Schumer caught a hot mic after Biden said Georgia was ‘depressed’

Washington – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer He told President Joe Biden: Georgia’s Senate race is ‘downhill’ For Democrats in remarks made Thursday captured by Hot Mike.

Schumer told Biden, “The state that’s going downhill is Georgia. ‘I can’t believe they’re going to pick Herschel Walker.'”

The audio was captured by a television camera When the Democratic Senate Speaker greeted Biden on the tarmac in Syracuse, N.Y., Biden later made remarks promoting Micron Technology’s plans for a $100 billion semiconductor factory. did not.

Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Takes a Narrow Lead Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock In the latest two polls of the race released. Walker, a former football star at the University of Georgia, Multiple allegations from women who say he paid for them to have an abortion.

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But Schumer gave a rosy assessment About Pennsylvania and Nevada.

Before announcing a grim outlook for Georgia, Biden said: Tuesday’s debate performance by Pennsylvania Democratic nominee John Fetterman, struggled to complete sentences and stumbled on words confronting Republican Mehmet Oz. Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor Fetterman is recovering from a stroke he suffered five months ago.

“As of today, the debate in Pennsylvania doesn’t seem to hurt us that much, which is a good thing,” Schumer told the president, later adding that it was “gaining momentum in Nevada.”

Like Georgia, Nevada has one of the best chances for a Republican to steal a Democratic seat. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is trying to stem the surge of Republican nominee Adam Laxalt, former state attorney general. Real Clear Politics Average in Poll Has Laxalt It outperformed Cortez Masto by 1.2 percentage points.

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After bucking median headwinds for much of the summer, Democrats lost out to Republicans in recent polls as inflation and economic concerns outweigh the restoration of abortion rights on voters’ minds. .

It is widely expected that Republicans will dominate the House and have a big chance in the Senate. A USA TODAY/University of Suffolk poll released Thursday showed that voters favored Republican congressional candidates over Democrats in the popular vote, at 49%-45%, compared with July’s USA TODAY poll. Opinion polls show a turnaround since the Democrats lead at 44%-40%.

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