'A magician, I'm not': Democratic Senate candidates run against a Democratic-controlled Washington
CNN
Running against Washington is nothing new. Running against Washington while your party controls the White House, Senate and House is something significantly more complicated.
That is the knotty path Senate Democratic incumbents are attempting to walk as they run for reelection while their party controls most every lever of an unpopular federal government. How these Democrats -- Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada -- handle dealing with and talking about President Joe Biden and Senate leadership will illustrate how Democrats view their own party's control of Washington.
They are not the only Democrats running against Biden's Washington, either. A slew of non-incumbents, from North Carolina to Pennsylvania to Ohio, are challenging the effectiveness of Democratic-controlled Washington at a time when Congress's approval rating is in the low 20s and more than 50% of registered voters disapprove of the job Biden is doing.
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