Rick Scott: Republicans can win a majority of 55 seats in the Senate.

Rick Scott (Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicts that Republicans will likely control 52 Senate seats next year and have a road to a 55-seat majority, given that recent polls indicate GOP candidates are gaining ground. Scott is more optimistic about the midterm elections on November 8 than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). McConnell has predicted that the battle for the Senate will be "very tight either way" and that the winning party will likely possess a very slim majority.

"It starts right here, we're going to get 52 Republican senators, and we have to win here," Scott said during a get-out-the-vote event at the Republican Black Community Center alongside Senate contender Rep. Ted Budd (N.C.). I believe we can obtain 53, 54, and 55.

"The energy is with us. People are sick and tired of the Biden agenda, he proclaimed to the acclaim of Republican activists and supporters.

Budd led his Democratic opponent, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, by 6 points, according to a poll issued by East Carolina University on Tuesday. A poll conducted by East Carolina University in early September indicated that Budd's lead was only three points.

To gain a five-seat Senate majority next year, Republicans would need to sweep the Senate elections and defeat Democratic incumbents in all five contests, while protecting their vulnerable seats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina.

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Raphael Warnock in Georgia are the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, followed by Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona. The next most vulnerable senator is New Hampshire's Maggie Hassan, followed by Colorado's Michael Bennet, who leads his Republican opponent by six points, according to a recent Marist poll.

Scott, though, believes that Democratic Senators Patty Murray (Washington) and Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) may also be in jeopardy if the GOP wave is as large as he believes it could be next month.

Scott, who was one of the first Senate Republicans to predict that inflation will be a major issue in the 2022 midterm elections, believes that inflation and crime will push independent women, a critical swing constituency, toward Republican candidates.

According to him, this is a major reason why Republican candidates for the Senate are gaining ground in public polls in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Connecticut against their Democratic opponents.

Scott noted in an interview with The Hill following the event, "If you look at the weekly polls and conduct a large number of polls, each week they improve."

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