A New Threat to the Senate GOP Majority -- Joe Biden

[RandySF]

The COVID-19 pandemic, tanking markets and prompting fears of recession, has blindsided the 2020 campaign season, imperiling President Trump’s reelection. But Senate Republicans working to keep their majority in November are eyeing a different threat -- former Vice President Joe Biden’s sudden revival in the Democratic primary race.

Biden, a doubted and dismissed phoenix rocketing out of the ash pile, went from left-for-dead to presumptive nominee in an unprecedented 11-day sweep. Just before the South Carolina primary Republicans had already begun celebrating the hoped-for nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders -- and according to all the polls, Democratic voters were poised to help them. With Sanders as the nominee, House Republicans could hope to take the majority back, and Senate Republicans could preserve their majority, and maybe even grow it.

Yet the furious resuscitation of Biden’s political fortunes has not only positioned his party more strongly against Trump in the general election, but suddenly scrambled the Senate map. Four Republicans up for reelection are now officially behind their challengers (or their most likely challengers) by four percentage points or more. And Biden’s numbers against an incumbent Trump show he is stronger than Hillary Clinton ever was in 2016 against the insurgent outsider most Americans expected would lose.

More important than his wins against Sanders have been the underlying numbers behind Biden’s success this past week. In a majority of the primaries, he is winning a broad and deep coalition that threatens Republicans’ ability to hold the Senate and the White House. With black voters, suburban voters, white voters without a college degree, white voters with a college degree, union and non-union, Republicans and independents, Biden’s breadth of support is remarkable.



https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/13/a_new_threat_to_the_senate_gop_majority_--_joe_biden_142649.html

[Thekaspervote]

1. We so deserve some good news!! Thx for posting

[napi21]

2. GOOD! I'm glad they're nervous and I hope they stay that way. People dmake all kind of errors

when they're nervous. I'll be a very happy camper when the media calls those state winners, and even ore so when they put that chart up that shows Congress members in red & blue and it's very obvious WHICH PARTY HAS CONTROL Wonder if we're see Mcturtle cry?

[wyldwolf]

3. THIS is why the nominee is important in down ballot races.

[liberalla]

4. Hallelujah!

Yes that is good news.

[Demsrule86]

5. Thanks for this...very encouraging...K&R.

[BidenBacker]

6. 4 is cutting it mighty close

Dems need a swing of at least 3 seats to gain control, assuming Joe's VP is the tiebreaker. And that doesn't include any Dem drops like Jones in Alafuckingbama.

We need to find at least 1 or 2 more states we can swing to have a little room for error. Getting Biden in the White House with only 49 Democrats in the Senate would totally suck bigtime. Would dearly love to see Amy McGrath beat Moscow Mitch, although not sure how realistic a shot she has.

Hey, Kentucky...you were on the Union's side during the Civil War...time to rejoin it again and help ex-fighter pilot Amy shoot a Sidewinder up Mitch's ass...

[Cha]

7. KR!

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. Great article. n/t