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The Byron York Show

The Republican Senate formula

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday's newsletter covered the fact that GOP strategists believe the race for control of the House is over. "The midterm results, as far as the House of Representatives is concerned, are pretty much set in stone," it said. "Republicans are going to win. Democrats are going to lose." That's the House. Now, what about the Senate?

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0:00.0

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0:13.5

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0:18.5

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No Chick-Chap Podcast.

0:24.5

We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the Senate side of the midterms.

0:31.5

A couple of days ago, did a podcast that basically said on the House, as far as the House was concerned, it's over.

0:38.5

The cake is baked, it's set in stone, it's in concrete, whatever you want to say, but Republicans certainly believe that it's just over in the House.

0:49.5

And they are going to win and Democrats are going to lose.

0:53.5

So that's, I think, the situation there.

0:57.5

So the question is, well, what about the Senate?

1:00.5

And at this point, actually, it's not as definitive as the House is, but it's really a pretty simple story at this point.

1:11.5

It's not complicated, there's not tons and tons of moving parts.

1:16.5

It's reasonably easy to understand.

1:18.5

So I'm going to quote you a Republican strategist who's involved in a number of Senate races.

1:24.5

It starts with holding on to what you have.

1:28.5

OK, so Republicans have four seats that are currently Republican seats that they certainly want to keep.

1:37.5

North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

1:40.5

OK, now the strategist, and I think everybody else, feels pretty good about winning the first three of those.

1:47.5

North Carolina, that's Ted Bud, Ohio, that's JD Vance, Wisconsin, that's Senator Ron Johnson keeping his seat.

1:57.5

So they feel really good about the first three of those.

2:02.5

OK, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin.

2:04.5

And then there's Pennsylvania.

2:06.5

Now we talked about the debate yesterday, this kind of weird and troubling debate between John Federman and Amendment Oz, the Republican candidate, in Pennsylvania.

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