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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Deputy Executive Director Matt Canter argued that every current GOP Senate candidate is running from a hyper - conservative playbook, an extremism that Democrats feel will put multiple Congressional seats into play for them next year.

Political prognosticators have moved Donovan and the 11th Congressional seat into the «safe Republican» category.

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In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

He is supposed to be the neutral head of the state party, not someone who tries to bribe and buy his son's way into a congressional seat.

Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.

On a night when the GOP retained a congressional seat in an Arizona special election, the race in Western New York was also being watched and trumpeted by Republicans looking for signs of momentum heading into November.

Almost half the states have never had a black member of Congress, but after she succeeds fellow Democrat John Carney (a sure bet to step into the governorship) in the state's single House seat, Mississippi and Vermont will be the only states that have never seen a female in their congressional delegations.

With Anthony Weiner about to pop into the race for mayor, one of his Democratic rivals demanded yesterday that he pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated congressional seat two years ago.

Ladra dares Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez to put his committee vote into action and resign his seat now The open congressional seat thanks to the announced retirement of...

The bad blood spilled over into the 2016 race, with Rangel endorsing one of Espaillat's primary foes — and blasting him while doing so for not resigning from his state Senate seat to fully commit to the congressional race.

Washington (CNN)- As two of the three candidates in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York get ready to debate, another major national political organization has jumped into the ad wars, another sign that a once semi-obscure local election is now firmly in the national spotlight.

Walters, who cruised into a safe Orange County congressional seat, will see at least two Republicans duke it out for the remainder of her term in Sacramento.

Democratic congressional candidate Colleen Deacon leads her two rivals in NY - 24 by a comfortable margin heading into the June 28 primary for the Syracuse region's congressional seat, according to a poll of likely voters.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)- Pennsylvania's perfect storm of new district boundaries, the most open seats in decades and Democrats» passionate anti-Trump fever has propelled a tidal wave of candidates into congressional primaries.

For the past two years, the investigative panel has looked into whether Rangel, a ranking Democrat, improperly used his congressional seat to solicit money for a college center named in his honor, failed to disclose personal assets and failed to pay taxes on a Caribbean villa.

How, as a result of the 2000 census, he and his protege, fellow GOP Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R - PA), became the «Bullies - in - Chief» in Pennsylvania, and bullied the Pennsylvania Legislature into a statewide redistricting plan that gave Republicans a 5 seat majority in the Congressional delegation.

Brian Mann April 12, 2018 NRP A crowd of Vermonters packed into Chris Shaw's living room this spring, not to hear about local politicians, but to meet a Democrat running for a House seat in upstate New York's 21st Congressional District.

Pennsylvania's perfect storm of new district boundaries, the most open seats in decades and Democrats» passionate anti-Trump fever has propelled a tidal wave of candidates into congressional primaries.

The Green Party moved into the spotlight in 2014 in the North Country's congressional race, with Matt Funiciello from Glens Falls running a strong third - party bid for the 21st district House seat.

New York (CNN)- The special election for an empty Congressional seat in upstate New York has now turned into a dead heat with only a few votes separating the candidates on Tuesday night.

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party holds nine of the 14 congressional seats from Michigan.

CNN: Democrat Kathy Hochul wins House seat in New York special election Democrat Kathy Hochul swept to victory Tuesday night in a closely watched Congressional election in New York state, which turned into a proxy battle on a House Republican proposal on Medicare.

Demos said Littell's letter confirms Altschuler searched several states «shopping for a congressional seat,» while Cox moved into the district in January.

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held each of the two Congressional seats from Rhode Island.

Heading into the November 4 election, the Republican Party holds 9 of the 14 congressional seats from Michigan.

Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held nine of the 15 Congressional seats from Michigan.

HARLEM — A candidate for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel is calling for an independent audit of the group that oversees the $ 150 million community benefits agreement that is a part of Columbia University's expansion into West Harlem.

The candidate also received an accelerant last week from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who moved his campaign into their Red to Blue Program, which means his attempt at the seat has been selected as one determined to be critical in flipping the House back to Democratic control this fall.

The Post-Standard reported Monday that the 24th Congressional District race between Maffei, Buerkle and Green candidate Ursula Rozum has turned into the most expensive race for a congressional seat in Central New York history because of spending bCongressional District race between Maffei, Buerkle and Green candidate Ursula Rozum has turned into the most expensive race for a congressional seat in Central New York history because of spending bcongressional seat in Central New York history because of spending by super PACs.

Krueger said she is hopeful that Democrats will capitalize on the moment and harness frustrations into efforts to swing state - level government in 2017 and Congressional seats in 2018.

Weprin (D) and Ulrich (R) will not run because the last thing they'll want to do is vacate a seat for a congressional seat that could very well be gerrymandered into oblivion.

Combine a wider target list with the large number of Republican incumbents already heading into retirement (26 and counting) as well as the massive cash edge the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has over its GOP counterpart and a double - digit seat gain for Democrats starts to seem like a real possibility.

SD31 In Senate District 31, which includes the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood and runs down the West Side into Hell's Kitchen, Senator Adriano Espaillat is leaving his seat to run for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional district — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Representatives.

The combined cash haul is likely to transform what was once a low profile congressional race into what appears will be the most expensive campaign for a House seat in South Carolina history.

Dylan McDermott is convincingly lethal as a political strategist sent to beat Huggins into shape, but the film's best, most underused characters are the movie's SuperPac - running, Congressional - seat buying counterparts to the Koch Brothers: John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd as the Motch Brothers.