Can Republicans Take the Senate?

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

While most voters are focused on the contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, there are key Senate races across the nation that will decide who will be in control of the chamber in January. One of the most important is in Pennsylvania, where Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey is being challenged by Dave McCormick, a businessman and combat veteran who previously ran for the Republican nomination for Senate in 2022. On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, McCormick speaks with Gerry Baker about how the national debate on abortion is playing the Keystone State, whether the Democratic ticket change to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz could change the Senate race, and about that day in Butler, PA when Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt and what role the former president may play in determining the outcome of this and other Senate races. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.3	Hello, once again, welcome to Free Expression from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal with Jerry Baker.
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0:36.3	This week, we're looking at the race for the Senate.
0:39.5	Most attention, of course, is focused on the presidential contest this fall, but the political
0:43.9	fate of Congress is also at stake and once again is on a knife edge. Control of the House
0:48.7	of Representatives will come down to the outcome of a handful of races in a few key states.
0:53.5	Meanwhile in the Senate, Republicans need to make a net gain of two from Democrats to be sure
0:58.3	of a majority in the upper chamber.
1:00.8	Joe Manchin's decision to step down in West Virginia looks certain to hand that state to Jim
1:04.8	Justice, the GOP governor, but everywhere else in the battleground states, the outcome looks
1:09.4	like something of a toss-up.
1:11.4	Polling suggests Republican Tim Shee is a slight lead over incumbent Democrat Jim Tester in Montana.
1:16.5	Elsewhere, the race is very close in key states such as Michigan, Arizona and Ohio.
1:21.9	The key state for both the presidential and Senate contests may turn out to be the Keystone
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