The GOP’s 2024 Senate Opportunities

The party needs strong candidates and fundraising to take advantage of them.

Wonder Land: If Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the 2024 presidential nominees, the West Virginia senator—or someone—will get into the race. Images: AP/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly

Every fish gets its turn in the barrel. That goes for both Republicans and Democrats.

Senate Republicans got their turn in 2022, when 21 of their seats were up, compared with 14 Democratic seats. No Democratic seat was in a state Donald Trump carried in 2020, while two GOP seats were in states Joe Biden won—Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Republicans lost the Pennsylvania seat, left open by the retirement of Sen. Pat Toomey, and couldn’t offset that with a pickup in Arizona, Georgia or Nevada. That gave Democrats control of the Senate, 51-49.

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