Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday predicted that Democrats would hold the US Senate, buoyed by strong voter turnout to counter a wave of Republican enthusiasm for control of Congress in the midterm elections. finished.
He said he is confident Democrats will be able to win battleground states and potentially wrest Senate seats from Republicans. “It’s tight,” Schumer said in an interview. “I think the Democrats will take the Senate and maybe even get seats.”
Campaigning in his home state of New York, Schumer’s optimistic predictions come as Democrats face strong headwinds heading into Election Day next Tuesday.
Republican candidates are capitalizing on President Biden’s approval ratings, inflationary pressures on households and history: The party in the White House typically loses congressional seats in the middle of the president’s term.
Schumer is counting on strong voter turnout and a final push to get the vote to maintain the 50-50 Senate majority, where Vice President Kamala Harris can break a tie, as she has at key junctures the past two years.
“The fact that we are on the playing field and our Democratic candidates are braving the political environment is a testament to a few things,” he said. Voters “are seeing how extreme these Republican candidates are and they don’t like it. Second, they’re seeing that Democrats are talking to them about issues that they care about and that we’ve accomplished a lot on things.”
Republicans have acknowledged that the GOP’s “quality of candidates” has been a problem, but say they have weathered a brutal primary season in which voters chose candidates endorsed by Donald Trump in Georgia and elsewhere who were not. the first choice among party leaders. GOP operatives now believe their candidates have improved and say voters who did not support Trump are beginning to return to the GOP.
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