Sentences with phrase «republican primary this year»

Crouch acknowledge that he may have an opponent forcing a Republican Primary this year in Nicholas Libous, the son of the late State Senator Tom Libous:

Doug Hoffman, last year's little - engine - that - could Conservative Party candidate, who ran in the Republican primary this year, conceded the GOP nomination Thursday to Matt Doheny, a largely self - funding businessman who was the choice of the Republican establishment.

Not exact matches

The bottom line is that when Trump blames the filibuster as his primary obstacle to achieving more legislative wins, he is often ignoring underlying factors, mainly that in most cases Republicans can not agree enough to make good on years of promises.

Looking back, last year's Republican primary offered plenty of signs that a breach between the industry and Trump was inevitable.

As Gabriel Sherman, a New York magazine writer whose biography of Ailes will be published next year, pointed out in May 2011 http://nymag.com/news/media/roger-ailes-fox-news-2011-5/, he also tried to persuade Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, to throw his hat in the Republican primary ring.

Green notes that Romney, a Mormon, has consistently won the Catholic vote in this year's Republican primaries.

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich's Catholic Conversion Is Part of a Larger Spiritual Shift in His Life and Politics As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's star continues to rise ahead of GOP Republican primaries, he has had less time for what in recent years has become a calming, soothing Sunday tradition: sitting in the pews at the cavernous National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, praying to Jesus and the Virgin Mary during noon Mass while listening to his wife sing in the choir.

This year's Republican primary season offers us an important opportunity to confront our scruples about the privacy of faith in public life — and to get over them.

The facts are: (a) that he inherited an enormous batch of problems from eight years of incompetent Republican leadership; and (b) the Republicans in Congress have stated quite clearly that their primary goal is to oppose everything President Obama tries to do.

This means that Republican senators who could face a primary challenge (from the right) have a strong incentive not to cooperate and approve a nominee before next year.

The Republicans have a strong candidate this year in Assemblyman Jack Quinn, who will no doubt put up a spirited fight against no matter who wins the Democratic primary.

Doheny noted his primary opponent in this year's race and Long's preferred candidate, Doug Hoffman, sent Scozzafava a congratulatory e-mail following her selection last fall as the Republican nominee that read (as per The Watertown Times on Sept. 28, 2009) that read: «Hi Dede.

The fact that this is a presidential election year stacks the deck against Republicans to begin with in this Democrat - dominated state, although whoever wins the GOP primary will have more time than ususal between then and the November general election to focus on the real target: Gillibrand.

The Republican candidate who wants to challenge the Saratoga County District Attorney in a primary filed for bankruptcy 20 years ago while going through a divorce.

The veteran Harlem Democrat, who is facing mulitple primary challengers for the second year in a row, took his «Republican colleagues» to task for refusing to heed Obama's call for the so - called Buffett Rule to help pay for extending the measure that reduced the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato, who crossed party lines and backed Cuomo for governor four years ago, is endorsing state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in the Republican primary (if there is one) for governor.

Bottom line, this deal rewards the IDC for 7 years of enabling a Republican majority, and guarantees that Democratic Senators will not support or endorse any Democratic primary challengers.

Voters in New Mexico are virtually certain to elect a member of Congress as governor this year, considering Rep. Steve Pearce will be the Republican nominee and Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham is the front - runner in the Democratic primary.

That year, he supported then - incumbent District Attorney Charles Hynes over Thompson in the Democratic primary, then switched his allegiance to Thompson after the challenger triumphed in September and Hynes carried on his campaign on the Republican line.

Of the 12 who ran this year, five Democrats and two Republicans won their primary.

Koch, who swept past Brooklyn assemblyman Frank J. Barbaro and 36 - year - old Melvin Kerensky — an associate of Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr. — to win the Democratic primary and trounced state lawmaker John A. Esposito by a two - to - one margin to capture the Republican nomination, said that he would campaign evenings and weekends while relying heavily on television advertising in the general election.

Langworthy said he's fully behind Walker as the governor gets ready for the Republican primary next year.

