Senate Races.....2022....NOT looking good...

[Captain Stern]

....if you're a republican.

Democrats will be defending 12 seats. All 12 seats are in strong Democratic states, with the exception of Nevada.

republicans have to defend 22 seats. Some of those seats are in Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania (the incumbent, Toomey, has already said he's bailing out).

60 Democratic Senators after 2022 is very reachable.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I hope Val Demings runs here in Florida.

While I find Marco Rubio slightly less objectionable than his Senate colleague Rick Scott, both of them need to go as soon as possible. And Demings would be a great candidate to get behind.

[TheRealNorth]

2. Ron the Russian is also up for election in WI

if his treasonous rear isn't locked up first.

[CaptYossarian]

26. In 2010, he said he'd only go two terms.

Word is that he'll oppose Evers in 2022, while Snotty Wanker goes for Moe-Ron's senate seat.

We'll just be shuffling the jokers in the deck.

[rsdsharp]

3. The Iowa seat is Grassley's.

I don’t know why, but Grassley is invulnerable in Iowa. If there’s a safer seat I don’t know where it is.

[Polybius]

5. Do you think he'll run again?

He'll be 89, but Strom Thurmond did and won at 94.

[rsdsharp]

10. Yes, I think so.

He wants his grandson Patrick to take over the seat. The fly in the ointment for ole Chuck is that Covid Kim is also up for re-election in 2022, and she isn’t all that popular. If she loses, he’ll have to wait 4 years before retiring if a Republican wins in 2026 so that Patrick can be appointed.

[PTWB]

8. He's such a snake.

[COL Mustard]

23. Please, Don't Insult Snakes

Snakes at least serve a useful purpose.

[Polybius]

4. Good to hear!

How's 2024 looking? Are most Democrats or Republicans?

[Proud liberal 80]

6. They have better chance of holding those seats

If Biden is POTUS, because of the dreaded midterms jinx.

[mwooldri]

22. That's my fear too.

I am hoping that we have a nice blue "wipeout" this year and the Dems have the House, Senate and the White House. However there will be some manufactured crisis, some astroturf right wing group (or groups) will surface and the Senate and House slip back to Republican control.

[WinstonSmith4740]

28. History certainly points in that direction.

However, I think we've been fooled enough times to not let it happen again. I remember Rachel Maddow saying in 2008 to not underestimate the Republican Party, because they were like a wounded animal and therefore REALLY dangerous. But I think this time, they may have blown it up. If any of them had shown even the beginning of a spine and had stood up to Trump once or twice, they might have been able to at least pose an argument. But they didn't. And they can't. They've proven themselves to be the shallow, power-mad, greedy cabal they've been running toward since at least Nixon. They haven't shot themselves in the foot...I think the Republican Party put a gun to its own head on this one.

[beachbumbob]

7. its very likely outcome

[Sherman A1]

9. Very Good news!

[moose65]

11. Burr says he will retire in 2022

So that may give us a good shot at picking up an open seat in NC.

I hope hope hope that Wisconsin can get rid of Johnson. Russ Feingold should be in the Senate right now!

[BComplex]

12. I'm glad Burr is retiring. That insider trading thing he did with COVID would have brought him down

anyway. We need to have 2 democratic senators from NC, starting with Cal Cunningham on Nov. 3rd!!!

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. All the more reason for Dems to aggressively and ruthlessly wield power in 2021

If Manchin, Sinema and DiFi balk, make them members of the Steve King club, no committee seats, only floor votes.

[ancianita]

30. +1

[Ohiya]

14. There's no US senate race in Ohio this year.

[Captain Stern]

16. That's true. Thank you. But, I was talking about 2022.

Rob Portman's seat will be contested then.

[Ohiya]

17. Sorry, I read too fast. But, I sure hope we can get rid of Portman in 2022.

[Wounded Bear]

15. I think Alabama is in more 'trouble' than Nevada...Oops...

Jones trying to fight off Tuberville. The Rubes will likely vote for the coach.



2022 Why we worried about then now?

[Captain Stern]

19. Jones is going to lose to Tuberville. I'm pretty sure most people are expecting that.

There's not any 'fighting off' going on. Jones is going to lose.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make, here.

We shouldn't worry about/think about 2022? I just have no idea what you're trying to say.

[dsp3000]

20. Looking forward to Jones being in Joe's cabinet. I like everything i read about the man.

nt

[MatthewStLouis]

18. Here's hoping Blunt gets kicked out in MO!

A stem cell research ballot initiative helped McCaskill win before, maybe something worthwhile will come up to energize dems in 2022.

[Yavin4]

21. All comes down to how Joe handles the virus.

If we're in the clear by 2022 and the economy is on the rebound, Democrats will increase their power as they will have a powerful story to tell.

If not...then it may be a massacre.

[Jarqui]

24. Looks good to me: "60 Democratic Senators after 2022 is very reachable." nt

[AlexSFCA]

25. we really need to focus on state legislatures

they are the ones who have power over election laws, look at WA, CA, OR - these states should be models on how to conduct elections. Automatic voter registration, automatic vote by mail, early voting, etc. This is the antidote to voter suppression. Then you build from it. For the life of me, I don’t understand why dems don’t take those elections as seriously as presidential elections.

[blueinredohio]

27. I'm praying already for Portman to get voted out.

[lastlib]

29. Second-best bit of news I've heard today!

after Limbaugh's cancer announcement!

[quakerboy]

31. IF

we make something of our likely victory in 2020.

If we putter around, nibbling at the edges while the SCOTUS busily mandates a return to the 1930s, the results will not be so favorable.

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. Not to be a Debbie Downer, but the party in power, almost always loses seats in the midterms.

I don't know why, but the opposition party just seems much more enthused & engaged in off year elections.

[Tom Rinaldo]

33. Typically, yes. But seldom does one party have to defend 22 seats and the other only 12

That party in power thing may help Republicans defend that many seats, but they will be spread thin doing so. Good chance Democrats could target a few vulnerable Republicans for pick ups. But all of this relates to politics as usual. What politics will look like by 2022 is impossible to know right now.

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. While I agree that 22 seats is a lot, I still have PTSD from the Obama years.

We even lost state legislatures that hadn't been controlled by the GOP for decades, and I can only assume it was due to the other guys being much more motivated. If we win the WH & Senate, it would be catastrophic if we were to revert to GOP control in 2022. For some reason, "Independents" seem to hate one-party-rule, so their erratic voting behavior usually costs us in the midterms.

[CTyankee]

35. Oh, I dunno. The GOP has been poisoned by Trumpism. It's not the same as any election I have

ever seen in my long life. Even in the worst of times (I've been voting since JFK) in the civil rights days I've never seen it so bad, so systemic.

[Tarheel_Dem]

36. We can only hope that the rift between normal Republicans and the Trumpistas widens even more.

That could certainly work to our advantage.

[CTyankee]

37. when trump and trumpism is ground into the dirt they will. They'll be like the "good Germans"

during WW2 saying "We didn't know about the death camps."