To take control of the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, Democrats have to pick up four Senate seats and lose none. If they can’t unseat Susan Collins in Maine, do they still have a path to regaining control? CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten unpacks the polling numbers and prediction markets in races across the country.
The Boston Globe’s Jackie Kucinich and CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny also examine the Senate prospects for Democrats.
0:00 Can Dems net 4 Senate seats without Maine?
0:45 What’s the path for Dems to regain Senate control even if Collins wins in Maine?
2:40 Where else do Dems have a chance to pick up Senate seats?
3:37 Kucinich: “Susan Collins always has a tough race.”
5:27 Zeleny: “It’s still an uphill challenge to win control of the Senate.”
7:05 Platner on his Maine primary win
7:59 Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on his hopes that the Democrats can take the Senate
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Graham Platner tears into Republicans after clinching Susan Collins matchup in Maine, and other primary night takeaways: https://cnn.it/49PthqZ
Epstein is going to jail after November.🎉🎉❤❤
📰 Democrats do have a path to regaining control of the Senate even without unseating Susan Collins in Maine, though it makes their math significantly tighter and heavily reliant on clear sweeps across other highly competitive battlegrounds.
With the Ellison/Paramount takeover, CNN is now a far cry from the institution it once was. It may be bore subtle than Fox News, but it has nonetheless shifted to the right. What does this Mainer take away from the headline “Can Dems take the Senate even without Maine?”? – that CNN 1) doesn’t have a clue about the state of current Maine politics and/or 2) CNN is now an active participant with its finger on the scale to influence Maine voters with the goal of keeping Susan Collins in office.
The Ellison family is close to Trump. I really try not to be a cynic, but seeing the growing number of Trump apologists as pundits on the CNN platform is disappointing and appears to be more than coincidence. Integrity matters.
Carlin was right. It is a big club and the rest of us aren’t in it.
Platner will win in Maine and you in the corporate media know that!
That is only the beginning cause there will be more Platners all over the country.
0:17 The “but” here should have been that Platner was performing better against Collins than Mills was.
Time for the old lady to retire
The dems will have Maine. We certainly have a better shot than we would have had with Mills.
If the “weak” democrats take the Senate they better bring a biblical wrath on all the corruption or they will be just as guilty as the coward Republicans for not stopping Trump. These ice detention centers are just shoveling money to the people that gave his campaign money and they aren’t even trying to hide it. They’re just trying to funnel more money to them.
Remember, theses people also said that Harris was going to win the presidency.
Don’t trust CNN. They want to be Fox lite.
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Maybe they should support the candidate they have leading in Maine instead of backstabbing to help the Republicans?
With friends like these establishment Dems, who needs enemies? Platner is the future
Why are we quoting betting markets… We’re so screwed
Trump will cheat. Elon will hack several ballot boxes.
Wow. I thought MAGA was deranged but people love Platner. I don’t know why but ok
is Kalshi a legit prediction service? do they poll?
Ain’t gonna to happen