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   Looks like the voters are not only fed up with Trump, they're fed up with the   
   Republican-majority Senate that allowed him to get away  with murder for four   
   years.   
      
   Mitch McConnell, if he makes it again, had better learn how to take a back   
   seat.   
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   Virus Pulls Down Trump, Poll Shows, and G.O.P. Senators Suffer With Him   
      
   A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump   
   by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina.   
   Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine’s Senate race.   
      
   President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled   
   both his own re-election and his party’s majority in the Senate, and   
   Republican lawmakers in crucial states like Arizona, North Carolina and Maine   
   have fallen behind their    
   Democratic challengers amid broad disapproval of the president, according to a   
   poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.   
      
   Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. led Mr. Trump by wide margins in   
   Arizona, where he was ahead by nine percentage points, and Maine, where he led   
   by 17 points. The race was effectively tied in North Carolina, with Mr. Biden   
   ahead by one point, 45    
   percent to 44 percent.   
      
   In all three states, Democratic Senate candidates were leading Republican   
   incumbents by five percentage points or more. Senator Susan Collins of Maine,   
   a Republican seeking a fifth term, is in a difficult battle against Sara   
   Gideon, trailing by five    
   points as voters there delivered a damning verdict on Mr. Trump’s   
   stewardship: By a 25-point margin, 60 percent to 35 percent, they said they   
   trusted Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump on the issue of the pandemic.   
      
   The battle for control of the Senate is likely to move rapidly to the   
   foreground of national politics after the death on Friday of Justice Ruth   
   Bader Ginsburg, the liberal Supreme Court judger. Republicans are expected to   
   seek to appoint a replacement,    
   despite having argued in 2016 that a vacant Supreme Court seat should not be   
   filled in an election year, and Mr. Trump recently challenged Mr. Biden to   
   unveil a list of people he would consider naming to the court.   
      
   Voters in The Times poll, which was taken before Justice Ginsburg’s death,   
   said they trusted Mr. Biden more than Mr. Trump to fill a Supreme Court seat,   
   by wide margins in Arizona and Maine and a slim plurality in North Carolina. A   
   Supreme Court fight    
   could be particularly challenging for Ms. Collins, who has already been facing   
   considerable backlash for her vote in 2018 to approve Justice Brett M.   
   Kavanaugh’s nomination.   
      
   The poll, conducted among likely voters, suggests that the most endangered   
   Republican lawmakers have not managed to convince many voters to view them in   
   more favorable terms than the leader of their party, who remains in political   
   peril with less than 50    
   days remaining in the campaign. Democrats appear well positioned to gain   
   several Senate seats, and most voters say they would prefer to see the White   
   House and Senate controlled by the same party. But it is not yet clear that   
   Democrats are on track to    
   gain a clear majority, and their hopes outside the races tested in the poll   
   largely depend on winning in states Mr. Trump is likely to carry.   
      
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   Still, the battle for control of the Senate remains close. Democrats must net   
   at least three seats in order to achieve a 50-50 split in the Senate, which   
   would be enough to take control if Mr. Biden were elected president and his   
   running mate, Senator    
   Kamala Harris, could cast tiebreaking votes as vice president.   
      
   Democrats are likely to lose one seat they currently hold in Alabama, where   
   Senator Doug Jones is a long shot for re-election, meaning they probably have   
   to capture four seats currently held by Republicans to reach parity.   
      
   The poll indicates that Democrats are within reach of that goal. In addition   
   to the three states polled, Democrats are favored to win a Republican-held   
   seat in Colorado, where Mr. Biden is expected to win easily. While some voters   
   say they intend to    
   split their ballots, supporting a presidential candidate of one party and a   
   Senate nominee from another, they only make up a small share of the electorate.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/latest-polls.html   
      
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