Elizabeth Warren

With Democrats eyeing control of the U.S. Senate in this fall’s midterm elections, one Massachusetts lawmaker is looking to smooth the path.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Monday that she’d raised $400,000 for state parties in six states where Democrats face competitive U.S. Senate races.

That includes Maine, where oyster farmer Graham Platner faces GOP U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Platner became the lone Democrat in that race after Maine Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign.

Warren endorsed Platner’s candidacy in March, arguing that he will “flip Maine and then actually deliver change for working people in the Senate.”

Warren also put her fundraising muscle behind Senate contests in Alaska, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio. President Donald Trump won all of those states, save for Maine, in 2024.

Democrats need to win at least five states that Trump carried in the last election.

And while that terrain remains treacherous, Democratic strategists have said the Republican president’s sagging approval ratings on the economy and the Iran war have given the party an opening.

Warren was in reliably red Iowa over the weekend, where she was campaigning for Democratic Senate hopeful Zach Wahls.

Wahls, an Iowa state senator, “is in this fight because he genuinely believes we can make this a country that works better for working people and that we can do that together,” Warren said, according to a local TV station.

Warren’s latest fundraising volley comes on top of a $400,000 investment that the Cambridge lawmaker had made to 23 state parties earlier this year.

Democratic analyst Mary Anne Marsh of Boston credited Warren for that early groundwork.

“That’s organization that is often overlooked when it’s in elections where it’s the House and Senate on the ballot,” she said. “And Democratic parties are the heart and soul of every election in every state, but many of them don’t have the funds or the resources to do the kind of structural activities that are important ... registering voters, (getting out the vote) getting people to run for every office in the state.”

The announcement also comes as Democrats race to play catch-up on last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act.