For those of you unfamiliar with our ratings, we have sorted senatorial, gubernatorial and House elections into five categories ranging from Likely Republican to Lean Republican to Toss Up to Lean Democrat to Likely Democrat. Like his Democratic colleagues from North Dakota, Missouri and West Virginia, Donnelly represents a state that was heavily Republican in 2016. Add in the senator’s relatively low name identification in the Hoosier State and he looked like a sure-fire loser. The three-man pig pile in the GOP primary has gotten very ugly indeed. However, the more telling special elections might have been a handful in more rural districts President Trump won by overwhelming margins.

Source: Fox News April 30, 2018 21:56 UTC