Sentences with phrase «primary election won»

Two of the committee members, which represented the majority, voted that the primary election won by Akeredolu should be cancelled and that a fresh one be organised.

Not exact matches

Not only did President Trump defeat sixteen skilled and experienced primary opponents and win the presidency; he did so spending a fraction of what his opponent spent in the general election.

The suburban Chicago district is solidly blue — Hillary Clinton won it by 15 points in the 2016 general election — and both Lipinski and Newman supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary.

Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.

In order to affect public policy, the Republican Party must win general elections and not only primaries.»

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

Akin, who won a tough primary battle this month, has apologized for his comments but also defied pressure to get out of the election.

so the religious nuts have to deal with the fact that none of their candidates could win the GOP primary, let alone the election.

Jeb Bush was initially marketed as being willing to lose the extremist - infected primaries in order to win the all - important general election.

It reminds me when that Baptist preacher ran in the presidential primary in Iowa and after he won he told the media that this god told him he was going to win the presidency in the upcoming election.

Secretary Clinton claimed victories in the Democratic primary elections in Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Massachusetts and won American...

April 27, 2011The path to winning the 2012 general election for Ron Paul will not start during the primary season, but after as an indenpendent with Former Governor Jesse Ventura as his VP candidate.

«That's why we need to win two special elections at the end of this month, why we need to win primary challenges to IDC members, and why we need to elect progressive majorities in both the State Senate and Congress come November.»

Skelos also did not suport Kevin Stocker who WON the Republican primary and lost the general election by 2,000 votes.

This book is a particular favourite of mine because, as a teenager, I keenly followed Robert Kennedy's quixotic run for the presidency, and this account encapsulated the frenetic and sometimes chaotic campaign that ended in the traumatic murder of Kennedy, when he had just won the primary election in the largest state in the Union, California, and in one of the most rural, South Dakota.

Iannece ended up losing the five - way Democratic primary in a surprise upset election won by Kevin Kim, an aide to retiring Rep. Gary Ackerman.

Both candidates in the 40th state Senate district race — GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner — are hoping to win the Green Party line through an opportunity to ballot in Thursday's primary elections.

There's no conclusive proof, but you can see this play out in direct - election congressional elections: they are far more polarized than Presidential elections; due to the fact that insufficiently - polarized candidates frequently get primaried by less - moderate candidates in the primary (and the latter often win the primary).

In 2007, GOP leaders endorsed Dale Sweetland for county executive, and she successfully forced a primary, going on to win the general election and become the first woman to hold her post.

When I win the Republican Primary in September, I look forward to working with my conservative friends to win the election in November,» Nojay added.

(That race was eventually won by former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who lost the general election in a landslide to the winner of the Democratic primary, current NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio).

Part of that deal is for each side to not fund or support primary challenges against each others» members, while also working together to win two special elections to fill upcoming vacancies in the chamber.

If Fossella were to get into the NY - 13 ring and win the GOP primary (assuming Grimm and his opponent, Michael Allegretti, remained in the race), he would not — as it stands now — have the Conservative line, which sets up a three - way race in the general election.

And of course the state party may be able to help you if there's no primary (if there is, it's even more important to make friends with other local Democrats who have run and won elections in your district — ask for their endorsement and their list).

One of the advantages of the fiercely fought 2008 Democratic primary was that it left Obama with an organizational presence and strong supporter base across the country that also helped him fight and win the general election.

And as we've seen in lower - turnout elections through the entire 2010 cycle, both special elections and primaries, national money can make a decisive difference: Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle may be the latest victims, but Scott Brown's win back in January had already shown the way.

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.

Last year, while attending a conference, we heard a speaker arguing that Giuseppe Civati won the primary election of the Italian Democratic Party, at least on Twitter.

Tedisco easily won both a GOP primary and the general election, now he's hoping the Republicans manage to hold the majority so he won't be relegated yet again to minority status.

Even without union support, Cuomo went on to both win the primary and also defeat his GOP opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, in the general election.

Rangel was later censured by the House for financial misconduct in December 2010 — just months after he won both the September primary and the November general election.

DioGuardi subsequently petitioned his way onto the ballot and won the primary, but then went on to lose to Gillibrand in the general election.

Whoever wins the special election will have to run again in a primary and a general election in the new so - called «Super-Jewish» district that has a far higher concentration of Orthodox voters the 27th SD currently does.

Turner has argued that his big win against Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin in Weiner's old Democrat - dominated Brooklyn / Queens district, which drew national attention and made him an overnight GOP sensation, afforded him more name recognition than his two primary opponents, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and makes him a better general election challenger to Sen. Kirsten 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.

(CNN)- Less than a day after winning the Delaware Republican Senate primary in a surprising upset, Christine O'Donnell reached her earlier fundraising goal for the general election.

Should she prevail in the primary and win the election, Ms. Throne - Holst would be the first woman to represent New York's First district, in a year in which Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, would also represent a first in American history.

«If Mourdock wins this primary and then wins in the fall, I think you're going to see this kind of sequence repeated in future election cycles all over the country,» he says.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

Koch, who swept past Brooklyn assemblyman Frank J. Barbaro and 36 - year - old Melvin Kerensky — an associate of Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr. — to win the Democratic primary and trounced state lawmaker John A. Esposito by a two - to - one margin to capture the Republican nomination, said that he would campaign evenings and weekends while relying heavily on television advertising in the general election.

She won the Democratic primary by 60 percent, but lost in the general election.

The Senate Republican leader said that regardless of who won during the party primaries, what mattered was that they carried their victory into the general election.

Most obviously prefer to forego the primary process because it's one less election they have to win.

If Norton wins the primary as expected one of her opponents in the general election will be another gay Libertarian Party activist, Bruce Majors, who has challenged Norton unsuccessfully in past elections.

Dietl might win the Republican primary but he'll have a difficult time convincing Democrats to vote for him against Mayor Bill de Blasio in the general election.

Whoever wins the June 26th primary will face off against Republican Dan Halloran in the general election.

Given the Democratic tilts of the cities, the winner of the Democratic primary is likely to win the general election as well.

Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer defended his role in urging a Democratic candidate to drop out of a primary in Colorado, arguing the party needs to back candidates who can win the general election.

For the most part, party organizations don't see themselves as arbiters of primaries, but as supporting structures for winning the general election.

Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders, [1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.