With the midterms two days off, the hour was dominated by late shocks to the Senate map. In Michigan, Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost the August Democratic primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in a video on X ^1,2. She had said days earlier she would vote for El-Sayed ³, then attended Sunday church services with Rogers in Detroit ¹. She cited El-Sayed saying she was no longer welcome in his campaign ³ and said she does not stand with influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with El-Sayed ². One outlet framed the move as following her failure to get El-Sayed to change his Israel position and reported mass resignations from her official staff ⁴. A WDIV/Detroit News poll put El-Sayed at 51.4% ¹. In Alaska, Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed the Justice Department's suit seeking to block certification of the Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses, calling the relief sought infeasible ^5,6. Sullivan says he will accept the outcome either way, though he and other Republicans question the contest's legitimacy ^7,8. Election-integrity worries also surfaced elsewhere: a planned deployment of 1,000 DOJ monitors to polling places is drawing concern from election clerks ⁹, and some voters fear President Trump may try to cast doubt on results ¹⁰. Separately, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, 53, is at Johns Hopkins after a stroke that began with arm numbness at his son's hockey game. His office says he is awake and alert and expected to make a full recovery ^11,12. He is not on the ballot but had been campaigning for Democrats ¹³ and was seen as a likely 2028 candidate . The most consequential foreign thread is Iran, where the midterm calendar sets the timing. Unnamed Israeli and U.S. sources say Netanyahu pressed Trump to strike Iran right after Tuesday's vote, while Trump prefers to let negotiations play out . Qatari mediators met Iranian officials for a third straight day ¹⁴. Meanwhile, Gulf officials are reportedly bracing for a poor result as Washington weighs an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ¹⁵. Diplomats warn that renewed war would do more harm than the earlier fighting ¹⁶. Elsewhere, Ukraine's Air Force said it downed 274 of 326 attack drones and all six cruise missiles launched on 1 November ¹⁷. Bulgarian exit polls show acting President Iliana Yotova beating pro-Western challenger Andrey Gyurov ¹⁸, a result framed as strengthening Ukraine-skeptic Rumen Radev ¹⁹. China's Commerce Ministry also issued draft rules allowing trade bans on foreign firms accused of stealing trade secrets ²⁰.