Sentences with phrase «over liberal challenger»

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.

Not exact matches

The Liberal Democrats, Labour's closest local challengers, have lost well over half their national support since last May.

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.

Massachusetts Democrats recently launched a campaign painting Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown as anti-Fenway Park, in an effort to help challenger Elizabeth Warren capture suburban voters and win over an electorate that sees her as an unlikable liberal outsider.