Daniel J. Sullivan on Election Day and then conduct a court-ordered unspecified 'investigation’ of those ballots in a manner that would preserve voter secrecy,” Gleason wrote, referring to the Democratic candidate.

The Justice Department told ABC News in a statement that it plans to appeal the ruling.

-ABC News' Luc Bruggeman and Alex Mallin  

Michigan Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens on Sunday endorsed Republican Senate Candidate Mike Rogers.

"I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate," Stevens said in part in a video posted Sunday on X.

Stevens and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated Stevens in the primary, have clashed in recent days over issues including a controversial campaign ad.

Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, running in one of the most competitive districts in the country, will attend President Donald Trump's rally Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, a spokesperson told ABC News.

Notably, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the primary super PAC helping Republican House candidates, reportedly withdrew financial support for Miller-Meeks in mid-October. The congresswoman only recently reversed her position on the Iran war by voting in favor of the war powers resolution in September and did not attend Trump's Sioux City rally on Oct. 22.

-ABC News' Gabrielle Vinick

President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas on Sunday, ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, according to the White House.

Trump is scheduled to depart from Palm Beach, Florida, heading to Dubuque, Iowa, where he is scheduled to hold an afternoon rally. Trump is then scheduled to travel to Salina, Kansas, for an evening rally.

The president said that he was feeling "very good" ahead of the critical midterm elections, which will decide control of Congress and the direction of his final years in the White House.

"I feel very good. I mean, I feel like we're doing well. The country has never done better," Trump said.

"We're going to Iowa first then Kansas second. And, I think -- I think we're going to do very well. I think we're going to surprise a lot of people," he added, noting that he believed his rallies had been helping Republicans.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr