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Sun Jul 9, 2017, 09:21 AM Jul 2017

2018 US Senate Election

Democratic Held Seats
CA (Feinstein-D)Solid Democratic-if Feinstein-D faces a progressive Democrat in the November General Election-Feinstein is vulnerable.
CT (Murphy-D)Solid Democratic
DE (Carper-D)Solid Democratic-if Carper retires-Democrats are favored to win.
FL (Nelson-D)Lean/Likely Democratic
HI (Hirono-D)Solid Democratic
IN (Donnelly-D)Lean Democratic -Donnelly's 2018 Republican opponent can be just like his 2012 Republican opponent.
ME (King-I/D)Solid Independent/Democratic
MD (Cardin-D)Solid Democratic-if Cardin retires-Democrats are favored to win.
MA (Warren-D)Solid Democratic
MI (Stabenow-D)Likely Democratic
MN (Klobuchar-D)Solid Democratic
MO (McCaskill-D)Lean Democratic-McCaskill's 2018 Republican opponent can be just like her 2012 Republican opponent.
MT (Tester-D)Lean Democratic
NJ (Menendez-D)Likely/Solid Democratic-Menendez-D will likely resign from the US Senate early 2018.
NM (Heinrich-D)Likely Democratic
NY (Gillibrand-D)Solid Democratic
ND (Heitkamp-D)Lean Democratic
OH (Brown-D)Lean Democratic
PA (Casey-D)Likely Democratic
RI (Whitehouse-D)Solid Democratic
VT (Sanders-I/D)Solid Independent/Democratic
VA (Kaine-D)Likely Democratic
WA (Cantwell-D)Solid Democratic
WV (Manchin-D)Lean/Likely Democratic
WI (Baldwin-D)Lean/Likely Democratic
Republican Held Seats
AZ (Flake-R)Tossup/Lean Republican if Flake-R is the Republican nominee, Lean Democratic if Ward-R is the Republican nominee.
MS (Wicker-R)Solid Republican
NE(Fischer-R)Solid Republican
NV (Heller-R)Tossup/Lean Democratic
TN (Corker-R)Solid Republican-if Corker-R retires -Republicans are favored to win.
TX (Cruz-R)Lean Republican
UT (Hatch-R)Likely Republican
WY (Barrasso-R)Solid Republican
Democrats will end up with 49 to 50 seats after 2018 elections.
2020 will be the year Democrats regain control of the US Senate.
Democratic incumbents Franken (D-MN),Shaheen (D-NH),Booker (D-NJ),Udall (D-NM) and Warner (D-VA) will win in 2020 by a wider margin than in 2014. Democrats will pick up CO (Gardner-R) and NC (Tillis-R)

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