New polling shows Republicans jumping into the lead on the congressional generic ballot, and we examine all the closest Senate races state by state. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shepiro show.

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Slash, Ben, we'll get to all the news in just one moment first. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which catalogs the cost of goods, services, food, rent rose 0.4% over the month

of August, double what many economists had anticipated. Perhaps worse, core inflation

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The cross tabs are significantly worse for the Democrats.

There's going to have a significant effect on the U.S. Senate map in

particular. Right now, real clear politics suggests that Republicans are probably going to net a

couple of seats which should put them in the majority. Essentially, the races right now that are hot

in the Senate boil down to Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, maybe New Hampshire, maybe Colorado.

But those are the big ones.

And we're going to go through these state by state.

But to understand what exactly is happening here, you have to understand that the chief issue is absolutely the economy.

And this is what this New York Times at Sienna poll shows.

What it shows is that 64% of likely voters believe the country is moving in the wrong direction,

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