There will be nine races in the Senate, likely to determine which party controls the Senate.
Democrats are fighting to maintain a slim 51-49 majority in the Senate. The Democratic Party holds 23 seats, including three held by independents who caucus. By comparison, Republicans hope to keep just 11 seats, according to the Associated Press.
According to the latest Fox News Power Rankings, the Senate races in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are considered toss-ups. Senate races in Montana and Nebraska are expected to lean Republican, while those in Arizona, Maryland and Nevada are expected to lean Democratic on Election Day.
michigan
In Michigan, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican candidate Mike Rogers are facing off for the chance to replace Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who is ending her 24-year Senate career. There is.
This could be the biggest chance Republicans have had to win a Michigan Senate seat in decades. The last time Republicans secured a Senate race was in 1994, when Spencer Abraham defeated Democrat Bob Carr by 10 points. Abraham then lost to Stabenow in 2000.
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Mr. Rogers was elected to Congress in 2000 and represented Michigan's 8th Congressional District until 2014. The Republican, who once chaired the House Intelligence Committee, served as an officer in the U.S. Army through the Reserve Officer Training Corps and then as a special agent in the U.S. Army. F.B.I.
Slotkin, who currently represents Michigan's 7th District, has served in the CIA and the Pentagon and served three tours in Iraq. Both campaigns focused on concerns about Chinese influence and highlighted security experiences in the Middle East and at home.
Fox News Senate Power Rankings. (Fox News)
ohio
In Ohio, Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown is expected to face the most expensive non-presidential race, with the outcome determining which party controls the Senate, according to the Marion Star. He faces a challenge from Republican Bernie Moreno.
Former President Trump endorsed Moreno in the Republican Senate primary earlier this year.
Moreno ran for the Senate in 2022 to replace retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, but President Trump's running mate, J.D. He also won the election.
Trump carried Ohio by 8 points in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, considered a key battleground in the presidential election, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey is facing off against Republican challenger Dave McCormick.
McCormick, a West Point graduate who served in the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq and later became the CEO of the world's largest hedge fund, preceded Trump at the Republican presidential candidate's last rally in the state on Monday night. and went up to the podium. McCormick told the crowd in Pittsburgh that his opponent, Casey, is a “career politician” who has been in office for more than 30 years, before also attacking Vice President Harris.
Donald Trump listens to a speech by Senate candidate David McCormick during a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
Mr. McCormick previously ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 Senate primary, losing the nomination to Dr. Mehmet Oz. Oz lost to Democrat John Fetterman.
Mr. Casey's father served two terms as governor and is one of the state's most prominent politicians. He is seeking a fourth term in the Senate and has won six statewide elections since 1996.
wisconsin
The race for the Senate seat in Wisconsin is a hotly contested one, with two-term Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Baldwin, a billionaire businessman who has spent millions of dollars of his own money with the support of President Trump. Mr. Hovde contests.
Baldwin has a liberal voting record, but during the campaign he emphasized bipartisanship. Baldwin is the first statewide Democratic candidate in more than 20 years to win the endorsement of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, the state's largest agricultural organization.
Her first TV ad said that her American Takeover Act had been signed into law by President Trump. In July, she co-authored a bill with President Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, to ensure that taxpayer-funded inventions are manufactured in the United States, which was approved by a Senate committee. It was advertised.
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Mr. Hovde has portrayed Mr. Baldwin as an out-of-touch liberal career politician who didn't do enough to tackle inflation, illegal immigration and crime. He emphasized that Baldwin has held elected office since 1987, including the past 12 years in the Senate and 14 years in the House before that.
Mr. Hovde's wealth, primarily his management of Utah-based Sunwest Bank and ownership of $7 million in real estate in Laguna Beach, Calif., has led Baldwin to seek to paint him as an unrepresentative outsider in Wisconsin. It has become an important means of attack from values.
montana
Three-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester of Montana faces perhaps his toughest race yet on Tuesday. The Senate majority is at stake in a state that has moved sharply to the right since the 68-year-old grain farmer's first election.
Senate candidate Tim Sheehy speaks at a rally for former President Donald Trump at Montana State University on August 9, 2024 in Bozeman, Montana. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Republicans are pinning their hopes on Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and founder of an aviation firefighting company. Mr. Sheehy, 38, received early support from party leaders, including Mr. Trump, paving the way for the political newcomer to win the June primary.
This is the first time Tester's name will appear on the same ballot as Trump, who won Montana by wide margins in 2016 and 2020.
