Sentences with phrase «senate seats in the election»

On CNN tonight Republican commentator Ed Rollins said that unless McCain cleans - up his campaign that the Republicans could lose TEN Senate seats in the election!

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Many Republicans slammed the political strategist Steve Bannon for throwing his weight behind the former judge Roy Moore, who lost in Tuesday's special election in a massive upset that delivered Alabama's first Democratic - controlled Senate seat in decades.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

A former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.

Jones faced off against Judge Roy Moore in a special election for Jeff Sessions» seat in the U.S. Senate.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six Senate seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth of Alberta's population, has 10 seats.

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

This is usual for sixth - year elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House seats and seven Senate seats.»

In 2010, Monserrate tried to return to the Senate by running in a March special election for his old seaIn 2010, Monserrate tried to return to the Senate by running in a March special election for his old seain a March special election for his old seat.

The IDC announced earlier this month it would dissolve and its members would rejoin the Democratic conference in the state Senate, ahead of a broader push to give Democrats control of the chamber after a pair of seats are filled in an April 24 special election.

Monserrate lives in Queens — in the 39th AD, which used to be represented by Jose Peralta, who vacated the seat to block Monserrate from regaining his Senate post in a March 16 special election.

Cuomo administration officials confirm the governor will call special elections to fill five vacant legislative seats — four in the Assembly and one in the Senate — to conincide with village elections on March 20.

@MontyHarder Agreed, and an interesting fact to note is that we got rid of that model for Senators in favor of direct elections because an Illinois governor was involved ina scandal to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder... and almost 100 years to the day of that amendment to the constitution you had another Illinois governor do the exact same thing.

Mayer is running in a closely contested special election to fill the Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, facing Republican Julie Killian.

Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential election years has historically given them more seats in the Senate.

Democrat Lew Fidler just sent out a press release congratulating David Storobin on his victory in the special election for the 27th Senate District seat that has been vacant since Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.

The battle to reunify Democrats in the Senate was sparked in part by the addition of Brian Benjamin, who won a special election last month to fill a vacant seat and giving the party 32 enrolled members again the Senate.

The Kaminsky victory in the 9th Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall elections, making other suburban seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.

Senate Democrats on Monday sworn in two new lawmakers: Sens. Shelley Mayer and Luis Sepulveda, seats the party retained in last week's special elections in the Bronx and Westchester County.

Cuomo campaigned and pushed for Mayer, the victor in a costly special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County.

The party is 0 - for - 2 in Tuesday's special election, failing once again to flip a suburban Senate seat that has been the source of several expensive races.

Sen. Mark Grisanti, one of the Senate Republicans» most vulnerable members who must first succeed in Thursday's primary election against attorney Kevin Stocker before defending his seat in November against the Democratic primary winner, announced that he has landed the coveted endorsement of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

At the same time, Cuomo is being pushed to call elections for Senate seats that could potentially open, including one expected to be vacated in the Bronx next month by Ruben Diaz, Sr., in order to keep the party's numbers in the chamber.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the Democratic candidate for the seat of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, accused his GOP opponent, Chris McGrath, of «cozying up» to a pro-Common Core group that funded a $ 1.2 million ad buy in advance of the April 19 special election.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Senate Democrats retained two open seats in a Tuesday special election, giving them a numeric 32 - member majority in the chamber, but Sen. Simcha Felder will continue to conference with Republicans, keeping the GOP in control.

The plan requires both the IDC and mainline conference to work together on filling two open Senate seats in a special election and drop support for primary challenges against each others» members.

The state Senate next year will likely once again be a flash point in 2018 when all 213 seats in the Legislature are up for election.

Skelos's Nassau County Senate seat flipped to Democrat Todd Kaminsky in an April special election.

Felder announced last week he would remain with the Republican conference in the Senate as Democrats retained two seats in special elections for districts in the Bronx and Westchester County.

Progressive activists — including Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, who launched a strong but unsuccessful primary challenge to Cuomo in 2014 — are calling for the rejection of this plan, unless the governor immediately calls special elections for the two Senate seats that will become vacant on Jan. 1.

Diaz, along with Sen. George Latimer, will leave office at the end of the year and have their seats filled in special elections to be called after the state budget is completed, based on a Democratic unity push for the state Senate.

In order to make sure the 2010 election was what I remembered it, I reviewed the AEC full distribution count for NSW Senate seats [1].

Bolstering the argument for this today is the expected win of Democratic Senate candidate Brian Benjamin in a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat.

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

This month in Albany two new Democrats took seats in the Legislature after winning special elections in the Senate and Assembly.

The plan to unify Democrats in the Senate would require both the mainline conference, which Stewart - Cousins leads, and the Independent Democratic Conference to work together to fill two vacant seats in special elections.

The seat will be filled in a special election that will likely be a flashpoint in the power struggle within the Senate.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

If recent history is any guide, Senate Democrats have always picked up seats in Presidential election years.

Still, that would come in an election year for all 213 legislative seats in the Assembly and Senate.

Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris in a radio interview on Tuesday said he wanted a special election called to fill vacant seats in the Senate «as soon as possible.»

The agreement would put the Democratic conference on track for Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins to become the first woman to lead a Senate majority conference — provided the Democrats pick up two Senate seats in special elections later this month, and the conference can secure Felder's loyalty.

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.

Republican Fred Akshar has a broad, 52 - percentage point lead over Democratic candidate Barbara Fiala in the special election fill a vacant state Senate seat in the Southern Tier region, according to an exclusive Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll released this evening.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.