GOP increasingly worried about losing Senate control

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst won her Senate seat and Republican Party stardom six years ago on a promise to go to Washington and “make ’em squeal,” just like the pigs she castrated on her family farm growing up.

If anyone’s squealing this year, it is Ernst and other Senate Republicans who are locked in neck-and-neck races against Democratic challenges in an unusually large number of states.

In places like Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia and Maine, Republicans are left hoping President Trump will defy the polls to win, carrying them along with him. Otherwise they'll need to capture enough of those rare voters who split their ballot to support Democrat Joe Biden for president and a Senate Republican.

Against those odds, Republicans are likely to lose control of the Senate next year, according to many political forecasters and polls. To seize the majority, Democrats would have to pick up three seats, or four if Trump is reelected).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-increasingly-worried-about-losing-senate-control/ar-BB1axUhq?li=BBnb7Kz

[soothsayer]

1. Good

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... she promised to castrate Senators - has she even been successful enough to dig her knife into even one?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Fantastic!!!!!

[Nexus2]

4. *crosses fingers* I sure hope they do.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. And there are several Senate races, originally thought absolute shoo-ins

for Republicans, to be now hotly contested. Kansas comes to mind. So do Georgia and South Carolina.

I think one factor is that otherwise loyal Republicans have a strong enough sense of fairness and decency, as well as no real tolerance of extreme religious views, to be appalled and angry at the rushing through of Amy Barrett's Supreme Court nomination and confirmation. There may be enough of those who have already or will be voting for the Democrat in the Senate race to change the Senate profoundly.

[llmart]

6. I truly hope we do win the Senate...

otherwise President Biden will be met with the same horseshit that McConnell dished out to Obama. In fact, I'm more worried about them retaining the Senate than I am Joe losing.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. They must learn that evil deeds have consequences. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Looks like Joni will do the squealing this time around. I hope that her Iowa voters throw her back

to the Pig Farm, where she belongs.

Moscow Mitch needs to get more money from his Russian taskmasters.