Sentences with phrase «congressional races»

House Speaker Paul Ryan, one of the GOP's top fundraisers, is headed to Long Island later this month to rake in the bucks for Republicans in two of the nation's hottest Congressional races: Sen. Jack Martins and Rep. Lee Zeldin.

After that nomination, the district has been center of a number of pitched congressional races with Democrats succeeding.

Notable Success by Two Anti-Super PAC Super PACs Friends of Democracy, the Super PAC opposed to Super PACs, had formidable success in helping to elect reform - minded candidates in New York State and Congressional races.

ALBANY — Mitt Romney's choice of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate put an end to speculation about who the GOP's vice presidential choice would be — and it clarified one significant tactic that New York Democrats will use in the upcoming congressional races.

While some Congressional races garner more news than others, District 27 covering Miami is getting a lot of attention this week.

There are also primaries in Delaware and Rhode Island, although neither state features competitive congressional races.

After the 2002 election, Democrats had a 17 — 15 edge in House seats representing Texas, although the state's voters voted for Republicans in congressional races by a 55 — 45 margin.

Conservative interest groups have dumped well over $ 20 million into congressional races so far this year, outspending their liberal opponents 4 to 1 and setting off a growing panic among Democrats struggling to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate.

Steve Greenberg, a political pollster at Siena College, says it's only recently that New York has seen truly competitive congressional races.

One candidate has come up with a plan to deal with this, and it could become a model for how to, at least, raise awareness of the effort by Big Money to effectively buy congressional races.

In New York Congressional races, Friends of Democracy was involved in the contest between Sean Patrick Maloney and Nan Hayworth in the lower Hudson Valley's 18th district, as well as the race between Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Beurkle in Syracuse's 24th district, targeting reform opponents Hayworth and Beurkle.

The 2020 House Short List If Patrick Murray is right and New Jersey sends twelve Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives next year, the state would brace for another cycle of competitive congressional races in 2020 — this time with a mostly new crop of candidates.

Interest groups on both sides have reported spending $ 29.7 million on congressional races so far this election cycle, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission reports.

While the state is blue enough that remain soundly in Obama's column, a number of congressional races are close enough to send Democrats and Republicans scrambling for an edge.

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.

A big difference, but one that will still present a challenge for the Democrats; even though they outnumber Republicans in the borough by five to three, Republicans have emerged victorious in a majority of Congressional races in the last 30 years.

The presidential campaign could be a major factor in several close congressional races and in the fight for control of the state Senate, where Republicans have control with the help of one Democrat who meets with them.

Key Congressional Races: Remember Zephyr Teachout, who primaried Andrew Cuomo from the left in 2014 and got 34 percent of the vote?

In 2016, we examined both the previous midterm of 2014 and presidential elections of 2012 and 2008 in order to make more educated predictions regarding congressional races.

Cox says Ryan's Wisconsin district is similar, demographically, to Central and Western New York, where there are contested congressional races, and he thinks Republicans can retain or pick up seats there.

«If he's not raising hundreds of millions of dollars, there are gubernatorial races, Senate races, congressional races, attorney general races, you name it, that will be impacted.

A look at these Congressional races should make that clear to the Republican bigots who are turning on her.

Gianaris said the popularity of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer — who's running for re-election — as well as some hot congressional races will also have influence.

Cilizza can go back to his Roll Call newspaper days and report about these Congressional races, but the reality is that most Republicans will vote to keep their incumbents in office and few Democrats will pick up those vacant seats.

New York has eight congressional races that are considered competitive this year.

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

Of course, New York might not have had the unusually high number of competitive congressional races underway across the state if Cuomo had heeded calls from national Democrats — including Pelosi — to intercede in the redistricting stalemate between the state Senate and Assembly when it came to the House lines.

Donovan has run with Conservative Party backing in both his congressional races.

Meanwhile, the congressional races have largely flown under the radar, generating scant media attention and largely overlooked by party leaders.

Former Rep. Barney Frank has weighed in on one of 2014's tightest congressional races, that of his state Massachusetts» sixth district.

This race polled as a toss - up in August but as the state's other top congressional races have taken off (in the 1st and 5th districts) neither party has put money into this race.

If would like a real story on a» Fix in Progress» please feel free to investigate California... especially at the assembly and state senator races then of course our congressional races.

While candidates in other congressional races in the upstate New York have been running campaign commercials since late August, this is the first campaign ad in the newly drawn 22nd congressional district.

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The organization, the oldest police association in the country, doesn't always endorse in congressional races, but did back Maloney and Republican Rep. Peter King two years ago in their re-election bids.

New York, despite the fact that it is dominated by Democrats, had a handful of competitive congressional races in 2012, thanks to the fact that a judge — not the state Legislature — drew the district lines.

Cuomo's take on the election comes as liberals and progressive advocates are blaming the governor for Democratic defeats in state Senate and congressional races.

It's a big year in New York for both state and national Democrats, with a handful of must - win contested state Senate and congressional races developing from Long Island to Buffalo.

Similar situations in which contested congressional races overlap with hot state Senate contests exist in the Hudson Valley, the Rochester area and the Capital Region.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox predicted the party will win four congressional races and two state Senate seats this fall.

We did well in the congressional races.

We're still tracking results from last night's party primaries for key congressional races, including a pivotal contests on Long Island and in New York City.

Having a victory office in suffolk makes a lot of sense you have two congressional races and a state senate seat.

Hoping to end a decade - long losing streak in congressional races, state Republicans endorsed candidates for Congress and U.S. Senate on opening day of their state convention Friday.

Last year, the two donated some $ 83 million — much of that of it in congressional races after reportedly deciding (paywall) that Donald Trump had no chance of becoming president.

Emboldened by Trump's presidential victory, the Mercer family has been siding with extremist candidates for 2018 congressional races, hoping to wipe out incumbent Republicans and yank Senate leader McConnell from his seat.

In an open letter posted to the Matt Funiciello - Green Politics Page on Facebook, he thanked supporters of the past two congressional races.

Cook's PVI is frequently cited in analyses of congressional races — though FairVote continues to rely on only one election as an effective predictor of outcomes.

Bernie Sanders campaign organizers in Western New York are turning their focus toward New York's congressional races.

Control of the General Assembly aside, the electoral success (or failure) of Democratic state legislature candidates could push some of them to jump into Virginia's congressional races,