Democrats' Senate majority odds boosted amid outbreak, Trump's uneven response

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Source: Reuters

POLITICS APRIL 28, 2020 / 1:59 PM / UPDATED 13 MINUTES AGO

(Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Steve Daines has been airing a television advertisement in Montana touting his efforts to protect his state’s residents from the novel coronavirus.

But his likely Democratic opponent, popular two-term Governor Steve Bullock, is dominating local news as the face of Montana’s fight to contain the outbreak, boosting his profile as his party fights to win control of the Senate in November.

That national battle is now a dead heat. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the 100-seat chamber, and most analysts remained convinced throughout 2019 that Republicans had a small but significant advantage in this year’s elections.

Democrats’ chances have improved thanks to high-profile recruits like Bullock, a rash of impressive fundraising, Joe Biden’s triumph in the party’s presidential nominating contest and a public health crisis that has decimated the U.S. economy once touted by Republican President Donald Trump, according to strategists from both parties and independent analysts.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-election-senate-an/democrats-senate-majority-odds-boosted-amid-outbreak-trumps-uneven-response-idUSKCN22A2ZM?il=0

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This election is if you support someone that wants to keep you alive or if someone that wants to kill you based on there libertarian values.........

[idziak4ever1234]

1. I'm ready for a Tsunami

[ffr]

2. It'll be nothing less of a declaration of war if republicans steal another election.

We're done with all of them.

The next election better be a complete wipe out!

[Initech]

6. You sure you want to fight that war?

I don't think it is a war we will win. I can guarantee that would be a clusterfuck of epic proportions and guarantee almost the whole next century of conservative rule.

That's not how we win elections, we need to win the same way we did in 2008 and 2012.

[ffr]

7. Half agree, have don't.

Agree we win by voting is such numbers there's no other possible outcome, however it misses the point that even if we do and we are shown to have lost when we've won, that is my point.

[lagomorph777]

3. "uneven response?"

WTF? Trump's response has been entirely consistent. 100% evil and counter-productive.

[mwb970]

4. America is ITCHING to vote trump out of office by a huge margin!

[Judi Lynn]

5. When he's not legislatin', Sen. Steve Daines loves him some slaughtering all helpless creatures.

There are many photos with him and his fellow a**holes reveling in their carnage, some far too bloody to share. What a way to live.

[Cozmo]

8. Here's hoping the election isn't postponed by you know who!