2018 Senate Races with Roy Moore in Office

[TML]

How would this year’s Senate races been different if Roy Moore had won the 2017 special election and the Republicans decide to retain him? Would that have boosted the Republicans’ chances of keeping the Senate, or would that have given the Democrats more political ammunition to use against the Republicans and thus increased their chances of flipping it?

[KaiserDave]

It would give Dems more ammunition and momentum, but would make it numerically harder.

[TML]

It would give Dems more ammunition and momentum, but would make it numerically harder.

OK, so assuming that the slate of candidates on the ballot this year is the same as it actually is, can you think of any particular candidates who might be in a stronger or weaker position than they actually are right now if Moore were in office?

[KaiserDave]

It would give Dems more ammunition and momentum, but would make it numerically harder.

OK, so assuming that the slate of candidates on the ballot this year is the same as it actually is, can you think of any particular candidates who might be in a stronger or weaker position than they actually are right now if Moore were in office?

Democrats across the ballot in general, people like Rosen, Nelson, and non competitive races like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Virginia, and Ohio would just go further to Dems, and down ballot too.

[libertpaulian]

Kavanaugh doesn't turn into the drama that it did OTL (given that they don't have to worry about Murkowski and Collins with another Republican in the Senate), giving the Dems less of a Senate headache.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Kavanaugh doesn't turn into the drama that it did OTL (given that they don't have to worry about Murkowski and Collins with another Republican in the Senate), giving the Dems less of a Senate headache.

I think it would become a bigger issue. With Moore probably being one of Kavanaugh's biggest defenders in this case, and if the allegations are still unsettled against Moore, I could see the more "moderate" R's being uneasy.