Sentences with phrase «candidate primary field»

It's unclear how competitive Democrats will be here in November even if the national party's preferred candidate, Fresno City Councilman Blong Xiong, is able to advance in the three - candidate primary field.

Not exact matches

Strickland compared the lengthy list of declared and possible candidates, all of whom are or would be seeking to succeed term - limited Republican Gov. John Kasich, to the 2016 Republican presidential primary field.

Back during the primaries when he was an unlikely challenger to a slew of other more mainstream Republican candidates, Trump managed to attract the support of a whopping 41 percent of small business owners despite the crowded field.

Schneiderman has positioned himself as the most liberal candidate in the five - person Democratic AG field, and also the choice of Latino and black voters, which explains his support of Espaillat (although the two have a longstanding relationship; Espaillat backed Schneiderman when former NYC Councilman Guillermo Linares mounted a failed primary challenge to the Manhattan senator in 2002).

Though NYC GOP leader had hoped to avoid another bruising primary in this year's mayor's race, the field of candidates has grown.

It is unclear following the endorsement if the field will clear for McMurray, or if other candidates will seek a primary.

While Faso and Lopez may be the strongest candidates for the GOP establishment's support, the Republican primary field appears relatively unsettled.

It really does defeat the idea of open primaries, which are about as close as you are going to get towards fielding candidates that the public want to represent them if you are going to gerrymander the lists.

She went on to win her primary with more than 57 % of the vote in a field that included six other candidates.

The Sept. 10 Democratic primary field has two candidates who seem most qualified to run the city — Christine Quinn and Bill de -LSB-...]

The candidates in this primary make up by far, the best field of any of the races we looked at this year, but one candidate, Julie Menin, former chairperson of Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan, stands out.

Some prominent local Republicans are already lining up behind other candidates in the crowded primary field.

The field of Democratic Syracuse mayoral candidates has once again grown smaller, as the Onondaga County Board of Elections ruled candidate Alfonso Davis ineligible for the primary.

The Onondaga County Board of Elections ruled Raymond Blackwell ineligible for a Democratic primary in September, narrowing the field of Syracuse mayoral candidates to eight.

The incident could pose a devastating setback for Sanders so close to the start of the Democratic primary: Until access is restored to the NGP VAN, the candidate's organizers will have to perform the basic functions of the field program — phone banks, voter contact, visibility — without an electronic system centralizing their efforts.

On Tuesday, registered Democrats can vote in a primary election to select the party's two candidates for a seat on the East Hampton Town Board, and members of the town's Independence Party can select its 9 candidates for town trustee from a field of...

The left - leaning advocacy group Citizen Action of New York on Thursday endorsed Democratic congressional candidate Antonio Delgado in the 19th district — giving him a boost in a crowded primary field.

In 2014, the groups fielded candidates to challenge Bronx Senator Jeff Klein, head of the IDC, and newly - minted IDC member Tony Avella, senator of Queens, in party primaries.

PLATTSBURGH A seventh candidate has entered the crowded Democratic primary field for New York's 21st Congressional District.

For the June 2014 primary, it will cost parties $ 235,000 to field a candidate for every state and federal office.

This is also one of many attempts by the candidates to stand out in the crowded field two weeks before the June 28 primary.

By contrast, the top two system eliminates party primaries altogether, with the field winnowed regardless of candidates» party affiliation.

However, Democratic party chair Jay Jacobs argues the process is also democratic (note the lowercase «d») because in the contentious five - way race for Attorney General, the party made a decision to allow all candidates access to a primary ballot instead of letting delegates narrow the field at the convention.

Most candidates made the cut ahead of the congressional primary, but other races are enjoying a much less crowded field heading into June according to filings posted by the Board of Elections Thursday.

The departure from the field by Catsimatidis cleared the way for Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the GOP mayoral candidate who will face off in November against de Blasio, who just handily defeated his four Democratic primary opponents earlier this week.

