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Heading into the final stretch, Jessica previews the battle for the Senate and explains how Republicans maintain the edge for Senate control.
Transcript:
I'm Jessica Taylor. I'm the senate and governor's editor here at the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter.
Senate is coming down to the wire, but it Republicans still maintain a key advantage when it comes to, majority control.
You know, when we are looking at our senate big picture, they Republicans only need to, in addition to flipping West Virginia, which we fully expect them to do, they only need to win one seat, and that still comes in Montana. We continue to rate Jon Tester as the most vulnerable democratic incumbent, and that race is lean Republican. But we are seeing sort of those blue wall state senate races all tightening and moving slightly in Republicans' direction. Now they were all very, very close.
Democrats in public polls have very slim leads in private
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