Sentences with phrase «midterm elections in a state»

That could do some damage to the president, and the Republican Party, before the midterm elections in states that turned out for Trump in 2016.

In March, Facebook began enlisting the help of news outlets to help its efforts to flag fake news, and partnered with the Associated Press to fact - check news related to U.S. midterm elections in each state.

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Democrats argue it's a desperate attempt to make Montana a competitive state in the 2018 midterm elections.

In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington's attention on his own priorities.

Warner told USA Today that he was pushing intelligence agencies to declassify the names of the states affected by those cyberattacks so they could prepare for midterm elections in 2018.

The implications in the United States will depend on how well Mr. Trump and his allies are able to sell the deal's direct benefits to voters in midterm elections in the fall.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, states and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

During the last midterm election in 2014, digital advertising accounted for less than 1 % of political spending in federal, state and local elections, according to advertising tracking firm Borrell Associates.

United States Newsmakers After the Republican victory in the 2014 US midterm elections and an eight - year hiatus, Richard Shelby, a senior senator from Alabama, has taken over his old post as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

In early November 2006 (just after the midterm elections here in the United States), N.T. Wright, the well - known New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop of Durham, delivered a public lecture in Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?&raquIn early November 2006 (just after the midterm elections here in the United States), N.T. Wright, the well - known New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop of Durham, delivered a public lecture in Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?&raquin the United States), N.T. Wright, the well - known New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop of Durham, delivered a public lecture in Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?&raquin Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?&raquin «The War on Terror»?»

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

Democratic candidates yesterday won two special elections for state legislative seats in the Northeast, another indication for the party that a blue wave is forming ahead of November's midterm elections.

Krueger, too, plans to ride what she called the «blue wave» in the November midterm elections, when she expects a «Democratic takeover of the New York state Legislature.

Through his campaign account and his political action committee, the Kerry campaign operation generated more than $ 10 million for various party committees and 179 candidates for the U.S. House, Senate, state and local offices in 42 states focusing on the midterm elections during the 2006 election cycle.

A bid for attorney general is a much riskier bet, especially considering state election law is fuzzy about whether a congressional candidate can run for the post this late in the midterm election cycle.

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered the official GOP rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night in a bid to offer voters a new face for the party ahead of the midterm elections.

History indicates the party of the president loses about 350 state legislative seats on average in midterm elections.

No fewer than seven Democrats in NY - 24 are considering whether to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko, according to party officials who view the House seat as one of their top priorities in the state and nationally for the 2018 midterm elections.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

Some of those Democrats — including North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp and West Virginia's Joe Manchin — come from conservative - leaning states where President Donald Trump won in 2016, and are facing tough midterm elections in November.

In our unprecedented effort to cover the midterm elections, Roll Call has hit the campaign trail in 14 states so far this year, covering 24 congressional races and writing 36 datelined stories from Adel, Iowa, to Tallulah, LouisianIn our unprecedented effort to cover the midterm elections, Roll Call has hit the campaign trail in 14 states so far this year, covering 24 congressional races and writing 36 datelined stories from Adel, Iowa, to Tallulah, Louisianin 14 states so far this year, covering 24 congressional races and writing 36 datelined stories from Adel, Iowa, to Tallulah, Louisiana.

AARP officials say that in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, voters 50 and older went to the polls at nearly twice the rate of younger voters, accounting for 58 percent of all votes cast in New York State.

At a rally in Manhattan in early June, Governor Andrew Cuomo publicly joined a push by the State Democratic Committee to unseat at least six New York Congressional Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

(Of course, Obama will undoubtedly help people like Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota and Sen. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan — two states with strong Democratic bases that will turn out more heavily in a presidential year than they would in a midterm election.)

And during the 2014 midterm election, she managed campaigns in Georgia and Ohio aimed at getting black women — whom Nixon has been targeting — to turn out for the federal midterm and state elections.

NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT SENATE RACES IN NC, KY... New polls in four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contestIN NC, KY... New polls in four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contestin four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contestin this November's midterm elections indicate close contests.

Ms. Tenney, a first - term Republican congresswoman from Central New York, has remained an unabashed supporter of President Trump, even as his unpopularity in his home state is expected to drive Democrats to the polls in November's midterm elections.

