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There's a potential nuke of a case in Georgia on Monday at 13:30 regarding the Georgia Senate runoff from January 5th that has a very good chance to flip the Senate back to the GOP. I'm trying not to use click-baity words in titles, so you tell me if this is a possible "nuke": This one is different because it involves the Georgia Senators and not President Trump. If it moves forward, clowns Stacey Abrams and RINO rat Raffensperger would be deposed, and best of all, the judge has the authority to call for a new senate election, shifting control...

Q&A: What happens if the U.S. Senate is equally split after Georgia’s runoffs?...Who runs the Senate, if no party has a majority? The party that holds the vice presidency. The Constitution makes the vice president the president of the Senate, with the power to cast the decisive vote in cases of a tie.

Current Senate: 55* Democrats | 45 Republicans (please follow the link to view maps and charts)

Washington remains in shock today, two days after an unknown college professor upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. The political earthquake is still reverberating around D.C. And many people are now asking, “Who is the next Dave Brat?” His name is Joe Carr, and he’s taking on Lamar Alexander, the liberal Republican senator from Tennessee.

South Carolina's Lindsey Graham has become the neoconservative Republican targeted by Tea Party and liberty movement organizations nationally, and the South Carolina U.S. Senate primary on June 10 may be the most important race of the 2014 campaign. Labeled a “RINO” by his detractors, Graham gave his five primary opponents some unintentional assistance March 13 by telling Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry that he would help stop the Republican agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives under Speaker John Boehner. “Hey John, good job,” Graham said over a live microphone he almost certainly thought was turned off. “Let me...

Mitch McConnell's conservative primary challenger is hoping to score some points off of a highly publicized mistake by the Senate Minority Leader's re-election team. Louisville businessman Matt Bevin, hoping to boost his underdog challenge against McConnell in Kentucky's May Republican primary, is going up with a TV commercial Friday that pokes fun at web video released earlier this week by the senator's campaign that included a clip of a team wearing blue uniforms celebrating a national championship in men's basketball. The major problem was that the team wasn't the Kentucky Wildcats, but instead the Duke University Blue Devils. There's little...

To f*** up, if we learned anything from 2012. With Schweitzer out, Montana Democrats are scrambling to find a means of holding a seat they have held since 1913. That's right: the Class 2 Senate seat being vacated by Max Baucus has been held by Democrats for a hundred years. With other salivating pick-up opportunities in South Dakota and West Virginia, along with vulnerable Democrat incumbents in Alaska, Arkansas, and North Carolina, Republicans have their third chance in three straight elections to win back control of the Senate. So that means only one thing: I have 100% confidence in this...

We all remember the euphoria when Scott Brown won the special election to the so-called Ted Kennedy seat in 2010. He was supposed to be the 41st vote against cloture on Obamacare. And we all know how that turned out. Despite the clear voice of the people, the president pulled out every trick imaginable to force that bill down our throats. That does not diminish Scott Brown's victory. But the truth is that because his original election was a special election, he had media attention and voter support from all over the country. Now we are approaching an important general...

Mortimer Zuckerman, the New York media and real estate tycoon, said this weekend he hasn't decided whether or not he'll run for Senate.

May 5th, 2009 Check in: 6:30pm-Meeting begins: 7pm Hollywood Beach Culture & Community Center 1301 So. Ocean Dr. Hollywood, FL 33019 Refreshments served. Metered parking lot available The SE Broward Republican club will welcome guest speaker Marco Rubio(R) Florida speaker of the house, who is running for the US senate seat currently held by RINO Mel Martinez. We normally have a group of 40-50 members and guests in attendance. So here is a chance to ask questions about what is important to you and get an anwer. I must add that our rules state that all Republicans are welcomed as...

Sen. Chris Dodd (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Connecticut voters in 2010 could finally answer a question I've always wanted to know the answer to: Just how corrupt and incompetent does a New England Democrat senator need to be to lose to a Republican? We already know Ted Kennedy couldn't meet the threshold. Perhaps Chris Dodd, the man known for teaming up with Kennedy to form a "waitress sandwich," can. Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, who oversaw and encouraged the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as Chairman of the Senate Bamking Committee, polls below all Republican comers in his home state...

The day after the 2008 election ended, the 2010 cycle began for political junkies. For both parties and their political operatives this is a time filled with possibility and hope. Maybe, just maybe, that governor who has held out on a Senate race for so long will finally make the leap. Maybe, just maybe, a wealthy candidate willing to write his or her own check, will emerge to take on that surprisingly vulnerable incumbent. In other words: at this point in the cycle, hope springs eternal. A quick glance at the playing field, however, suggests that Republicans could -- yet...

On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez discussed the congressional races with the editor of the liberal New Republic magazine, Michael Crowley, and asked: "Now, if the Democrats get to 60 seats, as they hope to, what would be significant about that?" Crowley replied: "...in the Senate the other -- the opposition can filibuster. And if you have 60 votes you can basically tell them to 'shut up and we're going to pass our bill, sit down.' So 60 votes is the magic number because the opposition, if they have 41, can draw things out and prevent you from...

DeWine exposes that his opponent doesn't like to pay the unemployment taxes of his employees. Only after the threat of legal action by the state of Ohio did he comply.

U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris talks with supporters at the Martin County Republican headquarters in Stuart on Monday morning. The informal meet-and-greet was one of several of Harris' campaign stops on the Treasure Coast Darrell Orman, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Stuart, prays with Harris at Martin County Republican headquarters in Stuart on Monday morning. Lightning-rod political figure Katherine Harris made two Treasure Coast appearances Monday to her Republican party faithful as part of an effort to boost grass-roots support in an uphill battle against incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Harris spoke at Republican headquarters in Port St....

An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to "knock Steele down." The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters -- as much as 44 percent -- would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances "after hearing Steele's messaging." "Governor Ehrlich and [Lt. Gov.] Michael Steele have a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland," says the March 27 report by Cornell Belcher,...

Lieutenant Governor Michael S. Steele (R-MD), the first African American elected statewide in Maryland, is giving serious thought of running for the U.S. Senate in 2006.

There are 33 races - 17 Democrats, 15 Republicans and 1 independent are defending seats The full story

Probably the most important Senate race this year, John Thune is making headway in his quest to defeat, once and for all, notorious Senate obstructionist Tom Daschle:POLL SHOWS THUNE LEADING DASCHLE 50-47 SIOUX FALLS – The John Thune for U.S. Senate campaign today released polling numbers showing Thune leading Tom Daschle 50-47 in one the nation’s most closely watched Senate races.   The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies (POS), surveyed 600 likely voters September 21-23 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. These numbers follow another POS poll released in late August, which showed...

RALEIGH — Erskine Bowles, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2002 and the likely one again in 2004, is no fool. As President Bill Clinton's chief of staff in the White House, Bowles was one of the few grown-ups picking up the beer cans and broken lamp shades after the adolescents occupying the place. Having proven himself on Wall Street and in the North Carolina business world, Bowles didn't need the Washington power trip the way others around him did. But in 2002, the level-headed Bowles got bad advice, tried to be something he was not, and got thoroughly...