Sentences with phrase «republicans targeting the seat»

With Republicans targeting the seat of Westchester County Legislator Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat, as part of the party's efforts to claim majority control of the 17 - member Board of Legislators this election season, another potential opponent has been making the rounds.

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Florida Democrats have targeted Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is considering a run for re-election after previously saying he would give up his seat.

Republican analyst Vic Martucci said right now the Reed seat has a target on it, but that could change if it becomes clear Donald Trump is doing well in Upstate New York.

Yesterday, Cuomo took square aim at incumbent Republican Marcellino, who was not previously thought to be on the Democrats» top target list, but thanks largely to the controversial candidacy of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, many more seats are now believed to be in play.

Latimer, a former assemblyman, has been a top target of the Senate Republicans in the past, but has managed to hold onto the seat that he has held since 2012.

In all, the DCCC has targeted 79 Republican - held seats.

In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

Republican Bob Cohen, who plans to run again for the seat his 2010 Democratic target, Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, is giving up at the end of the year, has a healthy $ 210,221 on hand, according to his Jan. 15 financial filing.

The coalition created out of the Working Families Party convention to flip the state Senate into Democratic hands is quickly putting together its list of seats to target and / or protect, and apparently one of just two remaining Republican senators representing New York City is in its crosshairs.

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

Where were the Democrats when all this was happening, when the Republicans were targeting these state legislative seats?

And you note that while Operation RedMap targeted, you know, a few dozen congressional seats in efforts to flip statehouses, it was a big Republican tide that year in that they gained almost 700 state legislative seats nationwide.

Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial list of Republican - held seats it plans to target in 2018.

He has a new book about Republican efforts in the 2010 election to target state legislative seats and thereby gain a huge advantage in congressional redistricting, which he says made a big difference in Republican representation in Congress.

But perhaps the most natural target — the 26th District, won by Kathy Hochul in a special election last month — might draw objections from both parties: from Democrats because they think she's a rising star after her upset victory, and from Republicans because they expect to have a reasonable chance of reclaiming the seat anyway.

In a state where Democrats are targeting four Republican - held seats in November and need viable candidates to make it through Tuesday's primaries, the nominating contest in Illinois that's receiving the most attention is in a safe Democratic district.

Latimer, however, has an eight - to - one cash - on - hand advantage, and it seems unlikely that a seat that has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans over three decades would finally flip in a presidential year.

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat whose seat could likely be a top target for national Republicans in 2018, will soon announce whether she will pursue a political path that could take a re-election campaign out of the picture.

In Western New York, Republicans have previously targeted the seat held by Democrat Marc Panepinto, who prevailed in a four - way race in 2014 to win the seat.

His 5th District seat wouldn't normally be a top Democratic target, but Democrats have spent millions trying to unseat the seven - term Republican this year.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Friday its latest round of candidates in «Red to Blue,» a program that targets open - seat races and districts held by Republicans.

Rep. Steve Pearce on Monday became the first Republican to join the race for governor of New Mexico, opening up the state's 2nd District seat, which Democrats were already planning to target in 2018.

The Nassau County seat now held by Republican Sen. Jack Martins has a Democratic enrollment advantage and has been a top target for Democrats since Martins beat the Democratic incumbent, Craig Johnson, by less than 500 votes in 2010.

Two more ads target additional seats that Republicans are hoping to keep in their column this fall:

The DCCC's initial targets were obvious, beginning with the 26 Republicans who won seats in the 2014 midterms in districts previously carried by President Barack Obama.

There are many more Democratic governor seats being targeted than Republicans»

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

A near replica of the mailer also popped up in the 40th SD race, targeting Republican Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy, who is running against Democrat Justin Wagner for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Greg Ball.

The calls, which will go into the districts of Reps. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Steve Kagen (Wisc.) as well as open seat House races in New Jersey's 3rd and 7th district and statewide in Maine where Rep. Tom Allen is challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins, take direct aim at planned calls by Freedom's Watch, announced last week, targeting a handful of Democratic incumbents and challengers over the rising cost of gas.

Republican Congressman Chris Gibson is not seeking another term, making his seat a plum target for both political parties.

National Republicans immediately targeted the seat at the start of this election cycle and played host to a very competitive three - way primary won by attorney Tom Rooney a.k.a. the luckiest congressional candidate in the country (as of today).

When Democrat Michael P. Kearns stumped the experts back in 2012 by winning the 142nd Assembly seat on the Republican and Conservative lines, he planted a big target on one of Albany's top leaders — then - Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her pick up three seats on election night.

: Donnelly was the lone Democratic survivor among the three Hoosier State House seats that Republicans targeted in 2010.

Florida's 22nd District: Rep. Clay Shaw (R) is a perennial Democratic target even though his seat was made more Republican by the 2001 redistricting process.

The process is split between Democrats and Republicans, but most experts expect a New York City Democrat and an upstate Republican to be targeted for elimination, with the state losing two seats.

Siena has released the first of its highly anticipated state Senate race polls, showing two incumbent Republicans who are Democratic targets with comfortable leads and close contests in two Democrat - held seats.

In an open - seat race, Democrats will heavily target the seat for a pickup as the party looks to chip away at Republicans» 30 - seat majority.

[21] According to the newspaper Lohud, «it has been a target of Republicans in expensive campaign battles in recent years and is expected to once again be viewed as a target seat by the state GOP.»

Democrats are targeting nine - term Republican incumbent John Culberson's suburban seat this year, after Hillary Clinton carried the district by 1 point in 2016.

There is an election in a fourth Senate district where the Republican incumbent targeted for recall resigned rather than run to keep her seat.

She is already being targeted by Republicans hoping to take the seat back.

(CNN)- Just days before the special election for a seat in New York's 20th congressional district, the National Republican Congressional Committee launched a web ad Friday targeting Democratic candidate Scott Murphy, invoking 9/11 to hammer him over his position on the death penalty.

Panepinto was first elected in 2014 after a bitterly contested three - way contest and Republicans are expected to target his seat this fall as they look to protect a slim majority in the Senate.

Cuomo said he will target at least six New York congressional Republicans to try and help the national Democrats capture 24 seats needed to win control of the House.

With such a massive fundraising edge, the DCCC is smartly moving to expand their target list into a series of Republican - leaning open seats and GOP incumbents representing marginal districts.

Her district was already a Democratic target, but with a nominee like Trump or Cruz — who have trashed the Washington establishment — her seat was upgraded to the «Lean Republican» category.

The hope is that Trump's rise and his reputation for being polarizing will allow some Republican - held seats that had been regarded as safe to emerge as potential Democratic targets.

Vern Buchanan, a Republican running for the Florida seat vacated by Rep. Katherine Harris (R), was the target of local media reports this week detailing his use of business entities in Caribbean tax havens to reduce levies on his auto dealerships.

First - term incumbent Rep. John Faso is one of six Republican House members targeted in New York by the Democratic Party, and the Republican National Committee is determined to defend his seat.