Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is having a hard time landing a new person to chair the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee amid concerns preserving the party’s grip on the chamber in 2024 is an impossible task.
Democrats are defending 23 Senate seats, three of which sit in ruby-red states the Republican presidential nominee is likely to carry in the general election and five of which sit in purple battlegrounds. Only 10 GOP-held seats are up for election in 2024, and just one of them sits in a state, Florida, that presents the possibility of being nominally competitive in a presidential contest.
“The map is brutal,” a Democratic operative said, echoing others in the party. “And there are pros and cons to doing this in a presidential cycle. The biggest con is that it’s hard to set yourself apart, if you need to, when the presidential campaign consumes all of the political oxygen.” Some Democrats are less worried than others about the looming battle for Senate control. “’The next election should be easy for Senate Democrats.’ Something that’s never said by the press,” Democratic operative Dana Houle said in a Twitter post. “Every cycle is assumed to be a problem for Democrats.”
But so far, most of the names raised have demurred or signaled disinterest. Sen. Gary Peters , the outgoing DSCC chairman, confirmed to the Washington Examiner Tuesday through a spokesperson that he rebuffed entreaties to reprise the role for two more years. Sens. Mark Kelly , Jon Ossoff , Alex Padilla , and Tina Smith also are saying they do not want the job, according to the Huffington Post.
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