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Senate Republicans might survive the blue thunderstorm. Uh, I think.

With several contests separated by just a point or two, the pundits may be getting ahead of themselves

By Howard Kurtz Fox News

Published October 20, 2026 3:00am EDT

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With everyone and his brother predicting that a blue tsunami will wash over the Senate as well as the House, I want to write something contrarian. 

This way, if the Republicans do hang on to the Senate, I’ll get credit for defying the conventional wisdom. And if they don’t, I won’t get kicked out of the punditocracy – folks will just say well, he put a lot of caveats in there.

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The truth is, I don’t know who is going to capture the upper chamber, and neither do you. 

And neither do all the pontificators and speculators online or on the air. 

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