Democrats face uphill battle to retake Senate - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Democrats are trying to retain two seats in states won by Trump last year, plus five more where Harris had a single-digit margin of victory.
48% : Trump took North Carolina by single-digit margins in the last three presidential elections.
46% : Michigan was the only one of these states Trump won last year, and even that wasn't enough to deliver the state's other Senate seat to the GOP column.
46% : Perhaps the bottom never truly drops out for Trump with DOGE and the tariffs.
44% : It is easy to imagine voters deciding they don't like the pace of change under Trump, even if they are broadly sympathetic to some of his policy goals.
44% : They could also react negatively to the implementation of specific things, such as the Department of Government Efficiency and tariffs.
43% : Trump won the state and the White House back last year. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) are retiring.
39% : Democrats earnestly believe they can make next year's elections a referendum on Trump -- and even more so, fellow billionaire and chief government-cutter Elon Musk -- and win back Congress while perhaps avoiding an extensive rebranding campaign in the wake of their 2024 losses.
36% : " Even if a lot goes wrong for Trump in the next 19 months, Democratic Senate candidates will need quite a lot to go right.
35% : If the public has turned on Trump by then -- and there are bright red warning signs that voters don't think he is focused enough on inflation and the economic concerns that helped return him to office -- Democrats won't necessarily have to reinvent themselves.
35% : Trump was elected to his first term in 2016 and has been the ultimate political survivor ever since, though he did represent a shift in the party's approach in ways the infamous GOP autopsy never anticipated.
32% : Winning these seats without Trump on the ballot but with anti-Trump voters presumably flooding to the polls would be challenging.
31% : He lost to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) in part because Trump, who won statewide by double digits, was on the ballot.
30% : Democrats may be similarly able to recover despite their flawed leaders and penchant for taking the wrong side of 80-20 issues in public opinion, simply by being the only Plan B available whenever Trump finally wears out his welcome as he has done, however temporarily, once before.
24% : Warnock and Ossoff won their seats in early 2021 runoffs after Trump lost Georgia and the presidency.
16% : The Trump administration is moving quickly, as if it realizes its opportunities might be limited after the midterm elections (this also suggests that despite Democratic fearmongering to the contrary, it is preparing for Trump to become a lame-duck president sometime in 2027).

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