FiveThirtyEight’s Senate Midterm Model Favors Republicans for First Time in Months

Election workers wear masks and gloves as they open envelopes containing vote-by-mail ballots for the August 4 Washington state primary at King County Elections in Renton on Aug. 3, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

Poll aggregator and analytics website FiveThirtyEight’s midterm forecasting model shows Republicans are favorites to take control of the Senate next week.

Since July, the model had favored Democrats to win the upper chamber. The election forecaster has long predicted that the GOP would retake the House.