Republican Path to US Senate Takeover Goes Through Ohio, Montana

Jan. 19, 2024, 10:32 AM UTC

The 2024 Senate elections will test how well some of the Democratic Party’s most durable incumbents perform on a Republican-friendly map.

Democrats are the defending party in 23 of the 34 Senate elections, including in eight states that President Joe Biden lost or only narrowly won in 2020.

“I’d rather be us than them,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in an interview. “But you can’t fall in love with a map. You have to keep working hard.”

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