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Next year, Jones faces an uphill battle running for a full term and will need voters who back Trump to jump to his side as they move down the ballot. Jones won a special election in December 2017 after a majority of Alabama voters apparently could not stomach voting for former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who faced allegations of sexual misconduct involving young women. On this list, senators’ names are followed by Trump’s winning or losing margin in 2016, the senator’s margin of victory (or defeat, in McSally’s case) in his or her most recent election and the race rating by Inside Elections. The 2016 presidential results in these states were factored into the rankings, along with conversations with strategists on both sides of the aisle and race ratings from Inside Elections with Nathan L. Kavanaugh last year, it may be surprising that she is further down the list, but that’s in part because of her strong personal brand in the Pine Tree State. Gardner is the second-most vulnerable in the country, given that Clinton won his state by 5 points and Democrats were successful there in 2018.Ĭonsidering the high-profile backlash to Collins after her vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett M.
They need a net gain of four seats to win the majority, or three if they win the White House since the vice president would be the tie-breaking vote. Most of the other senators in vulnerable positions are Republicans, two of whom are running in states that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 - Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of Maine. Gary Peters is the other Democrat running in a state that President Donald Trump won in 2016, but he is further down the list, since Trump won the Wolverine State by a much smaller margin.ĭemocrats are largely on offense in Senate races in 2020. Although most competitive Senate races in 2020 involve Republicans defending their seats, it’s a Democratic senator who tops the list of the most vulnerable incumbents in the chamber one year out from Election Day.Īlabama’s Doug Jones is running for a full Senate term after winning a special election in 2017, and he faces the difficult task of overcoming the partisan dynamics of a deeply Republican state.
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