Sentences with phrase «congressional election primary»

Rahm Emanuel, a staunch opponent of banks in real estate, won a hard - fought congressional election primary in Illinois.

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And if there is no deal early in the new year, some experts predict U.S. President Donald Trump will follow through on his threat to pull the plug on NAFTA rather than go empty - handed into primaries for mid-term congressional elections.

These teams included PhD - caliber data scientists, seasoned strategists with experience of presidential primary, congressional, gubernatorial, and international election campaigns, expert researchers, digital marketing strategists, and content creators.

«The Speaker's take - it - or - leave - it negotiating position is even more surprising given that the New York City Board of Elections said they would be forced to shell out untold taxpayer dollars to cover the overtime costs necessary to comply with holding just the congressional primaries in June.»

Still, lawmakers could not agree on a unified primary date for state and Congressional primary elections.

During the Congressional primary election in June, roughly 300 Republicans in the village of Ballston Spa in Saratoga County should have had a chance to vote in the primary race between Matt Doheny and Kellie Greene.

There's no conclusive proof, but you can see this play out in direct - election congressional elections: they are far more polarized than Presidential elections; due to the fact that insufficiently - polarized candidates frequently get primaried by less - moderate candidates in the primary (and the latter often win the primary).

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

April 16th at midnight is the filing deadline for congressional candidates to deliver their signatures to the local Board of Elections to get onto the June 26th primary ballot, but in an interesting wrinkle in election law, candidates can still substitute in someone else after this date.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

This is the latest in a series of stories on some of the candidates seeking Capital Region - area congressional seats in the June 26 primary and November general election.

That means the process for selecting Democratic nominees for vacated congressional seats depends on the timing around the June 26 primary, according to a spokesman for the state board of elections.

Last Thursday's deadline to file petitions to be on the ballot in the June 26 Democratic primary election for New York's First Congressional District has claimed one victim.

Pennsylvania hosted its first primaries Tuesday under a new congressional map, solidifying general election matchups in an important swing state.

Now that the congressional primaries have passed and the general election battles are set, (for the most part), candidates in contested races across the state and their respective supporters have turned their attention to the opponents against whom they'll be facing off in November.

As mentioned in an earlier post, congressional candidates who made it successfully through the primaries this past Tuesday wasted no time in turning their attention to their respective general election opponents.

Tuesday's elections in Texas were the first congressional primaries of the 2018 cycle.

Pidot's primary opponent, Jack Martins, a state senator from Old Westbury, wants to move the general election from Nov. 8, the date of national presidential and congressional elections, because a court moved the district's Republican primary from June to Oct. 6.

State Sen. Jack Martins, facing an unexpected Oct. 6 Republican congressional primary, on Friday asked a federal court in Syracuse to put off the general election for the 3rd District until Dec. 6, nearly a month after the presidential election.

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

Philip Pidot, who is challenging Jack Martins to be the Republican candidate in the 3rd Congressional District, has argued that their primary date should not be delayed until after the general election.

State courts said prolonged legal proceedings had left too little time for elections officials to hold the primary on June 28, with other congressional primaries.

«The military voters and all other voters in New York's 3rd Congressional deserve the same consideration, 50 days or more in the general election, as the judge provided for the primary voters,» Murray said.

In fact, because congressional elections look likely to have a separate primary election date from other elections this year, Mr. Jeffries» election may very well be the only contested race on the ballot in the district.

(A congressional candidate seeking to also get on the ballot for a legislative election might need to start circulating petitions to get onto the September 11th state ballot while still campaigning for the June 27th congressional primary.)

Tenney, a three - term member of the State Assembly, enters the primary race with a campaign debt of $ 110,000 from her last congressional bid, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Tuesday's congressional primaries in New York settled the fields in some of this year's most competitive general election races.

Labor endorsements are more impactful than usual this election cycle as the federal courts have placed the primary date for congressional elections on a different day than the rest of the state's elections and Albany refused to move the other date to match the federal one.

«While Republicans are already fighting a bitter and divisive primary, I have no doubt that another commonsense Democrat will fill his shoes in this competitive district that Democrats have held for the past three elections,» said Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

At some Harlem polling sites, there was tepid turnout among voters, site coordinators said, but also said that is to be expected in Congressional primary elections.

The congressional primary election take place on June 26.

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Paterson was considering a run for New York's 13th Congressional District in 2014, but did not file for the primary election with the New York Board of Elections.

In each election year of 2012, 2014 and 2016, New York wasted $ 25 million by holding primaries for congressional office separately from primaries for state and local offices.

Federal Election Commission filings compiled by the Sunlight Foundation demonstrate that outside groups were actively spending money in New York's Congressional primary races.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission on Monday issued a draft advisory opinion that would allow Long Island Republican congressional candidate Jack Martins to tap his political donors a third time to raise $ 100,000 to cover money he spent for the scrapped Oct. 6 primary.

Congressional contender Jon Kaiman on Monday asked the state Board of Elections to throw opponent Thomas Suozzi off the Democratic primary ballot in the 3rd District, claiming more than half the petition signatures that Suozzi submitted were not valid.

WASHINGTON — Republican Jack Martins said he raised more than $ 150,000 and spent in excess of $ 250,000 on mailers for the now - scrapped Oct. 6 primary in Long Island's 3rd Congressional District, according to a recent letter he sent to the Federal Election Commission.

New York State could potentially hold three primary elections in 2012, one each for: president, congressional offices, and state offices.

But the magnitude and gravity of this year's presidential primary in April, the congressional primary in June and the impending presidential election in November have eclipsed the smaller revolutions going on in the city's political firmament.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

Espaillat won the Democratic primary for the 13th congressional district and will likely win the November general election in the Democrat - heavy district.

People can give to as many congressional candidates as they like as long as they don't exceed the $ 2,700 limit per each election, usually a primary and then a general election.

Democratic voters are choosing decidedly liberal candidates in some primary elections for House races viewed as key to the congressional majority.

Keep in mind that there are actually four election days in New York this year: presidential primary on April 19, followed by congressional primaries in June, state - level primaries in September, and the November Electelection days in New York this year: presidential primary on April 19, followed by congressional primaries in June, state - level primaries in September, and the November ElectionElection Day.

De Blasio said he «absolutely» supports a federal monitor to oversee the inept Board of Elections in upcoming Congressional primaries and wishes he could «tear down» the board and start over.

The NYC Council will send out 20 staffers to monitor today's congressional primaries amid stumbles by the city Board of Elections.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez is calling on the feds to monitor next week's congressional primary in her Brooklyn district because she doesn't trust the problem - plagued NYC Board of Elections to do the job.

These states allow 17 - year - olds to vote in a Congressional primary election if they will be 18 by the date of the general election.

After numerous foul - ups during last April's presidential primary, the Board of Election's (BOE) performance was under the spotlight during Tuesday's Congressional primary.