Sentences with phrase «as a democrat against»

After running as a democrat against a republican?

But the Democrats should have the edge in a bidding war, since the electoral math will probably be much easier for each of the members in their own districts if they're running as Democrats against Republicans than the other way around.

Materna, a South Shore lifer who heads up the Pleasant Plains - Prince's Bay - Richmond Valley Civic Association, eyed both seats but couldn't get the Republican Party to consider her — mostly because she ran as a Democrat against Ignizio in 2009.

Materna ran as a Democrat against Ignizio for City Council in 2009, and Castorina has never run for public office.

Only one of you can run as a Democrat against John Katko in the general election and Steve, let me start with you with this, what's the most important thing that distinguishes you from your two democratic opponents in this primary?

Three military veterans are announcing Tuesday they're running as Democrats against Republican incumbents.

Quinnipiac offered the 1,038 residents three hypothetical general election match - ups, with Mr. de Blasio running as a Democrat against either city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. or Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams running as an independent.

Not exact matches

Sue Mintor, who ran against Scott as a Democrat, was a former transportation secretary for Shumlin and would have likely maintained the relationships Shumlin forged with Canada — with Scott's governorship, those cross-border ties are now up in the air.

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

Chris Hayes at MSNBC tweeted, «As gross and cynical and hypocritical as the right's «what about Bill Clinton» stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.&raquAs gross and cynical and hypocritical as the right's «what about Bill Clinton» stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.&raquas the right's «what about Bill Clinton» stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.»

Corporations and the country's wealthiest were enjoying their tax cuts even more, and the Democrats» argument against the new tax law as increasing inequality got lost.

The president's comments about the deputy come as he's promoted the idea of training and arming teachers to defend against shooters, a controversial proposal to which prominent Democrats and Republicans have voiced opposition.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

House Republicans and conservative media cast it as proof of Trump's long - running narrative of FBI bias against him; Democrats say it's deeply misleading, twisting and cherry - picking classified intelligence to make the president seem right.

* OBAMACARE BECOMES WEAPON FOR DEMS: The New York Times reports that the tables have turned, and Democrats are using the Republicans» failed repeal vote as a weapon against them in multiple House races:

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

As Social Democrat, Gustav Heinemann of West Germany, a prominent lay Christian, said: «Christ did not die against Karl Marx.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

The U.S. low - intensity - conflict project in El Salvador received widespread support from both Republicans and Democrats, who described a country at war against its own people as an exemplary democracy.

Will Conor Lamb, a Catholic who just won as an «anti-Pelosi» Democrat in a district Trump had carried by some 20 points, and others like him move from being «personally» against abortion to letting their faith inform their profession?

In another part they simply thought that the «blue dogs» (Democratic voters that always voted Democrats), would all vote for Hillary (as well as she herself thought that) but after what she pulled of against Sanders many of them just didn't vote at all or voted Trump just to pay Hillary back.

Against this backdrop, many social democrats — still desperate to haunt the «house of power» (Weber, 1991, 194)-- have begun to position themselves as the left wing of austerity.

Here's RGA Chairman Haley Barbour, who's in NYC to headline a fundraiser for the state GOP, discussing the candidacy of Carl Paladino, who, as of today, appears poised to unite the Conservative and Republican lines in the battle against Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

He told politics.co.uk his policy committee functioned as an «early warning system» against steps taken by the coalition government which «could cause significant problems for a significant number of Liberal Democrat MPs».

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

Ulrich was widely seen as having the right of first refusal to run for Weiner's seat, and he backed Turner after deciding against taking a gamble on a Democrat - dominated district that might not be long for this world anyway.

IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove said in a statement, «As we enter the campaign season the Independent Democratic Conference will continue to work to elect Democrats who will fight against the draconian policies coming out of Washington and have a laser beam focus on protecting labor and our middle class.»

More frequently, it was Bruno siding with his fellow Republican, former Gov. George Pataki, against the speaker, who saw it as it duty as the lone Democrat in the room to hold out as long as possible on all manner of liberal and downstate priorities.

McCaughey returned the favor by switching parties and trying to run against him as a Democrat.

The news of the robocall comes almost simultaneously with word that Owens, like Democrat Dan Maffei in central New York, has filed a court order to impound ballots ahead of tomorrow's vote — a sign that the race against Republican Matt Doheny will be as close as the public polls have suggested.

Meanwhile, Paterson told reporters the Skelos arrest shouldn't be a political issue as Senate Democrats look to run a competitive race against the Nassau County lawmaker, potentially with rising star Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky as a candidate.

In her speech, she singled out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: «In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU.

Assemblywoman Diane Richardson, a Brooklyn Democrat, was accused of delivering a bizarre tirade against Jews, while ripping de Blasio as a sellout during a local community board meeting this week.

What remains to be seen is if Democrats run primaries against members of the Independent Democratic Conference or IDC, something Governor Cuomo does not want to see as he publicly calls for the two warring Democratic factions to come together in a show of party unity.

Spitzer has once again been mentioned as a potential state comptroller candidate in 2014 against incumbent Democrat Tom DiNapoli, though the former governor shot that possibility down on our sister station NY1.

The proposal was framed as an effort to push back against the «anti-worker» policies of President Donald Trump's administration, which comes as the IDC itself has been accused by liberal advocacy organizations and some fellow Democrats for enabling Senate Republicans in Albany.

It is a time of the politics of the absurd: Repubs are trying to oust Trump, Democrats want to run against him, and Trump is left with helping the very party that has him in the crosshairs as their path to power in both 2018 and 2020.

I know that Democrats generally oppose school voucher programs which have a similar function as Cruz's amendment, so is that why Democrats voted against Cruz's amendment?

In what has been characterized as a victory for President Obama and congressional Democrats, the House voted today to pass the US Senate's bipartisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

However David Paterson is a very smart politician but he may not win against a candiate such as Giuliani and so what the president and democrats advise is correct.

Several senior Democrats cited Cuomo's refusal to defend Clinton against Sanders» continuing attacks on her acceptance of more than $ 600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews after Thursday night's angry debate, as evidence that the state's Democratic establishment had failed to strongly rally to her side.

Another of the women speaking up was Rep. Kathleen Rice, the first Democrat to call on Conyers to resign once the long - buried allegations against him were made public, even as other Democratic leaders, including Leader Nancy Pelosi, defended Conyers publicly.

Peralta characterized New York state as becoming more Democratic and accused the Senate Republicans of trying to maintain their majority by pitting Democrats in the city against each other.

New York's top elected Democrats rallied against the Republican Congress» proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, saying they will take legal action, if necessary, to stop it.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

And it would present an open goal for the Conservatives against Labour (indeed, for the Liberal Democrats against Labour as well — why take the harder target?).