{"id":1726183,"date":"2022-11-06T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726183"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:06:35","slug":"gop-path-to-win-the-senate-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-path-to-win-the-senate-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Path to Win the Senate Widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-path-to-win-the-senate-widens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cd583078-2bf7-4f90-8f1d-3f8efd16395f@news.ap_.org-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When the story of the 2022 midterm elections is written, there will probably be considerable space devoted to the unlikely way in which Republicans were able to win their majority.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands now \u2014 the Saturday before election day \u2014 the Democrat\u2019s road to a Senate majority is extremely narrow. Best case scenario: they may be able to lose two seats while still retaining their 50-50 advantage with Vice President Harris casting the deciding vote.<\/p>\n<p>The current board shows 6 toss-up races. Two of those seats are currently in the GOP\u2019s hands \u2014 Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Two other Republican-held seats in Ohio and Florida were toss-ups at one time but have moved into the \u201clean GOP\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats manage to win in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Republicans will have to win at least three of the remaining Democratic-held toss-up seats to win a one-seat majority. It would be a challenge but certainly not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But in a truly tsunami-like election, the wave becomes a destructive force for Democrats, meaning that even seats that \u201clean Democratic\u201d may be in play. This means that Sen. Maggie Hassan\u2019s New Hampshire seat is up for grabs as well as Sen. Patty Murray\u2019s Washington Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For our VIPs:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2022\/11\/02\/gop-momentum-continues-to-hit-democrats-where-it-really-hurts-n1642255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP Momentum Continues to Hit Democrats Where It Really Hurts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the path to a majority expands for Republicans, the Democrats\u2019 road narrows. And as victory scenarios disappear, Democrats see the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/04\/gop-sizable-senate-gains-00065091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-3\">Hassan\u2019s slight edge in her race is similar to GOP Sen. Ron Johnson\u2019s modest advantage in Wisconsin. Numerous public surveys this week showed Johnson still leading Democrat Mandela Barnes, though by threadbare margins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-4\">Like Arizona, which moved to \u201cToss Up\u201d last week, the tightening in New Hampshire has come despite some national Republican groups pulling out of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-5\">But while the top GOP super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, has been absent, more ideological groups have filled the gap, like the Steve Wynn-funded Our American Century ($2.9 million in ads) and Sentinel Action Fund ($1 million), which is a partner organization of Heritage Action, an advocacy organization affiliated with the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-5\">Joe Biden won New Hampshire by seven points and in a close race, that may be key. Similarly, in Washington where Patty Murray is in the political fight for her life, Biden took the state by nine points. Biden is more popular in both those states than he is almost everywhere else, making presidential approval more of a factor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-0\">And the Senate race in Washington State has become more competitive. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray is still the favorite, but Republican Tiffany Smiley \u2014 who is outspending Murray in the race\u2019s final month \u2014 has gained ground. The race moves from \u201cLikely Democratic\u201d to \u201cLean Democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">Though polls have tightened in Washington, Smiley is still hampered by the state\u2019s partisan lean. In the August primary, Murray (52 percent) and Democratic candidates combined for more than 55 percent of the vote. The political environment is trending better for Republicans now, but that\u2019s a steep hill to climb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">If you\u2019re looking for signs of an apocalypse for Democrats, these are two good places to start. At the beginning of this year, no one expected Patty Murray to have much trouble dispatching a Republican challenger. And while Hassan was vulnerable, Democrats decided to give \u201celection denier\u201d Dan Bolduc $3.2 million to win a primary against a more moderate candidate.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">It worked \u2014 except Bolduc never folded and is now neck and neck with Hassan.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-1\">If these two Republican challengers end up winning, it\u2019s a safe bet that 5 or 6 of the toss-up seats will fall to Republicans, giving the GOP a solid 4-5 seat majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the story of the 2022 midterm elections is written, there will probably be considerable space devoted to the unlikely way in which Republicans were able to win their majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1726188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}