… Senate elections are becoming more about the party and less about the individual candidates. It’s become harder and harder for even the most talented Senate candidates to win, in effect, behind enemy lines, in states that usually vote the other way in presidential races. …
The hardening alignment between Senate and presidential results looms over the high-stakes battle for Senate control, in which Democrats need a net gain of three seats to recapture the chamber if they win the presidency and four if they don’t. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN
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