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The GOP’s Alternate Senate Reality
In addition to giving up much of their July 4 recess, Senate Republicans needed Vice President J.D. Vance’s tiebreaking vote to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. To get it through the chamber they ...
Although the presidential race is at the top of everyone's mind, there are also several heated Senate races this year.
While nearly two dozen candidates are competing for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, that party is facing the opposite predicament in the Senate: not enough top-tier candidates are ...
The state, which will now have two Senate seats on the ballot in 2020, has voted for the Republican in recent presidential contests — including for Trump by five percentage points in 2016.
It's still early, but here are the Senate races most likely to be competitive in 2020.
At first glance, 2020 looks like the year where Democrats should take back the Senate majority. They have only 12 seats of their own to defend while Republicans have 22. In years past, that sort ...
Democrats would need to flip at least four seats to regain majority control of the chamber.
There are 35 seats up for election in 2020, and Democrats are hoping to crack the GOP's slim 53-47 majority in November.
The 2022 United States Senate elections can best be thought of as the classic battle between the irresistible force and the immovable object. The irresistible ...
The Senate battleground is certainly better for Democrats in 2020 than it was this year, but it will still be an uphill climb. Republicans made a net gain of two seats this year, securing a 53-47 ...
Republicans have a better shot than not of maintaining control of the Senate in 2020. However, recent trends indicate that the possibility of a clean sweep for either side (i.e. taking the ...
With the political conventions behind us and Labor Day approaching, it’s the time of year when down-ballot elections start to kick into high gear. At the start of the 2020 cycle, the Senate wasn ...