After the main Republican candidates for the main US Senate Racing in 2026, some Republicans are divided into whether their party is struggling to employ competitors in the Senate.
There are 35 seats in the Senate in the elections in 2026-33 in the regular elections and two in the special elections. Two of them, in Georgia and Michigan, could be a tumor after two prominent Republicans chose not to run in 2026, while the seats in Minnesota and New Hampsuire were evacuated by lean democracy, and two seats of anomalous occupations in the state of Mine and North Carolina Lane, according to Cook’s political report.
Republicans are currently running 53 seats for Democrats 45.
“My goal is to stay in the majority; my goal is to add seats … I would like to be 55 years old,” Recently tell Axius.
The seat of the elections in Georgia – held by the current Senator John Osov, who is running for his re -election – received close attention from the Republicans, who hope that they can turn what is widely seen as a weak seat.
But Republican ruler Brian Kemp, who was seen as a major competitor to the seat, removed himself from the dispute, saying that he would not run for the seat.
Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, speaks during a meeting of the Republican Referees Association at the National Building Museum in Washington, February 20, 2025.
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“I decided that the presence in the polling next year is not the right decision for me and my family.” He wrote in a statement about x In early May.
Republican leaders of the Senate, including the leader of Scott and the majority of the Senate John Thun, Rubia, and even President Donald Trump, spent several months in an attempt to persuade Kembe to launch an offer against Osov. Kemb wrote that he had informed Trump of his decision not to run in the morning.
“Brian Kemp, being the most popular Republican in the history of the modern Georgia, was the perfect candidate to take [Ossoff] “Ryan Mahouni, the Republican strategic expert in Georgia and former Director of Communications at the Republican Party in Georgia, told ABC News on Monday.
In New Hampshire, the Republicans faced a similar situation when he was the former governor of New Hampshire Chris Sunono, a Republican who was studying in the Senate about the seat that was evacuated by Senator Jin Shaheen. DN.H said, in early April that he decided not to run.
“She kept the door a little open, and I thought, is this true for me and my family? It is not suitable for us,” Sonono told April.
Sonono said he still believes that the seat will play with Republicans.
The Governor of New Hamebeshire Chris Sonono presented the former UN ambassador and 2024 Republican President Nikki Haley before she spoke at an event in the Campaign Hall at Kennett Secondary School in Conway, New Hampshire, December 28, 2023.
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Some Republicans referred to the Ketep decision, and to a lesser extent than Sonono, as signs that Republicans are facing challenges in employing candidates for the averages who will appeal at the state level at the state level. Some have also felt that the candidates who appear linked to Trump or the right -wing will also struggle with racing at the state level even if they surveyed the introductory elections, if the White House and Trump continues to face a violent reaction to federal government policies and discounts.
“I think it is a problem. I think Trump puts a disincentive to this for the party in general … … Trump requires absolute loyalty and nothing else is not important. This makes people who want to talk about the issues and things that their country or their own components are interested in – [it] “It makes it very difficult,” said Barbara Komstock, a contribution to ABC News, a republic that previously represented Virginia in the House of Representatives.
But the other Republicans say they do not believe that Keteb and Sonono do not consider any sign of challenges with recruitment candidates.
A national Republican working in the Greater Senate races told ABC News that Kete’s decision was not surprising, on the pretext that the ruler made a decision based on the desire to come with his family after a long period of the ruler.
As for the concerns of public opinion from Trump, the operative also referred to Trump’s victory in Georgia in 2024 and enthusiasm between the Republicans in New Hampshire and indicated that both the White House and the candidates will continue to involve voters in the renewed renewal elections to motivate them to leave regardless of the candidate.
Mahaouni, separately, pointed out how although the party in power is usually worse in the mid -term elections, news about the economy and other issues is constantly turning and no one can predict yet whether Trump’s presidency and its agenda by 2026 will be popular or “on Archburden.”
Mahouni said: “It is too early to know that, and I think it will be stupid that the Democrats really assume, because history tells a story, it will continue in 2026.”
Since Kete’s decision, a member of the Congress delegation in Georgia has since launched an offer, while again announced that it would not nominate the seat.
Representative Body Carter, who represents the first Congress in Georgia, announced last week that he was entering the Senate for the 2026 Senate. In his advertisement videoHe described himself as a “Maga Warrior”, and shows multiple pictures of him alongside Trump and a clip from Trump praising him.
