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Education is shaping up to be a major issue in the 2018 gubernatorial race as it's an area where the four top Democratic candidates differ.

It was created during the 2014 gubernatorial race as the «Stop Common Core Party» and received enough support to become a permanent ballot fixture.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, too, is believed to be interested in running that year, while Harry Wilson, the 2010 GOP nominee for comptroller, is believed to be eyeing the gubernatorial race as well.

Cox says fracking will be a significant issue in the gubernatorial race as soon as his party has a candidate.

A five - year deal would cover both the 2018 gubernatorial race as well as 2020 should the governor make a presidential bid.

That leaves state legislative and gubernatorial races as the few battlegrounds where donors could contribute and see an immediate reward after 2018 — an important opportunity for victory for a group of men and women who saw little payoff for their spending last year.

Not only have Republicans repeatedly cited gubernatorial races as the first step in their rebuilding process nationally but the governors elected over the next two years will play a major role in the decennial redistricting process that will help determine control of Congress for the foreseeable future.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor will discuss the primary election and its impact on November gubernatorial races as well as the upcoming march for climate change and the status of gubernatorial debates.

Not exact matches

Gillespie faces off with the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam, Virginia's lieutenant governor, in the Tuesday election, which is billed as the premier race of 2017.

As the Times reports, billionaire Robert Mercer invested $ 15 million in Cambridge Analytica, starting with $ 1.5 million for the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial race.

In Washington's gubernatorial race in 2004, the first automated count and the automated recount had the republican candidate, Dino Rossi, as the winner.

This is Koch's first campaign - like upstate swing since his failed 1982 gubernatorial bid during which his anti-upstate statements are now widely viwed as having cost him the primary race against Mario Cuomo.

«In the gubernatorial race, they'll choose between Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has served as a strong voice for New Yorkers and consistently taken on corruption in both government and the private sector, and Carl Paladino, a radical Republican candidate who is out of touch with New Yorkers — and whose positions appear to be growing more extreme by the day.»

The New York Democratic Committee on Monday is deriding the shifting field for the Republican gubernatorial nomination as a «soap opera» and an «amazing race to the bottom.»

The New York gubernatorial race has a number of colorful candidates, including Jimmy McMillan, a former postal worker running as a member of the «Rent Is 2 Damn High» party.

As POLITICO reported in September, it's part of a longer - term effort to build a bigger and more diverse bench for the party to draw on in gubernatorial and Senate races over the next decade.

Lamont instead teamed up with Bysiewicz, a rival in the gubernatorial race who served three terms as the secretary of the state and is from Middletown.

We spoke briefly with John Faso about the 2014 gubernatorial race and how it compares to Faso's race as the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2006.

«Though most political ad dollars traditionally are spent after Labor Day, tight primaries and early spending on House, Senate and gubernatorial races have pushed local TV - ad spending above $ 311 million as of mid-August, up 45 % from the same point in 2004 and more than three times as much as in 2002...»

Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz may be a Democrat, but he feels like he has a lot in comment with Republican Carl Paladino — the Tea Party darling and mad - as - hell Buffalo businessman who was defeated in the 2010 gubernatorial race by now - Gov.

As for the impact of the gubernatorial race, Democratic standard - nearer Andrew Cuomo is leading his GOP / Conservative challenger, Carl Paladino, 48 - 49.

Just to recap, Cox and Steele have had a difficult relationship since March, when the RNC let the NY GOP know that national officials didn't want to fund races in New York if then - Democrat Steve Levy was at the top of the ticket as the gubernatorial nominee on the GOP line.

For now, the Republican contenders being talked about for the gubernatorial race this year include Assembly Minority Leader and Canandaigua resident Brian Kolb who has already declared he will seek the nomination, as well as possible contenders State Senator John DeFrancisco, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.

Mario Cuomo had his eye on H. Carl McCall as Regan's successor, seeing the appointment of New York's first African - American comptroller as a path to help secure minority votes in the coming gubernatorial race.

New York Republican Party chairman Ed Cox is traveling the state discussing voter outreach as they prepare for the 2013 local elections, and the 2014 congressional elections and gubernatorial race.

The Working Families Party could hand its endorsement in the gubernatorial race to Cynthia Nixon as soon as this weekend.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum is actively considering the race on the Republican side, as is 2006 gubernatorial nominee Lynn Swann.

