On Thursday, Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report speculated on Twitter that there is now a good chance Democrats will have secured a 50-seat majority in the U.S. Senate before the final race is even decided in the Georgia Senate runoff in December.
“After last night’s [Nevada] mail ballot trend, excellent chance now that Dems will have 50 Senate seats/control in hand heading into the [Georgia] runoff,” Wasserman tweeted.
So far, Republicans have won every Senate seat that took place in a state former President Donald Trump carried in 2020, including Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and North Carolina. They also very narrowly carried the Wisconsin Senate race, with Sen. Ron Johnson winning by fewer than 40,000 votes even as Democratic Gov. Tony Evers cruised to a more than 3-point re-election.
