
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
CNN
The month of May brings the first Senate primaries of the year. Ohio votes on Tuesday, followed by a near weekly stream of contests that will shape the midterm battle for control of the chamber. By the end of the month, the general election matchups in almost half of this year's most competitive races will be set.
Republicans only need a net gain of one seat this fall to win the Senate, and so far, much of the intrigue about the May primaries has been on the GOP side. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed in all four Senate contests on the ballot in May -- Ohio, North Carolina (May 17), Pennsylvania (May 17) and Georgia (May 24). Even before results come in, those primaries have cemented his hold on the party because of the way nearly every GOP candidate has tried to appeal to him -- in some cases, twisting themselves into almost unrecognizable versions of their former selves.
Trump's support has played differently in each state. In Ohio, it may be helping blunt the biggest attack on "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance -- the candidate's past criticism of Trump. The former President's backing of Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania may be having less of an immediate impact, especially considering voters may have already associated the two celebrity Republicans together. Trump weighed in on the North Carolina primary nearly a year ago, but his backing of US Rep. Ted Budd didn't clear the GOP field. In Georgia, however, his commitment to Herschel Walker likely kept other top-name Republicans out of the race, leaving the former NFL star with what's expected to be a relatively easy path to the Republican nomination at the end of the month.

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