Maybe most exasperating to Democrats is the Senate race in Georgia, the place a second woman this week accused Mr. Walker, the previous soccer star, of getting paid for her to have an abortion. Mr. Walker has denied each girls’s claims.
Caught on a hot microphone on Thursday, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the bulk chief, was heard telling Mr. Biden, “The state the place we’re going downhill is Georgia. It’s onerous to consider that they may go for Herschel Walker.”
Jessica Taylor, the Senate analyst on the nonpartisan Prepare dinner Political Report, mentioned, “It actually does really feel like there may be a variety of motion in these races.” She nonetheless charges management of the Senate a tossup, however, she added, “If it is a wave, you could possibly see others swept away,” like Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado.
Alternatively, latest polling has tantalized Democrats in Iowa, the place Senator Charles E. Grassley, a Republican, is in search of one other six-year time period at age 89; in North Carolina, the place the Democratic nominee for the Senate, Cheri Beasley, stays knotted along with her Republican opponent, Ted Budd, and even in Utah, the place Senator Mike Lee, a Republican, is dealing with an unexpectedly sturdy problem from an unbiased, the previous C.I.A. officer Evan McMullin.
“That is the trickiest midterm setting I’ve seen in a very long time,” mentioned Steve Israel, a former Home member from New York who as soon as headed the Home Democrats’ marketing campaign arm.
Maya King reported from Atlanta and Jonathan Weisman from Chicago.