Sentences with phrase «democratic campaign efforts»

Kaminsky triumphed anyway and, as the governor looked to burnish his national profile in the run - up to the presidential election, he helped in State Senate Democratic campaign efforts.

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Critics of Clinton's campaign strategy have said her efforts (or lack thereof) in those three states — traditional Democratic strongholds that were carried by President Donald Trump — highlighted the Democratic presidential nominee's biggest problems as a candidate.

There are a host of last - minute disputes, but the Democratic Party has filed at least seven federal lawsuits in an effort to stop so - called «ballot security» campaigns by either the Republican National Committee, local Republican parties, the Trump Campaign, or Stop the Steal.

U.S. intelligence agencies have previously charged that a separate Russian effort hacked Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails and leaked them to WikiLeaks in an effort to sway the election.

The presumptive Democratic nominee's campaign is assembling a formal effort to recruit and feature prominent Republican endorsers, Fortune has learned.

During the campaign, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, and many of its emails leaked via WikiLeaks — an act that some elements within the CIA believe was part of a Russian effort to help Donald Trump win the election.

The campaign called the suit a «frivolous,» «partisan» and meritless action that represents a «last - ditch effort» by a «nearly - bankrupt Democratic Party» still trying to counter the will of the American public.

Ernst came from behind and surged in recent weeks despite herculean efforts by powerful Democratic figures to save Braley, including a campaign visit by Obama's wife, Michelle.

Still, Steyer's impeachment efforts are ongoing, and he's not afraid to support candidates outside the Democratic establishment in order to push his $ 40 million campaign against the president.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Kelda Roys breastfeeds her daughter while filming campaign ad about her efforts to ban a toxic chemical.

And a nationwide effort is underway to include same - sex marriage approval as a plank on the Democratic platform this summer at the Charlotte convention (New York Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs was the latest to sign on to the campaign).

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

Murphy's race against Democratic candidate Justin Wagner in 2014 was one of four contested Senate campaigns in question last year that saw transfers from county committees to candidates in an apparent effort to avoid donation limits.

Primary challenges to lawmakers in the Independent Democratic Conference are moving forward, but those efforts are not being supported by the mainline conference's campaign arm, a spokesman on Tuesday said.

I recently received an email invite from Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs inviting me to the party's annual fall fundraising gala on Oct. 18, which is intended to raise campaign cash to help fuel the Democrats» effort to win back control of the local Legislature this fall.

A Democratic - aligned super PAC that is trying to make a difference in several key House races and one state Senate campaign is increasing its efforts in the NY - 24 House race between Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, Democrat Dan Maffei and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum.

Would - be AG Sean Coffey has scrapped his original plan to skip the state Democratic convention and head straight to an effort to petition his way onto the ballot, but he is nevertheless already putting the pieces in place for a field campaign.

His fundraiser comes on the same week his former top aide, Steve Cohen, and Democratic donor / activist Sean Eldridge and his fiance, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, launched a new coordinated effort to push for campaign finance reform in Albany — something for which Cuomo has repeatedly voiced support, but so far not done much to achieve.

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have been stumping across the nation on behalf of Democratic candidates this campaign season — an effort that is widely viewed as chit - collecting in advance of her possible 2016 presidential run.

The Working Families Party is setting its sights on Wisconsin and the re-election campaign of House Speaker Paul Ryan, backing a fundraising effort for his Democratic opponent Randy Bryce.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Assemblyman Michael «Mickey» Kearns, the Republican Party front - runner in the county clerk's race, kicked his previously low - key campaign into gear as the Democratic Party was pumping cash into his opponent's effort.

Democratic strategists say it's too early to say whether campaigns themselves would use the issue in widespread television advertising buys, especially given that past efforts to get Congress to expand background checks have proved futile — even following mass shooting events.

Ann Kirkpatrick's campaign bragged that their haul was the «strongest off - year fundraising effort ever» for a Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona.

Matt Fenlon, executive director of the state Democratic Party, said the Democrats had started their coordinated campaign effort earlier than usual, cognizant that Baker probably would have a relatively unfettered path to the GOP nomination.

The state Democratic Party's coordinated campaign — its joint turnout effort with the statewide nominees — is being run by Michael Halle, who was Obama's general election director in North Carolina in 2012 and his deputy field director there in 2008.

«Cuomo has produced probably the most pro-worker agenda in the country as a governor,» said RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, who said Nixon's candidacy would distract from Democratic efforts in legislative campaigns.

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.

Cuomo's office told the New Republic over email that Cuomo has worked to get Democrats elected: «The governor campaigned to get a Democratic Senate but those efforts were unsuccessful.»

The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said the committee will still emphasize that Katko has supported ACA repeal efforts previously, according to Syracuse.com.

But the state Senate is closely divided, and Gianaris is at the fore of the 25 - member Democratic Conference's campaign efforts.

A state Supreme Court justice today thwarted the Onondaga County GOP's effort to kick Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei off the labor - backed Working Families Party line, rejecting the party's argument that the congressman's campaign manager is not a New York resident, and therefore should not have been able to circulate WFP petitions on his behalf.

But he did campaign for Democratic candidates on Long Island and in Westchester County this year, hosted fundraisers and put up his own campaign cash for their efforts.

The White House became involved in the efforts to boost the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, in the closing days of the campaign.

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is investigating whether de Blasio's fundraising efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate violated campaign finance laws.

de Blasio was unequivocal in insisting that neither he nor his «team» violated campaign finance laws in his 2014 efforts at electing Democratic state senate candidates and effecting a change in control of the senate.

Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo, criticized the measure as a cynical effort to shore up progressive support.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

The mayor is facing investigations into whether his unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 as well as fundraising efforts for the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated campaign finance and electiCampaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated campaign finance and electicampaign finance and election laws.

For his part, Mr. Gounardes secured a number of Democratic labor staples for his campaign so far, and managed to mount an aggressive effort to stop the large AFL - CIO from going Mr. Golden's way.

The document alleged the mayor and several unions and wealthy donors conspired to circumvent state campaign donation limits in their effort to flip the State Senate to Democratic control — a move «warranting prosecution,» Ms. Sugarman wrote.

Rozum said she previously volunteered in the «get out the vote» effort in 2008 for the Democratic campaigns of Barack Obama and Dan Maffei.

Recchia, the former Democratic councilman running for congress against scandal - tainted Republican incumbent Michael Grimm, has launched a new campaign effort, the «Kitchen Table Listening Tour,» in which he visits residents in their homes, sits at their kitchen tables and discusses issues with them.

«Even during our deep commitments to the Obama campaign and many other Democratic candidates in 2008, BSD worked hard to diversify our client portfolio into other types of advocacy and membership efforts,» says Blue State Digital managing partner Thomas Gensemer.

HARTFORD — One of the chief architects of the 25 - hour takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives to force a vote on gun control legislation said Friday he didn't agree with efforts by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to raise money off...

Democrat Kevin Kim has raised more than three times the amount of money than Republican Dan Halloran in the race to replace City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), but Halloran's participation in the city's matching funds program has multiplied his fund - raising efforts by six times since September's Democratic primary, according to city campaign finance records.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, is among only 10 vulnerable Republicans targeted nationally by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for a series of digital ads critical of the GOP repeal effort.