Sentences with phrase «primary gubernatorial primary»

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The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

These teams included PhD - caliber data scientists, seasoned strategists with experience of presidential primary, congressional, gubernatorial, and international election campaigns, expert researchers, digital marketing strategists, and content creators.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

There was considerable speculation about whether Cuomo would primary Paterson, particularly in light of his disastrous 2002 primary challenge to the state's first black major party gubernatorial nominee, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

One of the two announced Democratic LG candidates, Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence took some subtle swipes at his opponent, Bill Samuels, who has pledged to primary whomever the presumptive gubernatorial nominee, AG Andrew Cuomo, picks as his running mate.

GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino went on a spending spree in the final weeks of the primary, dropping nearly $ 1.2 million — most of it his own cash — in his successful quest to defeat former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio for Row B.

This is Koch's first campaign - like upstate swing since his failed 1982 gubernatorial bid during which his anti-upstate statements are now widely viwed as having cost him the primary race against Mario Cuomo.

Here's AG Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, making his first public comments — such as they are — on Carl Paladino since the Buffalo businessman's big victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

Bellavia predicted victory in today's GOP primary, despite facing off against a better - funded and better - known candidate who has the support of the Republican establishment (along with 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino).

Rachel Maddow last night profiled the GOP gubernatorial primary battle between Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino, a revisited the Buffalo businessman's e-mail scandal, even displaying some of the racist videos and photos he forwarded to a long list of friends and contacts (albeit none of the porn).

You will recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ondo State chapter, held its Gubernatorial Primary Election on Saturday, September 3, 2016.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo is trying to grab onto the wave of voter anger that has carried his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, through the Republican primary and helped him whittle the AG's double - digit lead to just six percentage points.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, who hails from Queens, quietly supported Braunstein during the primary.

He announced his support for Reps. Charlie Rangel and Nydia Velazquez and also wholeheartedly backed Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, while avoiding any verbal jabs at his 2010 Democratic gubernatorial primary foe, NYC Councilman Charles Barron.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is gearing up for a shock - and - awe style spending spree over the next two weeks in hopes of raising his name recognition and capitalizing on his momentum to defeat frontrunner Rick Lazio in the Sept. 14 primary.

Recall that Paladino won some 94 percent of the vote in Erie County in the GOP gubernatorial primary and is banking on strong numbers in WNY to fuel his longshot effort to defeat Cuomo in the Democrat - dominated state.

Three former NY elected officials, who also just so happen to be the trio that make up the «Wise Guys» on NY1, have released an open letter to New Yorkers that declares GOP gubernatorial primary winner Carl Paladino «simply not fit to lead this great state.»

Most of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout's more than 45,000 signatures to get on the September primary ballot came from the New York City area.

Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo has fired back at state Conservative Chairman Mike Long for suggesting he should stop running for governor or resign his party post, saying Long himself should resign if his preferred gubernatorial candidate (and Lorigo's primary opponent), Rick Lazio loses.

Stachowski also had the added benefit in 2008 of the Conservative Party line, but this year that went to Kennedy (which is sort of amusing, when you consider that the Erie County Conservative chairman, Ralph Lorigo, has launched a primary against GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for Row D, complaining that he's too liberal).

At 8:30 a.m. Carl Paladino, who has been under pressure to drop his pledge to petition his way into a primary against the GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Lazio, will hold a press conference to discuss his next move.

He's convinced this plan was, as he put it, «born on the floor of the (GOP) convention to punish or get even with the Conservative Party» for holding its convention first, tapping Rick Lazio as its gubernatorial candidate and helping him to block Cox's preferred candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, from getting on the GOP primary ballot.

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

Suozzi has been trying to keep his name in the news, particularly given the increased interest of late in Albany reform — an issue on which the former county executive was somewhat ahead of the curve with his 2006 «Fix Albany» campaign and longshot gubernatorial primary challenge to then - AG Eliot Spitzer.

Giuliani recorded a last - minute robocall for a New Hampshire GOP gubernatorial candidate who's likely to lose today's primary.

