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The move was viewed by many as an attempt to leapfrog a difficult re-election campaign and an uncertain future in Indiana politics.
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The move was viewed by many as an attempt to leapfrog a difficult re-election campaign and an uncertain future in Indiana politics.
As an aide to Mondale in his Senate office in the late 1960s, Nolan comes out of the state’s long progressive tradition.
Left-leaning seats the party once expected to win handily have also instead proved difficult, a dynamic at work even in Senate races.
He listens to people and he tries to forge the best deal he can, considering we are a minority party in Washington with a majority in the House, but Democrats have veto power in the Senate and the president
Since the election cycle began, even many Republicans had believed that Johnson was likely to lose his re-election battle.
The first-term senator, a former congressman elected to the Senate in 2010, was already considered by both parties the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent.
The latest TV ad from the Arizona Democratic nominee for Senate focuses on Sen.Â
The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is putting $25 million into six key Senate races in an effort to counter the Democrats focusing their firepower
Portman is believed to be running the year’s best Senate campaign.)
Johnson is locked in a tight re-election race against Democrat Russ Feingold, a former two-term senator whom Johnson unseated in 2010. Leans Democratic.Â
Voters like Sybrandt are why the GOP might yet hold its slim Senate majority.
Elise Stefanik appears to be coasting through her re-election bid in New York’s 21st District and toward a bright future in the Republican Party.
Bunning, 85, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986 and then to the Senate in 1998. He served two terms and did not seek re-election in 2010.Â
With the Senate in play and Democrats sensing gains in the House, White House aides say President Barack Obama will get more and more involved in down-ballot races as Election Day nears.
And in 2016, it gave $50,000 to the Florida First Project, which supports Rubio’s Senate re-election effort.
Both Ayotte and McCain are in competitive re-election races.
Roy Blunt will lose re-election because of criticism that his family members are lobbyists. Even the Senate race in Wisconsin has tightened, according to polls. There, Republican Sen.
. — Asked to compare Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to a boxer, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid didn’t disappoint.
The current election cycle features many more GOP incumbents up for re-election, including Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
And of all the Republican senators running for re-election, John McCain’s reputation positions him best to withstand an anti-Republican wave.