Sentences with phrase «republican voting district»

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Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

Pennsylvania's 18th District lent considerable votes to President Donald Trump in 2016 and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012.

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.

Some Republican representatives in high - tax districts have said they will vote «no» because of the scaling back of the «SALT» deduction.

Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections, and lost the popular vote for Confess, although they have the House because the districts are rigged.

More than 8 - in - 10 (82 percent) say they are voting for or leaning toward Republican candidates in their districts.

Only two Chicago and eight Downstate Democrats voted for the park district bill in the Republican - controlled Senate, and it is expected to face a fight in the Democratic - controlled House.

The commission effectively cracked the Democratic urban center to form three districts that voted Republican.

Likewise, if you apply too many demographic criteria (upper - income women in Texas Congressional District 5 who are aged 30 - 45, with children, are registered Republicans but who haven't voted in the past two elections), you can end up with target universes that are too small to be useful, a great example of diminishing marginal returns.

In the case two Pennsylvania Democrats challenged the state's Republican controlled state legislature for denying the principle of «one person one vote» to them by ensuring their votes would be less likely to impact their representation in a heavily Republican district.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

One household in the district of a registered Democrat and a registered Republican who vote early and often has already received nine campaign mailers in the race.

In the end, however, he and Scozzafava split the Republican and Conservative vote, allowing Democrat Bill Owens a narrow window to victory in a long - held GOP district.

The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

This year, Brooks leads Venditto by 41 votes in the 8th district as Republicans are heading to court to contest the results.

Republican incumbent Michael Venditto's lead in the 8th Senate district has narrowed to 9 votes over Democrat John Brooks after counting in the too - close - to - call Long Island race continued on Monday.

«I got more votes in my district — I ran on three lines — I got more votes on the Democratic line than the Republican and Conservative combined,» he said.

The wave crashed on Long Island last spring when Democrat Christine Pellegrino won an Assembly seat in a district that had been in Republican hands for decades, and had voted overwhelming for Trump in 2016.

She faces Republican Tom Ognibene, an attorney and Gallagher's predecessor in the office, in a district where Democrats heavily outnumber Republicans but often vote conservatively.

In past redistricting cycles, the district lines suggested Republicans sought to dilute the Orthodox vote.

Consider that Republican Robert Castelli beat Democrat Peter Harckham in the February 2010 special election for the 89th Assembly District in Westchester County, while Castelli won by only 105 votes over Democrat Thomas Roach in November.

Given the intensity of the combined attacks from the Lowey campaign, the local media, and the county Republican chairman, I am very pleased with receiving 38 % of the total vote, with many districts reporting over 60 %.

Faso, R - Kinderhook, whose district includes Ulster and Sullivan counties, was one of five Republicans from New York who voted against the bill.

New York's 3rd Congressional District's Republican primary had the second smallest margin of victory of any race in the 2014 primary season and the least number of votes separating the primary winner from the loser.

He stated that his intention was to bring out more Republican vote in the district and not to derail Trott.

With the vote still in doubt, all eyes turned to a freshman Democratic from a historically Republican district, Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky.

The map, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, «consolidated the Federalist Party vote in a few districts and thus gave disproportionate representation to Democratic - Republicans.»

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

Four of the 27 House representatives from New York voted in favor of the tax bill, which passed 227 - 205: Claudia Tenney, 22nd district; Tom Reed, 23rd; John Katko, 24th; and Chris Collins, 27th, all Republicans.

And one of the Republicans who voted «yes» on marriage in New York was approached by a major corporation who is the largest employer in his district and told in no uncertain terms that they wanted the marriage equality bill to pass.

In recent days, Rice's voting history has been an issue since news reports surfaced that the Republican - turned - Democrat Nassau County District Attorney failed to vote for nearly two decades after she registered.

While Democrats start behind in the vote in the second - tier districts, a balanced battle on the Ryan budget and tax cuts erodes the Republican advantage by two - thirds, getting Democrats to within 3 points in these districts.

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

Despite the district voting for President Barack Obama in 2008, Republican Mitt Romney won the district in 2012 by 2.6 percentage points.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

The poll found Lipinski has a lead against a generic Republican, 51 percent to 20 percent, in this district, which voted for Obama by a 14 - point margin in 2012.

After electing Tony Avella twice, the district voted Dan Halloran, a law - and - order style Republican, into office in 2009.

And as the Democrats usually don't run anyone for County Legislator in my district, I have voted for Jim Maisano, who is a Republican.

One of their first steps would almost certainly be to shore up McSally's district, which voted 50 - 48 for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in 2012.

In the race for Brooklyn District Attorney, Democrat Eric Gonzalez was on the path to being elected to a full term, with 89 percent of the vote compared with 11 percent for Republican Vincent Gentile.

With backing from the Republican and Conservative parties, Bohen defeated Democrat Patrick B. Burke with 52 percent of the vote in last Tuesday's special eleciton in an Erie County district where there are more than twice as many Democrats as GOPers.

But the district was drawn four years ago specifically to be as advantageous to Republicans as possible, and they've since performed well there: Republican Mark Grisanti got over half the vote in a four - way race in 2012, and outgoing Democrat Marc Panepinto won with only 33 percent of the vote in 2014 when three registered Republicans and Conservatives split the remaining 67 percent.

But then, running as a Republican in the general election, Friedrich got 7,300 votes out of a total of almost 25,000, in a district where Democratic registration runs 5 - to - 1 against the GOP.

The new district has added 70,000 new voting age white Republican leaning residents who were in Peter King's district for the last 10 years.

Even though it's four lawmakers, the letter is reminder of the power of the so - called «Long Island Nine» a voting bloc of Republican senators from Long Island who often push for education aid and assistance to the school districts of Suffolk and Nassau counties.

She faces a rematch from Republican former Assemblyman George Amedore, who she defeated in the 46th Senate district two years ago by only 18 votes.

While predominantly Republican, the GOP conference isn't leaving anything to chance in the Southern Tier district, where its largest county, Broome, voted to re-elect Cuomo last year (one of only a handful of upstate counties that backed the incumbent Democrat over Republican Rob Astorino).

Historically, the Republican Party has been strongest in upstate New York where, until the 1970s, the state constitution apportioned voting districts «in such a manner that allowed more votes to be cast per voting district.»

Masterpole led Republican Steve Kimatian 57 percent to 43 percent, holding onto more than a 2,012 vote lead in unofficial results, with 99 percent of the election districts reporting.