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Election models that attempt to see into the future project that Republicans will wrest control of the U.S. Senate away from Democrats in November, giving the GOP full control of Congress.

While projections have been trending in that direction for weeks, the Republican edge is getting more decisive, according to a report Monday on The Washington Post website.

The Post analyzed three election models and all three anticipate a Republican swing in the Senate. Republicans need to swing six seats away from Democrats in the Senate to give it the voting edge in the upper chamber.

The GOP is expected to maintain its advantage in the House of Representatives.

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, has talked about the possible change in power in Congress in recent weeks during speeches. He speculated in one speech about a month ago that Republicans taking the Senate could be a prelude to winning the presidency in two years.

"That has to be a harbinger for capturing the White House in 2016," Brooks said in a Sept. 2 speech to the Republican Women of Huntsville. "If we capture the senate, we can control the agenda and we can force the White House to now start acting on the bills we are able to pass. Right now, for four years, we've just been on defense.

"The House by itself, we can't change the law. To change the law, you have to have the Senate and the White House concur."

Brooks has also encouraged north Alabama Republicans to travel to Louisiana and Arkansas to campaign door-to-door for Republican Senate candidates Bill Cassidy and Tom Cotton, respectively.

In The Post's election model analysis, the Post's Election lab gave Republicans a 76 percent chance of winning the Senate. The New York Times model projected a 67 percent chance for Republicans and FiveThirtyEight had Republicans with a 60 percent chance.

Click here to read the full analysis from The Post.