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GOP candidates from Senate battlegrounds such as Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri and elsewhere pounced on the news Friday that the FBI was reviewing new evidence potentially related to its probe of Clinton’s email practices. The shocking revelation — which came as a surprise to both presidential campaigns and Capitol Hill — injected new life into the e-mail controversy that has long dogged Clinton and her favorability ratings and gave Republicans fodder to tie Democrats to their own unpopular candidate at the top of the ticket.
In five of the six most competitive Senate battleground states — Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and North Carolina — the two candidates are separated by an average of less than three points, according to the Real Clear Politics average of recent surveys. Indiana’s race is nearly as close.
“If you look across the Senate map, there are six races that are neck-and-neck. This kind of news absolutely has the potential to impact those races,” said Ian Prior, spokesman for Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC focused on electing Republicans to the Senate. “Democrats have to be wishing that they didn’t so wholeheartedly embrace Hillary, because there’s no escape pods now.”
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