Swing and a miss: New Senate forecast shows three key states slipping away from Democrats

Ryan King

October 22, 01:08 PM October 22, 01:10 PM

With the midterm home stretch in full gear, Republicans appear to have momentum on their side in their quest to flip the Senate as three states move in their direction in a key forecast.

RealClearPolitics's Senate projection recently moved three battleground Senate races to the GOP: Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada. Meanwhile, FiveThirtyEight has tightened its projections for the Senate amid a deluge of polling showing the Republicans gaining ground.

"Was a bit skeptical of the GOP poll surge before, but I think the evidence for it is now pretty convincing, and if anything I'm more bearish on Democratic chances than our model is," FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver tweeted.

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FiveThirtyEight gives Republicans a 45% chance of winning the Senate, which diverges from RealClearPolitics's projection that the GOP will secure a 53 to 47 seat majority in the lower chamber.

Both forecasts project that Republicans are favored to win the House. Given the 50 to 50 split in the Senate, the GOP only needs to win one seat to secure the upper chamber. Vice President Kamala Harris serves as the tiebreaker vote when the Senate is evenly divided on issues.

Republican Adam Laxalt is now polling ahead of incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) in the Battle Born State by 1.2 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics aggregate. However, Republicans Blake Masters of Arizona and Herschel Walker of Georgia are polling behind their Democratic rivals in their respective Senate contests.

Walker has been rocked by a recent scandal following a bombshell Daily Beast report earlier in the month that he paid and encouraged a woman to have an abortion — an allegation he denies. But the forecast appears to assume that the race will head to a runoff, giving him more time to make up ground.

Masters has long trailed incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), but he appears to have made a little headway in recent polling against him. He is trailing by about 2.5 points, but adjusting for October polls, that gap narrows to 0.7, per RealClearPolitics.

Republicans have rebounded massively in generic congressional polling, now favored over the Democrats by 3.1 points. This is up from where they were in June before the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that preceded a substantial GOP polling tumble in the metric.

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Numerous polls have pegged economic woes such as red-hot inflation as a top issue for voters ahead of the midterm elections, and voters generally express more confidence in Republicans to handle the problem.

Historical trends also favor the GOP, as the party in power after a presidential election generally loses a bevy of seats in Congress in the following midterm election. Voters head to the polls on Nov. 8.

Trump's information to Republicans on abortion

Daniel Chaitin

Oct 08, 07:39 PM Oct 08, 07:52 PM

Previous President Donald Trump claims Republicans have to have to do a improved career outlining their placement on abortion ahead of the midterm elections.

In an job interview that aired Saturday, Trump spoke with conservative discuss clearly show host Wayne Allyn Root, who talked about how Democrats are flooding the zone with marketing campaign ads attacking Republicans on abortion access and surmised that inflation is a more significant difficulty to voters.

Continuing to trend himself as an anti-abortion advocate, Trump pressured "a sure typical" on abortion rights is needed, and "you have to communicate about it." That normal, in Trump's watch these days and for at least a couple of several years now, is that there have to be exemptions for cases of rape, incest, and guarding the existence of the mom, and he famous that it was the identical stance taken by previous President Ronald Reagan.

Immediately after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade this summer, with 3 conservative judges appointed by Trump, quite a few states have moved to institute all kinds of limits on the procedure. On the federal level, Trump's ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a invoice to ban abortions nationwide soon after 15 weeks, with the same exceptional exemptions favored by Trump. But warning indications to Republicans are popping up in the polls and consist of a decisive August vote in Kansas in favor of abortion rights.

Trump even so argued that Democrats are "the radical ones" when it arrives to abortion and singled out former Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) as being "wacky" for comments in support of a late-time period abortion bill in 2019 that drew backlash. "The issue is a ton of people aren't outlining it nicely, and I think owning the exceptions is a really essential point," the former president mentioned.