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What happened after the first presidential debate is every Senate race saw a 3 - to 4-point drop [ for Republican candidates ] across the board, so campaigns are panicking and it's the first time in a long while that they are being outraised. The potential is there to lose not only the presidency but the Senate as well... and to see the kind of wipeout we haven't an experienced since the post-Watergate year of 1974.