Trump has finally mentioned the midterm elections more than 20 minutes into his closing pitch to voters.

He spent the first part of the speech ranting about the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and touting his administration’s repair job.

“As you know, this is the last day before the midterm elections, the most important midterm I believe in our lifetime,” Trump said. “The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history.”

The president ventured into familiar territory, including a warning about the “transgender mutilation of your children.”

After 12 minutes on the Reflecting Pool, Trump has moved on to touting his federal takeover of D.C.

“We are making D.C. safe and beautiful again,” he said. “And our National Guard and other law enforcement partners have made over 16,000 arrests, including over 3,000 narcotics arrests, hundreds of gang members, and dozens of murderers… crime is down.”

He also made the claims despite a judge throwing out a criminal case against the former Olympian accused of damaging the pool. The judge has blocked prosecutors from trying to charge him again.

“We went through a lot with vandalism. The vandalism was unprecedented. People don’t like talking about it,” Trump claimed Monday.

Trump has railed against former president Barack Obama within minutes of his “closing argument” before voters head to the polls tomorrow.

He has consistently blamed Obama for the problems that have plagued the Reflecting Pool.

“President Obama and other presidents long before him worked on it, but President Obama and President Biden together spent over $144 million trying to figure it out and fix it, renovate it, and it was closed almost during the entire time,” he said.

“They were unable to get it working, and the closure… was usually for periods of a year or two years, and the project was never completed.”

Trump went on to accuse Obama and Biden of putting in “very defective material.”

“That’s one of the reasons it leaked so badly.”

The president conceded that some of the leaking took place “long before Biden and Obama.”

Trump opened by joking that he is giving “serious thought” to changing the name of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to the “Trump Reflecting Pool.”

“Now we’re giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool,” he began. “We’ll announce that sometime tomorrow. I’m sure that Secretary Doug Burgum will have a lot of fun in announcing that. No, I’m only kidding.”

“I’m only kidding,” he added. “Please don’t report it.”

Meanwhile in California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said he has “grave concerns” that the Trump administration may try to seize ballots. He shared his concerns in a letter to federal judges in the state.

“I have grave concerns federal agents will seek search warrants to seize ballots and ballot materials before the election results are certified,” Newsom wrote Saturday.

“The tactics and rhetoric federal officials are using strongly suggest that, having lost repeatedly in federal civil proceedings thus far, they will quickly pivot to the criminal forum.”

The stage is set for Trump’s 2 p.m. address, and a sign touting his administration’s renovation work on the Reflecting Pool has given a glimpse of what’s to come.

A sign beside the lectern says, “Back, and more beautiful than ever!”

It follows months of disruption at the iconic Washington, D.C. landmark after a botched repair job to the pool’s surface.

President Donald Trump lashed out with a monosyllabic Truth Social post decrying the federal court decision tossing out a lawsuit intended to block the certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race should Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan lose.

The Senate contest in the Last Frontier pits GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan against Mary Peltola, who previously held Alaska’s lone at-large House seat.

Polls have shown Peltola with a narrow lead over Sullivan, and Trump has spent days railing against the conduct of that race over the presence of a second candidate on the ballot who shares the incumbent senator’s name.

Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed and hailed him “a fighter for our American Democracy” in Michigan’s Senate race after.

The endorsement follows the controversy with Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who officially backed Republican candidate Mike Rogers instead.

Springsteen shared his endorsement on social media.

President Donald Trump has claimed that work on the Reflecting Pool is now complete. But the landmark has endured months of repair work, protests from the public and was then sealed off so it could be drained again.