“I would feel good about those candidates in a presidential year or a midterm.” “I’m not conceding the electoral votes from any of those states to a Democratic presidential nominee, much less a senator like the ones we have who have done a good job, have stayed in touch, worked across the aisle and have been stalwarts and stood up for their states,” he said. But Wicker, who said he’s not expecting a single GOP retirement, was adamant that with a strong GOP presidential nominee, the party would be well-positioned to hold seats in swing states - Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, New Hampshire and beyond. With limited offensive opportunities, Republicans are defending 24 seats in 2016, including seven in states President Barack Obama won twice. Six days later, seated behind his desk on the fifth floor of Dirksen, Wicker was confident in the party’s ability to hold a potential 54-seat majority, despite a map that puts the Senate in play for Democrats.
Dean Heller for the chairmanship in a closed-door Nov. And it all comes back, every other day, to fundraising - then spending it smart.” “And getting the right message, and more fundraising. “It’s all about putting together a good staff and fundraising,” Wicker told CQ Roll Call. Now, his goal is to overcome the financial disparity. With Baker in place - about two months earlier than when Rob Collins took the helm of the committee in 2013 - Wicker already has avoided the first issue. He declined to detail the meeting but said, “I guarantee you the issue of fundraising arose.” While Republicans are primed to net nine seats in 2014 with a win next month in Louisiana, the party faced two noteworthy hurdles in the midterms: a late organizational start and being significantly outraised by Democrats. Later that day, in his first newspaper interview since being elected chairman, Wicker spoke candidly about the challenges ahead. Unlike the past four NRSC administrations, this one is charged with defending a Senate majority. Leading the confab with the incumbents and their chiefs of staff were incoming NRSC Chairman Roger Wicker, the Mississippi senator elected to the position a week earlier, and Ward Baker, the 2014 political director who was promoted to executive director for the new cycle. 19 to meet with party strategists about campaign preparations. Twenty-one Republican senators up for re-election in 2016 filed into the National Republican Senatorial Committee on the morning of Nov.
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