If Republicans don’t win Senate control this November they won’t have another chance until 2030 or later.

Opinion|The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns

There is an almost irrational exuberance on the right over the 2024 elections. President Biden is so unpopular, and Democrats are in such a panic-driven “freakout,” that many assume victory is all but inevitable.

But when it comes to control of the Senate, Republicans would do well to recall what happened in the 2022 midterms. Then, as now, the Senate map was tilted in their favor, and Biden was one of the most unpopular presidents since World War II. Republicans expected a red wave to sweep them back into power. Instead, they watched as Biden turned in one of the best first midterm performances of any president since John F. Kennedy.

The mastermind behind this epic disaster was Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose mismanagement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee— wasting nearly $180 million on consultants and self-promotion while he vacationed in Italy aboard a luxury yacht — left the NRSC’s coffers virtually empty in the final months of the campaign. The committee had to cancel ad buys in critical swing states and take out $13 million in loans in September just to cover its operating expenses. And Scott’s failure to intervene in the primaries left Republicans with a slate of unelectable candidates who lost winnable races in state after state.

Now, after leaving the NRSC $20 million in debt and Democrats with an expanded........

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