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Is Michael Steele delusional??? This win is the SEVENTH straight consecutive win for Democrats in special Congressional races since 2008.

Not exact matches

Kinderhook, NY — June 16, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the endorsed Conservative, Republican, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, today announced that it has raised $ 1,222,651.66 since entering the race.

Republican congressional candidate John Faso's campaign has $ 619,102 in cash after raising more than $ 1 million since entering the race last year.

Since leaving the White House in August, Bannon has sought out populist candidates to support in congressional races.

And for the first time since 1992, the area has experienced a congressional race for an open seat, with the retirement of Maurice Hinchey.

The Conservative Party's candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, Doug Hoffman, running on our line alone, garnered 45.98 % of the vote, the highest for a minor party in a U.S. House race since 1949.

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.

-- More competitive congressional and state legislative races than at any point since Republicans took over the state in the mid-1990s.

The race has heated up since current state Sen. Adriano Espaillat won the Democratic congressional primary in June, setting the stage for him to become the first Dominican - American elected to Congress.

But there aren't expected to be many undecideds at the polls, since the congressional primary will be the only race on Tuesday's ballot.

Since announcing his candidacy, John Faso (R - Kinderhook), the endorsed Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform party candidate, has earned more than 60 significant endorsements in his race for the 19th Congressional District, the Faso campaign today announced.

KINDERHOOK, NY... June 24, 2016 — Since announcing his candidacy, John Faso (R - Kinderhook), the endorsed Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform party candidate, has earned more than 60 significant endorsements in his race for the 19th Congressional District, the Faso campaign today announced.

Faso was elected last year to the 19th congressional district, which has been a closely watched House seat for New York and the site of several battleground races since the 2012 round of redistricting.

The candidates in the 24th congressional district contest were prepared for the race to go down to the wire, since polls predicted that democrat Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle were locked in a statistical tie, with Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum trailing behind.

(CNN)- The three - way race in New York's 23rd congressional district ended Tuesday night with a surprise Democratic win - the first for the party in the reliably - Republican district since the 19th century.

The Cook Political Report, a Washington - based publication that tracks congressional races, says the district leans Democratic, suggesting the seat could flip from red to blue after being controlled by Republicans since 1995.

And Rep. Walt Minnick - the first Democrat to win a congressional race here since 1992 - won that seat in a squeaker two years ago, edging past incumbent Republican Rep. Bill Sali 51 - 49 percent.

It is the first time since at least 2006 that the Syracuse Police Benevolent Association, a 450 - member group, endorsed a candidate in the local congressional race.

It's the first time Balter has raised more than $ 100,000 in a quarter since she entered the 24th Congressional District race in September.

Grechen Shirley said that since March 1, she has paid a babysitter $ 22 an hour to watch her two children, ages 1 and 3, for about 17 hours a week while she has worked on her congressional race.

Cuomo's new push to have the party play a larger role in congressional elections seems to have had some impact on the Democrats» fundraising, but that also underscores the idea that it hasn't been an active force in down - ballot races since he took office.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.