Debt Desk — Debt Desk — November 2, 2026: Election Eve, Cheaper Oil and the Monday Rate Sheet
Good morning. It is Monday, November second.
The national brief begins on election eve, with control of Congress still uncertain and both parties making their final case to voters.
President Trump spent Sunday in Iowa and Kansas, two states he won comfortably in the past but where Republicans are now defending Senate seats. His Iowa appearance included a new endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan after Democratic Representative Haley Stevens crossed party lines and backed him over her own party’s nominee, Abdul El-Sayed.
That Michigan split is the clearest new disruption in the…
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