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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The GOP's Prospects for Retaking the Senate in 2024

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Senator Steve Daines, who's leading the Republican effort, sounds optimistic about the GOP's chances, with tossup races in Montana, Ohio and Arizona. But what if Republicans nominate candidates like Matt Rosendale and Kari Lake, both of whom have lost statewide races in the recent past? Plus, if Democrats hold the Senate, would they nuke the legislative filibuster? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:35.9

The head of the Republican Senate campaign arm says that the GOP has a great shot at winning

0:41.2

back the upper chamber in November, but as always there are

0:44.8

questions of candidate quality as we get into these Republican primaries.

0:49.1

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues editorial board member

0:56.1

Manay Ukwe Berua and columnist Kim Strassal welcome and happy Friday to one and all. Montana Senator Steve Danes is the head of the

1:07.6

NRSC the National Republican Senator committee and at a meeting of the Ripon Society this week he said this the

1:16.0

good news is we have the best map in a decade he sounds pretty confident in the

1:22.1

chances of Republicans picking up the upper

1:24.8

chamber of Congress in November and recall that the Senate right now at the moment is

1:30.0

split 51 Democrats to 49 Republicans.

1:34.3

There is an open race in West Virginia

1:36.9

that is ranked as solid Republican.

1:39.8

And so then we go to looking at these races

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