Sentences with phrase «republican challengers»

Twelve Republican challengers replaced Democratic governors during the 2010 midterm elections.

She's not even the best known candidate among Gillibrand's would - be Republican challengers, since minor - celebrity congressman Bob Turner got into the race.

On Monday, after coasting to the Conservative Party nomination in Manhattan, Long said she wasn't worried about her ability to raise the money necessary to compete with Gillibrand, who had $ 8 million in her campaign account at the end of December, and has been raising aggressively since then, in part by using her Republican challengers as a foil.

The survey also shows that Klobuchar would lead any one of five potential Republican challengers in her 2012 re-election bid.

As it stands, none of the Republican challengers is likely to get much help from the the national Republican Party, which is prioritizing the more traditional battleground states in its effort to regain control of the Senate.

YNN's Bill Carey had a little chit chat with US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today to get her take on what was one of the more memorable moments from Tuesday's debate between her three Republican challengers.

Democratic incumbents in key upstate Senate districts all trail their Republican challengers by double digit percentage points in a trio of Siena College polls released this morning.

The Business Council is backing Republican challengers in key Senate swing districts, the statewide lobby group on Tuesday announced.

The Business Council today endorsed Republican challengers Sue Serino, George Amedore and Rich Funke — all of whom are running to unseat Democratic incumbents.

The Republican challengers remain ahead in two of the races, and one has tightened to become a statistical dead heat, which means we should get ready for a long election night — possibly with some contests too close to call without a tally of the paper ballots.

Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double - digit margins, the poll showed.

Pennsylvania voters have a lot of races to settle in the primary election, including picking Republican challengers to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.

Since there will be no Republican challengers in the general election, Wills will be serving the remaining two years left in the Council term that was vacated in 2010 when Thomas White died.

The analysis also found that when they raised money in their districts, certain towns favored the incumbent and others the Republican challengers.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed Lhota would handily beat all other Republican challengers for the nomination.

Marc Alessi of Shoreham, who trail Republican challengers Randy Altschuler and Suffolk Legis.

A new poll in California indicates that the Golden State governor's approval rating is soaring and that he's far ahead of his Republican challengers as he runs this year for an unprecedented fourth term in office.

Though the super PAC will follow 2018 election efforts, it is not involved with any of the potential 2018 Republican challengers for governor.

If the 2016 presidential election were held today, Hillary Clinton would be the front - runner against a host of potential Republican challengers by double digits.

Meanwhile, a U.S. District Court is expected to rule soon on whether the Republican challengers will be permitted to intervene in the federal lawsuit that argues the challenge / fee system violates the U.S. Read more»

• In the 23rd Congressional District, Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh, and one of his Republican challengers still had not filed their disclosure forms early Thursday night.

With the New Jersey Senate and Assembly included, Democrats in 2017 collectively sought to defend 80 state legislative seats against Republican challengers.

This means that on November 7, 2017, Democrats sought to defend six seats against Republican challengers, while Republicans sought to defend 54 seats against Democratic challengers.

What that suggests is that the gap in online support is really more about the type of candidates on offer, and not just a sign of Republican challengers en masse doing better than Democratic incumbents.

De Blasio's Republican challengers made it clear that even though Lopez Rivera will not be an honoree, they are not dropping their complaints about how the mayor handled things.

Cuomo also faces two Republican challengers for governor, Deputy State Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, and Dutchess county Executive Marc Molinaro.

Cuomo also leads Republican challengers Marc Molinaro and John DeFrancisco by large margins, at 57 - 31 % and 56 to 32 %..

All three of Ms. Gillibrand's Republican challengers made shaking up Washington and reining in profligate spending a centerpiece of their campaigns.

Siena finds both incumbent US Senators have a comfortable lead over their Republican challengers.

The poll also showed Cuomo with a two - to - one advantage over potential Republican challengers state Sen. John DeFrancisco and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, per The New York Times.

That's it,» Susan Swecker, chair of the Democratic Party in Virginia, said of the slate of Republican challengers.

But at this point in 2010, on our then - Democratic House battleground survey, Republican challengers held a 5 - point advantage over Democratic incumbents (42 to 47).

The Republican challengers, Assemblywoman...

The Governor's favorability rating was steady, but his job performance and re-elect ratings slipped a little, according to Siena, which says voters prefer Cuomo by wide margins over a potential Democratic challenger, Cynthia Nixon, and either of the leading Republican challengers.

The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers.

After announcing Sunday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination to take on President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, Pawlenty is trailing in national polls which put him in about fifth or sixth place among Republican challengers.

All three are seen as vulnerable to Republican challengers.

At a campaign stop in the Capital Region this afternoon, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand did not have much to say about her slipping lead over her Republican challengers, according to the latest Siena Poll.

Saturday is a crucial fundraising deadline and it's so important that Kathy and Louise prove their strength to their Republican challengers.

She is now trailing all of her Republican challengers with that crucial voting bloc.

Two of de Blasio's potential Republican challengers declined to release their taxes this week, for different reasons.

Gillibrand herself has three potential Republican challengers, who will face off in the June 26 primary: Attorney Wendy Long, who has the Conservative Party line; Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos and Rep. Bob Turner, who was drawn by Mann out of his NY - 9 district.

One day after the release of a Siena College poll showing Cuomo with sizable leads over his potential Republican challengers, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's campaign critiqued past public polls and insisted that the incumbent Democratic governor can be defeated this year.

Attorney Wendy Long so far is the only one of Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's three Republican challengers to weigh in on the budget plan proposed by the House Budget Committee chairman, Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan earlier today.

The Quinnipiac poll, which follows a recent Siena Poll showing Gillibrand with her highest approval and lowest disapproval numbers by Siena in 8 months, gives the Senator a more than 2 to 1 lead over her three potential Republican challengers.

This isn't terribly surprising, given the wide double - digit lead Cuomo has over both his would - be Republican challengers.

And, for now, he has not drawn an especially strong group of Republican challengers as he runs for a third term later this year.

De Blasio sought to help Democrats take full control of the state Senate last year, only to have three upstate incumbents lose to Republican challengers last fall.

«House Democrats have tried to obstruct our agenda at every turn and our Republican challengers are ready to hold them accountable.»

Rep. Kathy Hochul is starting her bid for re-election with a huge financial head start against her potential Republican challengers.