If Democrats can keep control of just one chamber of Congress in November's midterm elections, as many analysts have long predicted, it's best that the house they're favored to hold is the Senate.
The Senate has the power over a president's judicial nominees. God forbid that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell gets another turn at blocking a Democratic president's picks for the federal bench, and thus ends President Biden's effort to offset the right-wing tilt to that third branch of government.
All year Democrats have despaired of keeping their House majority, though a few politicos in and out of the party are starting to sound optimistic, given a spate of positive breaks and the backlash against the Supreme Court's overturning of abortion rights. The Senate, however, has been another story all along: Democrats have been cautiously confident — and Republicans fretful — that they could hold their 50 seats and perhaps even add to them.
