Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) acknowledged Thursday that the GOP may not retake the Senate during the November 2022 midterm elections.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
Republicans need a net gain of one Senate seat to retake control of the upper chamber. Currently, the Senate stands at 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tie-breaker for the Democrats.
McConnell has been cautious about Republicans taking over the Senate. In April, he said while the political environment looked like a “perfect storm” for Democrats to lose the chamber, Republicans could “screw this up.”…