Sentences with phrase «heated election contest»

A year after he took office following a heated election contest with former president Susan Kent, PEF President Wayne Spence is holding a fundraiser.

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With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming special election to replace former Rep. Michael Grimm, as the party is poised to nominate Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

Toomey faces Democrat Katie McGinty in one of the closest Senate races of the year, a contest both sides think is effectively a dead heat with two weeks left before Election Day.

The Republican challengers remain ahead in two of the races, and one has tightened to become a statistical dead heat, which means we should get ready for a long election night — possibly with some contests too close to call without a tally of the paper ballots.

Now that the primary is officialy in the books, general election contests are heating up all over the state — including on Long Island, where Republican Michael Venditto is poised to release a hard - hitting ad that slams his Democratic opponent and fellow Nassau County legislator, Dave Denenberg, for his 2005 conviction on petition fraud charges and says he'll «fit right in» with the string of Albany lawmakers busted on corruption charges.

National Republicans fear they've got a problem on their hands in an upcoming New York City special congressional election, as the party is poised to nominate a figure who could thrust the contest into the heated debate over race and police tactics.

Of the contests that took place, the most heated was in Llanarthney, where Labour Alderman Edgar Lewis, a member of the authority since 1931 (and who had not faced a contested election since the 1930s) was opposed by Ratepayer Austin Griffiths, a retired colonial officer who had captured the seat at a by - election.

But he said that «would be a terrible time for a transition» because it would occur during the heat of the presidential race as well as a U.S. Senate contest and state legislative elections.

Independent candidates were the clear winners last week in the heated school - board election contest in Princeton, N.J.

While the best - known race on November 8th was the presidential election with its profound ramifications on our lives, those of us working in progressive education in Massachusetts were intently watching another heated contest unfold: Question 2, which proposed to lift the cap on charter schools by authorizing up to 12 new charter schools each year, forever.

Education, as it often does, took a back seat during the heated and closely contested election campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.