First on Fox: Senate GOP campaign committee looks to streamline operations to hold majority in 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans are showcasing their "team effort" arsenic they purpose to support and grow their Senate bulk in the 2026 midterm elections.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the Senate GOP's run arm, unveiled its caller vice seat programme arsenic the sheet held its yearly wintertime gathering this past play successful Palm Beach, Florida.

According to sources attending the event, who shared details archetypal with Fox News Digital, the 5 vice chairs serving nether NRSC Chair Sen. Tim Scott volition run arsenic an informal committee of directors, providing ideas, oversight and accountability arsenic the committee works to grow its services and seeks to modernize and go much streamlined.

"We’re 1 team. President Donald J. Trump and Senate Republicans are agreed to present for the American radical and support our Senate majority. The squad effort is stronger than ever acknowledgment to this tremendous radical of Vice Chairs who person stepped up to rise the resources and physique the enactment needed to win," Scott said astatine the wintertime meeting.

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President Donald Trump speaks astatine a meal with Senate Republicans astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida, connected Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Scott was named NRSC seat for the 2026 rhythm soon aft Republicans, successful November's elections, flipped 4 seats from bluish to reddish to triumph backmost power of the Senate and clasp a 53-47 bulk successful the chamber.

The 5 vice chairs, antecedently announced by Scott, are Sens. Jim Banks of Indiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Katie Britt of Alabama, Bernie Moreno of Ohio and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska.

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During a sheet treatment this past play with Majority Whip Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the vice chairs highlighted their pledge to assistance Scott support incumbents facing hard re-elections successful the upcoming midterm elections, and to rise the resources needed to win.

"Each of these Vice Chairs contributes their unsocial experiences and passions to the combat to support our incumbents, rise resources, and enlistee apical tier endowment successful the seats we privation to flip," Barasso emphasized.

National Republican Senatorial Committee vice chairs, from near to right, Sens. Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Jim Banks of Indiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, and Katie Britt of Alabama, articulation Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming astatine a sheet treatment astatine the NRSC wintertime meeting, successful Palm Beach, Florida. (NRSC)

Among the vice chairs' duties going guardant are holding regular meetings to sermon and reappraisal NRSC fund items, fundraising progress and applicable governmental updates, 

They besides pledged to each rise $5 cardinal for the committee, assistance with campaigner recruitment and instrumentality portion successful a caller incumbent extortion program, successful which each vice seat volition beryllium liable for walking alongside 4 to 5 Senate Republicans up for re-election successful 2026.

"Failure isn’t an option, and that’s wherefore I americium committed to this relation – to making definite the NRSC wins successful battleground states and keeps the Majority truthful we tin proceed moving with President Trump to crook Promises Made into Promises Kept," Britt said.

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Blackburn emphasized that "I'm committed to moving with our incumbents to make assertive caller media strategies. We volition present our connection of prosperity and accidental done arsenic galore platforms arsenic imaginable and conscionable the American radical wherever they are."

Banks highlighted that "it's captious we leverage each assets disposable to support and grow our Senate majority. Senate Republicans and President Trump are unified. I'm acceptable to make definite we're utilizing each instrumentality we person to triumph and proceed delivering for the American people." 

Moreno stressed that "it’s indispensable we clasp our bulk successful 2026 to guarantee President Trump has allies for 4 afloat years successful the Senate."

Additionally, Ricketts pledged that the vice chairs "will guarantee the NRSC has the resources indispensable to protect and grow our majority." 

Senate Republicans enjoyed a precise favorable representation successful the 2024 rhythm arsenic they won backmost power of the majority. An aboriginal work of the 2026 representation shows they volition proceed to play discourtesy successful immoderate states, but volition beryllium forced to play defence successful others.

The GOP volition people an unfastened Democrat-held spot successful battleground Michigan, wherever Sen. Gary Peters announced 2 weeks agone that helium would not question re-election successful 2026. They volition besides people first-term Sen. Jon Ossoff successful battleground Georgia and longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen successful plaything authorities New Hampshire.

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However, Democrats program to spell connected discourtesy successful blue-leaning Maine, wherever GOP Sen. Susan Collins is up for re-election, arsenic good arsenic successful battleground North Carolina, wherever Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is besides up successful 2026.