Ratings change: Senate races shift toward Democrats

[RandySF]

While coronavirus news is rightfully saturating the headlines, the 2020 elections are going to happen this fall and will arguably be more important than ever.

Even though most attention is focused on President Donald Trump, his White House’s response to COVID-19, and his reelection, the Senate majority remains firmly in play. Race rating changes in Colorado, Maine and New Hampshire — all toward Democrats — further solidify the Senate battlefield.

Some Republicans believe GOP senators could see a boost from the coronavirus crisis because it’s an opportunity to demonstrate tangible work being done by Congress, including dispersing cash. Only time (and future polling) will tell whether that scenario is playing out. It’s more likely that the most competitive Senate races are influenced by the voter sentiment toward the president, including his handling of the crisis.

GOP Sen. Cory Gardner should be regarded as an underdog in Colorado, where the race has moved to Tilts Democratic from Toss-up. Republicans are confident they have the better candidate in the likely general election matchup between the senator and former Denver mayor/former Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, but the numbers are working against Gardner.

He’s been trailing Hickenlooper for months, and it will be difficult for him to climb back with the state’s political lean working against him. Trump lost Colorado by 5 points in 2016, and he’ll likely struggle there again. Gardner can win this race but to continue rating it a Toss-up would be overstating his chances of winning a second term.



https://www.rollcall.com/2020/04/06/ratings-change-senate-races-shift-toward-democrats/

[idziak4ever1234]

1. He voted for impeachment acquittal and I hope it costs him his political life

[Blue Owl]

2. After this national fiasco...

It could not be any more clear that anyone voting for the Republicans is voting for their own death.

[BComplex]

3. I want to see Thom Tillis from North Carolina walk the plank for his vote against removing trump

and for everything else a republican votes for. I want to see that insider-trading asshole Richard Burr thrown out in the election two years from now.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Real leadership as Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Fauci, and Capt, Crozier are displaying, seems to be

changing the national politics.

[Progressive Jones]

5. Never mention the GOP or Trump without tying them together.

They must be forced to take the heat for each other's failures.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Exactly

They are all peas in the same pod. They could have gotten rid of him in January/February but they didn't and now we have a severely incompetent response to all this. Just to be clear I'm not fond of Pence and think he's dumb but he's had some government experience and would (probably) be more likely to appoint experts and sit down and shut up.

[crickets]

6. Good. K&R