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Republicans just got fantastic news when it comes to their chances of taking back the Senate.
It has been assumed by many that the Republican Party will take back the House of Representatives but even Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell believed that taking back the Senate would not happen.
But a new RealClearPolitics model said that Republicans will take back the Senate with a 52-48 majority in the 2022 midterm elections, The Daily Mail reported.
Senate Republicans are on track to pick up two seats in the western United States in the 2022 midterms to win back a majority in the upper chamber, according to a projection 30 days until Election Day.
Blake Masters could beat out Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a RealClearPolitics projection shows, despite the incumbent having an average 1.8 percent polling advantage over his GOP challenger in the adjusted October figures.
The projection also estimates that Republican Adam Laxalt will best Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada in November. Laxalt has a 1.3 percent average polling advantage over the incumbent senator in the month ahead of the midterms.
If the Republicans do take back the Senate that would stop President Joe Biden’s agenda as they could block his judicial nominees and policies.
The current 50 / 50 Senate gives Democrats a one vote edge with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie breaking vote, and that has proved to be tough for the administration.
It even showed Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is supported by former President Donald Trump, defeating Democrat John Fetterman, who has been ahead by around four points in the majority of polls.
Another race being closely watched is Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, which just had a bombshell.
Walker’s Senate campaign got rid of its political director, Taylor Crowe, on Wednesday, believing he was leaking information to the media, CNN reported.
Two people familiar with the matter said Crowe was fired after suspected leaking to members of the media. It is unclear if there were any other factors at play.
Walker campaign manager Scott Paradise declined to comment when reached by CNN on Friday. Crowe himself did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
CNN has not been able to independently verify the allegation against Walker, who has repeatedly denied that he ever paid for an abortion.
His denials have not mattered to the media, which has harped on the allegations that he paid for a woman’s abortion and that the same woman is a mom to one of his kids.
But they have not paid the same attention to the allegations made by his opponent, Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock’s wife.
In 2020, Warnock was accused by his now ex-wife Ouleye Ndoye of running over her foot with a vehicle. Also, body cam footage of police talking with Ndoye shows her telling officers that her then-husband is a “great actor.”
“This man’s running for United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation,” she said.
“I work at the mayor’s office, and this is a big problem. I’ve been trying to be very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation,” she added, going on to explain that she has “tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line.”
“So that is what is going on here, and he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show,” she told officers.
Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock's ex-wife on his character after he allegedly ran over her foot with his car:
"I've tried to keep the way he acts under wraps for a long time, & today he crossed the line… He is a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show." pic.twitter.com/0SuLy1IPub
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 23, 2020
Warnock’s ex- also took legal action against him over alleged violations of their child custody arrangement, claiming he engaged in “willful violations.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported:
The most recent filing involves a child custody arrangement finalized in April 2020, as he was waging a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Though the details are private, often these agreements stipulate that one spouse cannot move children out of state.
In the court documents, she asked a judge to revisit the child support considerations because she plans to be a full-time student at Harvard University for two years.
She claimed a “substantial change of circumstances regarding the welfare of the children” after Warnock’s victory, and she alleged in the filing that her ex-husband hasn’t reimbursed her for some child care costs that she incurred during time he’s scheduled to be with the kids.
