Senate Democrats are struggling to find a campaign chief for the upcoming election cycle, as the party’s “pickup opportunities are arguably non-existent,” a report noted.
The Democrats only have a slim 51-seat majority, which means whoever is in the top stop at the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee will have not only need to try to keep the majority but do it in a presidential election year.The search has become a struggle for reasons both obvious and obscure. The DSCC chair could have to navigate divisive and ideological intraparty fights in both Arizona and California.
In two years, 23 of the 33 Senate seats that are up for reelection are currently held by Democrats or left-leaning independents, and former President Donald Trump won six of those states by at least one in his presidential elections. Some of the most brutal seats the Democrats will have trouble keeping are Sen. Jon Tester’s Montana seat, Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Ohio seat, and Sen. Joe Manchin’s West Virginia seat, where Trump won by 16, 8, and 29 percentage points in 2020.
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