Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. But the 38-year-old candidate for the Colorado State Senate is running for a seat that has attracted intense focus — and spending — from both parties. That’s because if she wins, and other seats hold, control of the state legislature flips to the Democrats. Besides Colorado, there are a half-dozen states where Democrats are a few seats away from winning control of the state senate:• One seat away in New York, Maine and Minnesota. • Two seats away in Wisconsin.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2018 21:30 UTC