The GOP targets Georgia, Michigan sits to develop control of the Senate under Scott

The objective of the republican senator Tim Scott in the mid-term elections next year is not only to defend the margin of GOP 53-47 in the Senate, but to extend the majority.

Scott, the southern Carolina conservative senator, told Fox News Digital shortly after taking control of last year as president of the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) that it aimed to increase the control of the GOP in the room to at least 55 seats.

And he stands under his goal.

“In the end, I believe that we can defend our current seats while adding at least two other seats to our figures,” the President of the NRSC told Fox News Digital earlier this year.

This Republican has just jumped into the racing in the large -scale Senate of the Battlefield of Georgia

On Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott spoke to a breakfast for delegation of the Southern Carolina GOP (photo of the RNC scene). (Getty Images)

The Senate Republicans experienced a favorable card during cycle 2024 when they overthrew four blue seats from red to win back the majority.

But the ruling party – the Republicans at the moment – faces political -opposite winds in mid -term elections. However, a current reading of the 2026 card indicates that the GOP may be able to take offense in certain key states.

In Battleground Georgia, whom President Donald Trump narrowly carried during the White House race last year, Les Républicains consider the senator of the first mandate Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable democrat holder of the re -election of next year.

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They are also targeting Battleground Michigan, where Democratic Senator Gary Peters retires at the end of next year, and Swing State New Hampshire, where longtime Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen has decided not to ask for a fourth six -year term in the Senate.

The Target List of the NRSC is also the Minnesota in Blue-Leaning, where Democratic Senator Tina Smith does not present herself to re-election.

At the top of their list is Ossoff, which narrowly won the elections in the Senate during a runoff in January 2021.

The Republicans consider Senator Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable democrat presenting himself to re-election during the mid-term elections of 2026. (AP)

But Ossoff left very hot fundraising, and a GOP primary in Georgia between representatives Mike Collins and Buddy Carter, and the former university and professional football coach Derek Dooley, begins to become fuel.

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The Republicans are also convinced that they can return Michigan, another Trump battlefield barely transported last November.

Former representative Mike Rogers, the candidate of the GOP Senate in 2024 who lost last year’s race by a thin margin like a razor, has at this stage the Republican primary field, thanks in large part to the approval of Trump.

Former representative Mike Rogers, a republican candidate in the Senate in Michigan for a consecutive second electoral cycle, was interviewed by Fox New Digital in Grand Rapids, Michigan on April 2, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Democrats, on the other hand, have a very competitive primary in their hands. The main race includes three well-known Democrats: representative Haley Stevens, State Senator Mallory McMorrow and the former candidate for Governor Abdul El-Sayed, who benefits from the support of the Progressive Champion of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

With Shaheen, who has marked history as the first woman in the country’s history to win the election as governor and senator, outside the race in New Hampshire, the GOP hopes to win an election in the Senate in the state of granite for the first time in 16 years.

Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, seen during a political event in Concord, NH, on October 22, 2024, does not seek a fourth term in the Senate when she was re -elected in 2026. (AP photo / Steven Senne)

They are encouraged by the gains brought by Trump in New Hampshire in last year’s elections, while he improved on his projection of four years earlier and has close to the state.

But the announcement of the representative of four Mandates Chris Pappas in early April that he would present himself to succeed Shaheen eliminated the democratic primary domain, for the moment, from any potential competitor for the appointment to the Senate of the Party.

Meanwhile, a republican primary in the state – where the GOP has not won a race in the Senate for 15 years – heats up between former senator Scott Brown and the state senator Dan Innis, with the possibility of more candidates entering the race.

In Minnesota, the main candidates of the Democratic primary to succeed Smith are the Lieutenant-Governor Peggy Flanagan and the representative Angie Craig.

Former professional basketball player Royce White, who won the appointment of the Senate in 2024 in Minnesota, and former Navy Seal Adam Schwarze is currently in the GOP primary. But another hope of the Republican Senate could soon enter the field.

While the Republicans will endeavor to challenge political history in the middle of next year, they highlight the current brand problems of the Democratic Party.

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“Democrats have notes of historically weak approval because candidates like Jon Ossoff and Chris Pappas continue to prioritize radical policies such as men in female sports, the protection of sanctuary cities for illegal criminal foreigners and the increase in taxes on workers’ families,” said NRSC communications director, Joanna Rodriguez, in a statement to Fox News.

And Rodriguez has boasted that “the Republicans emit policies that ensure the safety of Americans and allow families and workers to keep their checks of hardly won more. Voters will reward us in 2026”.