Sep. 30, 2022: The Senate battlefield is narrowing
AP\u2019s Meg Kinnard and Adriana Gomez Licon: \u201cA revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina\u2019s coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes.\n\u201cWith all of South Carolina\u2019s coast under a hurricane warning, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston on Thursday, many likely heeding officials\u2019 warnings to seek higher ground. Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to inundation.\nAnd the Senate battlefield is narrowing, and leaders in both parties agree that control of the upper chamber is coming down to two (very different) Sun Belt swing states: Nevada and Georgia.\n\u201cDemocrats' most straightforward path to keeping the majority still means bringing back their so-called Core Four battleground senators: Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada,\u201d Burgess Everett and Natalie Allison report this morning. \u201cAnd while Hassan and Kelly are breathing a bit easier these days, Cortez Masto and Warnock are sweating it out in extremely tight races.\u201d\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.