Sentences with phrase «midterm races»

Teachers Unions Take a Beating in Midterm Races Most of the GOP governors the unions wanted to defeat were successful.

Panels and training sessions starred political directors and digital gurus from the Democratic National Committee, Planned Parenthood, NextGen Climate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who walked audience members — many of them field organizers and young digital staffers from various midterm races — through the micro-tactics that worked in 2014 and the ones that didn't.

Washington (CNN)- Potential presidential candidates like Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney have grabbed headlines this year for handing out pivotal endorsements in key midterm races, but Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has quietly become one of the most sought after attractions on the GOP money circuit.

While Senate and House leaders have been wary of Trump's involvement in their midterm races, the White House and RGA continue to maintain strong relations thanks in part to RGA executive director Paul Bennecke, a longtime aide to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and former RGA executive director Nick Ayers, another former Perdue aide who's now chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.

The upcoming midterm races are expected to be some of the most expensive elections in recent memory.

Altogether, this could be the most expensive midterm race in history.

Not exact matches

Inside the West Wing, the White House political office is overlaying the list of companies that have announced new investments or bonuses for their employees on a map of target races in the 2018 midterms, providing an outline for travel in the coming months.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 presidential race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

You'll find coverage of the 13 congressional races key to the midterm elections, the race to be California's next governor and what's happening in Sacramento.

Because midterm elections take place in distinct races, 472 of them this year, rendering a national verdict involves administering a very rough justice.

Katie Wilson, an Essex County Democrat, is planning a challenge to Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, next year, making her the second Democrat to enter the NY - 21 race well in advance of the midterm elections.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block new congressional maps that could tilt several key races in Democrats» favor from being used in the midterm elections.

A small state, it hosts one of the most tightly contested Senate races of the midterms.

Bloomberg's decision to open his substantial wallet in the California governor's race could signal that he will also pour resources into the congressional midterm elections.

just in from CNBC: Democrats are heading toward some big losses in this fall's midterm Senate races, polls say Goebbels (or should I say Mr. Nazi?)

Readers will have one more opportunity this week to pick the House and Senate races Roll Call will cover from the ground in the final weeks of the midterms.

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, Louisiana.

Democrats are sending warning signals on a previously sleepy southern California House race — a tangible sign of an increasingly tough midterm for the party.

Without the influx of cash, Republicans feared Democrats would spend more on the midterms, potentially forcing the GOP to leave races on the map in its quest to grow the majority.

The potential for a trade war with China is already complicating some key Senate races ahead of the November midterms, especially for Republicans hoping to expand their majority.

Croci left in midterm to serve as a reservist in Afghanistan but came back in time to rescue the party by stepping into the 2014 Senate race at the last minute.

But some of the most competitive House races of the 2018 midterms will take place in the two states.

Ahead of the hugely competitive 2018 midterm elections, CampaignTech Chicago is a one day conference focused on the technology, tools, digital strategy and tactics that will shape the most competitive races up and down the ballot.

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.

If he runs about even in Westchester County in a year with midterm level turnout, he's going to win this race by 5 to 10 points.

American Crossroads, the conservative outside organization that has pledged to raise upwards of $ 60 million for the midterm elections, is spending nearly $ 1 million on new television ads in the Colorado and Ohio Senate races.

With less than three weeks left before the November midterms, the ever - widening House playing field of competitive races is now nearly double what it has been in other recent elections, according to independent political handicappers.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Pennsylvania will play a key role in the midterm elections, where a tight Senate race is currently underway.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party's House and Senate campaign committees currently have more money to spend on races than their Republican counterparts — a milestone reached just five months before the critical midterm elections.

In 2016, we examined both the previous midterm of 2014 and presidential elections of 2012 and 2008 in order to make more educated predictions regarding congressional races.

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 contests.

The 19th congressional district is expected to be one of the more competitive and closely watched races heading into next year's midterm elections.

The NRCC is currently lagging behind its counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in the money race for the midterms.

[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.»

With Democrats on defense across the board in Senate races, their hopes in 2014 could rest heavily on their ability to turn out their base — which is to say, voters who are less likely to go to the polls in midterm elections.

-- The Dems lost several congressional races in 1993 (KY & TX) in the lead up to the midterms (that has not happened this time in fact they increased their majority).

(CNN)- Eager to prevent an embarrassing loss of his old Senate seat, President Obama is heading to Chicago Thursday for two fundraisers on behalf of Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias, and CNN has learned Obama will be returning home yet again in the final days of the midterm election to try and help Giannoulias win a race that could determine who controls the chamber next year.

In the weeks before the midterms, polls of congressional races were starting to register the results of the rising dissatisfaction with Obamacare, combined with the surging wave of Tea Party activism.

Yes, we know it's way early to be talking about House races — heck the winners in last month's midterms haven't even been sworn into the 110th Congress yet.

Last summer, Teachout took over Larry Lessig's Mayday PAC, which had absolutely no effect on all the races it got involved in during the 2014 midterms.

The incumbent representative, moderate Republican Chris Gibson, is retiring, and Democrats are exceptionally eager to take back the district, which tends to vote Democratic during presidential elections, although it is rural enough that it can swing red in midterms or close legislative races.

A list of the House races for which Democrats have asked broadcasters and cable companies to reserve $ 44 million in ad time provides a revealing look at the shape of the midterm election landscape this fall.

The 2010 midterm elections drew residents from every corner of Queens to vote in races that ousted its last remaining Republican in Albany and changed the face of politics in a borough where Republicans and Tea Party members made little headway despite a national groundswell of support for more conservative politicians.

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...

In recent races, Democrats have won in presidential years, while Republican candidates have been successful in midterm contests.

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.

Without a presidential race dominating the airwaves, House and Senate races will be on the receiving end of an unprecedented deluge of political spending this midterm cycle.