ABC News was later told that he was in contact with the White House about his nomination in the Senate and that Trump would make a decision to support the preliminary elections in the future.
Georgia Insurance Commissioner and Fire Safety John King Separately announce the offer For the seat on Monday.
But questions mocked for weeks whether Georgia, MP Margori Taylor Green – a fire conservative and one of Trump’s most loyal allies in the House of Representatives – is running for the Senate. On Wednesday, journalists told that she was thinking about this or nominated for the ruler of Georgia. (Kembe limited term.)
The representative of the Dege Marjorie Taylor Green, Repulbican from Georgia, speaks during a hearing about the converted people in women’s sports in Capitol Hill, Washington, May 7, 2025.
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But Friday, in An article posted on XGreen announced that she decided not to run for the Senate.
“I love my condition in Georgia a lot. People here may not be rich in the wealth of the world, but they are gently overflowing, love, family values, and a deep feeling of joy, whether they are sitting on the front balcony or the truck of Beck August.
“Can I hand over the people of Georgia to the Senate? Can I fulfill my promises? Can I actually save this country from within? Here is the difficult truth: the Senate does not work.” “He is designed to obstruct the will of people and protect the grip of the unprise on power.”
After criticizing the leadership of the Senate and members of the Senate who, said, “sabotaging the Trump agenda,” Green was explicit: “One of them once said,” The Senate is the place where good ideas go to death. “They were right.
There were some early mixed signals on how Green had performed if it had already run against Osov. A A recent poll from the Atlanta Journal constitution I found that OSSOFF and KEMP will be at a dead heat in the virtual general election match, but OSSOFF will lead some other virtual candidates, including Green, if the 2026 elections are held today. (Like any survey of more than a year, there is still a lot that is still changing.)
At least some Republicans may be in particular.
“I think for most Republicans in Georgia – they were excited to see this [announcement]. They know that it has issues in the general elections because it is a fire and because of its general personality, “adding that the Republic of Georgia is likely to be looking for a candidate that can have net approvals, collect funds, and unify the base.
“I think the list of candidates is now, there is a lot of comfort that they will be able to win the nomination and win the general, which is the most important here – there is no real prize for being the candidate. You have to win the general elections to become Sinator.”
Green dismantled any fears that she would win in preliminary elections, but not at the state level in Georgia.
“They said the same about Donald Trump when he ran in 2016, and they said the same thing about that in 2024. They return to Georgia, and they know this is a lie,” Green told reporters on Wednesday.
“John Osov’s defeat? It will be easy,” she added in her post on Friday.
Senator John Osov, leaving the Democratic Senate Lunch at the American Capitol Building, January 21, 2025.
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NRSC indicated that she would consider participation in the preliminary elections in the Senate on the basis of each case separately. Scott, who heads NRSC, Fox News said In February, “everything in the interest of voters in every state, I will make a decision after another on how we play and where we play.”
“Republicans work as a team with President Trump to deliver the American people, protecting our majority in 2026, carrying Democrats and Senate candidates in Georgia, Michigan and New Hampsheer for their extremist priorities outside the touch,” NRSC Director of Communications said in a statement to the statement of SC News.
On the other side of the corridor, Democrats were celebrating the Ketep decision, believing that it was putting them in a strong position to confront anyone challenging OSSOFF. Democrats also said they believe that they can expand the map of the Senate, and that they intend to play in the largest possible number of seats.
But the Democratic Party, because it faces low approval classifications and continues to digest its severe losses in 2024, faces the map of the Senate very difficult in 2026.
Many Senate seats on the elections are in the states that tend to Republicans, and Democrats face the possibility of defending Osov seat in Georgia, as well as seats in Michigan and New Hampsheer where the Democrats retires.
“Democrats in the Senate are putting seats in 2026 a violent reaction in the middle of the period led by the increasing costs and threats to social security, and the dermatized of Republican candidates in the Senate and puts the majority of them at risk,” said Mif Cowell, Director of Communications at the Campaign Committee in the Senate, in a statement.
But some Democrats are less difficult. The governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, who was Vice President Kamala Harris his companion in 2024, recently said he did not feel the Democratic confidence who will be able to win the Senate in 2026.
“I think we will restore the house. I am very pessimistic about the Senate, just to be honest with you,” he said during an interview in April at the Harvard Policy Institute.
This report contributed to this report in this report ABC News ‘ABC News’ Brettani Shepherd, Lalee IBSSA and Jay O’Brien.
