Sentences with phrase «locked in a tight race»

Lamb and Saccone are locked in a tight race that has prompted Republicans to fear they'll lose a seat in a district that went heavily for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

LAS VEGAS / COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were locked in a tight race in Nevada on Saturday, with early results showing Clinton with a slight edge over Sanders with 27 percent of precincts reporting.

In 1971, when former Chicago Cubs outfielder George Altman was locked in a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to Eto.

The Giants are locked in a tight race with the Dodgers in the NL West.

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

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Cuomo has endorsed one member of the Senate Democratic conference, Senator Joseph Addabbo of Queens, who also provided a needed yes vote on gay marriage, and who is locked in a tight race with Republican Eric Ulrich.

In Nassau County, meanwhile, Democrat Laura Curran and Republican Jack Martins were locked in a tight race that seesawed back and forth all night for that County Executive position.

But his support could help turn out the vote for Maffei, who is locked in a tight race with Buerkle, R - Onondaga Hill.

remained locked in a tight race with Timothy Lawliss (R), with just 1,415 votes separating the two out of a total 357,363 cast.

This time the two are locked in a tight race building up cash reserves for a campaign that political handicappers and party leaders expect to be among the most competitive in the Northeast.

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Then stories will appear about tighter security at tracks and in - house investigations, but all that will merely be a matter of locking the barns after the races have been stolen.

Ms. Crowley is locked in a tight three - way race with Assembly members Grace Meng and Rory Lancman — who has also been rolling out some union endorsements of his own for a seat currently held by Congressman Gary Ackerman, who is retiring.

The council speaker, who has been locked in a tight battle for the top slot since Weiner entered the race, said the election has to be about ways to improve the city.

But Heck and former state attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto have been locked in an extraordinarily tight race, and heavy early turnout is almost certainly tilting Democratic.

Cuomo and the former «Sex and the City» star are locked in a tight competition for the nomination to the progressive Working Families Party, which could make this year's gubernatorial election a highly competitive three - way race.

One, Joseph Addabbo of Queens, is locked in a tight re-election race.

The Syracuse - area congresswoman is locked in a tight re-election race with Democrat and former Congressman Dan Maffei and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum.

Arquette and Simmons were the supporting frontrunners all season, but Keaton was locked in a tight Best Actor race with Redmayne until the SAG Awards tipped the scales in Redmayne's favor.