Democratic National Committee chief predicts Dems 'are going to hold the Senate'

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, leader of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday that her party will keep control of the Senate next month, suggesting that GOP efforts to drag President Obama into races is a failed strategy.
“We are going to hold the Senate,” the Florida lawmaker told “Fox News Sunday.” “The president is not on the ballot.”
Her remarks come weeks after Obama argued that he indeed was “not on the ballot this fall” but that “every single one” of his policies are.
Since the start of the 2014 election cycle, Republicans have tried to tie incumbent Democrats to some of the Obama administration’s policies and actions that have alienated many voters -- including ObamaCare and the IRS targeting of conservative political groups.
“Republicans are desperate to put him on the ballot because they’re trying to turn away from their own terrible record,” Wasserman-Schultz said.
She made her prediction amid a majority of polls that give Republicans at least a 60 percent chance of retaking the upper chamber, including a Washington Post forecast that gives the GOP a 93 percent chance.
Republicans need to win a net total of six seats to take the Senate.
Wasserman-Schultz also argued Democrats will keep control of the chamber because Republicans have let down Americas by taking away their health care and opposing minimum-wage increases.
“One question voters will ask is: Who has your back?” she said.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, told Wasserman-Schultz that Obama is “taking the country in the wrong direction and (Democratic) candidates are following him off the plank.”
“I don’t know whose back he has, but it’s not the American people’s,” Priebus continued.