«After much thoughtful consideration, we've decided to end our campaign for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary,» he said in an announcement on his campaign website.

Bill Samuels formally kicked off his LG campaign this morning, pledging to fight in a Democratic primary battle against the running mate of presumptive gubernatorial contender, AG Andrew Cuomo, if necessary.

Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo, who managed to get himself onto the ballot to force a gubernatorial primary with former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, is having a fundraiser today at the home of Paladino's brother, Joseph, and is also being assisted by the father of Carl Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo.

The Broadway Democrats, a party club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, voted last night by a wide margin to endorse insurgent gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon against her primary target, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Samuels also made the «that which does not kill us» argument, insisting (much like state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has in connection with his party's gubernatorial fight), saying Duffy will be stronger, better known to voters and more fully vetted if he wins a primary fight.

DiCarlo launched his primary with the backing of 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate and businessman Carl Paladino, who has pledged to unseat incumbent Republicans and install a new, more conservative leadership team in the state Senate.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky notes that policy actually is taking a front seat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary this year, which isn't a bad thing.

Suozzi, meanwhile, went on to lose big in a long - shot gubernatorial primary challenge to then - AG Eliot Spitzer.

Mario Cuomo got a lesson in the power of LG primaries long before his own gubernatorial run in 1982 during a moment he shared with Samuels» father, Howard.

In a brief telephone interview yesterday, the Queens lawmaker said he was urged to get into the already - crowded race by numerous advisors (including his father, former Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., who won the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary).

So far this week, endorsements and fundraising appeals have been sent out on behalf of GOP US Senate candidate Wendy Long from surrogates who hold sway with certain elements of the primary electorate — Grover Norquist, Steve Forbes, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, and the latest: Former Assembly Minority Leader / 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate John Faso.

But a number of those chairs have already said they won't support him in a primary if he's not selected as a running mate by the party's gubernatorial nominee — whoever that might be.

The governor and lieutenant governor run separately in party primaries and their have been instances in which a gubernatorial candidate's preferred nominee for lieutenant governor fails to win the nomination.

While in Washington, D.C. today, gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon encouraged the Democratic Party's progressive wing not to «settle» for a Democratic candidate but to fight for the right candidate, in an echo of a battle being seen in the party's primary contests across the country.

Today's Siena poll finds GOP gubernatorial primary opponents Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino locked in a statistical dead heat (43 - 42), while Sen. Eric Schniederman and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice are battling it out (25 - 23) in the five - way Democratic AG primary, with 29 percent of voters still undecided just three days before heading to the polls.

Cox said the remaining potential GOP gubernatorial candidates have agreed not to participate in a primary this September.

There's plenty of time to go, of course, but the first indication of how the June Democratic gubernatorial primary may turn out is now in.

Gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout made Albany corruption a primary campaign issue and garnered 34 percent of the vote, the highest of any primary challenge to a sitting governor since primaries were instituted in 1970.

During a news conference, on her first trip to Albany since announcing her gubernatorial campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, actress Cynthia Nixon repeatedly called her Democratic primary...

Terry McAuliffe, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and gubernatorial candidate in the 2009 Democratic gubernatorial primary, says that he is hearing from sources on the ground that the lines are being slowed down by Republican poll watchers who are demanding excessive proof, such as extra forms of identification, for many voters.

[71] In the concurrent gubernatorial primary, former Governor Michael Dukakis defeated incumbent Governor Edward J. King.

«The results of the GOP State Convention Gubernatorial voting represent a personal disappointment, as we did not achieve the required 15 percent of delegate support for primary ballot access.

The last time a Republican gubernatorial candidate won the party's endorsement at the convention but dropped the primary was in 1986, when Watertown's Richard Buzzuto was the delegates» pick but fell to then - state Rep. Julie Belaga of...

The Ekiti Convention for the gubernatorial primaries was a disgrace with...

Primary voters will saddle the gubernatorial nominee with a running mate for lieutenant governor.