Sentences with phrase «republicans running in the race»

We had hoped to be hosting the two Republicans running in the race for governor in a debate at Onondaga County Community College tonight, but only one of the candidates accepted our invitation.

There are four Republicans running in the race, but Zika has raised more than $ 150,000 as of Feb. 28, while his closest opponent in the money race has pulled in just over $ 13,000.

Not exact matches

The Republican Party is the way forward for Austin Petersen, a longtime Libertarian now running for the GOP nomination in Missouri's high profile 2018 Senate race.

A Wave of Losses Coming: There's an influx of female candidates running for Democratic seats in 2018 — but many of those women are running in races considered to be easy Republican wins.

* DEMS LAUNCH GUN ADS AIMED AT SUBURBANITES: NBC News reports that the gun regulation group run by Gabrielle Giffords is launching ads going after Republicans in the Nevada Senate race and multiple House races.

Who she is: Bachmann was Minnesota's first female Congresswoman, and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, dropping out six months into the race.

Much of the retrospective commentary about Buchanan's 1996 run for president (when he finished second in the race for the Republican nomination) focuses on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

He finished third in 1912, when Roosevelt ran as a third - party candidate and split the Republican vote — perhaps explaining why Teddy picked him for the presidents race: guilt.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced a measure that would schedule party primaries for local and state races for June 26, extending a long - running dispute with majority Republicans in the Senate who want an August date.

Babinec is running in a three - person race for the 22nd congressional district in central New York, facing Republican Claudia Tenney and Democrat Kim Myers for the seat being vacated by Rep. Richard Hanna.

The mayor pledged in September 2009 (at the height of the mayor's race he eventually won, running on the GOP and Independence lines) to push members of the Senate Republican conference, which he had long bankrolled as its largest individual contributor, to vote «yes» on gay marriage.

Latimer, a state senator, is running in what amounts to a key race this year given the incumbent, Republican Rob Astorino, is considering a second bid for governor in 2018.

Meng campaigned on behalf of Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is running a competitive race in the otherwise heavily Republican district formerly represented by Tom Price, now the secretary of Health and Human Services.

Republican Scott Brown didn't have much when he started running for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, but he did have himself and the internet: The fundamental dynamic of the race fell in place months ago, when Brown set off in a pickup truck for the only campaign the Republican could...

Many races are essentially formalities (e.g. it really doesn't matter who gets nominated / runs / wins in Republican primaries in many areas of NYC - the winner of DNC primary is 100 % assured to be elected.

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.

The race has potential statewide implications considering Republican Rob Astorino is running for a third term and is likely to be a candidate again for governor in 2018.

Smith, a Democrat and a former Senate majority leader, was arrested in 2013 on charges that he helped orchestrate a scheme to obtain a Wilson - Pakula waiver in order to run as a Republican in the race for mayor.

She's running for a seat Serino won in 2014, unseating Democratic incumbent Terry Gipson, who had flipped the seat in 2012 in a three - way race that ousted longtime Republican Sen. Stephen Saland.

The tension between the Republicans and Conservatives is not limited to the governor's race, and there's now a distinct possibility that the erstwhile allies could end up running different candidates in three statewide contests.

Republicans in 2010 felt they had a chance of unseating her, but ultimately nominated former Rep. Joe DioGuardi in a race Gillibrand won handily as she ran statewide for the first time.

The New York State United Teachers union this weekend gave its endorsement to the two Democrats running this April to fill vacant seats in the chamber — two key races that could shift control of the chamber away from Republicans.

Amos Goodman, who ran a losing race as the first openly gay Republican candidate for Suffolk County Legislature in 2015, is breaking ground again as East Hampton Town's new GOP chairman.

He was referring to his main competitor, Adriano Espaillat, a state senator from the Washington Heights section of Manhattan who would be the first from the Caribbean island in Congress if he wins the four - person race (there's no Republican running).

The United Monroe line is unusually potent for those purposes; Dan Castricone, who lost a Republican primary to Brabenec and then ran on the United Monroe line in the 2014 Assembly race, won more than 9,000 votes on that line alone.