Republican digital strategist Patrick Ruffini has been studying Google Trends data in the days before this year's primaries and caucuses.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

A year that began with concerns among members of his team over whether Arizona Sen. John McCain would face a viable primary challenger from his right is ending with the fifth - term Republican looking mostly unfazed.

Ball went on to win the primary, and the Senate Republicans eventually embraced him — even going so far as to say they would defend him this year in a primary battle against Assemblyman Steve Katz.

Long Island Democrat David Calone, who narrowly lost a party primary a year ago, has decided against making a second try next year to take on Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin.

Recall that Paladino said last year he would fund primary campaigns against Senate Republicans, which ultimately showed little success.

Paladino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who surged to a surprise primary victory two years ago against Lazio, endorsed Long on Sunday.

McDonald, one of four GOP senators last year to approve same - sex marriage, is most likely at this point going to lose the Republican line to Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione as the absentee ballot count in the primary race shows him falling irrevocably behind.

Paladino has said he would back Kevin Stocker, a lawyer who has launched a primary against Grisanti, a freshman Republican who is considered especially vulnerable this year.

Paladino last year pledged to support primaries against incumbent Senate Republicans, though none of his direct efforts were successful.

Last year he threatened to fund primary efforts against several Senate Republicans, but those efforts largely failed.

The tea party - backed candidate who tried to defeat Hanna in a primary two years ago won Tuesday night's three - way Republican contest.

Four years later Greenwich businessman Tom Foley, the 2010 nominee, was the clear favorite for the Republican nomination, winning 57 percent of the delegate vote, though he still faced a primary challenger, then - state Sen. John McKinney.

Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat who served for 30 years, died in March, and Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger of North Carolina lost his party's primary Tuesday.

«The Republican rank and file spoke in my primary last year and they sent a very clear message.

James Freedland, a spokesman for attorney general candidate state Sen. Eric T. Schneiderman (D - Manhattan), who voted in 20 of 24 years since registering said: «It's up to Ms. Rice to explain to New York's Democratic primary voters why they should choose a longtime Republican who never participated in the civic process until it served her own political self - interest.»

Essex County Republican Chairman Ronald Jackson said he expects there will be a primary next year for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney will challenge U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna in a Republican primary in 2016, setting up a rematch of her failed bid last year in the 22nd Congressional District.

The Republican primary for a state Assembly seat on Staten Island's South Shore last year was especially nasty.

Unlike last year where the party chairmen could anoint a liberal Republican, this year the voters in NY - 23 will get to vote in a primary to decide who their Republican nominee is.

Four Republicans crossed the aisle to help pass gay marriage in New York last year, and three of them are running for re-election this year, Senators Mark Grisanti, Steve Saland and Roy McDonald, are all facing primary challengers that have come out on the opposite side of the marriage issue.

«I'd assume the governor would put it on primary election day of next year,» said Mark Harris, a Republican consultant in the state.

The Republicans have a problem in that without throwing a bone to their own base upstate that regards Skelos only a step or two behind Cuomo on the «personification of evil» scale, they risk that base vote staying home in close races next year or, even worse, primaries against the senators who voted for Flanagan last week.

State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, R - New Hartford, will launch a second bid to challenge U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R - Barneveld, next year in a Republican primary in the 22nd Congressional District.

New York Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney announced Tuesday she will challenge Rep. Richard Hanna, R - N.Y., in the Republican primary next year, setting up a fight between the three - term tea party state legislator against a moderate incumbent.

At the same time, Democrats say they are ready to run a candidate this year should Boyle win his September primary and resign the seat in the Senate in order for Republicans, potentially to run someone in the November general election.

I was following online media during last year's primaries, and noticed anchors and commentators discussing people's «registration» as Democrats, Republicans or Independents (never for other parties...

Despite his primary opponent's desperate assertion to the contrary On Tuesday, Ohioans will head to the polls for their state's primary election, and the results will lay out a roadmap for a crucial election year in which the Republican and Democratic parties battle for control of the swing state — the first major contests since Donald -LSB-...]