Schumer Predicts Democrats Will Hold Senate During Next Week’s Midterms

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) predicted that Democrats will hold the Senate after the midterms even as several forecasting models showed that Republicans’ chances have significantly increased in recent days.
“It’s tight,” Schumer told The Associated Press Thursday, adding, “I believe Democrats will hold the Senate and maybe even pick up seats.”
Analytics website FiveThirtyEight and poll aggregator RealClearPolitics on Wednesday and Thursday showed that Democrats’ chances of retaking the upper congressional chamber have dwindled. RealClearPolitics predicted that Republicans could even take 54 seats to Democrats’ 46 seats next Tuesday, while FiveThirtyEight shifted its model in favor of Republicans for the first time in months….}