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According to multiple sources affiliated with DC37, the gigantic public employees union is slated to go with Councilman Charles Barron in his congressional race against Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries.

(CNN)-- Republican Rep. Allen West's push to have votes recounted in his Florida congressional race against Democrat Patrick Murphy was granted late Friday when the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections ordered a retabulation of all eight days of early voting to begin Saturday morning.

The outpouring of praise follows the crash of a trial balloon floated by Cuomo supporters in April to try to push Hochul into the congressional race against Republican Chris Collins, and forcing out announced Democratic candidate Nate McMurrary, Grand Island town supervisor.

Not exact matches

Gareth Rhodes is the latest Democrat to declare in the race for the 19th congressional district against Faso.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

Democrat Conor Lamb clung to a thin lead in his closely watched race against Republican Rick Saccone in a Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump easily carried in 2016, and the New York Times declared him the winner, though some ballots remain to be counted and the GOP is considering legal action.

Katko is running for re-election against Deacon in the 24th Congressional District race.

The four county Democratic chairs in the 24th Congressional District are speaking out against a national party committee after the surprise entry of Juanita Perez Williams into the race.

A bipartisan congressional effort, ignoring White House objections, produced a bill Saturday to impose sweeping sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential race and its human rights violations.

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.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pushed back today against a poll conducted for Long Beach City Councilman Gary DeLong (R) that showed a close race with state Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D) for California's Democratic - leaning 47th district.

They are lining - up to position the race against Eldridge as a campaign of personalities — Gibson, the local war hero from a working family vs. Eldridge, the multi-millionaire outsider trying to buy a Congressional seat.»

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

Stephanie Murphy, Democratic candidate for Florida's 7th congressional district, here being interviewed by CQ Roll Call, won her race against incumbent Republican John L. Mica.

Espaillat, now in his third attempt to claim Rangel's Congressional seat, is facing off in a crowded election race against Assemblymembers Keith Wright and Guillermo Linares, former Assemblymember Adam Clayton Powell, former Democratic National Committee political director Clyde Williams and others.

Johnson, who later challenged Gingrich in the 1984 congressional race, said the divorce and controversy over the support payments caused a lot of negative feelings against Gingrich in his home county.

One of the races mentioned by Israel is the Republican primary in the 22nd Congressional District pitting incumbent U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna against Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

But Hunter dropped out of the race last week to assist Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, who is mounting a primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R - Barneveld, in the 22nd Congressional District.

But numbers whiz Nate Silver has cautioned against reading too far into whatever the results of this extremely close contest turn out to be, noting upstate NY congressional races have proven to be rather quirky in the past.

(CNN)- George Pataki has endorsed third - party conservative Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava in New York's special congressional race, making the three - term former governor the latest high profile Republican to weigh in against his party's choice.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A raucous crowd cheered Colleen Deacon Tuesday night at a downtown Syracuse tavern after she declared victory in her 24th Congressional District primary race against two other Democrats.

If she wants to win her 15th congressional term, she will have to win her closest race yet against Republican challenger Mark Assini.

Unions representing law enforcement officers in central New York are throwing their support behind former federal prosecutor John Katko in his race against Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Deacon — who is currently 23 percentage points down against incumbent Rep. Katko (R - N.Y.) in New York state's 24th Congressional District race — was officially endorsed by Hochul during the rally.

In today's Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Representative Stephen Lynch tells WAMC's Alan Chartock that he hopes to be successful in his race against fellow Congressman Ed Markey.

Murphy is running against Republican New York assemblyman Jim Tedisco in a highly competitive race to fill Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's vacant congressional seat.

* National Republican Congressional Committee: Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.) won a three - way race against Reps. Pete Sessions (Texas) and Phil English (Pa.) earlier this month for the right to head the House Republican campaign arm.

At least one of those close races includes Democrat Zephyr Teachout in the 19th congressional district battleground who ran against Cuomo in a Democratic primary in 2014.

Some New York congressional lawmakers are facing off against first - time candidates in this year's congressional races.

[183] Elected officials and observers opined that Scozzafava's showing in the congressional race affected the New York State Senate's December 2, 2009 vote against same - sex marriage legislation.

GOP candidate Grant Lally sent an e-mail blast Monday announcing that the New York Board of Elections certified him as winner of the tight race against Stephen Labate for New York's 3rd Congressional District Republican nomination — but the declaration came as news to state board of election officials, who said they have no role in certifying the race's results not certified the results.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the outcome of the hotly contested Pennsylvania Congressional race, the nerve agent used against a former Russian spy, Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as Trump's top economic advisor, and walkouts across the nation in regards to gun violence.

Kinderhook, NY — October 13, 2016... Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino, a Republican who won 46 of New York's 62 counties including all of the 19th Congressional District in the 2014 race against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, today endorsed John Faso in his Congressional run, the Faso campaign today announced.

House Majority PAC, a third - party group supporting Democrats in Congressional races, today released an attack ad against Republican Congressional candidate Chris Collins, who is taking on Rep. Kathy Hochul (D) in New York's 27th district.

Christie is backing GOP challenger Michael Grimm in the 13th congressional district race against Democratic Rep. Michael McMahon.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Thursday that it is getting behind Doug Applegate in his race against California Rep. Darrell Issa.

Democrat Colleen Deacon, an Syracuse University alumna running against Rep. John Katko in New York state's 24th Congressional District race, spoke with other prominent politicians about the upcoming election at a Syracuse rally on Friday.

The 18th Congressional District race is a rematch from 2012, pitting Maloney against Republican Nan Hayworth.

But just more than 40 days before the election, he appears to be in very comfortable shape in his race against former Congressional aide Dan Lamb (D).

A «super PAC» backed by House Republicans announced plans to spend $ 500,000 against Mike Derrick in the final stretch of New York's 21st District Congressional race.

The exception might be in certain key congressional races — the 15th, where Rep. Charlie Rangel is fighting for his political life, for example; and the 14th, where Rep. Carolyn Maloney is facing off against newcomer Reshma Saujani.

- The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reports on the congressional race in the ninth district in New Jersey, where the loss of a congressional seat is pitting two long - serving Democrats against each other.

Two sources close to the situation said associates of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo placed a flurry of phone calls on Sunday exploring the switch, but McMurray said Monday he is staying in the race against Republican incumbent Chris Collins in the 27th Congressional District.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A «super PAC» backed by House Republicans announced plans to spend $ 500,000 against Mike Derrick in the final stretch of New York's 21st District Congressional race.

Balter, of Syracuse, is seeking the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality party ballot lines in the 24th Congressional District race against Rep. John Katko.

For state Sen. David Argall, the Republican running in Pennsylvania's 17th congressional race, cash flow is a big problem in his fight against incumbent Democratic Rep. Tim Holden.

Sanders returned the favor, declared her contest against ex-Assembly GOP Minority Leader John Faso «the most important congressional race in the country,» campaigned for her and urged his supporters to flood her coffers.

Maffei is running for re-election against Katko, R - Camillus, in the 24th Congressional District race.

The Democratic House committee also dumped $ 100,000 more onto television in New York's 25th District where former congressional aide Dan Maffei (D) is running a stronger - than - expected race against Rep. James Walsh (R).

A new Siena College poll shows that Republican incumbent John Katko has widened his lead in the 24th Congressional district race against Democrat Colleen Deacon.