# Ranking the Senate races most likely to flip

https://mins.news/en/video/88501

- CNN, 2026-10-06 18:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQCkEWYTF5o

> With nearly four weeks remaining before Election Day, the Senate battleground is expanding as Democrats show signs of improvement in several states that lean Republican. CNN has expanded its list of the nine Senate seats most likely to flip to 10 for the first time this year, adding Kansas, which has not sent a Democrat to the Senate in 94 years.

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