Maine senator's office is splattered with pain as ballot machines break and disgruntled Democrats in Michigan and Alaska switch votes: Live updates

The office of Maine Senator Susan Collins was vandalized overnight as protesters sprayed fake blood outside her official federal government office.

Graffiti reading 'BLOOD ON HER HANDS' was written in the fake blood outside Collins's office overnight Monday.

Collins is fighting for re-election against Democrat Troy Jackson in Tuesday's midterms, and the Republican told Fox News that her staff were 'undeterred' by the graffiti.

Alaska election officials said the state has received almost 100,000 early ballots amid huge voter turnout in the midterms.

The number in Alaska includes early votes, mail ballots, online-delivery ballots, and in-person absentee ballots, with election day totals likely to break Alaska voting records.

The total on Tuesday is more than Alaska has received in the entirety of other midterm elections dating back two decades, except in 2022 when it reported 101,000 early ballots, reports CNN.

The huge early turnout numbers come as Democratic candidate Mary Peltola has denied allegations her campaign recruited a man with the same name as her GOP rival Dan Sullivan to confuse voters.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins spoke to reporters at the White House urging all Americans to 'get out and vote' and offered a sunny assessment of how President Donald Trump's policies were helpoing the country.

'I don't know that there will ever a time in history that is marked with more success than what President Trump has led these last couple of years,' she said, citing the president's success with border security, low crime, low poverty rates, energy production, and new trade deals.

She also celebrated Trump 'making America healthy again and putting real food back on the center of policy making' and 'massive game-changing freedom-preserving American dream-supporting changes.'

'Just get out and vote, that's my message,' she said in response to shouted questions as she returned to the West Wing.

Republican Tony Ada has been projected to become the new Governor of Guam in the first results of the 2026 midterm elections.

President Trump celebrated the results even as they remain unofficial at this time, as he said it was 'hopefully an indication for things to come!'

'Guam, which has always been considered strongly Democrat, just had an early call for a REPUBLICAN Victory in the top spot, Governor — Congratulations to Tony Ada!' Trump wrote on Truth Social.

'Also, the Republicans have the Majority in the State Senate.'

With all precincts reported, Ada won with 51.5 percent of the vote, to his Democrat challenger Theresa Terlaje's 48.1 percent.

However, Democrats did win Guam's non-voting delegate to the US House race, with Alicia Limtiaco defeating James Moylan.

Two bomb threats within 10 minutes led a primary school in Ohio being used as a polling place to be evacuated on Tuesday.

The threats were made to Beverley Elementary in Toledo, Ohio, with the first threat made at 10:30am local time, the Toledo Police Department said.

At 10:39am, a second bomb threat was reported at a nearby location where a teacher's workday training was taking place.

The threats led the polling place to be evacuated and the Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad deployed a K-9 unit to sweep the area. Officials said no explosive devices were found, and it is unclear if the two bomb threats were connected.

In the nearby town of Bowling Green, two schools were also evacuated after receiving 'threatening calls' on Tuesday morning, reports NBC News.

An Oklahoma man has been charged with 'conveying a hoax and mailing threatening communications' after he sent letters filled with white powder to election offices in Louisiana and Oklahoma.

The accused, Robin Martin, was arrested Monday and is expected to appear in the US District Court in Oklahoma City on Tuesday.

Over 700 mailings containing the powder, which turned out to be flour or yeast in the cases that have already been investigated, were intercepted in states ranging from Idaho to Florida.

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Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan Mike Rogers stressed that his race is 'the most important' of the midterms as he awaits results on election day.

Speaking to reporters after casting his vote on Tuesday, Rogers said he 'feels really good' about the race that could decide control of the US Senate.

'This has been a vigorous campaign for sure,' Rogers said, as he thanked Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens for her surprise endorsement of him on Monday.

He praised Stevens for putting 'country over party' as she rescinded her endorsement of his Democratic rival, Abdul El-Sayed.

An Alaska voter says he was 'so disgusted' by allegations that Alaska Democrats recruited a decoy candidate to confuse the electorate that he changed his vote to Republican.

The voter said he was 'all set' to vote for Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola in Alaska, until reports alleged her campaign was behind a scheme to splinter her rival's vote share.

A New York Times investigation alleged that Peltola's campaign recruited a man with the same name as her GOP rival Dan Sullivan to appear on the ballot. Peltola has denied the allegations.

Speaking on Tuesday, the Alaska voter said he believed the decoy scheme was 'sketchy from the get-go.'

'When the New York Times article came out, I was so disgusted and I thought it was so sleazy,' he said.

'Compounding that, I think Mary Peltola is lying about not knowing, how could she not know right?'

Two Michigan Democrats said they voted against their usual party and opted for the Republicans over their concerns about Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

One voter told CNN that she voted for Haley Stevens in the primary over El-Sayed, and agreed it was a 'big message' to vote for Republican Mike Rogers on Tuesday.

Another voter said he had 'never' voted for a Republican before Tuesday's midterms.

Asked why he 'could not vote for El-Sayed', the voter responded: 'Because I'm against hate.'