Sentences with phrase «republican wave election»

If that feels unfair, don't forget the Republican wave election of 2010, which ushered in the Year of School Choice.

State assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a Democrat, is a ten - time winner for the office — he did lose once, back in the Republican wave election of 1994, but recouped in 1998 after sitting out two terms, to roll up nine straight.

The 2010 Republican wave election was an exception as Senate Republicans won a 21 - seat majority, their largest ever in the chamber.

Not exact matches

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

Scott's candidacy is a bright spot for Republicans in a year where Democratic enthusiasm is expected to be overwhelming, as evidenced by the recent wave of recent Democratic victories in special elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

Regarding those elections, Democrats hope that the Jones win portends an election wave, but the Republican seawall is high.

It would not have been that hard to divide Iowa into four districts where two were Republican and two were Democrat such that only a huge wave election could have resulted in three Republicans winning.

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

With Democrats performing well in special elections last week and predicting an anti-Trump blue wave in New York in November, Republicans are seeing a silver lining from a state Assembly special election in Buffalo last Tuesday.

As Republicans face a potential Democratic wave in this year's midterm elections, outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake argued that his party «might not deserve to lead» given its support for Trump.

Democrats hope to retake the chamber soon, either after two special Senate elections April 24 or after the November elections, when they hope dissatisfaction with Republican President Donald Trump leads to a Democratic wave.

Andrew Cuomo may have won re-election, but New York was no exception to the national Republican wave in yesterday's elections.

They've talked about wave elections, millennial voters, the state of the Republican Party, independent expenditures and specific states.

As a national Republican wave crested on Election Day, there were several campaigns in both parties that stood out as outstanding operations.

TROY - Republicans in the Capital Region appeared to beat back the Democratic wave that hit the rest of the state in special elections on Tuesday.

The Republican wave that swept across Suffolk County Tuesday didn't stop short of Southold, where GOP incumbent Dave Bergen won a special election for an abbreviated term on the town's Board of Trustees.

Four weeks from Election Day, a Republican super PAC is rolling out a wave of television ads attacking Democrats in eight House districts.

It's been Republican almost forever: the GOP won borough council seats despite national Democratic wave elections, 1964 and 1974.

The indictment of Libous is likely to send shock waves through the state Senate, which is already embroiled in a complicated leadership battle as the five - member Independent Democratic Conference has announced it will end its coalition with the Republican conference after this year's elections.

Rank - and - file lawmakers and members of the conference leadership are blaming a Republican «wave» that contributed to their losses on Election Day, including the unseating of three freshman Democrats from upstate districts.

Trump's decision Saturday to intervene in the Alabama special election followed weeks of pleas from senior Republicans who fear that a loss will invite a wave of primary challenges against GOP incumbents and damage the party in the 2018 midterms.

For a year, the big question in political circles has been whether Tuesday's midterm elections will be a Republican «wave.»

By the time a September Primary decides which Democrat wins, there's not enough time for the Republican to wave his hands and say, «Hey, there's another election coming up.

The 2014 midterms were the Beach Boys election — because when you catch a wave, which is what the Republicans have just done, you're sitting on top of the world...

If not, the Republican TV onslaught seeking to link Democratic incumbents and challengers to the party's unpopular policies in Washington will assert itself and make a wave election not just a possibility but a likelihood.

Democratic Nassau County Executive - elect Laura Curran rode a relentless anti-corruption campaign message — boosted by the anti-Trump wave seen in other suburbs — to take parts of the county that Republicans typically dominate in local elections, political analysts said.

New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox in a lengthy statement on Thursday insisted there was no «blue wave» for Democrats in last week's off - cycle elections, but instead a series of local confluences that led to GOP defeats.

Despite the national media's narrative of a political «blue wave» in this year's elections, Republicans have their own story to tell in New York.

Right now Republicans are in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa surfs a wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.

The Democratic majority persisted in the next three election cycles, despite national Republican waves in 2010 and 2014.

Corbett, a Republican who rode the Tea Party election wave in 2010, supports a major voucher expansion that is working its way through the state legislature.

Will a Democratic wave election spell doom even for popular, reform - seeking Republicans in deep blue states, namely Charlie Baker (Massachusetts), Larry Hogan (Maryland), and Bruce Rauner (Illinois)?