Sentences with phrase «republicans running for election»

The former Senator from Pennsylvania and possible 2012 GOP presidential hopeful campaigns for fellow Republicans running for election this year in Iowa on Monday and Tuesday and in South Carolina Wednesday and Thursday of next week.

Not exact matches

Benioff raised more than $ 500,000 for President Barack Obama's second term election, but also gave $ 10,000 to Paul Ryan's run for House before the Republican was named Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 election.

At the time, Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for president in the 2016 election and was running against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House, intends to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year as a Democrat, according to a filing he made recently with federal elections officials.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

If you're running for election as a Republican, it may have encouraged you to change your strategy.

It feels as if Ayn Rand has been brought into this election campaign like Reagan was in the previous Republican run for President.

The election is historic for many reasons: the first African - American candidate (Barack Obama), the oldest man to run for a first term in the White House (John McCain), the first female Republican Vice-Presidential candidate (Sarah Palin) and the most boring Democrat Barack Obama could find for a running mate (Joe Biden).

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long just told me that he has received an assurance from state GOP Chairman Ed Cox that the Republicans are probably going to scrap their controversial plan to establish an independent line for all their designees to run on in the general election.

This year, Niccoli in a statement said her daughter will do so again and faulted Amedore for not going far enough in scaling back the standards, despite having run in 2014 on the ballot line Stop Common Core (former by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, the line was renamed the «Reform Party» after the election).

The Politicker's Colin Campbell notes that the Queens Conservative vs. Republican dynamic in this race is now playing out similarly to what happened in the lead up to the NY - 9 special election last year, in which the GOP pushed for Reyes, a former attorney in the Giuliani administration, to get the nod to run for ex-Rep.

Many Republican members of Congress are dismissing Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent special election victory in a GOP - dominated Pennsylvania district as a one - off, giving a number of reasons for his strong performance — from a poor campaign run by his opponent to the Democrat's notably conservative views.

Bohen, a Democrat, ran in last week's special election with the local Republican committee's support after failing to gain his party's endorsement for the special election.

Republican Ken Cuccinelli II and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are running parallel scavenger hunts for Virginians inclined to their side but not yet certain to show up on Election Day.

Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has created a campaign committee geared toward running for the state Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bill Larkin, a filing at the Board of Elections shows.

Republican Party leaders picked Julie Killian to run in a state Senate special election for an open seat that could shift New York's power structure, selecting the former Rye city councilwoman over former Yonkers inspector general Dan Schorr.

Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner has filed to run for the state Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Sue Serino, according to a state Board of Elections filing.

The Republican Candidate for Buffalo Mayor is filing a formal complaint with the State Board of Elections over a campaign ad run by Democratic Incumbent Byron Brown.

Republican Sen. Phil Boyle has formally filed with the state Board of Elections to run for sheriff of Suffolk County.

Erik Bohen boasted during his successful campaign for the Assembly 142nd District seat in yesterday's special election that, despite running on the Republican line, he would join the Assembly Democratic conference upon his arrival in Albany.

Nixon said she had been asked about running for office before but always said no — until the election of Republican President Donald Trump convinced her that she had to do more.

After announcing Sunday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination to take on President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, Pawlenty is trailing in national polls which put him in about fifth or sixth place among Republican challengers.

Nowadays, a billionaire Independent can buy the election and wouldn't even need a powerful Democratic house to bolster their ranks as the Republican party is so weak former police commissioner Ray Kelly, Marty Gold, and even Dan Halloran have been rumored to run for mayor.

«I officially notified the Board of Elections I am declining the Republican, Conservative and Independence party nominations to run for the New York State Senate.

Muscarella also stated in the affidavit that McDonald told him he understood Jacob's goal was to generate negative publicity from an indictment shortly before the 2016 election that would help defeat John Venditto's son, Michael, who was running for the state Senate on the Republican line, and help the Democrats gain Senate control in Albany.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

While Boyle says he might still run for Sheriff as a Democrat (the Democratic County leadership would have to give him permission), State Republicans are breathing a momentary sigh of relief since they might not have to fight a special election for his swing Senate seat.

Party insiders say that's enough to keep operations running (payroll, general bills etc.) through the end of the summer, and that doesn't leave much — if anything — left over for the elections in what is supposed to be a great year for Republicans.

The Republican - Conservative lawmaker, who is running for a third term in the House, was indicted in April on a litany of criminal charges stemming from alleged wrongdoing in a health food restaurant he owned in Manhattan prior to his election to congress in 2010.

The Minnesota Republican, who ran for president in 2012, was responding to a question posed Tuesday by CNN's Van Jones on «Crossfire» on whether Warren might be somebody who could pull away Republican votes in a presidential election.

As an independent, he then won the special election to succeed himself, but resigned again to run for the Senate seat due to Republicans» strong control of the state House.

Republicans had hoped that they'd see some support from the 10 Democrats running for re-election in states won by Trump in the presidential election, but four of those senators — Nelson, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin — have already said they will oppose the nominee.

No Democrats have indicated any plans to run this year against DeFrancisco, a Republican who has not had a close election for Senate since he was first elected in 1992.

Kinderhook, NY — August 23, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its first television advertisement for the general election.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> Republicans on Friday chose Chele Farley, a New York City private equity executive, as the first designated candidate to run for a statewide position in November's elections.

ALBANY — Erik T. Bohen boasted during his successful campaign for the Assembly 142nd District seat in Tuesday's special election that, despite running on the Republican line, he would join the Assembly Democratic conference upon his arrival in Albany.

In the US, for example, Republicans in Burlington, Vermont would have been better off had some of them stayed home during the last mayoral election that they ran under AV (of course, they've since ditched it and returned to First Past the Post).

Kinderhook, NY — August 25, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its second television advertisement for the general election — this one focusing on his plan to fix Upstate's struggling economy.

Kinderhook, NY — September 19, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its third television advertisement for the general election — one that features his friend and neighbor, outgoing Congressman Chris Gibson.

Still, in a presidential election year, defeating Schumer would be a heavy lift for any Republican seeking to run statewide in a Democratic - heavy state.

At the same time, Democrats say they are ready to run a candidate this year should Boyle win his September primary and resign the seat in the Senate in order for Republicans, potentially to run someone in the November general election.

Ling Ling Chang is a Republican candidate running to replace Josh Newman (D) in a recall election for California State Senate District 29.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: As we continue our election coverage, we're joined by another Green Party candidate, Howie Hawkins, who is running for New York governor against Democrat Andrew Cuomo, Republican Rob Astorino and the Libertarian candidate, Michael McDermott.

Erik T. Bohen defied all the odds Tuesday and posted a close — but solid — special election victory for the 142nd Assembly District as a Democrat running on Republican and Conservative lines, defeating Democrat Patrick B. Burke.

The Republican Party has recruited fake Democrats to run in all six recall elections, a move party officials said is designed to ensure each one has a primary and the general election for all six is held on the same day, June 5.

Lawyer Richard Luthmann, who once unsuccessfully ran for Staten Island Borough President and claimed in court that the head of the borough's Democratic Party had sicced the mob on him, said he's considering a run against Republican Malliotakis in November's election.

[7] In 2016, Hamilton announced that he would join the Independent Democratic Conference, [9] a group of eight senators who run for election as Democrats, but support the Republican party once elected.

Cuomo also, for the first time in the 2016 election cycle, actively backed Democratic candidates to, in some cases, run against sitting incumbent Republicans for the Senate.

Michael P. Kearns, a Democrat running on the Republican line, also survived a final charge by Democrat Steven J. Cichon to win the election for county clerk.