Of those lawmakers, Collins is believed to be safest in next year's midterm elections, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sought to work to unseat the western New York Republican who had backed an effort to shift the burden of Medicaid spending from county governments to the state level.

[The group] has been pitching donors and aiming to put together its first phase action plan for December, moving first in the Virginia and New Jersey state elections next year and with an eye toward coordination across gubernatorial, state legislative and House races going into the 2018 midterms.»

2014: Sitting side by side on CNN's «State of the Union» - a rarity these days on political shows, where members of opposing parties often appear during different segments to talk about the same topics - Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, addressed the challenges they both face in the upcoming midterm elections.

Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois State Treasurer, will face off in November's midterm election in an effort to win the Senate seat once held by President Obama.

Nearly three - quarters of the 44 who opposed the bill either are on House Republicans» target list or are running for statewide office in a conservative leaning state in 2010 — a classic bifurcation between those who are on the ballot in a midterm election and a president who doesn't stand in front of voters for another three plus years.

Oklahoma State Senator Rob Johnson (R - Kingfisher) has introduced SB 668, which does not improve ballot access for newly - qualifying parties in presidential election years, but which does improve it in midterm years.

The Midterm elections, which gave Andrew Cuomo the keys to the governor's mansion and ushered in a new Republican - controlled State Senate, dominated much of the bandwidth, coining the catchphrase «The Rent is Too Damn High!»

But the party's defending 21 of the 36 seats in play in this November's midterm elections, with half of those Democratic - held seats in red or purple states.

With one hasty and excruciatingly narrow vote, House Republicans have all but guaranteed that health care will be one of the most pivotal issues shaping the next two election cycles - including congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative races in the 2018 midterms and President Donald Trump's...

It's the latest sign of enthusiasm — like massive women's marches and victories in state races around the country — heading into midterm elections that look increasingly hopeful for the opposition party.

Geoff Berman, the executive director of the state's Democratic Party, said the flipping of the Long Island Assembly seat, the margin of Ms. Shelley's victory (the widest in memory), and the narrowing of Republican wins upstate forecast a positive outlook for the midterm elections this fall.

Suddenly, Delaware became the bellwether state for the nation, presaging Tea Party upsets from New York to New Hampshire in the coming midterm elections.

Meanwhile, the midterm election that delivered House control to Republicans and gave the GOP a stronger voice in the Senate has created a string of question marks for other nations about the United States» commitment to international climate action.

Uranus will return to Aries one last time from November 6, 2018, until March 6, 2019 — the exact day that midterm elections begin in the United States.

A Republican lawmaker wants to impeach four of the state Supreme Court's justices who ruled that the congressional map be redrawn in time for the 2018 midterm elections.

In explaining why he did not provide context for some of his remarks, Welner wrote: «Much of this change happened in the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans swept into state offices in very large numbers.&raquIn explaining why he did not provide context for some of his remarks, Welner wrote: «Much of this change happened in the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans swept into state offices in very large numbers.&raquin the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans swept into state offices in very large numbers.&raquin very large numbers.»

That distinction belongs to 2011, after the 2010 midterm elections swept historic Republican majorities into office in state after state.

In fact, in midterm elections in Colorado, when the group Democrats for Education Reform — an advocacy group of Republican money masquerading as centrist Democrats — made a high - spending bid to grab control of the state education board, their slate losIn fact, in midterm elections in Colorado, when the group Democrats for Education Reform — an advocacy group of Republican money masquerading as centrist Democrats — made a high - spending bid to grab control of the state education board, their slate losin midterm elections in Colorado, when the group Democrats for Education Reform — an advocacy group of Republican money masquerading as centrist Democrats — made a high - spending bid to grab control of the state education board, their slate losin Colorado, when the group Democrats for Education Reform — an advocacy group of Republican money masquerading as centrist Democrats — made a high - spending bid to grab control of the state education board, their slate lost.

But with debates regarding national climate change policy becoming more acrimonious in Washington as midterm elections approach, it is important to ask, what are the real options for climate policy in the United States — not only in 2010, but in 2011 and beyond.

Given the ideologically polarized state of US politics, it should come as no surprise that in the wake of the party's major victory in the midterm elections, the GOP is closing down the committee designed to address climate change.

A night Republicans feared would end in disaster in at least one state instead produced Senate nominees that party leaders are pleased to run against three vulnerable Democratic senators in November's midterm elections.