McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggle

• The Senate majority is up for grabs, and McConnell conceded that it will be difficult.

• McConnell said that the quality of candidates has a lot to do with the races.

• Pundits predict that the Democrats will hold the chamber.

Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell offered a meager forecast of his party's chances of flipping the Senate this November as Republican nominees in key races struggled to catch up to their opponents.

McConnell said in Kentucky that the House is more likely to flip than the Senate. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome of the Senate race.

GOP nominees in the nation's most closelycontested states are having a hard time keeping up.

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According to polls, Mehmet Oz is in a close race with John Fetterman. In a race to replace a Republican, Tim Ryan is doing better than expected. The incumbent senator in Georgia is slightly ahead of Herschel Walker.

Democrats are having some serious momentum because of their current troubles. The party is slightly favored to hold on to their slim majority in the Senate if Vice President Harris votes against them.

The approval ratings of President Joe Biden are underwater. Republicans were giddy about their chances of retaking both houses after the president's party struggled in the election. The worst inflation in over four decades signaled that November could be a GOP wave. Democrats hope that they can defy history by winning more policy wins.

It is not uncommon for the House and Senate to break apart. The Democrats rode a historic anti-Trump wave to the majority in the House of Representatives.

There is a shadow over the GOP races. Walker was pushed to race despite initial reservations from McConnell. The support of the former president's protegé and a venture capitalist helped revive the campaign of a candidate who had been defeated.

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