With the midterms two days away, the hour was dominated by late fractures and legal fights around the vote. In Michigan, Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers less than 24 hours after vowing to back Democrat Abdul El-Sayed ^1,2. The state party chair said she was expelled, and many of her staff had resigned by Sunday . The defection lands in a close race: El-Sayed leads by 1.9 points in the RealClearPolitics average, Rogers and his allies have spent over $158 million, and Stevens won Detroit with over 60% in the primary . At a Port Huron rally alongside Rogers, Trump called El-Sayed 'a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member' ³. In Alaska, Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the Trump administration's suit to block certification of the Senate results, finding the US lacked standing; the ruling may be appealed . That suit centered on voter confusion over similarly named candidates ⁴. The 'Decoy Dan' namesake challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan has vanished, and federal agents are now visiting homes ⁵. Bernie Sanders called the tactic 'pretty dumb' ⁶. The broader backdrop favors Democrats. Decision Desk HQ forecasts they will 'likely' retake the House ⁷. A Fox News poll put Trump's approval at a record-low 36 percent . Reuters reports the administration is preparing a plan to bypass Congress if Democrats win ⁸. Rep. Don Bacon expects a poor showing to spark a debate over MAGA's future ⁹. The second thread is markets and security. The Nasdaq entered correction territory as investors unwound AI bets, after Intel fell 29% in its biggest one-day selloff since the 1970s ¹⁰. Asian shares were set to follow ¹¹. The FBI attributed last week's $6.3 billion theft from Binance to North Korea, the largest crypto heist recorded ¹². Separately, Binance-tracked wallets showed $4.54 billion in net outflows on Nov. 1, the day withdrawals reopened after the hack ¹³. AI-linked harms also surfaced on two other fronts. A family is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT gave their epileptic daughter a week-by-week schedule for tapering her medication to zero before she died of SUDEP ^14,15. The Pentagon is probing whether a cyberattack caused freezer failures at at least six military commissaries, as a similar attack hit more than 350 French establishments ¹⁶. Abroad, exit polls show Ukraine-aid critic Iliana Iotova beating Andrey Gyurov 52.5% to 43.4% in Bulgaria ¹⁷. A six-day Kherson ceasefire has ended ¹⁸. Trump called a US-Canada trade deal 'very close' after talks with Mark Carney ¹⁹.