Democrats have filed similar lawsuits in Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania, and so far Republicans have won three of those cases, although the Pennsylvania case has not yet been heard. There are 34 seats up for grabs, of which 24 are held by Republicans.
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Republican control of the Senate for the past two years and the House of Representatives since 2011 has been a cause of a headache for Democratic President Barack Obama.
Still, if Democrats do take back control of the Senate, it will be by a much slimmer margin than they had hoped for weeks earlier.
Donald Trump’s unraveling presidential campaign is clearly taking a toll on down-ballot Senate races.
Iowa Republicans believe they’ll have the pieces in place on Election Day Tuesday to retake control of the state Legislature, a long-standing goal that, if achieved, enables them to alter the state’s legislative priorities next year and move unhindered on a conservative agenda.
However, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to reimpose new restrictions, handing a victory to Trump in his battle with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. This was a race that Democrats once hoped would become competitive, but look for Portman to be declared the victor as soon as polls close. And many of these races are close – potentially even closer than polls are indicating.
Despite being a state in the “blue wall” that Democrats have carried for at least six straight presidential races and that accounts for 242 electoral votes of the 270 needed to win, MI was showered by candidate attention Monday. Republican Senator Roy Blunt risks losing to Jason Kander, a charismatic Democratic military veteran whose campaign video of himself assembling an AR-15 rifle while blindfolded has gone viral. Still, Kanter has surprised everyone with his numbers, and the Clinton ground team has been pouring money and resources into the state. And it’s another state that’s likely Republican in the presidential race.
On Tuesday, voters in OR could elect America’s first bisexual governor, Nevada could send the first Latina to the Senate and the first Somali American could join a state legislature. It was during the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial election that the Republicans sent sample ballots to predominantly ethnic minority areas, and then asked to remove from voter rolls the names of those whose ballots were returned as undeliverable. Given how close many of these races are, tomorrow’s results are still anybody’s game.
In the state’s most populous county, the ranks of voters with no party affiliation have grown by nearly 50,000 or 24 percent since 2012, while Republican and Democratic registrations have remained roughly level.
Similarly, the Trump effect on New Hampshire’s Senate race has spelled hardship for Republican incumbent Sen. Mast is locked in a race with Randy Perkins, who made his fortune in disaster relief.
Campaigns and individuals are also barred from questioning voters “under the guise of the purported “exit polling” or “citizen journalist” operations organized and encouraged by Defendants Stone and Stop the Steal”. New Hampshire and Pennsylvania also became late and hard-fought presidential battlegrounds. His tax plan has wavered, his immigration plan has softened and re-hardened and his foreign policy plans are all but nonexistent, though we may expect them to be quite aggressive if his campaign speeches tell us anything. “I think that Trump’s misogyny has really most certainly led to a lot of activism for women, and I think that his misogyny – especially when contrasted with electing the first female president – has really activated the women’s vote”. Yet about one thing Trump was right: Harry Reid built this. And the spotlight that follows Clinton, who has weathered a number of scandals during her campaign, directly affects Hassan’s bid as well.
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State GOP leaders are pointing to their party’s voter registration numbers in key district races as a sign of possible success Tuesday to flip the Senate.
