Sentences with phrase «republican primary against»

Stocker actually won a 2014 Republican primary against then - incumbent Sen. Mark Grisanti.

That caused McKinney, who is running for governor in Tuesday's Republican primary against business executive Tom Foley, to be an hour and 15 minutes late for his campaign appearance at the Greenwich Senior Center.

Stephen Ruth, an anti-red light camera activist who pleaded guilty to vandalizing county cameras earlier this year, filed signatures last week to run a Republican primary against Suffolk County Legis.

When I asked about recent efforts by Republican leaders to grant a Wilson - Pakula to Bo Dietl, which would allow Dietl to run in the Republican primary against Massey, Massey sought to brush off any concerns.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Oneida Indian Nation said today it will give its financial and political support to U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna in his Republican primary against state Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

And a former Republican state chairman, Richard M. Rosenbaum, says he plans to circulate petitions to run in the Republican primary against Mr. Pataki.

Long's campaign is hoping that her deep ties to conservative activists can help in the Republican primary against Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and that those ties might encourage ideological donors to support her with super PAC money against the better - funded campaign of Gillibrand.

Altschuler won a three - way Republican primary against former SEC attorney George Demos and Richard Nixon grandson Chris Cox, the son of state GOP chairman Ed Cox who joined the field in January in a move that reverberated for Republican politics statewide.

Haley is locked in a four - way Republican primary against Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, state Attorney General Henry McMaster and U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett.

Stocker remains on the ballot for a Republican primary against Jacobs.

A Republican source said Conservative leaders threatened to withhold support for town candidates if the GOP executive committee allowed DeMarco to run a Republican primary against Boyle.

It's not surprising Donovan was out touting his proposal in the midst of a brutal Republican primary against Michael Grimm.

It was his first national interview since winning the Republican primary against former Rep. Rick Lazio.

Tennessee — OPEN, Bill Frist (R): Former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker remains the favorite in the three - way Republican primary against former Reps. Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant — bad news for Rep. Harold Ford Jr.'s (D) chances in the fall.

There are less than three weeks to go until primary day, and Claudia Tenney, who is running for Congress in a Republican primary against 22nd Congressional District Republican Richard Hanna, continues to push for a debate with her opponent.

The endorsement for Donovan comes as he is embroiled in an increasingly nasty re-election campaign in a Republican primary against former Rep. Michael Grimm.

Elise Stefanik declares victory in her Republican primary against Matt Doheny.

Republicans» first choice is state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., the son of the revered former governor, and a second place finisher in the 2000 Republican primary against Ferguson.

It came after he and his political advisers concluded over the weekend that he could not win a Republican primary against a conservative challenger, particularly in light of his vote for the president's economic stimulus package.

He was an upstart, running in the Republican primary against two sitting congressmen, but he was making a serious go of it and people were talking about him.

Marchione was first elected after winning a Republican primary against Sen. Roy McDonald, one of the GOP lawmakers who voted in favor of the legalization of same - sex marriage.

How can I register as a candidate to run in the Republican primary against a sitting Republican congressman?

Not exact matches

The Republican civil war that erupted over the Tea Party's disregard of big business's agenda threatens to turn (big) business brother against (small) business brother in the 2014 Republican primaries.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

Holmes had been highly critical of both Moore, who was alleged of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who had boosted Moore's candidacy since the primary against Republican Sen. Luther Strange, who was McConnell's preferred candidate.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

Lisa Fritsch, who ran against Greg Abbott in the Republican Primary for Governor of Texas in 2014, discussed the importance -LSB-...]

The GOP primary in the state's 16th district could also prove interesting: Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger has spoken out against Trump and as a result, could lose votes to pro-Trump businessman Jim Marter.

Mr. Scott can afford to break with the gun lobby now because he is unlikely to face a Republican primary in his expected Senate campaign against Bill Nelson, the Democratic incumbent, in the midterms in November.

There is more Democratic money, but it's being spent on primary battles within the party, leaving less for the fight against Republicans in November.

Most of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates couldn't make a coherent case against Obama / Romney - style health care policy to Republican primary voters ever mind non-Republican young people.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

Perhaps coincidentally, Flake is doing badly against his Republican primary opponent, even though her behavior is a reminder that the best argument against conservative populism is the people who run as conservative populists.

The other non-Romney Republican presidential candidates either couldn't or wouldn't make a case against Romneycare that could win over the right - of - center voters that populate Republican primaries and caucuses.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

Republican Richard Mourdock, who beat out the respected Senator Richard Lugar in a fierce primary battle, squared off against Democrat Joe Donnelly.

He's intent on running primary candidates against key WNY Republican senators and on ousting Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Bellavia predicted victory in today's GOP primary, despite facing off against a better - funded and better - known candidate who has the support of the Republican establishment (along with 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino).

Trump calls Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders «crazy Bernie,» but that has not stopped the Republican candidate from borrowing from Clinton's Democratic primary rival, whom he also frequently praises from the stump, on how to run against Clinton — his likely opponent in the general election.

Barack Obama's capture of 71 percent of the Latino vote was widely attributed to harsh rhetoric against illegal immigrants during the Republican primaries, including Mitt Romney's promise to make them self - deport.

The party did the same thing in NY - 18, bumping Larry Weissmann in favor of former Spitzer / Paterson administration aide Sean Patrick Maloney, who won the June Democratic primary and is facing off against Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in November.

Malpass and Blakeman are sure losers, and of the polling that's been floating around, DioGuardi has the edge among Republican primary contenders and, if I recall correctly, also does better against Gillibrand than the others.

Sen. Mark Grisanti, one of the Senate Republicans» most vulnerable members who must first succeed in Thursday's primary election against attorney Kevin Stocker before defending his seat in November against the Democratic primary winner, announced that he has landed the coveted endorsement of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

«I assure you, if I can get past this Republican primary on June 26, I have 14 words that I'm going to use in the first debate against Kirsten Gillibrand: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,» Long said at the New York Rifle and Pistol Association's annual meeting and BBQ on June 9 in Walkill.

There has been much head scratching among GOP observers today in reaction to the news that state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox encouraged Orange County Executive Ed Diana to join the fray against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, creating a four - way primary for Row B.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is backing a push by the state Democratic Committee to find a primary opponent against Sen. Simcha Felder, the Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans in the state Senate and is a pivotal member of the GOP's retained majority in the chamber.

He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

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.

DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, is yet to formally drop out of the race, but has pledged to not run a primary bid against Molinaro.