Sentences with phrase «democratic house seat»

Justin Fareed represents a rare opportunity for Republicans to win a Democratic House seat in California.

Republicans haven't taken over a Democratic House seat in California since 1998, when Doug Ose took over retiring Democrat Vic Fazio's 3rd District and Steve Kuykendall won the 36th District, which Rep. Jane Harman vacated to run for governor.

It appears Republican congressional candidate Elise Stefanik is approaching lock status on flipping a Democratic House seat to the GOP fold.

I don't know how well those populations match House district boundaries, but it seems like that blue belt of Gore and Kerry voters in the South should be yielding some Democratic House seats in the same places.

The Democratic House seated Buchanan.

This year, the nonpartisan Cook Political Reports rated the district as one of 161 solidly Democratic House seats around the nation.

In a wave year that saw a net loss of at least 13 Democratic House seats, Barrow became that collateral damage.

Not exact matches

If Democratic legislative candidates run as strongly in 2019 as Northam did this year, they'll end up with 58 % of the seats in the House of Delegates and 60 % of the seats in the Senate, and they'll be able to write whatever Medicaid plan they want.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

The latest, Congressman John Conyers, is a member of the Democratic Party who chose to step down from his seat on the House Judiciary Committee after being accused of sexually harassing a female member of his staff several years ago.

Former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, one of Weiner's potential Democratic primary rivals, demanded that the ex-congressman pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated House seat two years ago.

The state Conservative Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring her a ballot line in the November general election regardless of the outcome of the June GOP primary.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

Hein was re-elected to another term as county executive in November, but a chorus of local Democratic officials had urged him to launch a bid for the House seat.

Martins is himself a product of Albany, having served in the state Senate for six years, and declining to seek re-election in 2016 when he opted to run for the House seat vacated by former Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

Of course, every seat counts at this point as the Democrats battle to retain control of the house, so maybe the Democratic powers - that - be will have a change of heart on Arcuri.

But the House seat has not been on the radar of national efforts to flip the seat to the Democratic column like those to the south, including the districts represented by Republican freshman Claudia Tenney and John Faso.

In that case, though, how many House and Senate seats might it swing to the Democratic column?

Not that I'm looking ahead to Democratic gains in the Fall, since we're defending far too many marginal seats picked up in the wave of 2008, but I do see a more typical incumbent - party loss in the range of 20 - 30 seats in the House and a handful in the Senate.

Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.

Former Rep. Richard Hanna unloaded on the woman who holds his old House seat, Rep. Claudia Tenney, saying she is a «pariah to the Republican Party» and has «made herself a Democratic fundraiser» with her controversial views and comments.

A special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County is the «first battle» toward a Democratic Party takeover of the state Senate in Albany and the House of Representatives in Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said.

If they're not able to win these seats, Democratic gains in the House will likely be very minimal.

National Democratic leaders cheered further on Tuesday as they took two of three contests in Connecticut, winning a state House and state Senate seat on their way to keeping unified control there.

While Manhattan's congressional and local state senate seats will almost certainly stay blue, about half a dozen Democratic state house seats are currently up for grabs, according to the latest Cook Political Report.

Democratic county chairs in New York's 19th District are meeting Saturday to select their candidate of choice in a must - win seat for the party to make gains in the House.

A member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Victor Kojoga Adawudu has said that the government's decision to reverse the name of the seat of government from Flagstaff House to Jubilee House was taken to «massage the ego» of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

Grimm led Donovan, 49 percent to 39 percent, among GOP voters in New York's 11th District in the poll released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats» political arm, which hopes to flip the seat blue in November.

In today's Congressional Corner, New York state Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic candidate for New York's 22nd House district seat, wraps up his conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock.

This time around, Lopez himself, having been stripped of his Housing Committee and Kings County Democratic Committee Chairs following his groping scandal, has decided to run for the very Council seat that his former Chief of Staff is vacating.

She also oversaw campaigns for the state House of Delegates, where victories (the party won 15 seats) signaled Democratic energy heading into the 2018 midterms.

The Democratic candidate running to replace Lykam in the state House won his old seat by 45 points in February — 34 points better than Clinton's margin.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

In that case, the Democratic nominee for a House seat would be selected by members of the county party committee.

My downstate colleagues have been doing a pretty thorough job covering what might be the most interesting of the six Assembly special elections to be held Sept. 13: The three - way Democratic battle for the Brooklyn seat vacated by Darryl Towns, who is now Gov. Andrew Cuomo's housing czar.

While I think he could easily win the seat, it's important to note that he failed to successfully campaign for a Democratic House after 2008.

Tenney faces Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in the central New York House seat that is considered one of the top battleground races this fall.

Republican Rep. John Katko, the Central New York freshman who is fighting to hold onto his seat in one of the most competitive House races in the nation, is out with his fourth TV ad, which questions the ability of his opponent, Colleen Deacon, to act independently of the Democratic conference if she's elected in November.

Martins served three terms as a state senator until last year, when instead of seeking re-election, he ran for the House seat vacated by former Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

But one Democratic strategist said impressive fundraising totals show there is energy on the Democratic side as they look to flip 24 seats and win back the House.

Former Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider is trying to retake his 10th District seat in Illinois by tying current GOP Rep. Robert J. Dold to House Republicans on gay rights.

Missouri Democratic Party Chairwoman Susan Montee said shedding one seat was «unfortunate,» but cautioned against those who wanted to frame the news «as the trailer for an upcoming wrestling match between two Democratic House members.»

He was one of just three Democratic incumbents that Republicans were believed to have a chance of knocking off this year, and The Associated Press projected Wednesday morning that Republican challenger Don Bacon has done just that, picking up the Cornhusker State's 2nd District seat in the House.

With Murphy and Kirkpatrick's Senate bids, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee faces an uphill climb at keeping its Republican - leaning House seats.

The eight - seat Democratic lead in the House was 8 percent of the 100 seats up for election in 2014.

Katko's seat has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a significant race this fall in a broader effort to regain majority control of the House of Representatives.

Republican consultants are pessimistic about their chances to oust Democratic Reps. Ami Bera, center left, and Scott Peters, center, from their competitive California House seats.

Updated March 19, 10:40 p.m. Former Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford's decision not to seek his old House seat next year has set off jockeying on the Democratic side for one of the party's top pickup opportunities.

He's running to fill the seat being vacated by Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, who was a Republican until he ran for the House four years ago.