Editing Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (section)

===2021–2022 election cycle===
After the 2020–2021 cycle, Democrats governed with a bare 50–50 majority in the United States Senate. Senator [[Gary Peters]], who had won re-election in 2020, chaired the DSCC for the [[2022 United States Senate elections|2021–2022 cycle]]. Going into the cycle, Democrats had 14 seats up for election while Republicans had 21. In order to maintain their majority in the Senate, Democrats had to defend [[Catherine Cortez Masto]] in Nevada, [[Raphael Warnock]] in Georgia, [[Mark Kelly]] in Arizona, and [[Maggie Hassan]] in New Hampshire, all of which represented states that incumbent President Biden had won in 2020. Republicans had also targeted senators in traditionally Democratic states such as [[Michael Bennet]] of Colorado and [[Patty Murray]] of Washington, while Democrats attempted to pick up open seats in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio. Pennsylvania was seen as the most likely flip for the Democrats, while Nevada was seen as the most likely flip for the Republicans.

Democrats had overperformed in the 2022 elections overall, with incumbents Maggie Hassan and Mark Kelly winning by larger margins than anticipated, and Democratic challenger [[Mandela Barnes]] losing to Wisconsin senator [[Ron Johnson]] by a much smaller margin than expected. Democrats flipped the open seat in Pennsylvania, electing Democrat [[John Fetterman]] over Republican [[Mehmet Oz]] to replace Republican [[Pat Toomey]]. Upon Catherine Cortez Masto's narrow victory over [[Adam Laxalt]] in Nevada, it was projected that Democrats would retain 50 senators and thus maintain control of the U.S. Senate.

[[2022 United States Senate election in Georgia|A runoff election]] between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger [[Herschel Walker]] ultimately ended in Warnock prevailing, leaving Democrats with a 51–49 majority after the elections.