Sentences with phrase «insider party nomination»

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As one party insider told Sherman: «You can't run for the Republican nomination without talking to Roger.»

The national Democratic Party's hierarchy acknowledged the «perceived influence» of insiders over voters in picking a presidential nominee, but don't know yet how to settle an issue that bedeviled the bitter nomination fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016.

While insiders cite Hein as an early favorite to win the party nomination should he choose to run, he told the Poughkeepsie Journal last month that for now, he's focused on his own re-election for county executive this November.

In the call, the NRCC claims the Democratic presidential nomination is heading toward a brokered convention in which it will be decided by «party insiders.»

Republican insiders also say that Cuomo's statement makes it more likely that Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino will decide to seek his party's nomination for governor.

As the first quarter fundraising deadline fast approaches, the leading contenders for the 2008 presidential nomination are in a full - on sprint to raise cash and recruit the party insiders who can deliver it by the bagful.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

Since the party - appointed delegates may not have fierce loyalty to Trump, they could be among the first to bolt if he falls short of the 1,237 votes needed to clinch the nomination, GOP insiders say.

Democrat Kathleen Falk is lashing out at so - called political insiders she says are trying to «mow us down» as she tries to win her party's nomination to take on Republican Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election.

Both before and during the nomination vote, Democratic insiders expressed anxiety to the Observer that Ms. Harris would lose the general election to Republican and Conservative Party candidate Lucretia Regina - Potter, an Italian - American and perennial candidate.

«Glazer has said the daughter doesn't have to be known, because either the party leaders give her the nomination, or Janet will get the governor to appoint her to a vacancy and then they will have to choice but to support her,» said our Democratic friend and party insider, who reached out to us to highlight this story.

On Sunday, party insiders did their best to keep Mr. Philpotts from winning the Democratic nomination, supporting Ms. Patterson instead.