Republicans' Senate majority is now in very real jeopardy

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic — and President Trump's uneven (at best) handling of it — has altered the fight for the Senate majority, handing Democrats real momentum as they seek to take back control in the fall. | Analysis by CillizzaCNN

"What we assumed was going to be the political environment a few months ago has been turned on its head," longtime Republican pollster Neil Newhouse told me Monday."We always assumed that it was going to be a fight to hold the Senate, and that seems more true now than ever." .

In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Newhouse is far from the only smart Republican voicing concerns about the way in which the coronavirus -- and the drastic economic slowdown triggered by stay-at-home and social distancing measures adopted to limit its spread -- have turned the political landscape against Trump and his party. The economic downturn, coupled with Trump's increasingly erratic public statements in regard to the virus over the past few weeks, have thrown Senate Republicans into a tizzy.

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