(CNN)-- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver biting criticism to President Barack Obama for recent controversies surrounding his administration in a speech Saturday to Virginia Republicans as they nominate GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli in the state's gubernatorial race.

The Dems say they will seek to use Mercer, who they expect to help pump millions of dollars into the 2018 New York gubernatorial, congressional and state legislative races through personal and Super PAC donations, as a «bogeyman» in heavily blue New York.

STAMFORD — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie campaigned alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley Tuesday, and in his second visit to Connecticut this year Christie said national Republicans have identified the race as one of the most important in the country in 2014.

Astorino's camp was at odds with Christie during the 2014 gubernatorial race, as the Westchester County executive blamed the New Jersey governor, then the head of the Republican Governors Association, for working to undermine his candidacy.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, is generally pretty judicious with his endorsements, preferring to hand them out only in instances of 1) political expedience (like, say, the tight race for Westchester County executive where he would personally benefit from the defeat of incumbent Republican Rob Astorino, who has been mentioned as a potential future gubernatorial contender); or 2) almost certain victory by his preferred candidate; or 3) when his nod is highly likely to make the difference between victory and defeat in the 11th hour of a campaign.

The election cycles where a Conservative might someday with a statewide gubernatorial race is not far - fetched, so we might yet see the day when the GOP is Row C — and ironically classified as a minor party — if they don't get their acts together soon.

Nebraska's gubernatorial primary is the marquee race on the ballot today, but the state's voters will also select a GOP nominee to challenge Sen. Ben Nelson (D) in the fall as well as a replacement for Osborne in the state's 3rd District.

So if KBH times her withdrawal from the Senate so that the D Senate race between White and Sharp is on the same day as the R Gubernatorial primary, KBH could lose.

(CNN)-- Campaigning for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee in Virginia's gubernatorial race, Vice President Joe Biden depicted Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli as a puppet of the tea party and framed the race as a referendum on the conservative grassroots movement, one day before voters head to the polls on Election Day.

Murphy, who will likely run against Fulop for the North and Central Jersey vote in a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, is accusing him of using his mayoral campaign as a war chest for that race.

He sided with Assemblyman Charles Barron, one of his opponents in the 2010 gubernatorial race, the least often, taking the same position as him on 63.26 percent of bills.

Florida: As Democrat Gwen Graham works to oust GOP Rep. Steve Southerland II, the vulnerable incumbent could benefit from GOP Gov. Rick Scott working to turn out the vote in the panhandle's 2nd District — a key area for Scott's re-election too (gubernatorial race rating: Tossup).

Party officials and seasoned operatives who spoke to POLITICO in recent days have used words like «crisis» and «desperate» to describe the state of affairs, as the two potential gubernatorial candidates deemed the strongest have opted out and potential candidates for down - ballot races are non-existent.

Democrats are optimistic that a competitive gubernatorial race, as well as the presidential race and sheriff races, will drive Democratic turnout.

Five candidates in Connecticut's crowded gubernatorial race jockeyed at a debate Sunday to outflank one another as most fiscally conservative, and most hawkish on the state's widening deficit.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio has earned as much as $ 8 million on Wall Street since he left Congress a decade ago, and again is relying on Wall Street friends and former colleagues to help finance his current race, records and interviews show.

... As for the Gubernatorial race, interviewed voters represented a split decision when it comes to Cuomo vs. Astorino.

Then Howie Hawkins, as his momentum in the New York gubernatorial race is ramping up, talks about Green justice in the electoral arena.

A videotaped fight between the tea party - backed New York gubernatorial hopeful and a veteran Albany reporter touched off a media frenzy Thursday, as a new poll showed the once - sleepy race between Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Carl Paladino is tightening.

If Cuomo had made a major announcement on a $ 15 minimum wage a year ago, it would have appeared as though he had been dragged to the position kicking and screaming by The Working Families Party and de Blasio, who brokered a deal between the two to prevent a WFP - backed primary challenge to Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial race.

Republicans retorted that their candidate, dairy magnate and two - time gubernatorial primary loser Jim Oberweis, was fatally flawed — so the race could not be used as a barometer for other contests.

As we wrote in a post earlier today, there were four races worth watching — the Democratic gubernatorial primary and primaries in the state's 17th, 22nd and 28th congressional districts.

Incumbents on both sides of the aisle prevailed in their contested races, as Tuesday's Illinois primaries set the stage for competitive House and gubernatorial races this fall that could be key to Democratic comeback efforts in 2018.