Sentences with phrase «congressional seat against»

Grimm, a former marine and FBI agent, is attempting a comeback by running in the Republican primary for his old congressional seat against Donovan, the former Staten Island district attorney, who succeeded him.

Miner bowed out of running for the 24th congressional seat against Republican Rep. John Katko earlier this year.

It's also worth noting that King is currently fighting to retain his Congressional seat against a challenge by Christie Vilsack, wife of the aforementioned Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Not exact matches

Earlier this week, I reported on the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, where Republican Rick Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb to fill Republican Tim Murphy's seat.

Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial list of Republican - held seats it plans to target in 2018.

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.»

This would mark the first time Linares would run for the congressional seat, but not his first time taking on against Espaillat.

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.

In 2014 and 2016, Supervisor Assini ran against Slaughter for the 25th Congressional District seat.

He also reached out those who did not support him, saying: «A lot of people who may have been on the sidelines, or even worked against us, to every single one, I say join us... help us keep a Republican congressional seat... that has been represented by Guy Molinari, Susan Molinari, Vito Fossella and, come November, Bob Straniere!»

Alan Grayson, the Florida representative and liberal firebrand hoping to win Marco Rubio's U.S. Senate seat, was attempting to explain the recent avalanche of explaining he's had to do as he runs in the Democratic primary against his congressional colleague Patrick Murphy, the preferred candidate of the Democratic Establishment.

Frank Morganthaler announces he's on the ballot Frank Morganthaler, candidate for Congress, will appear on the November 6, General Election Ballot on the «We the People» party line, as he faces off against Nita Lowey and Joe Carvin for the 19th Congressional District seat.

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

He is running against Grimm, a two - term Republican congressman representing the 11th Congressional District, a seat that covers the entire borough of Staten Island and takes in parts of Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst.

A woman in the 19th Congressional District, who picked up a lot of Upstate New York votes in a 2014 primary run against Andrew Cuomo, is now one step closer to a seat in Congress.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

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.

An ethics complaint has been filed against the campaign of Michael Grimm, who is making a comeback bid for his old Staten Island congressional seat.

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

Rep. Eric Massa (D - N.Y.) has decided against seeking reelection, creating an open seat in a very competitive congressional district.

You'll need something to yank after realizing that there are ten congressional districts in New York where Democrats are running either against incumbent Republicans or for an open seat.

The move comes a day after GOP New York assemblyman Jim Tedisco, running for Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's former congressional seat, told reporters he would have voted against the stimulus bill.

Thomas and Dunn are squaring off against former U.S. Attorney Ken Sukhia in a heated North Florida Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, who is leaving her 2nd Congressional District seat after a 2014 redistricting decision led to radical changes to its political composition.

As for Weiner's congressional seat, a Democratic source pointed out the surprisingly strong 41.5 percent of the vote that Republican challenger Bob Turner got against Weiner in the 2010 House election.

With Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan deciding against re-election, the attention on Wednesday turned to other Republicans who could run for the southeast Wisconsin congressional seat that Ryan has held for 20 years.

Quist lost against Republican Gret Gianforte in the special election to fill Montana's single congressional seat.

On Tuesday, Deacon, who is running for New York's 24th Congressional District seat against Katko, was critical of the incumbent for not issuing a rebuke of Trump's comments.

A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aide characterized the move as a sign of confidence Democrat Seth Moulton will be able to hold the open seat against Republican Richard Tisei.

Donovan faces off against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election on May 5 for the congressional seat.

Brindisi is running for the 22nd congressional district seat against Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.

The father of Democratic congressional candidate Colleen Deacon is the focus of her first television ad of the 2016 election against U.S. Rep. John Katko for the Syracuse area's congressional seat.

Deacon, the Democratic candidate, is running against incumbent candidate John Katko (R - N.Y.) for the congressional seat of New York's 24th District.

The special election on Tuesday to fill Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's vacant congressional seat pits Murphy against Republican Jim Tedisco.

Rice, who is running against Republican Bruce Blakeman for New York's 4th Congressional District, was joined by the seat's current holder Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D - Mineola) at a news conference in Garden City where she touted the endorsements and called on Blakeman to state his position on gun - control measures.

Turner is involved in a special election against Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) for the congressional seat previously held by Anthony Weiner, who abruptly resigned in June over a sexting scandal.

Eldridge, a Democrat who is running against incumbent Chris Gibson for a seat in the 19th Congressional District, runs the venture capital firm Hudson River Ventures, which invests in companies throughout the Hudson Valley district and elsewhere in the region.

- 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.

So embittered was Hackett that he refused pleas from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) to run for the 2nd District House seat against Rep. Jean Schmidt, whom Hackett had nearly beaten in an August 2005 special election.

The plan has been obvious for some time: Young liberal about town Sean Eldridge will seek New York's nineteenth congressional district seat against popular incumbent Republican Chris Gibson.

«We called this meeting to highlight the issues around mass transportation on the East End,» said Ms. Throne - Holst, who is running a Democratic primary against attorney Dave Calone of Babylon for the First Congressional District seat currently held by Republican Lee Zeldin (R - Shirley).

NM - 1: Heather Wilson runs for the Senate, her congressional seat goes blue, Senate seat goes blue too... Congresswoman Wilson may not even win a primary against Steve Pearce.

Myers is running against Republican Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Richard Hanna (R - Barneveld).

At a press briefing earlier this week, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) warned against «irrational exuberance» but couldn't resist predicting: «We will pick up seats in the next election.

At this morning's delegation breakfast in Clearwater, House Speaker John Boehner talked up VPOTUS nominee Paul Ryan and New York's having wrested a good handful of Congressional seats from Democrats in 2010, but didn't have much to say at all about Republican Wendy Long's chances against incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Saying «this is simply not the right time for me,» state Sen. Tom Lee announced Thursday he will not run for a Central Florida congressional seat that became open when U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross decided against seeking re-election.

Meng, from Flushing, is running against Whitestone Republican city Councilman Daniel Halloran for the congressional seat.

A Houston - area congressional seat, now held by Republican John Culberson, pits national liberal groups against Democrats» House campaign arm in Washington.

When the district was redrawn in 2012, Espaillat warned that forcing the two groups to compete for the same congressional seat would lead to «20 years of nuclear political war,» and his subsequent campaigns against Rangel were speckled with racial overtones.

Michael Grimm (pictured), looking to regain his congressional seat, is up big against Rep. Daniel Donovan, a poll shows.