Sentences with phrase «primary challenger»

And he called on the Democratic primary challengers to «stand aside for now» to give the unity plan agreed to last year a chance to work.

The table below shows the number of incumbents who ran for re-election and faced primary challengers in odd - year elections between 2010 and 2017.

According to the Republican lawmakers I spoke to for this story, there are several reasons why this is the case, from fears of primary challengers to the gun lobby.

It's more common to see major party primary challengers and minor party or independent candidates pushed off the ballot in this way.

Several Republican leaders are holding off on an endorsement of the incumbent and he has already drawn several serious primary challengers.

His highest risk of losing his seat, by far, comes from the prospect of a conservative primary challenger.

Now he will likely be faced with his own primary challengers.

The deal comes two weeks before primary challengers have to commit.

As far as I know, no other senators — not even those facing primary challengers — are already on the air.

ESPA has been making some interesting endorsements of late, backing a number of Democratic primary challengers against Senate incumbents who voted «no» on marriage last December.

At the same time this was happening, former New York City Councilman Ollie Koppell, a potential primary challenger for Klein, called on him in a statement to return to the mainline Democratic conference following Skelos» assertion he wouldn't bring a vote to the floor on the de Blasio plan.

When Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat close to Mr. Cuomo and potential primary challenger for Mr. de Blasio, repeatedly tweaks the mayor for traveling outside New York City, not doing enough to reform the police department, or not acting transparently, there has not always been a comparable counterweight.

But some donors say they are weighing whether to financially back primary challengers against Republican lawmakers unwilling to support Trump's aims.

The top Senate Republican, who's running for re-election this year, said over the weekend that he's not concerned about facing a tea party supported primary challenger back home in Kentucky.

Stringer, a frequent critic of de Blasio and a potential Democratic primary challenger in this year's mayoral election, said the city should be seeing better results based on the drastic increase in spending on homeless - related services.

U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, who endorsed a range of gun - control measures in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas school massacre, is getting a Republican primary challenger who pledges to «defend the Second Amendment» and serve as an «unwavering partner» to President Donald Trump.

Former 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout tweeted that she might be interested, saying that she is «seriously considering running for Attorney General.»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) is facing multiple primary challengers as he vies for a third term as governor.

Harris still enjoys the support of party leaders: The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee has spent more money on her behalf than all but two of the state's incumbents with primary challengers.

Carl Paladino, who promised during the Conservative Party's political action conference in January to support primary challengers who take on «key» Senate Republicans this fall, has issued what I believe is his first endorsement in a Senate race.

(CNN)-- Milton Wolf, a radiologist and GOP primary challenger against incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, issued a statement Sunday admitting he made «insensitive» comments about X-ray images he posted online, including an image of a person decapitated by gunfire.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi told The Post she's backing Cuomo over primary challenger Cynthia Nixon...

The new deal will likely help Cuomo insulate himself against attacks from primary challenger Cynthia Nixon, that he was in fact culpable for Republican control of the state Senate, but Molinaro believes it could hurt the governor in the long run.

University at Buffalo Law School professor Monica Wallace beat Democratic primary challenger by over 50 points in the race to fill the vacancy created by Assemblywoman Angela Wozniak's pending departure.

Until recently Felder was joined by eight other members of the Independent Democratic Conference who caucused with Republicans, but on April 3 Governor Andrew Cuomo (allegedly spurred by attacks from primary challenger Cynthia Nixon) brokered a deal to reunite his party's caucus.

Diaz Jr., a close ally of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo who is often at odds with the mayor, had previously been among the names floated as possible primary challengers to take on de Blasio, but he never entered the race.

«He's feeling great,» the source said, noting that the 83 - year - old lawmaker defeated multiple primary challengers — including Sen. Adriano Espaillat — back in 2012 despite having been hospitalized for an extended period of time and also in 2010 after being censured for ethics violations.

In April 2018, after massive pressure from the grassroots Anti-IDC movement, as well pressure from strong primary challengers, Cuomo made the IDC rejoin the Democrats - even though he had been saying for 7 years he didn't have the power to make them rejoin.

State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, representing neighborhoods stretching from Bed - Stuy to Sunset Park, handily defeated primary challenger Michael Cox.

Unsurprisingly, the plans for reform did not find favor with the state's teachers union, New York State United Teachers, nor with Mr. Cuomo's liberal primary challenger Zephyr Teachout, who both insisted the true crisis was inadequate and unfair state education funding.

Moore, who is from Schenectady, said she plans to concentrate on local races, including supporting Cuomo's 2014 gubernatorial primary challenger Zephyr Teachout in her run for Congress and democratic candidates hoping to retake the state senate for Democrats.

Chen, who helped one of Silver's two unsuccessful primary challengers, Paul Newell, in 2008, writes that he and his supporters are trying to recruit candidates who would (if elected) create a reform caucus with the goal of changing the Assembly procedures and decentralizing power in the chamber.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver fended off a pair of primary challengers last night, while two incumbent state senators were defeated in upsets.

«Some of the people he may be looking at, I'm going to see if we talk him out of that,» Trump said during a Rose Garden news conference when asked about Bannon's pledge to recruit primary challengers to all but one sitting Republican senator in 2018.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the best - liked of statewide Democrats, who has shown a rare willingness to take on Cuomo and is widely seen as a potential Cuomo primary challenger in 2018.

The Club for Growth coined the RINO Watch, to guard the party against «Republicans In Name Only,» and has pushed conservative primary challengers on Republicans it believes to be too moderate in their economic policies.

If the two sides could not work together in the state Senate, the state party said it would run primary challengers against IDC members and possibly change up the leadership among the mainline Democrats.

Matheson's plight is similar to other moderate - to - conservative Democrats who voted against the party's health care bill in March and, as a result, have drawn primary challengers.

The New York Supreme Court began hearings on August 7, 2014, to determine if primary challenger Zephyr Teachout met the five - year residency requirement for ballot placement.

Bill Samuels will support Gustavo Rivera against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and call on other primary challengers to drop their bids.

Mr. Astorino's announcement comes after months of speculation about his intentions and flirtations by other possible candidates, including the real estate developer Donald J. Trump, who has said that he would run, but only if the party asked him to, without primary challengers.

Cuomo hasn't had a serious primary challenger since February, when Gov. Paterson, beset by twin ethics scandals, announced he wouldn't run.

State Sen. Jeffrey Klein promises he'll «never stop fighting for your family» in a new TV spot hitting Bronx cable stations as he defends his seat against Democratic primary challenger Oliver Koppell.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's Republican primary challengers took aim Thursday night at her decision to skip a televised debate.

As of April 5, the seven IDC primary challengers still planned on running against the former IDC members in September.

As former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul gathered with a cadre of elected officials at City Hall to tout more than 100,000 petition signatures for a new Women's Equality Party, her long - shot primary challenger for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, blasted the party as a «sham.»

The Club for Growth was involved in finding primary challengers in districts the group identified as safely Republican with incumbents the group referred to as RINO (Republicans in name only).

Richard Lipsky believes the ever - growing field of primary challengers trying to oust Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. is «a blessing» for the Bronx Democrat.

For more than a decade, the club had been the Republican Party's foremost enforcer of fiscal conservatism, finding and funding primary challengers against party members who didn't stick to its rigid anti-tax script.