«If there still is a field — because candidates will drop out of this race — I think it will be a far more narrow field and we'll have a better picture of who is poised to be the nominee in time for that primary,» he said.

Three candidates — state Sen. Adrian Smith, former Osborne aide John Hanson and Grand Island Mayor Jay Vavricek — are seen as potential winners in today's crowded primary field, with Smith and Hanson the two frontrunners.

Along the way, they have discovered something astonishing: Parties that conduct primaries have a much better chance of fielding candidates who go on to win general elections than parties whose leaders are selected or nominated by party bigwigs.

Delegates winnowed the field of three candidates seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to two, voting to advance Bruce Blakeman and David Malpass to the September primary ballot.

[15] He failed to win the primary outright on May 8, 2012, but ranked first with 32 % of the vote in the eleven - candidate field.

(While there is a slight chance that Jindal wins the race outright in the first primary by getting 50 % + 1 of the votes, it's unlikely if there's a large field of notable candidates of either party.)

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Six candidates facing competition for the Democratic nomination in that party's upcoming primary election fielded questions on town finances and

But since he received less than 50 percent of the vote in the nine candidate field, there is a fair chance at least one of his opponents from today's special will run against him in the Democratic primary this September.

At an open primary meeting today, Nick Hillman was selected from a field of six to stand as Conservative candidate for Cambridge at the general election.

The rules of the primary (or caucus) are not specified by the Constitution, they are internal business for the political party to decide who it should field as their candidate.

Obama is not facing a primary challenger, so party officials had the opposite problem of picking delegates amid a field of candidates.

The most recent to toss his hat in the ring is former Councilman Sal Albanese, who ran unsuccessful bids for state Assembly in a Brooklyn district in 1978, for Congress against Susan Molinari in 1992 and for mayor twice — first in 1997, then a second time in 2013, coming in eighth place in the crowded field of nine candidates in the Democratic primary.

«Desperate and uninformed political attacks against Elise Stefanik by an anemic field of liberal candidates underscores the rudderless mess that is the Democratic primary,» said Lenny Alcivar, a campaign spokesman for Stefanik.

ALBANY — In the crowded race for the upcoming Democratic primary in the sprawling 31st Senate district that comprises much of Manhattan's west side, candidates have largely fielded campaign donations from their geographic bases, despite attempts to court voters from all portions of the demographically diverse district.

That would set up a crowded race with Gallo and Clement running, and dividing the Democratic field, and the eventual winner of the Republican primary competing with Conservative Party candidate Richard Cahill Jr. for GOP votes.

The governor did not publicly endorse a candidate in the crowded 2013 Democratic primary field and has said nothing as this year's race begins to grind.

But a CNN / WMUR survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that the race is far from settled, with nearly nine in ten potential Republican primary voters saying they haven't come close to making up their minds and more than four in ten saying they're not satisfied with the field of GOP candidates running for president.

The field of candidates mulling a primary run against Kirsten Gillibrand has thinned out in the past week, with representative Steve Israel and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer pulling their names from contention.

But even though Cuomo may stand bloodied and bruised, whether from his own failings or after what is expected to be a scorched earth primary, he has a campaign warchest of $ 30 million and counting, far surpassing any candidate in the field on either side.

Instead, the Democratic primary will narrow the field Thursday, with four advancing to the general election to compete against two Green party candidates, Raymond Blackwell and Caleb Duncan, as well as Working Families candidate Latoya Allen.

In another Assembly race, on the West Side of Manhattan, Daniel O'Donnell, a lawyer, won the Democratic primary in a field of eight candidates.

While a Democratic primary in the race for mayor of Syracuse features a full field, Republicans in the city have yet to come up with a candidate.

So far in the mayoral race, REBNY has taken a less aggressive approach, likely holding off until after the primary when the field of candidates is narrowed and its PAC can have more influence.

In the mayoral primary battle, Weiner has the backing of 31 % of black voters, far ahead of Quinn at 16 %, with Thompson, the only major black candidate in the mayoral field, at 14 %.