Sentences with phrase «election race set»

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced this morning that it will cease spending money in the Hawaii special election race set for later this month, a decision that almost certainly will hand Republicans a victory.

Not exact matches

It sets distressing signals about race and protest, the same week as police moved in again on a peaceful Indigenous - led standoff against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.

If Fossella were to get into the NY - 13 ring and win the GOP primary (assuming Grimm and his opponent, Michael Allegretti, remained in the race), he would not — as it stands now — have the Conservative line, which sets up a three - way race in the general election.

Former party chairperson, Samia Nkrumah faces off with former General Secretary, Ivor Greenstreet, former flagbearer aspirant and lawyer, Bright Akwetey and newcomer, Joseph Agyepong in the party's Flag bearer race set for Saturday, January 30 to elect a Presidential Candidate for the 2016 election.

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.

ALBANY — A lengthy legal battle to move the general election for the 3rd Congressional District to December could set up a national showdown in which the race would determine which party controls the House of Representatives, warned one of the Republican candidates in the fight.

Races to fill two vacant legislative seats began to solidify on Tuesday as candidates filed nomination papers with state election officials, setting the battle lines in contests that Democrats hope will bolster their momentum heading into November's mid-term elections.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio easily defeated a field of longshot Democratic primary opponents Tuesday night, setting up a general election race against Republican Nicole Malliotakis.

The special election was set for the same date as the general election — which includes races in Queens and The Bronx — and the winner will serve until Dec. 31, 2016.

Danny Tarkanian topped eight others Tuesday night to win Nevada's 4th district Republican primary, setting up a general election race with Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford.

The slates are set for this November's election, which features lively races for supervisor, town board and two of the three County Legislature seats.

An attorney, he also did pro bono on a lawsuit to force Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set a special election for the congressional race last May after the resignation of Rep. Michael Grimm left Staten Islanders without a congressman.

While a federal judge has set the congressional primaries for June 26th, the primary election for state races remains September 11th.

The sheet lists a number of other races in which Siena polls showed one set of numbers, but the election results showed another.

The ruling has the potential to set up three separate primary dates come 2012: one for the presidential primary, another for House and Senate races and a third for state and local elections.

David Miliband effectively went at his brother's election; Alan Johnson went shortly afterwards; Alistair Darling never even started the race; and the departure last year of the party's only other big figure, Livingstone, while in the end a blessed relief, leaves him with a set of senior frontbenchers whose senior members are in largely in their forties.

While the current New York City congressional delegation consists of 11 Democrats and one Republican, a makeup that is unlikely to change this year, results from key primaries in three swing districts outside the city have set the stage for races that could factor into which party controls the House after November's elections.

With Rep. Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) set to leave the National Republican Congressional Committee after this election cycle, a three - way race is already underway to replace him; Reps. Tom Cole (Okla.), Pete Sessions (Texas) and Phil English (Pa.) are all seeking the job.

(If Republicans swing and miss at these two races, they're likely to have a third chance in a special election for former New York Rep. Eric Massa's 29th district although Gov. David Paterson has yet to set a special election date.)

The BBC's Chris Mason says the by - election will set hearts in Westminster racing as it will give parties a «very real sense of whether they are popular or not».

The Suffolk County sheriff's race is one of three local elections that could set in motion special elections to fill Senate seats either heading into or during the 2018 legislative session.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

Because observing and participating as a teacher and an advocate over the last two cycles of elections I think that people have jumped in the race a little too late, and then it becomes this campaign of mailers and, given the way campaign finance laws are set up, there's a lot of outside groups spending money and candidates aren't really able to find their message, so I just wanted to give myself as much time as possible.

But the National Education Association, which plans to spend about $ 40 million during this election cycle, is aiming to direct a record - setting 70 percent of that amount — or $ 28 million — to state and local races.

Microtargeting might be more effective in settings with less information, like a state legislative race, says Hersh from Tufts, but there's a lot of information being shared in an American presidential election.