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These Senate seats are up for election in 2020
Axios ^ | 5/6/19 | Rashaan Ayeh

Posted on 05/06/2019 11:00:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg

There are 34 Senate seats up for election in 2020 — including a special election in Arizona — many of which are expected to be brutally competitive as Democrats vie for control of the Senate.

Quick take: The U.S. Senate is currently made up of 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats. Dems must win 3 or 4 seats to take control of the Senate — 4 to recapture control — or 3, if they also win the vice presidency.

Some of the fiercest races will come from Virginia, North Carolina and New Hampshire, according to a late 2018 analysis from FiveThirtyEight.

Republican senators representing left-leaning states — Susan Collins (R-Maine), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) — are considered among the Democrats’ clearest 2020 targets.

As Democrats from Trump-won states — Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) — are also vulnerable.

Some of the notable seats include Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.).

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


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To: Alberta's Child

Do you support Trump?

I ask this, because your arguments against Moore follow a certain model precisely.

Oh look at the things he did.

Why some of those things are just awful, well, I don’t like them anyway.

Oh I know what’s he’s promising, but we can’t be sure he’d follow through.

After all, the party has come out against him.

Listening to your logic here, we should never have fallen in behind Trump.

Moore is more solid that you give him credit for, and I maintain he would vote with us 99% of the time.


61 posted on 05/06/2019 12:21:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
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To: Mr Rogers

“McSally in Arizona is likely to have a terrible opponent. Unfortunately, she may be even worse.”

The space ball Mark Kelly.


62 posted on 05/06/2019 12:28:03 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DoughtyOne
You must be thinking of someone else when you post things like that. As I’ve said many times before here on FR, I would have voted for Roy Moore in 2017 even if every allegation against him (and more) was TRUE.

I never uttered a peep against him until after he lost. He’s a loser, he will always be remembered as a loser, and he should not be nominated again.

63 posted on 05/06/2019 12:30:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: alternatives?
Do Republicans have a chance in NM?

I don't know. Tina Smith won her race by over 10 points in 2016. And while people were cheered by the fact that the GOP took two congressional seats away from the Republicans it can't be ignored that the Democrats, in turn, took two Congressional seats away from the Republicans in the same election. And while it's true that Trump came within about 45,000 votes of taking the state, it's also true that the Democrat vote in 2016 was down about 180,00 votes from 2012 while Trump took about the same number of votes Romney did. So I'd say that Minnesota is an iffy pick-up for both Trump and whoever runs against Smith at best.

64 posted on 05/06/2019 12:36:17 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Galatians513
Ernst isn’t a lock for re-election in Iowa.

Yeah, 2018 was not a banner year for Republicans in Iowa. They went from three Republican and one Democrat House seats to three Democrat and one Republican House seats. I'd say Ernst is probably favored for re-election but it's far from a given.

65 posted on 05/06/2019 12:39:14 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Trump20162020
Nominating Roy Moore to lose the easiest Senate pick-up opportunity for the GOP in 2020 would be the very definition of The Stupid Party. Vote Mo Brooks or whoever in the primary, just no more Moore. "

The bad news is that Mo Brooks (my own congress critter) has announced that he will NOT be a candidate for the Senate seat.

Brad Byrne and (former Auburn coach) Tommy Tuberville are the only declared candidates right now, though Roy Moore is still toying with the idea... I believe he wants to run; I also believe people are pleading with him not to do so.

Such is the state of things in Alabama right now... more names than substance.

66 posted on 05/06/2019 12:43:28 PM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: OldMissileer

He was little me-me with McStain on humanity, always like you said until election years. Although as you say if true to form he will revert to a back stabbing little weasel after the election, but Mitt McCain may not allow him to take the title as chief traitor back so easily.


67 posted on 05/06/2019 12:45:59 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: DoodleDawg

Hell will go Methodist before Wyoming elects a Democrat senator.
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Then maybe they could give us a Senator that sides with the citizens and the rule of law instead of another Bush League Republican that backs amnesty.


68 posted on 05/06/2019 12:52:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: calljack

“How do you win the vice presidency?”

By winning the White House.

The Vice President casts the deciding vote in the Senate when it is split 50-50.


69 posted on 05/06/2019 12:57:31 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: DoodleDawg

So increasing the Republican majority might be iffy.
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Which is why the Senate Republicans need to get off their dead butts and confirm Trump’s nominees to fill ALL the VACANT federal judgeships.


70 posted on 05/06/2019 1:43:53 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: OldMissileer

You are right, and the people of SC are too uninformed to catch on to Graham’s split political personality.


71 posted on 05/06/2019 1:47:34 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s been a while, but WY has had some long-term Democrat senators; Gale McGee and Joseph O’Mahoney come to mind.


72 posted on 05/06/2019 1:51:29 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: HamiltonJay

I believe Trump will have (barring anything unforeseen) very long coattails for the 2020 elections. KAGA!


74 posted on 05/06/2019 2:18:06 PM PDT by varina davis (President Donald J. Trump in 2020!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Point taken.

Given the loss of the 2nd and 3rd CD’s,there was a net gain of zero seats. I took your comment to mean that the GOP hadn’t won any seats in Minnesota.

If you look deeper at the numbers in the 2nd and 3rd CD’s, the GOP took a shellacking there at the legislative level. We lost many state house incumbents in what should have been fairly safe GOP seats.

The 3rd CD used to be the premiere GOP district in the state but it has been trending purple and with last fall’s results, I’m afraid it has gone blue.

As much as we love Trump on here, he has been an electoral liability in the Mpls-St Paul suburbs.


75 posted on 05/06/2019 2:45:38 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve
As much as we love Trump on here, he has been an electoral liability in the Mpls-St Paul suburbs.

And if they turn out in large numbers then in like many states that'll be enough to keep Minnesota blue. We need a Democrat that is unlikeable enough to keep Democrats home. Not sure which one that is.

76 posted on 05/06/2019 4:06:29 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: MplsSteve
As much as we love Trump on here, he has been an electoral liability in the Mpls-St Paul suburbs.

Tell me more, please.

77 posted on 05/06/2019 4:12:14 PM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: DoodleDawg
MN elected Sharia Law Muzzies to both congress and state attorney general.

That’s about all you need to know about GOP chances there.

78 posted on 05/06/2019 4:17:36 PM PDT by daler
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To: DoodleDawg

Throw every one of these SOBs out. Repeat in 2022..


79 posted on 05/06/2019 4:23:07 PM PDT by Walrus (Homosexuality is WRONG. End of case.)
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To: DoughtyOne

As a Republican candidate, Moore deserved party support.

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I agree with that.

But as a candidate Moore needed to make every effort to win that party support.
He needed to stay active thru out Alabama and meet the voters and ask for their
support. IMO he didn’t do that. Maybe he could read the writing on the wall
and said to heck with it. I don’t know but he sure didn’t campaign all that hard
or so it seems to me.


80 posted on 05/06/2019 4:40:27 PM PDT by deport
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