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Is the 2020 US Senate Election going to be like the 2000 or 2008 US Senate Election.
In the 2000 US Senate Election, Democrats lost 2 Democratic held seats (NV- OPEN Bryan-D and VA-:Robb-D) and picked up DE(Roth-R), FL(OPEN Mack-R), MI(Abraham-R), MN(Grams-R), MO(Ashcroft-R), and WA(Gorton-R). D +4
In the 2008 US Senate Election, Democrats picked up AK(Stevens-R), CO(OPEN Allard-R), MN(Coleman-R),NH(Sununu-R), NM(OPEN Domenici-R), NC(Dole-R), OR(Smith-R), and VA(OPEN Warner-R) D +8
2020
AL(Jones-D) is the only Democratic held US Senate seat up for re-election in 2020 that could flip to the Republicans assuming Republicans nominate the anti Roy Moore candidate.
Democrats are going to pick up AZ(McSally-R), CO(Gardner-R), GA(Perdue-R), IA(Ernst-R), ME(Collins-R), NC(Tillis-R), and TX(Cornyn-R) D +6/+7