Sentences with phrase «democrats wrest»

In 2014, Rechnitz donated another $ 102,300 toward a failed effort led by de Blasio to help Democrats wrest control of the state Senate.

The Man Who Would Be Majority Leader, one of the nation's most powerful posts, should the Democrats wrest control of the august Upper Chamber, does have a challenger after all.

Days before the April 19 special election on Long Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats wrest control of the key district.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

Red Horse Strategies, which played a big role in the 2008 cycle when the Democrats wrested control of the Senate from the GOP, is no longer contracted to work with the conference, although it is still working with individual lawmakers and also is repping independent LG hopeful Bill Samuels.

Not exact matches

By 4:30 a.m. EST today, even with many individual contests unknown, it was apparent the GOP had wrested away control of the Senate from the Democrats and gained even more control in the House.

There's only one problem with this: While it's true that Spitzer pushed very hard to help the Democrats in their quest to wrest the Senate from GOP hands and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into that effort, they didn't actually succeed until 2008 — and we all know how that turned out in the end.

IT»S BACK... «Texas Democrats look to single - payer in congressional races,» by Renuka Rayasam: «Democrats hoping to wrest congressional seats away from diehard repeal - and - replace Republicans are campaigning on an unlikely issue for Texas — single - payer health care.

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Democrats hope to wrest back control of the redistricting process from Republicans ahead of 2020 census

But Democrats say voter dissatisfaction with Washington Republicans and President Donald Trump could help them win more seats in November and wrest control from the GOP.

His departure could handicap Democrats» efforts to wrest control of the Senate from Republicans.

Democratic Suffolk County executive candidate Steve Bellone has launched a last - minute radio ad touting his endorsement by THE local paper of record, Newsday, as the Democrats put the finishing touches on their effort to wrest the top local elected office back from GOP hands.

The ruling is a major blow to Democrats hoping to wrest control of the Senate from the GOP.

Like Mr. Cohen, one of the Republican town board candidates, Mr. Larsen, mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge, trying to wrest an Independence Party ballot spot from either Mr. Bragman or Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, the Democrats who had been cross-endorsed.

With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.

This is a bigger GOP lead than in 1994, the last time Republicans wrested control of Congress from Democrats.

Democrats said they will now focus on winning more seats in November to build a clear majority and wrest Senate control from the GOP.

His reference to having first met Teachout at a meeting of activists opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-- an initiative championed by former president Bill Clinton — was the closest that either one came to open criticism of the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination away from Sanders, and who is viewed askance by many of his most ardent supporters.

Democrat Adam Haber Thursday launched his campaign for the seat held by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the state this year as Democrats attempt to wrest control of the State Senate from Republicans.

KINGSTON >> The state GOP is going all in in the race for the 41st District state Senate seat, which Republican Sue Serino is trying to wrest from incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

Leaving aside the whole redistricting reform question for a moment (and yes, I realize it's a great big wrench in the works), let's consider how much of a factor the Conservative Party was in the 2010 elections, when the GOP successfully wrested the majority back from the Democrats.

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

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The Democrats had just wrested control of the chamber from the GOP's hands, but the margin was slim enough that defection of a few key Democrats could have kept Skelos in power.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been the most powerful Bronx official since he wrested control of the county's Democrats in 2008, but he hasn't had much of a chance to shape its delegation in the Senate.

DeFrancisco suggested during the radio interview that the accusation could be leveraged politically by progressives calling for the Senate Democrats and IDC to reunite and attempt to wrest control of the state Senate from Republicans.

Despite the two wins for the northeast Queens Democrats and the party's other senators in the borough, it appeared the Republicans may have wrested control of the state Senate chamber back from Democrats.

The race between Tenney and Brindisi is considered a must - win for both parties as Democrats try to wrest control of the House from Republicans.

At this morning's delegation breakfast in Clearwater, House Speaker John Boehner talked up VPOTUS nominee Paul Ryan and New York's having wrested a good handful of Congressional seats from Democrats in 2010, but didn't have much to say at all about Republican Wendy Long's chances against incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who collaborated with the Republicans, formed shortly after Mr. Cuomo was inaugurated in 2011 and helped to wrest control from the mainline Democrats in the Senate for years.

But traditional Democrats hope to win enough seats in November to wrest control from Republicans.

The announcement is a blow to the mainstream Democrats, who had hoped a presidential year voter turnout surge would wrest the chamber from Republican control.

A Sad Night for Philly: Democrats» only major win last night was wresting the governor's seat away from the GOP's highly ineffective, highly disappointing incumbent Tom Corbett.