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US President Donald Trump appears to be distancing himself from the fate of House Republican candidates two days before Tuesday's midterm elections. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House en route to get-out-the-vote rallies in Georgia and Tennessee on Sunday, Trump said Republican enthusiasm is higher than he's ever seen it - but he seemed to hedge in his predictions for the House. "I think we're going to do well in the House. But, as you know, my primary focus has been on the Senate, and I think we're doing really well in the Senate," he said of Tuesday's races. The comments suggest that Trump has grown less optimistic about the GOP's chances of retaining control of the House, where Republicans are facing greater headwinds than in the Senate. Trump is set to campaign on Sunday in Georgia, for Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp and in Tennessee, for Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. He has had a busy campaign schedule in the final stretch of the race, with 11 rallies over six days - including three planned Monday in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. Trump also pushed back on the idea that the election was a referendum on his presidency and that Democrats reclaiming the House would be a rebuke of him and his policies. "No, I don't view this as for myself," Trump said, before making the case that his campaigning has "made a big difference" in a handful of Senate races across the country. "I think I've made a difference of five or six or seven. That's a big difference," he said, crediting his rallies for the influence. "These rallies are the best thing we've done. I think that the rallies have really been the thing that's caused this whole big fervor to start and to continue," he said. Trump plans to spend Election Day conducting get-out-the-vote interviews with local media at the White House, where he is set to watch returns come in. Australian Associated Press

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