Chuck Schumer: Democrats winning the Senate 'a very hard task because the geography is against us'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday acknowledged it would be a difficult for Democrats to seize control of the upper chamber during the 2018 midterm elections, but said their odds were better now than they were this summer.

“I’d love to see the Senate go blue, but it looks like a very hard task because the geography is against us,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. “There are 25 Democrats up for re-election, eight Republicans, and many of the Democrats come from states where Donald Trump won by more than 20 points.”