Scoop: Senate Republicans fear Mississippi is in play
Axios · Hans Nichols, Marc Caputo, Stef W. Kight ·
Panic is spreading through the Republican Party.
- "The wall has broken. The enemy is inside the fort," one national Republican political operative told Axios. "We are now fighting hand to hand."
- The Senate map, which once looked impregnable for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), is now full of vulnerabilities.
- Democratic challengers are polling within the margin of error in more than half a dozen deep-red states, according to internal GOP polls.