Top Democrat Insists Party Will Hold Senate — But Turnout Is Key
NPRTop Democrat Insists Party Will Hold Senate — But Turnout Is Key Enlarge this image toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP Ross D. Franklin/AP As increasingly confident Republican leaders predict big midterm election gains, the head of Democratic National Committee put on her game face Tuesday and insisted the party will hold control of the Senate. The Democrats' grass-roots organization, said Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and what she characterized as the GOP's continuing alienation of women, minority, LGBT and middle-class voters, bodes well for her party this fall. "I think we're in for a tsunami-type election in 2014," Priebus said at the long-running newsmakers event, Wasserman Schultz's event at the National Press Club, where Republicans one year ago presented the results of an "autopsy" of their 2012 losses and proposals for the future, was designed to push back on the GOP's narrative of a party undergoing transformation. Sponsor Message "In a rare moment of self-awareness, Republican leaders admitted that the party was alienating huge swaths of voters," Wasserman Schultz said, calling her appearance an "autopsy of an autopsy."
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