A top Democratic operative warned that poor campaigns and candidate choice from Republicans are opening the door for Democrats to seize control of the Senate during an interview with Fox News Digital.

Dan Turrentine, who served as chief of staff to current Colorado Gov. Jared Polis when he was a member of Congress, said several close Senate races seem to be trending Democrat in the leadup to Tuesday's election.

"Five days out, Democrats have a pretty good chance to retake the Senate," Turrentine said.

He cited several races, including North Carolina, where incumbent Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is retiring. That seat, which has long been red, seems poised to flip as polls show former Gov. Roy Cooper holds a commanding lead over former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley.

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Republicans, who are widely projected to lose their slim House majority, currently hold a 53-47 lead in the Senate. In addition to North Carolina, a number of surprisingly close Senate races in both swing states like Ohio and Michigan, and in typically deep red states such as Texas, Kansas and Missouri, have Democrats like Turrentine hopeful they can gain full control of Congress on Tuesday.

While crediting smart campaigning from Democrats, Turrentine also pinned Republican shortcomings on what he called poor candidate quality. He cited Ken Paxton in Texas, Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, Roger Marshall in Kansas and Darlene Graham Nordone, who is running to take the seat of her late brother, former Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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"If Republicans lose the Senate, it’s likely one of those four loses," said Turrentine, who hosts "The Huddle" podcast with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. "While the president's standing is part of the problem, that last mile comes down to weak candidate quality."

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But while Democrats are performing well in polls, Turrentine acknowledged that previous surveys have overstated support for his party.

"Campaigns are terrified about polling," he said, adding that "reaching voters is harder than ever; people don't have landlines and routinely ignore unknown numbers."

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"We’ve had consecutive change elections — 2016, 2022, 2024 — where polling struggled to capture late-breaking dynamics. Will frustrated Trump voters stay home, or will early Democratic surges in Texas just reflect high-propensity voters banking votes early rather than expanding the electorate? Nobody knows, and people have a knot in their stomach about Tuesday," he said.

Turrentine was a even more confident in a Democratic takeover of the Senate before this week's bombshell New York Times report alleging that Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola helped recruit a man named Daniel J. Sullivan to run against incumbent Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan, R-Alaska, to ostensibly confuse voters into accidentally choosing Daniel J. Sullivan over the incumbent senator.

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Peltola has denied any involvement in the former Sullivan's campaign.

"Peltola has led almost every single poll until yesterday. Like so many of these states, Democrats win on disgruntled Republicans. It wouldn't take much for those voters to say they can't stomach the Democrat," said Turrentine, adding that the Frontier State may now be a tossup.

If Alaska's Senate seat slips from the Democrats' grip, a majority could come down to the Democrats winning Ohio, Texas and one of Michigan, Maine, Kansas or Mississippi, Turrentine said.

"In Maine, we've spent entire careers thinking we’re going to defeat [GOP incumbent] Susan Collins. It feels slightly different this time, but it also doesn't; she’s within a point or two. No Democrat wants the majority coming down to Maine or Alaska," he added.

Collins trails Graham Platner replacement Troy Jackson 49-45, according to a recent CNN poll.

If the Democrats do take the Senate, Turrentine suggested, they will have to contend with the rising tide of socialism and an increasingly popular far-left wing within the party.

"This tension between who will be what I'll call the majority makers and the base that feels like... both feel like, 'You need me,' right? A moderate can't win if the base doesn't turn out," Turrentine added.

He relayed party criticisms of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to become speaker should the Democrats wrest control of the lower chamber from the GOP.

"Nobody knows where Hakeem Jeffries comes down. And no one knows who Hakeem Jeffries is," Turrentine said.

"Pelosi had the trust of both wings; Hakeem Jeffries still faces questions from both sides about where he stands, all while [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer watches for a primary challenge from his left," he added.

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A conservative legal group filed an election complaint in Maine Tuesday, alleging that more than 3,000 potentially dead people and hundreds of duplicate registrations were discovered on the state’s voter rolls just days before the pivotal midterm elections.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) identified 3,181 potentially dead voters and 693 duplicate registrations, urging the state to take action as Mainers prepare to cast their ballots Tuesday.

"Now we know why they were hiding them because there were problems on them," Adams told Fox News Digital. "They have dead people, they have lots of duplicates and they have general problems. It's something that should have been fixed a long time ago."

The complaint, which was filed with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, argues election officials have not made a "reasonable effort" to remove ineligible voters from the official list.

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Adams said the state should have discovered the information, not his group.

"Why does it take a third-party group like the Public Interest Legal Foundation to find these duplicates?" Adams said.

The group is asking the state to take "additional corrective action," warning it "may have no other recourse" but to appeal through the complaint process under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), a 2002 election reform law, if nothing is done.

The group compared those findings with its previous investigation in 2025, which found 18,453 potentially dead voters and 1,498 duplicate or triplicate registration records in Maine. The state addressed many of the records identified that year, but PILF said some errors remain while "new problems have arisen."

Several searches were used in the analysis to identify records that shared the same address, first and last names and birth year, as well as typos, punctuation errors, common nicknames and birth-year discrepancies.

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The complaint requests that Maine review the group’s analysis, immediately remove ineligible voters and implement a plan to ensure the state complies with HAVA "now and in the future."

"I hope she gets the job done and removes all these duplicates," Adams said.

Adams said his group has been embroiled in an ongoing legal battle and Bellows has a history of trying to "criminalize" PILF for revealing what they found. PILF sued Maine roughly six years ago over access to the state’s voter rolls and won a federal appeals court case in 2024 that required the state to make the records public.

"There's a history here of Secretary Bellows not wanting the public to know what kind of job she's doing," Adams said.

Adams accused Bellows of focusing on "defending sort of blue theories" rather than keeping Maine's voter lists accurate and up to date.

"Unfortunately, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is not getting the job done," he said.

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One of Adams' biggest concerns is that someone could use a dead person's registration to illegally vote. He said progressive state officials are reluctant to immediately remove dead voters out of fear they could mistakenly remove eligible voters, potentially leaving the door open for fraud.

"The problem is that sometimes people vote for the dead people," he said.

But Adams said he believes Maine has been trying to keep its problems out of the public eye for a long time.

"Maine has a longstanding problem trying to hide public information about whether or not they're doing a good job," he said.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Bellows’ office for comment.

The legal filing comes just days before Mainers vote in a critical and tight U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Susan Collins and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson. The winner could determine the balance of power in the Senate.