How the fight for the Senate is slowly moving toward Democrats

(CNN)With the country -- and the world -- focused full-time on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, you may have missed this: The fight for the Senate continues to move slowly but surely in Democrats' direction.

That's according to two leading political handicapping sites: the Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.

On Thursday, the Crystal Ball moved the ratings of the a) Arizona Senate race from "toss up" to "leans Democratic" and b) Maine's Senate race from "leans Republican" to "toss up." (They also changed the rating of the Georgia Senate race from "leans Republican" to "likely Republican.&quot

"The battle for the Senate is getting more competitive, with Democrats pushing the overall map more into 'toss-up' territory," writes Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik of the ratings changes.

Those changes come soon after the Cook Report's Senate editor Jessica Taylor wrote this about the fight for the Senate majority:

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