Republican 'nightmare' in play as Dem chances of taking the Senate mount

President Donald Trump insists that he is extremely popular, but a highly-respected pollster warned on CNN Wednesday that the Republican leader is putting his party at risk of losing control of the Senate.

“It's like a nightmare for the Republicans,” said CNN analyst Harry Enten. “The Democrats just keep gaining and gaining when it comes to the Senate odds. And you can see it really well in the Kalshi prediction market. Just take a look at the chance that Democrats win control. At the beginning of the year, it was only about a 1-in-3 shot. But now look at this — Democrats haven't just gained on Republicans, they actually have the majority chance at 54 percent. That's fairly close to a toss-up. But the bottom line is this: we all thought the House was going to go to the Democrats, but the Senate as well?”

Later, citing an update by Cook Political Report, Enten said Dems “shifted four key races closer to Democrats. What are we talking about? Georgia going from a toss-up to lean Democratic. How about North Carolina? That would be a Democratic pickup — from toss-up to lean Democratic. How about Ohio, a state that Donald Trump won by double digits — from lean GOP to toss-up, with the likely Democratic nominee being Sherrod Brown, the former senator. And then Nebraska. Nebraska hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 2006, but it went from solid Republican to likely Republican.”

Enten concluded that “Democrats are gaining in many different seats across the political map, putting new states into play.”

This is not the first time that the nonpartisan pollster has had ominous news for Republicans. Earlier this month, Enten pointed out that Trump’s numbers of gas prices and inflation were a “disaster.”

"This is no April Fool's joke … All these numbers are a disaster for President Trump,” said Enten, comparing Trump’s marks to those of a president who sank his political fortunes and those of his party nearly half a century ago with gas prices and inflation.

"… Jimmy Carter, whose presidency, just like Joe Biden's, was absolutely wrecked by inflation, was at 66 percent about at this point in his presidency back in 1978, Donald Trump, even worse than they are," Enten argued.

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