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President Donald Trump has been acting like a candidate on the ballot this week, staging daily double-header rallies and blasting out ads for Republicans up for election on Tuesday. Given the stakes for his presidency, he might as well be.

A knot of investigations. Partisan gridlock. A warning shot for his re-election bid. Trump faces potentially debilitating fallout should Republicans lose control of one or both chambers in Congress, ending two years of GOP hegemony in Washington. A White House that has struggled to stay on course under favorable circumstances would be tested in dramatic ways. A president who often battles his own party, would face a far less forgiving opposition.

White, working-class voters fueled President Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. If his party loses the House majority on Tuesday, it will be, at least in part, because those same voters abandoned the GOP.

While Democrats’ suburban offensive is well-known, an often-overlooked battle is underway across rural and working-class districts in states including Maine, Iowa and Minnesota. Trump’s coalition of blue-collar voters here may offer Democrats an alternate route to the House majority.

One of the pioneers of OPM in the 70s singer Rico Puno has taken his final bow with his passing Tuesday morning. He was 65.

Puno’s death was announced on social media by his sister-in-law Anna Puno.

“I am seized with deep emotional shock when I found out that our OPM King – Kuya Rico J. Puno – has passed away this morning (Tuesday),” Anna said on her Instagram account.

Measures that will enhance the benefits and privileges currently received by senior citizens (SC) is what this aspiring senator wants to push.

“There must be an increase in discounts on medicine, hospital and other medical services for our senior citizens. When they reach 70 years old, the discount should be 30%; at 80 it should be 40%; and at 90 and above, they should be entitled to 50% discount,” said prominent election lawyer and senior citizens’ advocate Romulo “Romy” Macalintal. He is running as an independent candidate as well as a “guest candidate” of Vice President Leni Robredo’s coalition party.

Music icon Rico J. Puno may have passed away, but he lives in the hearts of the Filipinos.

The 65-year-old pioneer of OPM died of heart failure on Tuesday at St. Lukes, Bonifacio Global City, but his contibution to the music and showbiz industry will never die.