This year's election year battle for control of the U.S. Senate is intensifying, as voter disaffection for President Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on a growing number of Senate races in the South and Midwest.
- This year’s election year battle for control of the U.S. Senate is intensifying, as voter disaffection for President Donald Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on a growing number of Senate races in the South and Midwest.
Democrats would need to net at least three Republican-held seats for a majority, if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House, giving his running mate Kamala Harris a tie-breaking Senate vote, or four seats if Biden loses. Democrat challenger John Hickenlooper, a former two-term governor and 2020 presidential hopeful, had more money than Gardner as the race entered its final months and now holds a double-digit lead in opinion polls, according to FiveThirtyEight.com.First-term Republican Senator David Perdue, a wealthy businessman who promotes himself as a Trump ally, holds a razor thin lead over Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, according to RealClearPolitics.com.
The contest is widely expected to end in a January run-off election. But as Loeffler and Collins battle each other for Republican votes, Democrat Raphael Warnock leads in the polls and had more cash on hand than either Republican as the race entered its final weeks.
Her Democratic challenger, Maine House of Representatives Speaker Sara Gideon, leads Collins by several percentage points in opinion polls and has massively out-fundraised the Republican.Republican Senator Steve Daines is running neck-and-neck against two-term Governor Steve Bullock, a former presidential candidate who has branded himself as an independent-minded Democrat. Daines, a former congressman and software executive, is known as a reliable conservative and has touted his ties to Trump.
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