Democrats are worried about the upcoming Georgia Senate race, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer revealed during a hot mic moment with President Joe Biden in Syracuse.

Schumer, Biden and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were seen talking on the tarmac at Hancock International Airport Thursday as the Democratic leaders headed to Onondaga Community College to promote Micron Technology’s plans for a $100 billion microchip plant that will create 50,000 jobs.

But the conversation showed they were also focused on the near future with the 2022 midterm elections.

“The state where we’re going downhill is Georgia,” Schumer said. “It’s hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker.”

Walker, a former football star, is running as the Republican nominee against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Nov. 8 election.

Recent polls show the candidates are in a dead heat, despite recent revelations that Walker allegedly paid for at least two abortions while supporting a proposed federal abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.

Schumer offered a more positive outlook on Pennsylvania and Nevada, referencing Tuesday’s debate between Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor John Fetterman, a Democrat who is recovering from a stroke earlier this year, and his Republican opponent in the Senate race, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Both races are considered crucial in determining control of the U.S. Senate.

“It looks like the debate didn’t hurt us too much in Pennsylvania as of today, so that’s good,” Schumer told President Biden in the hot mic exchange. “We’re picking up steam in Nevada.”

A spokesperson for Schumer told The Hill that he “believes the Democratic candidates will win” the midterm elections, but some GOP members have seized on the clip as a positive sign for their party.

“Great hot takes from the Democrat confab in Syracuse,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican who’s running for re-election in New York’s 24th Congressional District, tweeted.

“Chuck Schumer on a hot mic saying the debate didn’t hurt Dems that much in Pennsylvania is like the Titanic captain saying it wasn’t that big of an iceberg,” added conservative commentator Clay Travis, who’s predicting a “red tsunami” in November.

Others, meanwhile, argued that Schumer knew what he was doing.

“Schumer is always, always aware of cameras and mics–he doesn’t get caught on hot mics, he uses them. He’s speaking for effect, fully aware of the microphones, using the ‘hot mic’ bull to push his message and enjoying every moment of it!” former CNN host Lou Dobbs wrote on Twitter.

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