Democratic Senate candidates from Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have joined forces to pool donations in the “Flippable Five Fund” in a bid to win seats in November.
The 50–50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate “is not cutting it,” according to Democratic Senate candidate Cheri Beasley, North Carolina’s former Supreme Court chief justice.
The tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris currently gives Democrats a slim majority in the Senate. But Beasley and her colleagues want to win more seats, and they say the joint fund is “Democrats’ best chance” come the November midterms….