A Sheehy victory would ensure Republican dominance in five Northern Plains states. Mr. Tester was sworn in as one of six Democratic senators from the largely rural American heartland, which also includes Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. He's the only one now.
He is also the only Democrat to hold statewide office in Montana.
nebraska
Two-term Republican Sen. Deb Fischer on Tuesday cast herself as a champion of the working class by endorsing former union leader Dan Osborne, who eschewed both major political parties and ran as an independent. He faces his strongest re-election challenge yet.
The state's Republican Party, whose leadership is loyal to Mr. Trump, has endorsed primary challengers to all five Republicans who represent Nebraska in Congress, including Mr. Fisher.
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) speaks during a public hearing on March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Fisher recently held a press conference touting the support of several state Republicans, including popular former Gov. Dave Heineman. She also leaned in to support Trump, despite asking him to withdraw from the 2016 campaign in response to the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape.
President Trump has endorsed Fisher's re-election bid, and she promoted it in campaign ads.
Osborn, a 20-year industrial mechanic and veteran of the Navy and Nebraska Army National Guard, called for a strike at Kellogg's cereal factory in Omaha in 2021, following a year in which Kellogg's profits soared. We succeeded in raising wages for approximately 1,400 employees.
Against this backdrop, Osborne has made the need for fair economic policy central to his platform. In his political ads, he contrasted his story with Fisher's, accusing Fisher of lining his own pockets while in office while average families struggled financially.
arizona
Kari Lake, a prominent former TV news anchor and staunch ally of President Trump, is an Iraq war veteran running for Tuesday's U.S. Senate seat in a state that has seen very close elections recently. He is running against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego.
The winner of the Senate race will replace Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party two years ago.
Lake made national headlines for his 2022 campaign for Arizona governor. She has never acknowledged losing the race and referred to herself as a “legitimate governor” in her 2023 book, according to the Associated Press. After launching her Senate campaign, she continued to fight unsuccessfully in court to overturn the ruling, refusing to concede defeat in a controversial CNN interview as recently as last week.
Lake has focused his Senate campaign on border security.
Mr. Gallego, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and fought in Iraq in 2005 with a unit that suffered heavy casualties, was a critic of a Civil War-era state law that made abortion illegal under almost all circumstances. He has relentlessly attacked his support. Lake remains firmly in the middle on the abortion issue.
maryland
Larry Hogan, a popular Republican who won two terms as governor, is the most likely Republican candidate in years to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin. Still, he will be joining Democratic Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who could make history as the state's first black U.S. senator in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. is facing a tough battle.
Democratic Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks in Chicago on August 20, 2024, and Republican opponent former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan in Annapolis on August 27, 2024. (AP Photo by Erin Hooley, left, AP Photo by Stephanie Scarborough, File)
The stakes are unusually high for a race in Maryland, which includes Republicans who received heavy support from Democrats in the 2014 and 2018 gubernatorial races. Hogan is the second Republican in Maryland history to be re-elected as governor.
Abortion comes at a time when voters in Maryland and eight other states are considering constitutional amendments to enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Roe v. Wade. It has become a major issue in the ongoing election campaign. 2022.
Albrooks has made abortion rights a priority in his campaign and said one of his first acts as a senator would be to sponsor a bill to codify Roe into federal law. Mr. Hogan has also said he would co-sponsor such a bill, but Mr. Alsobrooks said Mr. Hogan would veto it in 2022 when he was governor of Maryland to expand access to abortion. He immediately pointed out that it had been activated.
nevada
In a presidential battleground state, Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, a former computer programmer and synagogue president, faces a challenge from Republican Sam Brown, a retired Army captain who still bears a scar on his face from injuries sustained in Afghanistan. I am doing it.
Rosen, who is in his first term, outscored Brown by more than 3-1 in the race and is known for his position as a non-ideological senator who works on behalf of his home state on issues such as broadband internet access and high-speed rail connections to Southern California. established.
Brown, a Purple Heart recipient, has campaigned on his biography and the state's severe cost-of-living crisis, particularly in working-class Nevada. Boosted by high Republican turnout in early voting, the Republican Party was hoping that Brown could upset expectations in the race, when a last-minute injection of Republican funding occurred in late October. However, he has struggled to garner support.
Mr. Trump supported Mr. Brown in the state's primary.
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Brown was seriously injured by an improvised explosive device during an ambush by Taliban troops in southern Afghanistan in 2008. After 30 surgeries and years of recovery, he retired in 2011 and founded a business that helps veterans access medical care. Brown's face is left with severe scarring and is the focus of campaign ads.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
