Democrats’ Tricky Path to Winning Back the Senate

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Democrats’ Tricky Path to Winning Back the Senate

In the shadow of Donald Trump’s victory last November was another development that seemed to receive less much attention at the time: Republicans flipped four Senate seats, giving them a majority. They entered the 119th Congress with 53 seats to Democrats’ 47, an even larger margin than when Trump won the first time (52–48). They also retained their House majority, albeit a historically small margin.Given the razor-thin House margin and Democrat…