Sentences with phrase «biggest campaign chest»

State elections remain uncompetitive, with the current rules favoring incumbents with big campaign chests over new challengers.

Not exact matches

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's re-election campaign is set to report having more than $ 8.5 million in cash on hand, his biggest war chest ever.

Cox is continuing to insist that the GOP has time to coalesce around a candidate, even though the governor is sitting on a massive campaign was chest — we'll find out exactly how big of a haul he has managed to amass later this month.

He has over one million dollars in his campaign war chest, much of it from other congresspersons in «safe» districts (like Pelosi and Hoyer) and big labor unions.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting ready to ramp up fundraising for his re-election campaign, trying to signal would - be challengers that he is a strong incumbent with a big war chest.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting ready to ramp up fundraising for his 2017 re-election campaign, trying to signal would - be challengers that he is a strong incumbent with a big war chest.

They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.

The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of «buying» the leadership election as wealthy Blairite donors push his campaign chest to # 200,000 - causing what the paper describes as a «disparity in financial backing» for the five candidates, which it believes to be «a big issue».

Hawkins blasted Cuomo's big money contributors, saying that less than 1 percent of the governor's multimillion dollar campaign war chest actually comes from donations of less than $ 1,000.

With more than $ 30 million reported in his war chest as of January, Cuomo receives the lion's share of his campaign contributions from much bigger sectors — like real estate and pharmaceuticals — than the state's brewing industry.

Amassing a big war chest two years from the campaign can also scare away potential attorney general challengers, he said.