Biden and the Democrats’ last ditch attempt to stop a crushing red wave in three days:

Joe and Jill Biden will spend the last weekend before Tuesday’s midterm elections looking for candidates in areas the president won two years ago — in a growing sign that the red wave is about to crash into them.

The president will begin Saturday in Chicago pushing House candidates, before heading to Pennsylvania to campaign for Democratic candidates Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman with Barack Obama.

It is the latest attempt to get voters on the side of the Democrats, with projections showing Republicans will take the House and could take up to four seats in the Senate.

Biden expressed his confidence on Friday that his party would prevail: “We’re going to win this time, I think. I have a very good feeling about our chances. I haven’t competed in all the House races, but I think we’ll keep the Senate and get a seat. I think we have a chance to win in the House.”

But congressional polls clearly show momentum at the GOP, with Rasmussen Reports on Friday night giving them a five-point lead in their latest telephone poll before the midterm elections.

All eyes are on the major Senate races in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire and Nevada, where the candidates are only a few points apart in the last minute polls.

Data on 470,000 early votes released by the Nevada independent shows Democrats in the state are only 1 percent ahead, a sign of trouble in the pivotal toss-up between incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt.

On Sunday, Biden will be in New York for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a top GOP target, and Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is in a tougher race with her Republican opponent Lee Zeldin than Democrats expected.

The first lady will be in Arizona on Saturday to boost threatened Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, who is clinging to a narrow lead over Republican candidate Blake Masters, before heading to Texas to rally the Democratic base there.

The pair will take to the same podium Monday night in Maryland, where they will hold the closing pitch for their party, as election forecasters predict Republicans will take control of both the House and Senate on Nov. 8.

Tuesday’s election will be seen as a referendum on the first two years of Biden’s presidency.

Voters have labeled the economy and high inflation as their main concerns. They give the president low marks for his management of it out of frustration at the high cost of living.

Republicans have mistreated the president over the nation’s economic condition, criticizing him for the high crime rates across the country.

GOP scrutiny of a single chamber of Congress will hamper Biden’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill and make a difficult two years for the president ahead of the 2024 presidential election. House Republicans also vow to investigate their son Hunter Biden’s business interests .

In Tuesday’s election, polls show a deep lack of enthusiasm among black, Latino and young voters – typical voting blocs for Democrats.

Early voting numbers support those polls, with Republicans across the country largely outperforming when it comes to casting an early vote. At least 36 million people voted in the 2022 general election as of Friday afternoon, according to the United States Election Project.

Biden’s low approval ratings have led many Democratic candidates in tough races to keep him at bay.

For example, the president has not campaigned in Arizona, Georgia or Nevada. He had not recently traveled to Wisconsin or Michigan.

But Jill Biden’s softer touch was more welcome on the campaign trail. She has campaigned for candidates in competitive states like Wisconsin and Florida, in addition to her stop in Arizona on Saturday.

Both the president and the first lady have incorporated into their stump speeches topics that election strategists believe will motivate Democrats to vote: the fight for democracy and Republican efforts to roll back abortion laws.

President Biden has labeled the election a “battle for the soul for our nation,” and framed Tuesday’s contest as a choice between democracy and autocracy.

“We, the people, must decide whether the rule of law will prevail or whether we will let the dark forces and the thirst for power override the principles that have long guided us,” he said in a speech on Wednesday evening on the dangers to democracy.

Jill Biden has focused on reproductive rights, an area Democrats have been concerned about since the Supreme Court overthrown Roe v. Wade in June.

She has described how she helped a friend get a pre-Roe abortion. vs. Wade and what her friend had to go through to get the procedure legal.

‘Confidentiality. Shame. Silence. Danger. Even death. That’s what defined that time for so many women,” she said.

Many election forecasters have predicted that Republicans will win the House. The GOP only needs a net gain of five seats to gain the majority there.

But on Friday, the unbiased Cook Political Report shifted its Senate prediction toward Republicans, citing numbers showing that issues like the economy and inflation resonate more with voters than abortion rights.

With the Senate currently sitting at 50-50 — and giving Vice President Kamala Harris the casting vote — any race can decide which party will hold the majority next year.

The Cook Report, which says there is a path for Democrats to retain the majority, predicts Republicans could win as many as three seats.

Arizona, Jill Biden will be on Saturday, sees his Senate race in a virtual tie.

A Emerson College Polling Survey of Arizona Voters out on Friday, Republican finds Blake Masters at 48%, while incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has 47%, within the margin of error.

Since September, Masters’ support has increased three points, with Kelly holding 47%, the polling agency notes.

In Nevada, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto finds herself in a neck-and-neck race as she fights for her political life. Obama came into the state on Tuesday to try to woo Democrats her way.

The Georgia Senate race is also a nail-biter, but neither incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock nor Republican candidate Herschel Walker have a poll above 50%.

State law requires candidates to win a majority of the vote to win an election; if no one does, the top two finishers advance to a second round.

In Pennsylvania, another pivotal state, Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz surpassed Democratic candidate John Fetterman for the first time in the polls.

The two-point gap — 48% to 46% — shows steady improvement for Oz, whose support from likely Pennsylvania voters has increased 5 points since September. according to The Hill/Emerson College polls.