The Democratic Senate campaign arm in a new memo argues that Republicans will increasingly face the issues that led to their loss in the Alabama special election.

In a memo following the party’s upset victory in Alabama Tuesday night, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said “the real catastrophe lies ahead” for the GOP.

“Massive recruitment failures are leading to destabilizing primaries, and now even the most extreme candidates know that they can count on the GOP’s ultimate support, just like Roy Moore before them,” the memo reads.

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The DSCC blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Senate GOP aims to confirm Trump court pick by Oct. 29: report Trump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes MORE (R-Ky.) and Republican Senate candidates for their careful rhetoric about Moore throughout the special election. Moderate Republicans were forced to walk a fine line in regards to Moore, but that path became more complicated when numerous allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against the former judge last month.

“Bottom line: at no point did Republicans think they fielded strong candidates in Alabama — and this same sentiment is widely held for the GOP candidates across the map,” the memo says.

Democratic candidate Doug Jones's Tuesday victory, which gives Republicans a razor-thin 51-49 majority, provides Democrats with a potential path to taking back the upper chamber in 2018.

But the memo from the DSCC appears to echo the playbook of former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who has vowed to challenge the Republican establishment next year and put up primary challengers against incumbent senators.

While Bannon has portrayed the fight as a rejection of the GOP elites in Washington, both he and the DSCC are depicting the majority leader as the problem for Republicans.

“Don’t let the Republican handwringing distract from the fact that the strategic missteps Mitch McConnell and his allies made in Alabama led to Roy Moore’s nomination,” the memo says.

“It is hard to believe McConnell will learn from Alabama and challenge the Republican candidates in these races to stand up to the likes of Roy Moore rather than cower to the base that isn’t showing up for them anyway.”

Bannon last month called on McConnell to resign from his leadership position and has shown no signs of backing down from his war with the Kentucky lawmaker.