Outwardly, Democrats express confidence about their chances of holding the United States Senate next week when voters head to the polls. Behind the scenes, their actions tell the opposite story.

Democratic Senate staffers are preparing for a very busy post-election “lame-duck” session before Americans’ new choices for Senate can be sworn in, the liberal news website Talking Points Memo reports. “We will definitely move a lot of nominees during the lame duck one way or the other,” an anonymous staffer told the publication, “possibly more if Republicans take the majority.”