For a citywide race like this, the five Republican county leaders (each borough is also a county) come together to decide whether to let Dietl, a non-Republican, run in the Republican primary.

Republican leaders have failed to secure their top - choice candidate in eight of the 10 Senate races in states that Trump won in 2016, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott has yet to commit to his expected run for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat.

On the Democratic side, a number of candidates have already entered the race to challenge the Republican councilman, including Paul Graziano, an activist and urban planning consultant; Austin Shafran, a former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration; Paul Vallone, an attorney, who ran for the seat back in 2009; and former state Assemblyman John Duane.

According to an analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project (via PoliticalWire, Democrats are now running somewhat more TV ads in key Senate races than their Republican counterparts and TWICE as many in House races.

Also upstate, Democrats expect a competitive race in the district held by Republican George Amedore, who narrowly lost his first run for Senate in 2012 against Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk.

In other words: The fact that Long's chances at unseating Gillibrand are so slim (she's vastly underfunded and trailing badly in the polls among the few voters who even know who she is), that it makes things harder for her fellow Republicans running in competitive down - ballot congressional raceIn other words: The fact that Long's chances at unseating Gillibrand are so slim (she's vastly underfunded and trailing badly in the polls among the few voters who even know who she is), that it makes things harder for her fellow Republicans running in competitive down - ballot congressional racein the polls among the few voters who even know who she is), that it makes things harder for her fellow Republicans running in competitive down - ballot congressional racein competitive down - ballot congressional races.

Former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra says he's dropping out of the Republican race for governor and will run as an independent instead, because the two major parties are too interested in preserving the status quo.

Be sure to check out Ben Pershing and Fredrick Kunkle's Post examination of voter targeting in the race for Virginia governor: 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...

That race, in which political neophyte Doug Hoffman ran on the Conservative line and succeeded in pushing his more moderate fellow Republican, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, out of the running, «helped pave the way to the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts.»

Republican gubernatorial candidate, and Westchester County Executive, Rob Astorino has accused Governor, and former HUD Secretary, Andrew Cuomo of «race - baiting» in comments related a long running lawsuit between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Westchester County.

Oklahoma's 5th District Like Buck, Republican State Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas far outraised the crowded GOP primary field in a race to replace a House member who is running for Senate.

In another primary race, Julie Evans, a registered Independence Party member who is running for town trustee on the Republican ticket, appears to have won one of the nine trustee spots on the Independence party ticket.

Nunn is running in the open - seat race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

At the same time, Mahoney endorsed Republican John Katko in 2014 when he ran for the 24th Congressional District race.

Rarely after losing a race can someone claim victory - but, I feel we did win last year, because conservative Republicans and Tea Party members sent a crystal clear message to GOP leaders in New York and Washington that choosing liberals to run as Republicans would not be taken lying down.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

The PBA stayed out of the race, which Mangano won by 386 votes.The PBA backed Suozzi in his initial run for county executive in 2001, but supported his Republican opponent, former Hempstead Town Supervisor Gregory Peterson, in 2005.

Congressional candidate Nan Hayworth has beat out Rep. John Hall to run on the Independence Party ballot line in November, giving the Republican challenger a voting column that could prove critical in a close race.

Kinderhook, NY — June 16, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the endorsed Conservative, Republican, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, today announced that it has raised $ 1,222,651.66 since entering the race.

Safe Open Seats Colorado's 4th District In the race to replace Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, who is running for Senate, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck far outpaces the GOP crowd financially.

There are three Democrats and a Republican also running in the race.

Although Dietl remains in the race as an independent candidate on a self - created line his effort at getting a Wilson - Pakula and running in the Republican primary failed, with Queens the only county to support his effort.

An Islip Town councilman who dropped out of a State Senate race last year after fallout surrounding the illegal dumping scandal in the town was nominated Wednesday night by Islip Town Republicans to run for a District Court seat in Suffolk County.

Rep. Todd Young, R - Ind., will run for Senate in the Hoosier State, he announced Sunday, becoming the third Republican to enter a competitive race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Dan Coats.

Astorino is expected to continue to play a role in Republican politics statewide, helping GOP candidates fundraise and run for office — chits that could be called in when the race for governor gets going again.