The Top Five Most Vulnerable GOP Senate Seats

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The current election cycle was shaping up as a difficult one for Republican senators even before Donald Trump became the leader in the battle for the GOP presidential nomination.

 

Just as Democrats were exposed in 2014 and lost nine Senate seats and their majority, Republicans have 24 seats to defend in 2016 versus only 10 for Democrats. And this is a presidential year, when Democratic turnout is usually far stronger than for midterms. In 2008 and 2012, the last two presidential election years, Democrats picked up Senate seats (a net of 10), while Republicans had substantial gains from the last two midterms in 2010 and 2014 (a net of 15).

 

In 2014 Republicans had many targets, as Democrats were defending seats in seven states Mitt Romney won in 2012: North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana, and Alaska. Republicans also picked up an open seat in Iowa and won Colorado, two Obama states from 2012.

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Hollywood doles out dollars for Senate Dems

 

Hollywood’s Democrats are ramping up their fundraising efforts for key Senate races in hopes of regaining control of the chamber.

Candidates hoping to unseat Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio) and Roy Blunt (Mo.) are among the Democrats rushing to California to fill their 2016 coffers.

 

In an election year dominated by the presidential race, Senate Democrats hope to win attention and money for their races with the high-profile fight to confirm Merrick Garland, the man President Obama nominated to the Supreme Court on Wedneday.

“Nothing highlights the importance of winning a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate more than the fight over a new Supreme Court Justice,” Andy Spahn, president of public affairs firm Gonring, Spahn & Associates, tells The Hill. “We are talking about generational change here, change that will outlast any one presidential term.”

Since the beginning of the 2016 election season, Spahn—long considered Hollywood’s key political fundraiser—has met with a steady stream of senatorial candidates at his offices in the Universal Studios compound.

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/273477-hollywood-doles-out-dollars-for-senate-dems