Sentences with phrase «congressional race in favor»
Weekend efforts to coax Democrat Nathan D. McMurray out of his congressional race in favor of Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul have apparently failed.
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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.).
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block new congressional maps that could tilt several key races in Democrats» favor from being used in the midterm elections.
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.