Sentences with phrase «senate race this week»

Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in a key Senate race this week.

With the New Year fast approaching, we have decided to begin ranking the top 10 Senate races this week — a little early Christmas / Hannukah / Kwanza / Festivus present for the Fixistas out there.

Not exact matches

Already this week, the governor of a state that could play a pivotal role in this fall's Senate race devoted a speech to trade with Canada and Mexico.

Cuomo has over the last several weeks pushed for a Democratic takeover of the state Senate, backing incumbents and challengers in a handful of races.

A state Board of Elections memorandum made public last week details allegations of a complex partnership between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a number of political consulting firms and labor unions and also county Democratic committees to influence contested state Senate races in 2014.

Tedisco says he will make a decision over the next few weeks on whether he will enter the race for the 49th Senate District.

The Public Employees Federation and the Empire State Pride Agenda are sending a generous amount of cash to Democratic Senate candidate Cecilia Tkaczyk as her race against Assemblyman George Amedore begins its final week.

Gary Berntsen, who switched from the NY - 1 congressional race to the US Senate race, announced this week he has been endorsed by state GOP First Vice-Chairman Vincent Reda, and a number of regional vice chairs, including: John Jay LaValle (Suffolk), Joseph J. Savino (Bronx), John DeSpirito III (Onondaga), Jim Ellis (Franklin), as well as Fulton County Chairwoman Susan McNeil, Saratoga County Chairman John Nolan and Allegany County Chairman Robert Christman.

Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

Senate Republican officials are challenging the results in court and the race may not be decided for the next several weeks.

The deal as fleshed out by state Democrats several weeks ago hinges on the party filling two coming vacancies in the Senate, including a Westchester County race to fill the seat being vacated by George Latimer, the county executive - elect.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

With the presidential circus having left their backyard, New Hampshire's Senate candidates lost little time this week digging into each other's commitment to limiting spending in what's expected to be one of the most competitive and expensive Senate races in the country.

Furious Republicans are pointing fingers of blame at state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R - SI) and, indirectly, at Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk) for last week's lopsided loss by Joan Illuzzi in the closely watched race for Staten Island district attorney.

The Koch's ascent comes as Freedom Partners, one of their fundraising networks, last week aired its first batch of television ads targeted at this year's U.S. Senate races, including commercials knocking Democratic Senator Mark Udall of Colorado and Representative Bruce Braley of Iowa for supporting President Barack Obama's health - care law.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has offered only lukewarm support in the past for his fellow Democrats in their quest to take over the State Senate, this week said he would back Democratic candidates in Senate races.

Congressional primaries next week in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia feature three Senate Democrats facing reelection in a state won by President Trump in 2016, and a number of competitive House races.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

Readers will have one more opportunity this week to pick the House and Senate races Roll Call will cover from the ground in the final weeks of the midterms.

This week... the matchups were decided in three Senate races, more House contests took shape, and we ranked the most vulnerable members.

As Donald Trump's campaign has fallen to pieces in the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans alike have turned their attention to the Senate and House races that will determine which party controls the legislative branch.

A few weeks after election day last November, I attended a panel discussion at the New School about the governors race and the state senate elections.

David Denenberg of Merrick, who withdrew under a cloud of scandal last week as the Democratic candidate in the 8th Senate District race against GOP Legis.

INWOOD — Two former Borough Presidents threw their support behind opposing candidates in the State Senate District 31 race this week — opening up old wounds in a longstanding political battle.

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

This week... a Pennsylvania special election upset came down to the wire, and a Mississippi candidate swapped Senate races, and Illinois candidates gear up for a primary.

In the area's two state Senate races — seats currently held by Republicans George Amedore and Hugh Farley — all of the candidates during interviews last week took swipes of some kind at the controversial education standards and state tests that drew an over 20 percent opt - out rate for the second straight year this spring.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who has been considering entering the Democratic race for Maryland's open U.S. Senate seat, said he will reveal his plans for 2016 during a three - stop tour that could come in «maybe less than two weeks.»

Toomey faces Democrat Katie McGinty in one of the closest Senate races of the year, a contest both sides think is effectively a dead heat with two weeks left before Election Day.

With less than three weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton is even further ahead of Donald Trump in New York state, and that could affect downballot races, including seats for the state Senate.

North Miami Beach attorney Jason Pizzo was only in the race for the last week of May but kicked off his campaign with a $ 200,000 loan that put him miles ahead of the other four Democrats vying for the South Florida senate seat.

Killian, who ran two years ago against Latimer for the same Senate seat, jumped into the race less than two weeks ago after the other two announced Republican candidates, Sarmad Khojestah and Dan Schorr, didn't excite Republicans here in Westchester or in Albany.

Former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden entered the race against Sen. Harry Reid (D) last week to much fanfare from national operatives who saw her as the strongest candidate in what almost certainly would be a referendum on the Senate Majority Leader.

Lanza squeaked out a primary win three weeks ago, and his race is key to retaining Republican control of the State Senate in November.

Balance New York, a PAC that was formed by former Senate Republican aides, has spent $ 343,708 on television advertising in the race in the last two weeks.

Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris said in an interview last week that polls historically show Republicans doing better at this point and the races will likely tighten.

The battle for Long Island's 7th SD was always one of the top races as the Democrats and Republicans fight for control of the majority, but it has taken on heightened importance since the implosion last week of Democratic state Senate candidate Dave Denenberg's campaign in the adjacent 8th SD.

Meanwhile, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, of Queens, was convicted last week on charges that he sought to bribe his way onto into the 2013 NYC mayor's race on the GOP ballot line.

Interestingly, the keynote address for that dinner is to be delivered by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the once and possibly future GOP presidential hopeful who endorsed the Tea Party Delaware US Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who won her primary race this week.

This week, the New York League of Conservation Voters debuted its list of six priority Senate races — dubbed the «six pack ``, which includes two incumbent Republicans who are among the Democrats» top targets in this year's re-match for control of the majority: Sens. Mark Grisanti and Marty Golden.

According to a Siena poll released today — the first survey of state Senate races — Hanna is in better shape heading into the final weeks of this year's campaign, leading his Democratic opponent, Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien, by eight percentage points.

Take the Virginia Senate race, which Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer described earlier this week as the potential «Cinderella» of the 2006 cycle.

Felder added he fears if some of the races are close it might lead to weeks of court battles, further paralyzing the Senate.

So this week we are doing two Lines — one today looking at the ten most influential Republican leaders in the party and then one tomorrow ranking the ten Senate races most likely to switch parties in 2010.

HELENA — John Morrison and Jon Tester are running neck - and - neck in their race for the June 7 Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Conrad Burns, a Lee Newspapers poll taken last week shows.

«Janet Cruz raises a lot of money in first weeks of campaign for Senate but Dana Young raises more» via Florida Politics — House Majority Leader Cruz nearly matched Tampa Republican Young in April fundraising despite joining the Senate District 18 race 10 days into the month.

We will be looking at other hotly contested Senate races in the coming weeks but these four offer no initial indication that either party will win a big majority in the Senate in 2010.»

To refresh your memory, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, in partnership with the Entertainment Software Association, tracked the presidential and Senate races in six states for weeks leading up to the election.

As a result, until the final weeks before the election, Democrats were outspending their Republican counterparts in many tight Senate and House races.