Sentences with phrase «first midterm election»

Conventional wisdom dictates that the incumbent President's party typically loses seats in his first midterm election.

But while every new president can expect his party to lose congressional seats in the first midterm election after he takes office, Dawidziak said he doesn't expect a tsunami for Democrats, or for King or Zeldin to face «top - notch» opponents next year.

It's a historical fact that the incumbent president's party usually gets slaughtered in their first midterm election.

There are 32 African - American Republicans running for Congress in the first midterm elections of the Obama administration.

«If you look at first midterm elections historically, the president's party loses seats,» Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, said at a forum in Washington in remarks reported by Politico.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

Republicans experienced a similar surge in candidates after Barack Obama's first election victory and ahead of the 2010 midterms.

The president's decision to reconsider one of his first acts in office — withdrawing from the 12 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership — opens up another potential line of attack for some Democrats ahead of critical midterm elections in November.

The Republican National Committee has committed $ 250 million to a midterm election strategy that has one goal above all else: Preserve the party's House majority for the rest of President Donald Trump's first term.

In previous midterm election years, the S&P 500 Index has experienced a sell - off early in the year — and on average, ends the first three quarters flat to slightly lower (as of this writing, the S&P 500 Index price is nearly unchanged year to date).

The passionate gun control rallies that brought out large crowds around the country sent a vivid signal that the issue is likely to play a major role in the 2018 midterm elections, and that Republicans could find themselves largely on the defensive on gun issues for the first time in decades.

Trump attendance at the private fundraiser for Handel is his first such endeavor for a congressional hopeful since he took office and confirmation that the GOP sees Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff as a barometer of the 2018 midterm elections.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reserved a third wave of television time, one week after announcing the selection of the first two waves that identified 40 of the most vulnerable seats in the midterm elections.

The 2010 midterm election is also the third consecutive midterm election held in a president's first term where Republicans picked up seats across both houses of Congress.

It's the first time Obama has served as the main attraction at a fundraiser for the organization, which is the major outside group assisting Democratic Senate incumbents and candidates running in this year's midterm elections.

President Barack Obama will appear for the first time at a fundraiser on Long Island on Oct. 16 to help raise money for the midterm elections, but two top Democrats running for Congress said they won't be able to make the event.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party's House and Senate campaign committees currently have more money to spend on races than their Republican counterparts — a milestone reached just five months before the critical midterm elections.

Washington (CNN)-- First lady Michelle Obama is hitting the campaign trail to headline events for at least nine Democratic candidates and two Democratic committees in the closing weeks of the midterm election.

Ms. Tenney, a first - term Republican congresswoman from Central New York, has remained an unabashed supporter of President Trump, even as his unpopularity in his home state is expected to drive Democrats to the polls in November's midterm elections.

[The group] has been pitching donors and aiming to put together its first phase action plan for December, moving first in the Virginia and New Jersey state elections next year and with an eye toward coordination across gubernatorial, state legislative and House races going into the 2018 midterms.»

«It's clear that there's more energy at the grass - roots level than I've seen in my lifetime, any election cycle — midterm or presidential,» said strategist Joe Trippi, who managed the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign that's widely seen as the first such bid to begin harnessing online fundraising tools.

In his first campaign, for the 2010 midterm elections, Grimm reportedly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from supporters of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, the Israeli religious leader who counts many of the city's real estate heavyweights among his followers.

Pelosi announced this week that she raised $ 16.1 million for House Democrats in the first quarter of 2018, bringing the total to $ 66.7 million that she has raised for the midterm election.

Organizers say the rallies are the first step toward getting more people to the polls for the midterm elections.

► On Monday, Jeffrey Mervis presented the first in a series of ScienceInsider posts on what could happen in Washington next year, following the upcoming midterm elections.

As the midterm elections loom next week, Republicans are jockeying to keep their majority in the House, while Democrats are racing to capture the handful of seats that could put them on top for the first time since 1994.

True to a vow he made after the Republican triumph in the midterm elections, new Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell made sure a bill mandating federal approval of the controversial pipeline was the first order of business.