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Read the current us senate state first, then inspect ratings, polling, markets, fundraising, and history for Delaware in one evidence flow.
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Akashic Edge race ratings, polling ingests, Polymarket odds, fundraising files, and U.S. Census context.
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Rendered Apr 14, 2026 from the latest stored polling, market, and race-rating snapshots.
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2026 statewide race page for the current state and office only.
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Manual race ratings, stored live-market snapshots, polling context, and deterministic demographic history.
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Coons has held this seat since 2010 — he won the seat Republicans gifted Democrats when Christine O'Donnell beat Mike Castle in the Tea Party primary. He faces a primary challenge from Christopher Beardsley, a former federal worker running on housing and healthcare, though it appears unserious — Beardsley has minimal media presence and virtually no fundraising against Coons's $4.7M war chest. A low-volume Polymarket market briefly showed Coons looking more vulnerable in early 2026, but he's since risen substantially to 94%. The GOP field is equally thin: their top candidate is Michael Katz, a former Democratic state senator who ran as an Independent in 2024. Delaware hasn't elected a Republican senator since 2014. This is a formality. Safe D.
Updated 2026-03-03
Will Christopher Beardsley be the Democratic nominee for Senate in Delaware?
Data from Polymarket prediction markets