2026-09-27 12:47 UTC
Republicans fear North Carolina and Georgia Senate races are slipping from their grasp
Some Republicans are growing worried that two key Senate races once considered critical to holding their majority are slipping from their grasp.
In more than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives, there is recognition that North Carolina and Georgia are looking less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made soon about whether to keep investing, even as party officials insist they are not walking away from their candidates there.
Republican senators like North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, said it was time for the party to make some tough decisions about spending.
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@tburkhol@slrpnk.net 2026-09-27 13:59
Georgia is a (decreasingly) Republican state, but not a MAGA state. The governor, who prominently refused to go along with Trump’s 2020 election lies, got primaried by a Trump-nut, who lost like 3-1. The GOP candidate for Senate is one of the Trumpiest politicians in Georgia (now that MTG jumped ship). I’d really like to think this could be one of the last battles in the GOP civil war., but going all-in on Trump in Georgia was definitely a bad plan, even before the leopard started eating their faces.
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@blueduck@piefed.social 2026-09-27 14:54
Nate Silver has both Georgia and North Carolina solidly D in the deluxe (D+10.3, D+8.8) and classic (D+9.4, D+8.3) models