Democrats step up recruitment to win a 2026 Senate majority

Democrats feel they are working on it when they win a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.

They landed the biggest recruits so far in the second half of last month, when North Carolina’s former two-term Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced his candidacy in the 2026 game to successfully retire Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.

Democrats see open Senate seats as open seats in the Southeast Battlefield state next year, the best pick-up opportunity for next year as they try to win control of the Senate, with Republicans currently holding a 53-47 majority.

Chris News Digital, a long-time Democratic strategist, told Fox News that it is hard to exaggerate the importance of Cooper’s campaign for the Senate in the North Carolina Senate, and we’ve seen the potential with a ripple effect. ”

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Experienced propagandist Moyer said Cooper’s recruitment “gives greater confidence to potential candidates, who question whether there is a Democratic majority opportunity in the Senate next year.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) chairman Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said after landing in Cooper that he was a “strong candidate who is about to flip the North Carolina Senate seat.”

Now, Democrats are now watching former Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who lost his reelection campaign in last year’s highest swing state in the past decade and turned red in the past decade.

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Fox News confirmed that Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, hikes to Ohio this summer in hopes of persuading Brown to accept Republican Sen. Jon Husted.

Brown served in the House and later the Senate for more than three decades, and Democrats saw them as the only candidates with the possibility of overturning, and they were named early this year to fill the seats at the time to fill the vacant seats. JD Vance resigns as Vice President.

Former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio seriously considers bids to return to the Senate in 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)

Democrats landed their hoped candidate in New Hampshire on the campaign to successfully retire long-term retired Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

April Rep. Chris Pappas announced in early April that he would run for Shaheen’s success, and as of now, any potential competitor in the Democratic primary field is any rival of the party’s Senate nomination.

New Hampshire Rep. Chris Pappas’s Democratic Senate candidate was interviewed by Fox News Digital on July 4, 2025 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Paul Steinhauser-Fox News)

Meanwhile, a Republican primary in the state — which has not won the Senate game in 15 years — is heating up between former Senator Scott Brown and state Senator Dan Innis and potentially candidates to compete.

On the battlefield in Georgia that President Donald Trump nearly carried in last year’s White House game, Republicans view first Senator Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent next year.

But Ossoff’s fundraising starts very hot, with the Republican primary between Mike Collins and Buddy Carter and former college and professional football coach Derek Dooley starting to be flammable.

Republicans consider Sen. Jon Ossoff to be the most vulnerable Democrat to run for reelection in the 2026 midterm elections. (AP)

In the game with successful retirement Democratic Senator Gary Peters, the potential focus for Democratic is that Michigan’s dynamics seem to be the opposite of Georgia.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, the 2024 Republican Senate nominee, barely lost last year’s game and seemed to have cleared Republicans, thanks in large part to Trump’s approval and potentially twisted by the president’s political team.

Meanwhile, Democrats have very competitive primary elections in their hands. The primary includes three prominent Democrats: Rep. Haley Stevens, State Sen. Mallory McMorrow and former gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who enjoy support from Vermont progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Popular Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is running for the Senate, which could hurt Democrats in the election.

While Texas has long been a reliable red state, and conservative firepower Senator Ted Cruz won reelection comfortably last year, Democrats have the potential to pour red seats into the blue for their 2026 chances.

This is because long-time Republican Senator John Cornyn faces serious major challenges from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Maga World Rockstar).

Former Texas Rep. Colin Allred, who was seen on the campaign last October, will be the second straight election cycle for the Senate. (Reuters/Marco Bello)

Paxton, long-been surrounded by scandals, has now handled the headline divorce with his wife, State Sen. Angela Paxtom. Democrats believe that if Paxton overturns Cornyn in next March’s Republican primary, he will be toxic in the general election.

But Democrats may also have competitive primary elections in Texas.

Former Rep. Colin Allred, who lost to Cruz in November, ran for the second straight campaign earlier this year.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke approached the state’s 20218 Senate election, and then failed to compete in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and lost the 2022 Texas State Governor Competition to compete in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has a difficult time looking at the 2026 Senate race.

State Rep. James Talarico recently attracted national attention for the emergence of the popular Podcaster Joe Rogan and Rep. Joaquin Castro.

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Democrats also believe that if Republican Senator Joni Ernst decides not to seek a third term in the Senate, they may shoot at Iowa – which has been solidly red in the recent election cycle.

But if long-time Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins decides not to seek reelection, they may have a better chance of occupying a Republican seat at Blue State University in Maine.