Senate Republicans were already facing a tough re-election cycle, but Donald Trump’s sudden clear path to the Republican nomination now has both conservatives and liberals making doomsday predictions about how Trump’s candidacy will end up handing the Senate to Democrats.

“The Senate’s gone,” Varad Mehta, an historian and writer at the conservative website The Federalist, tweeted Wednesday morning. “It’s all about minimizing the losses now.”

Race analysts have for months calculated a tough November for the Senate GOP. The Cook Political Report, a non-partisan and highly respected election and campaign newsletter, rates a half-dozen GOP-held seats as pure toss-up races, which means they are highly vulnerable to a Democratic takeover.

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