Sentences with phrase «republicans over his vote»

Update: Bridge Project is also running digital ads targeting 24 House Republicans over the vote.

Sen. Jon Tester, D - Mont., could face challenges from Republicans over his vote against the continuing resolution to reopen the government, and Pennsylvania might get a new district map.

Paul, who's actively courting support from African - Americans and other minority voters, sees this as an opportunity to set himself apart from the deluge of criticism aimed at Republicans over voting rights.

Not exact matches

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

Tea Party Republicans, for example, might worry that a straight up and down vote on trade might give the president too much influence over economic policy.

Santorum also issued a statement with a similar claim: «I would never vote for Barack Obama over any Republican and to suggest otherwise is preposterous.

Over the weekend, dozens of Republican senators and congressmen vowed they would not vote for him, with many calling on him to step aside.

But 18 Republicans voted against it over objections to gun control measures they believe violate the Second Amendment.

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

Then future Republican nominees can complain about voting blocs who are won over by «gifts» from Democrats.

The Republicans lost the popular vote for the House of Representatives by over 1.3 million votes.

Trump won over sixty - five percent of the Republican vote in Erie County.

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But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

While the bishops don't talk about dwindling contributions for political reasons (hey, they're Republicans) we know they are closing churches all over America and don't seem to be willing to finance anti-gay marriage equality votes any more.

A vote that is vitally needed, to keep the Republicans from taking over congress.

Only about half of Protestant pastors say they plan to vote for Republican John McCain in the upcoming presidential election, but McCain still holds a substantial lead over Democrat Barack Obama, for whom less than one - quarter of pastors polled indicate they will vote...

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

I will not vote for any Republican because they have been taken over by the Christian Right.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to bring the Waxman - Markey bill to a vote on Friday over the objections of farm - and coal - state Democrats and almost all Republicans, figuring that she has the votes to pass it.

Still I would vote for Huntsman over Romney and either one over any of the other right wing nutjobs the Republican base is holding up.

Know this... the republicans won over 60 % of the white vote and lost the election... this have never before happened.

So, that's 111 Democrats who voted for it, which pushed it over the edge, and thus, your statement that Republicans started the war isn't correct.

The party may very well not represent many of their views (those ~ 20 % libertarians are among the examples you list, who largely disagree with Republicans on social issues like gay marriage - yet, they tend to vote Republican, over other issues like fiscal policy)

tactical political reasons (progressive atheists aren't likely to vote for a Republican even if he's an atheist so no votes to be picked up there; a far smaller # of people who are conservative atheists similarly wouldn't require politician to be atheist to vote for him in the first place; and non-atheists wouldn't be more likely to vote for an atheist over his professed lack of belief and may be more likely to NOT vote for the person if they are deeply religious).

Seven New York Republicans in the House of Representatives last week voted against the Republican - backed budget plan, with several citing concerns over the end to deductions.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

So, as a practical matter, I think Dave has shown that he's voted consistently with the Republicans over the past couple of years, and there's really no reason to go after him to maintain the voting base that we want to move New York State forward.»

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who faces skepticism from upstate Republicans and gun owners over his vote in favor of the SAFE Act, has said a repeal is highly unlikely.

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.

State Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

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 %.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

Hanna shares some similarities to Pataki that could help attract crossover votes from Democrats in a state where the party has a two - to - one enrollment advantage over Republicans.

In 2012, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D - Mo., received more votes in the Show - Me State than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, buoyed, in part, by the outrage over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin's «legitimate rape» comments.

All 12 states voted in favor of Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Cuomo said.

If genuinely bipartisan legislation signed into law by Republican presidents did not win over Latino voters, why would legislation receiving more Democratic than Republican votes in Congress that is signed into law by Barack Obama?

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

The moderate Republican gained national attention this year when he became the only GOP member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Hillary Clinton for president over Donald Trump.

Colety's endorsement pushed Molinaro over the 75 percent threshold of the weighted nominating vote, assuming Republican committee members vote with their county leaders at the party's convention in May.

It's not helpful to Rice that Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in California, also had a roughly twenty - year gap of missed votes, which Dems on the West Coast are pounding her over on a weekly basis (this actually strikes me as one of the ways the story will be kept alive, and I will be surprised if someone doesn't do an attack on the DA yoking her to Whitman).

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

The Erie County Conservative Party was poised to vote tonight to endorse Democratic County Legislator Chuck Swanick over Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti in a move that could have a significant impact on the impending battle for control of the Senate chamber.

I spoke late this morning with one Republican who said ultimately McDonald was just too exhausted to press on, noting he has spent over a year on the defensive since his «yes» vote on the gay marriage bill last June caused conservatives to target him.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

«In short, the Republicans have an interest in having as few people as possible voting,» said Gianaris, whose party enjoys a significant enrollment advantage over the GOP in blue New York.

At this moment, Republican candidate David Storobin has a 119 vote lead over his Democratic opponent Lew Fidler in last Tuesday's State Senate special election in Brooklyn, up one vote from yesterday, according to a source following the proceedings.

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.