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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

GOPers Now Openly Admit Trump’s Flailing Could Cost Them Senate

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

According to a new report in The Hill, GOP aides and strategists fear that Donald Trump’s inability to adjust to Kamala Harris’s surge is shifting the Senate map against them. That’s striking, given how heavily the Senate map is tilted towards Republicans. So we checked in with Justin Barasky, a veteran Democratic operative who has worked on many Senate races over the years and is now involved in contests in Ohio and Arizona. He helps us break down the map, and assesses how realistic these GOP fears are, as well as what all this says about the true nature of Harris’s surge and Trump’s struggles.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

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Republicans are now openly saying that Donald Trump could cost them their chances of winning control of the Senate.

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The Hill reports that GOP aides and

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strategists fear that Trump's inability to adjust to Kamala Harris's surge is shifting the Senate

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map against them, an extraordinary development given how heavily tilted that map is for the

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Republican Party this cycle. So we thought we'd check in with Justin Baraski, a veteran Democratic

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operative who has worked on many Senate races over the years and is now working on races in Ohio and

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Arizona. He's going to help us break down the map and understand how realistic these GOP fears are,

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