Senate Map Shocker: Democrats Need ONE MORE Seat To Break GOP Control
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@TheTECShow
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Which Senate race do you think is most likely to decide control in 2026: Alaska, Texas, Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, or Georgia?
@delaphonta2816
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I'm not giving the benefit of the doubt to anyone. Fetterman should not be trusted. We have already seen that show with Sinema and Manchin.
@Mybaloneyhasafirstname
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
💙💙💙
@shortstoryteller-i5p
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Watch Donald Trump "legally" cheat his way out of this. He will flex his control of SCOTUS by declaring the election results invalid. 😮😱
@SuperfluousUserX
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Fetterman will be obsolete because we will win 52. At this point both parties hate him.
@madeleine7887
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Fetterman is a mess,BUT he is consistently pro choice and pro LGBTQ
@gretawandrick1902
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Blue 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙
@orangeofmars2835
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I see Democrats also taking Alaska, Iowa and Texas which will result in 53-47 Democratic Senate.
@NadiaAmra-w4m
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
The Democrats will be in power just like 1954 the Republicans will be a minority party which originally were
@DAnne-hd4cc
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Everything going on these days has just left me feeling down. We have a nut job and his cronies in the White House, a corrupt activist Supreme Court and an absent Congress. The only thing left is we the people but there are so many idiots out there that I just don’t know.
@lisadavis4279
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
We are going to win the senate.
@wespeakforthetrees
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
So is Alaska really in play? Is that where I should send my campaign contributions?
@jenningsrountree458
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I pray SC can get rid of Miss Lyndsey!
@AlfCalson
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
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Will the warmonger Senator in South Carolina lose the primary? ❓
@ianl9209
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Yeah…if Fetterman switches and take a 51-49 dem majority away…immediately the 2nd hated person in our country. PA will especially 😬
@ArmenianBishop
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I agree about Alaska and Maine. As for Texas and Georgia, Democrats will likely win in those States: Talarico is winning in Texas, and Ossoff is winning in Georgia.
@ThePhantomSafetyPin
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
How many more seats do you think will flip blue by the time midterms come and everything's even worse?
@cattoo860
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
My God! Americans.
@gibbs615
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
We'll win another special election soon enough! VOTE BLUE 2026/2028💙💙💙
@BobMercado2
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Count Fetterman OUT. He's a traitor.
@garyedwardgray7549
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Let me preface this by saying that I really like The Cook Political Report. But they have two problems…
1) They are always too slow to change things. I get it, but it’s burned them in both directions. They held onto Clinton too much in the Rust Belt due to historical precedent. True, Clinton actually led in the polls (which was wrong), but it was closer than Cook indicated. Cook gave Clinton a 90+% chance of her winning. My model gave Trump better than a 30% chance. So did 538. Cook’s analysis really drags its feet based on history.
2) Their PVI. It has nothing to do with this post, and I actually don’t have any problem, per se, with the PVI. My problem is that they fail to explain it well on their site. So, people often misuse it. The best example, since it’s so close to zero, is Wisconsin. Cook has its PVI as R+1. So, most users believe Wisconsin is tilt Republican. It isn’t. Wisconsin is tilt Democrat. The PVI is RELATIVE to the total US vote. The average presidential vote over the past 30+ years is D+2. So, in the PVI, every state is shift two points to the Republicans. That’s fine. As I said, that’s a valid statistic… to know where a state is relative to the country. And, yes, Wisconsin is 1% to the right of the national average. But people wrongly interpret that to think that WI slightly favors Republicans. They don’t. They slightly favor Dems, by 1%. Their average partisan vote is D+1. But that’s not what the PVI is. It’s relative to the country. And the country is D+2. So, Wisconsin is 1% to the right, relatively… giving them an R+1 PVI. And I hold Cook responsible for people’s misuse of this because their website does not explain this well at all. It’s mentioned in passing. If you pay close attention you’ll catch it. But for the most part, they fail to properly define PVI, and so lots of folks use it wrong. It may not sound like a big deal… a 2% error. But so many battlegrounds are within 2%, so if you’re incorporating PVI into your analysis, you’ve gotta know what it actually means. It’s NOT a state’s raw partisan lean. It’s their partisan lean relative to the country. The RAW partisan lean would be 2% further to the D side.
@DLS-o7v
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Ossoff has to win in Georgia. The alternative is horrifying.
@mjc63
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I think Fetterman may have disappointed Dems with some votes but it is his right to do so. I expect him to be primaried regardless of what he does.
I think there may be some big surprise victories in November and Alito and Thomas will regret not retiring! Watching South Carolina, Florida, and Iowa for developments!
Cheers, Michael Albuquerque NM USA
@genewilliams245
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Democrats need to saddle Republicans with enabling Trump to destroy our economy, allies, and taxed citizens with tariffs while giving another tax break to the wealthy.
@Marta-e3y
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Blue 💙
@thomaswallace4571
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Trump is going to love Feterman. It’s the difference of staying in power or wearing an orange jumpsuit suit!
@Ebobster
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Trump is screwing up so bad Dems might flip both Texas and Alaska.
@lindagiles5447
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
We got to stop getting mad and get ready to show up and vote blue
@KarmSingh-z6y
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I don’t think Sullivan can get reelected
@lindagiles5447
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I,m just ready for November to get here
@lindagiles5447
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Democrats taking the Senate and house will make this blue November even sweeter after all their cheating. Let's go yall
@lindagiles5447
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Democrats need at least 52 Senate seats and the house. Fretterman is a dam Republican. He is senika and manchin ok he can't be trusted. Let's go y'all blue 🌊🌊
@roopnarinesawh9213
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
The high cost of living and the gas price and the war will give the Democrats an edge to the Senate and the house .
@tammykersey4390
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Every time that Ladybug Lindsey Graham opens his mouth it gives South Carolina another reason to Vote for Dr Annie Andrews and send Lindsey and his Ladybugs home!
@jimough2441
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Regarding Fetterman, I think congress people switching parties should immediately trigger a special election and require the incumbent to resign. Voters chose an agenda and their representatives are there to serve their desires.
@Butterflyqueen141
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I live by a lot of republicans who are leaving their party in droves!!! I think the republicans may be in trouble comes November
@chainsawkillers
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I for a long time have felt the Cook Political Report tilts Republican.
@otishighsmith2109
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
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@mikeronson7324
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
i believe Fetterman will remain a Dem. but is going to vote with Repub. more & more over time!
@gilbertgarciajr4443
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
it doesn't matter if republicans win trump will be out by that time
@gilbertgarciajr4443
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Democrats will win , republicans are trying to do what they can to rig the elections, everyone knows it's trump behind everything
@mikehappy2620
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Dem's will flip Ohio. Period. Given the fact that the Senate democrats shut down the federal government , and withheld the pay twice of 430,000 people for 119 days should disqualify any incumbent democrat from running for any office. And both times it was to protect illegal aliens.
@bobkg2121
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
I don't think a representative should be allowed to switch parties until their current term is up .
@alihoussney7870
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
Fetterman reminds me of Joe Manchin, a Democrat in a Republican's clothing.
@SSNewberry
May 11, 2026 at 5:14 pm
We need to do more… The house is being gerrymandered as we speak, and the Senate is still a reach. If the Republicans gain a trifecta, it may be the end for elections in this country, and the map and the gerrymandering make it doubly so.