Sentences with phrase «primary against then»

Stocker actually won a 2014 Republican primary against then - incumbent Sen. Mark Grisanti.

He was Lieutenant Governor under Hugh Carey, and won a democratic primary against then New York City Mayor Ed Koch to become governor of New York in 1982.

He was lieutenant governor under Hugh Carey, and won a Democratic primary against then - New York City Mayor Ed Koch to become governor of New York in 1982.

Ellis ran for mayor in the 2009 Democratic primary against then long - term incumbent Jerry Jennings.

Not exact matches

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

Shattered's most lurid revelation is that, after her 2008 loss to Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton and her husband devised a loyalty scale by which they measured Democratic members of Congress — and then took systematic revenge against those who were either not supportive in the 2008 primary contest with Obama or insufficiently supportive.

And then today, another McCain spokeswoman charged that, by raising questions about Palin's record, «the Obama campaign is clearly being sexist, just like we saw in the primaries against Hillary Clinton.»

The lead focuses on a Maryland Comptroller candidate who built 80 % of his volunteer base on MySpace and then turned around and won the primary against a two - term incumbent.

For instance, if all political parties, including the APC which was then in opposition, could hold their primaries in the state, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution?

His role in the so - called Troopergate scandal (he acted as the former governor's in - house attorney during the investigation, conducted by none other than then - AG Andrew Cuomo, against whom Maloney ran in the 2006 Democratic AG primary), cost him the New York Times endorsement.

He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

The fact that this is a presidential election year stacks the deck against Republicans to begin with in this Democrat - dominated state, although whoever wins the GOP primary will have more time than ususal between then and the November general election to focus on the real target: Gillibrand.

He must win the Aug. 28 primary against state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who served in the House from 2001 to 2011, then pivot and win a competitive general election in a swing state in a poor environment for the president's party.

And Cox saw his party get burned by made - as - hell Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who won an upset GOP primary victory to land the line against then - AG Cuomo in 2010.

In 2006, he mounted an unsuccessful long - shot primary against Gillibrand's predecessor, then - Sen.

The party leaders — including state party chair and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley — wrote that «if the IDC refuses to accept this offer,» then the state party is prepared to run primaries against the senators in the 2018 elections.

Since then, he's run a messy primary campaign against Republican attorney David Trott.

The left - wing actor, an avid supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders «unsuccessful bid for president and Fordham Professor Zephyr Teachout «s primary campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, then echoed de Blasio's favorite re-election pitch: that he is uniquely positioned to push back on Trump's proposed policies.

She was a driving force — albeit as an advisor and not as a paid campaign member — behind his political comeback in 2006 when he ran a successful statewide campaign for AG just four years after a disastrous and short - lived gubernatorial primary challenge against then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

(Never forget that Cuomo's 2002 primary run against then state Comptroller Carl McCall badly damaged his image in the black community and there is a concern among some in Cuomo - world that challenging Paterson would pick that scab.)

Rangel was a big David Paterson fan and ally, and he had some choice words for Cuomo back when the then - AG was headed toward a possible primary challenge against the state's first black governor.

His main focus when he ran an unsuccessful primary challenge against then - US Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2000 was his opposition to the Iraq War and the fact that she had voted in favor of it.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Turnout actually dipped below 2002's Democratic gubernatorial primary, when Cuomo took himself out of the race against then - state comptroller Carl McCall shortly before the vote to avoid an expected hiding, and remained on the ballot in name only.

Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the City actress and activist, declared her challenge against incumbent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo almost a month ago, and since then she's managed to shake up what should have been a sleepy Democratic primary race.

Former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, who was also briefly the 2010 running mate for gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (until he lost the GOP primary to former Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards), circulated petitions to run against Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo, but then declined the nomination.

Gillibrand and Schumer offered late - in - the game endorsements for Warren after she defeated incumbent Mayor Tom Richards in the September Democratic primary, but then found herself running against him again in the general election, thanks to a grassroots campaign mounted on his behalf by Independence Party members and others.

In 2006, he scored an upset win in the lower Hudson Valley, first in a four - way primary and then against the Republican incumbent, Sue Kelly.

In 2002, Cuomo ran an unsuccessful primary campaign against then - Comptroller H. Carl McCall, the first black Democrat to run for governor.

King has been close to Cuomo for years, working with Cuomo at HUD, running for lieutenant governor in tandem with Cuomo's brief 2002 bid for the statehouse, then running against Cuomo, unsuccessfully, in the 2006 primary for state attorney general.

[226] She barely survived a primary against a conservative opponent, then lost badly in the general election to incumbent Democrat Philip A. Hart.

«The longer things lay out there and people don't close ranks — just ask Mitt Romney about this — and when you're going through a primary where the appeal is to the hard right to win, there's the potential for more mischief,» said Rick Lazio, a former Republican congressman and U.S. Senate nominee who struggled through a 2010 gubernatorial bid against challenges by then - Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy (who he beat) and Paladino (who he did not).

He ran an unsuccessful 2010 Democratic primary for the 20th Assembly District seat against then - incumbent Harvey Weisenberg.

Grayson left Congress last year after losing the Democratic primary for Florida's Senate seat in a bitter race against then - fellow Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, who went on to lose to GOP incumbent Marco Rubio.

That's slightly more than the $ 620,000 I reported back on Feb. 1 that he had available to spend on a primary battle against Cuomo, who then had $ 16.1 million on hand — about $ 12 million of which was primary cash.

There have been only two other major - party primaries against governors seeking re-election since then: Fulani's challenge to Mario Como, and LG Mary Anne Krupsak's 1978 challenge to her previous partner, Gov. Hugh Carey, in which she received 33.7 percent of the vote.

(Recall that the paper endorsed then - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi against then - AG Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary).

If she gets more than 25 percent in the Sept. 9 primary, some argue, then Mr. Cuomo might need to worry about liberal angst heading into a general election against the Republican candidate, Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive.

The most recent to toss his hat in the ring is former Councilman Sal Albanese, who ran unsuccessful bids for state Assembly in a Brooklyn district in 1978, for Congress against Susan Molinari in 1992 and for mayor twice — first in 1997, then a second time in 2013, coming in eighth place in the crowded field of nine candidates in the Democratic primary.

George Pataki against then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, who was the Democratic nominee after Cuomo dropped out of the primary one week before the election.

DTM, Obama's primary opponent in 2004 imploded, then the main Republican imploded and he wound up running against Alan Keyes.

In her losing 2014 primary against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known law professor, ran as a populist Democrat to the left of Mr. Cuomo.

If the Gov's support is low in NY, then Andrew Cuomo can run against the Gov. in the primary and presumably win the democratic primary.

Cuomo told stories about how Farrell, 85, helped the late Gov. Mario Cuomo in his uphill 1982 Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign against then - Mayor Ed Koch.

Avella previously sought the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2009, but garnered just over a fifth of the vote in the primary battle against then - Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Some politicians thought Ganim's political career was over, but he staged a major comeback and then won a surprising victory in a primary against two - term incumbent Mayor Bill Finch.

In September, Forcina will face off against three Democrats in the primary election, including Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

Gustavo Rivera in 2010 against another corruption - tainted Democrat, then - Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., helping the first - time candidate oust the veteran Bronx senator in a primary).