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Senate map stretches into Trump country as six GOP seats turn competitive

8/23/2026

Senate control, meaning which party holds the 51-seat majority that decides which bills reach a floor vote, is now a genuine coin flip ten weeks before Election Day.

Cook Political Report, the nonpartisan elections tracker that rates individual races by competitiveness, declared the overall battle for the Senate a toss-up last week.

That reversed the same outlet's earlier assessment that Democrats faced a "herculean" path to a majority.

Six seats on the board Cook Political Report on Thursday moved the Texas and Iowa Senate races to toss-up status after rating both as lean Republican.

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