Priebus Vs. Schultz: RNC Chair, DNC Chair Face Off Over Battle For Senate

RNC Chair Reince Priebus and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz both joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to discuss whether the GOP would control the Senate. PPD’s 2014 election projection model forecast favors Republican control of the U.S. Senate.

CHRIS WALLACE: Let’s talk about the big question, will Republicans take the Senate and as you know, there are bunch of these election labs that are out there. Nate Silver’s 538 website says the GOP has a 62 percent chance of taking the Senate. The “New York Times” upshot says that a 70 percent chance and “The Washington Post” election lab says it’s a 93 percent likelihood. Chairman Priebus, will your party take the Senate?

REINCE PRIEBUS, RNC CHAIR: Yeah, absolutely. We feel really good about our chances of taking the Senate. And it’s partly because number one, the president has taken the country in the wrong direction. These lieutenants out there across the country have followed the president off the plank. And I think that there’s an incompetency malaise across this country where people are not confident in the job that the Democrats have done. And so, we are going to win on the issues, but also what you are seeing is that we are winning on the ground. The Democrat advantage in Iowa is all but evaporating. And then in no other Senate state on the ground are we losing. And so, we are doing what we need to do to win, but it’s more important that we get our country turned around again, Chris.

WALLACE: Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, you can make this a really news making thing. Are you going to lose the Senate?

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, DNC CHAIR: No, we’re going to hold the Senate. And we’re going to hold the Senate because over the next couple of weeks, and leading up to even today, the one question that voters are going to ask themselves, Chris, is who has my back? And on issue after issue, Democrats have stood up for jobs, for the economy, for investing in education and health care, those are the issues that voters are talking about. And the Republicans have engaged in trying to take their health care away, to oppose the minimum wage and I just want to address what Reince just said about the ground game. Imagine, could anyone have imagined, that two weeks before Election Day, the Republicans would have to invest in South Dakota, Kansas and Georgia, blood-red states that they are now worried they might lose.

PRIEBUS: Debbie, you guys are losing everywhere, first of all. And the president hasn’t had anybody’s back, now he hasn’t even had your back. And so, I don’t know whose back these Democrats have, but it’s not the American people’s back.