Sentences with phrase «democrats last election cycle»

Case in point: Tom Steyer (who made most of his fortune in the coal industry but is now heavily invested in «green» projects) gave $ 50 million to Democrats last election cycle in exchange for their promise to elevate climate change as an issue.

Not exact matches

The Senate was «remade» last election cycle after two deplorable years of Democrats ruling each branch of government.

At the same time, during the last presidential election cycle in 2012, Democrats were $ 1.5 million in debt.

Democrats had a registration of 5.2 million, showing steady growth of the party in the last two election cycles.

In last year's election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baiting.

During the 31 - day stalemate last summer, Breslin was among the reform - minded Democrats who expressed strong reservations against accepting Espada back into the conference — even if that meant relegating themselves to the minority until the next election cycle.

The district has changed hands between the GOP and the Democrats over the last several election cycles, and its current representative, Democrat Dan Maffei, lost his seat once before to a conservative Republican who accused him to being too liberal for this centrist region.

«Over the last four election cycles, Republican efforts have been unsuccessful in stopping Democrats from winning these elections and taking control in key states,» said James Erp, who will run the AMP.

But last cycle, in what was supposed to be a competitive election, Coffman defeated Democrat Andrew Romanoff by nearly 9 points.

Senate Democrats have over the last several presidential election cycles gained seats in the Senate.

New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox in a lengthy statement on Thursday insisted there was no «blue wave» for Democrats in last week's off - cycle elections, but instead a series of local confluences that led to GOP defeats.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

And even though Cuomo is going farther in this election cycle than at any point in the last decade to push Senate Democrats, he could still do more — and his persistent skeptics are loath to call in a sincere commitment.

That's why he spent millions of his personal fortune in the last two election cycles promoting liberal causes and supporting Democrat candidates: in order — as he puts it on the website of his NextGenClimate SuperPac — to «prevent climate disaster.»

But he'd rather hurt white, middle class American men who will build the pipeline and work in the refineries, because Tom Steyer needs a consolation prize after failing to buy several Democrat Senators with his $ 75 million spending spree in the last election cycle.

Groty: But he'd rather hurt white, middle class American men who will build the pipeline and work in the refineries, because Tom Steyer needs a consolation prize after failing to buy several Democrat Senators with his $ 75 million spending spree in the last election cycle.