(CNN) The fight for the Senate majority this fall has huge implications -- from which judges wind up on the Supreme Court (and lower courts) to whether the next president can hope to get his agenda through Congress. Those high stakes make the fact that the majority could well come down to a late-breaking sexting scandal in North Carolina all the more amazing. The messages are far from tawdry -- they read like 1950s letters -- but the very fact that they exist does throw a major X factor into the Senate race. Democrats need to net three seats if Joe Biden is elected and four seats if Donald Trump wins a second term to capture the Senate majority on November 3. Which means that Democrats' march to the Senate majority, which seems to be gaining more likely with each passing days, now has hit an odd pause.

Source: CNN October 06, 2020 17:26 UTC