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.).
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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.
“McSally in Arizona is likely to have a terrible opponent. Unfortunately, she may be even worse.”
The space ball Mark Kelly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
You are right, and the people of SC are too uninformed to catch on to Graham’s split political personality.
It’s been a while, but WY has had some long-term Democrat senators; Gale McGee and Joseph O’Mahoney come to mind.
I believe Trump will have (barring anything unforeseen) very long coattails for the 2020 elections. KAGA!
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.
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.
Tell me more, please.
That’s about all you need to know about GOP chances there.
Throw every one of these SOBs out. Repeat in 2022..
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.
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