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In the Republican gubernatorial contest, the poll indicates business man Rick Scott leading Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum 43 to 32 percent among likely GOP primary voters, with more than one in five undecided.
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Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.
ALBANY — Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination.
An internal poll released late yesterday suggests that independent candidate Eliot Cutler might be picking up momentum in his bid to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage in Maine's three - cornered gubernatorial contest.
«With the candidates now set, the Republican gubernatorial primary will be a brutal contest between the worst of Washington and the worst of Tallahassee.
Earlier this month Paladino, a Buffalo businessman and developer, defeated Lazio 62 to 38 percent in New York's primary contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
He said the probes into Cuomo and de Blasio should help the Republicans in the 2017 mayoral elections and the 2018 gubernatorial contest.
With the political season gearing up, the disparity between the high - profile gubernatorial contest, which features more than a dozen Republican candidates, and the lonely slog of the congressional aspirants couldn't be starker.
Navy veteran Mary Buzuma is polling the difference between Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a former congressman and ex-Minority Leader of the State Senate, in Michigan's tightly - contested gubernatorial contest.
Last week's unexpected exit of Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb from the Republican gubernatorial field has muddied, not clarified, the contest for the right to take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November.
Republicans also picked up six congressional seats — more than in any other state — although they failed to win even a single statewide contest (many blame gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for dragging down the party's best hope, state comptroller contender Harry Wilson).
So it is, with the retirement of Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, that the contest shapes up between former gubernatorial candidate, Democrat Zephyr Teachout and former state assemblyman (and also one time candidate for State Attorney General) Republican John Faso, both of whom lost those races to Andrew Cuomo.
Earlier this month, Buffalo businessman and developer Carl Paladino defeated Lazio 62 to 38 percent in New York's primary contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
Republicans retorted that their candidate, dairy magnate and two - time gubernatorial primary loser Jim Oberweis, was fatally flawed — so the race could not be used as a barometer for other contests.
As for Trump, Long said the demand of the mega-builder star of TV's «Apprentice» that Astorino drop out of the gubernatorial contest before he would agree to be the Republican candidate convinced him Trump isn't serious about the race.
But in his reaction to businessman's Rick Scott's victory over Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Sunshine state's Republican gubernatorial primary, Murtaugh barely mentioned Scott in his statement, only saying that «Intraparty struggles are often difficult to watch, and the contest in Florida has been a good example of that.
The highest - profile contest was for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, which was won outright by Rep. Ernest Istook.
(CNN)- Voters head to the polls in West Virginia on Tuesday in a gubernatorial contest in which national Republicans are trying to tie the Democratic governor to President Barack Obama.
(CNN)-- The Lone Star state held its primary contests Tuesday, kicking off the 2014 election season with two top Republicans guarding their seats in Congress against conservative challengers and gubernatorial candidates Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott ready to square off in November.
With no public polling to date in Connecticut's hotly contested gubernatorial election, political observers are closely examining the reports to determine who is ahead in the crowded Republican and Democratic fields.
One of the nation's most - watched gubernatorial contests is still too close to call, with incumbent Republican Rick Scott barely leading Democrat Charlie Crist.
«As the unexpectedly contested Florida Republican gubernatorial primary enters its final month, a winner has started to emerge after the millions in negative TV ads plastered across the state by state Attorney General Bill McCollum and wealthy businessman Rick Scott — and that lucky candidate is Democratic candidate Alex Sink.
Republicans have had a dismal track record in Colorado over the past decade, losing three U.S. Senate races, two presidential contests and one gubernatorial election.
Washington (CNN)- No clear winner emerged Tuesday from the hard - fought runoff for the Georgia Republican gubernatorial nomination, setting up a possible recount to settle this GOP contest less than three months before the November election.
As of last Thursday, Republican Thomas H. Kean apparently had won a narrow victory over Democratic candidate James J. Florio in the New Jersey gubernatorial contest.
The outcomes of the three dozen gubernatorial contests Nov. 7 put a majority of the states» highest offices, 28, in Democratic hands for the first time since the banner Republican year of 1994.