Sentences with phrase «liberal challenger»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defeated liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout in the state's Democratic Primary Tuesday, turning back an energetic longshot bid by liberals who have criticized his pragmatic, centrist approach.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has defeated liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout in the state's Democratic primary, turning back an energetic longshot bid by liberals who have criticized his pragmatic, centrist approach.

The picture - perfect image marked an important moment of party unity after Clinton's long - fought primary against liberal challenger Bernie Sanders, who has not yet endorsed his former rival.

The democratic party has been drifting leftwards for years now (a function of changing demographics, i.e. minorities and younger, college educated people), and a large number of moderate democratic congressional incumbents will be facing off against extremely liberal challengers.

In 2014, again facing the potential threat of extinction and under pressure from its labor backers, the party agreed to endorse Cuomo over liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout.

ALBANY — Supporters of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are mounting another effort to knock liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout off next month's primary ballot.

WFP activists had seized on a Siena College and later Quinnipiac University polls that showed an unnamed liberal challenger would draw votes away from Cuomo as discontent grew over the governor's economic record.

Ironically, in proof that no good deed goes unpunished, Feinstein has just been denied the endorsement for renomination for a fifth term by her state's Democrats in their June primary, in favor of a more liberal challenger.

Her candidacy exists for the same reason that Cuomo is never mentioned among potential liberal challengers to Hillary Clinton, a list that Elizabeth Warren, Martin O'Malley and Joe Biden.

ALBANY — On the morning of the Democratic primary election, Governor Andrew Cuomo argued that his supporters are just as passionate as those of his liberal challenger.

Still, there is talk of finding a liberal challenger to Cuomo in 2018 when he runs for a third term after they were buoyed by the better than expected showing of Zephyr Teachout in 2014.

That didn't work, however, and large local chapters of the SEIU and Communications Workers of America both left the WFP on Friday as a result, though they were not the first unions to split from the party since it almost endorsed Cuomo's last left - liberal challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in 2014.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York claimed the Democratic nomination for a second term on Tuesday, but at a considerable price: A liberal challenger with little money or name recognition, Zephyr Teachout, was on track to receive about a third of the vote, a signal of the potent dissatisfaction with Mr. Cuomo in his party's left wing.