Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell stated Monday he thinks it is a "50-50" risk that Republicans take the Senate within the November midterm elections — and the ultimate consequence will probably be shut.
The Senate is now evenly divided, with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, though Democrats management the chamber since Vice President Kamala Harris has the tie-breaking vote. McConnell final week stated he thinks it is "most likely a larger probability the Home flips than the Senate." He made his newest feedback in remarks to the Scott County Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Georgetown, Kentucky.
"Flipping the Senate, what are the probabilities? It is a 50-50 proposition," McConnell stated Monday. "We have got a 50-50 Senate proper now. We have got a 50-50 nation. And I believe the result is prone to be very, very shut, both approach. However the stakes will probably be huge, as a result of if each the Home and the Senate flip, I believe the president will probably be a reasonable. He will not have any alternative."
A McConnell-led Senate would look very totally different from a Senate run by Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, McConnell stated. But when Republicans flip each chambers, he stated they will discover a method to work with President Biden.
McConnell additionally stated he would not assume mass voter fraud is one thing voters ought to fear about in November, addressing a priority for some voters, particularly Republicans.
"There may be some," McConnell stated of voter fraud. "I imply, we have had individuals from Kentucky go to jail for that. It occurs sometimes. However our democracy is strong and I do not consider the issues we have to fear about, I would not be fearful about that one."
Polling reveals massive swaths of the Republican Occasion imagine there was widespread fraud within the 2020 presidential election, despite the fact that Trump-era safety officers known as the November 2020 election "probably the most safe in American historical past."
Incumbent Democrats are weak in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, whereas the GOP is combating to carry onto to a few seats the place Republican incumbents are retiring in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio.