Sentences with phrase «primary over challenger»

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy cruised to victory Thursday in his Democratic primary over challenger Dan Egan, virtually assuring himself a second term.

The chairmen made that decision in Geneseo since Nojay won Tuesday's primary over challenger Rick Milne.

Not exact matches

That year, he supported then - incumbent District Attorney Charles Hynes over Thompson in the Democratic primary, then switched his allegiance to Thompson after the challenger triumphed in September and Hynes carried on his campaign on the Republican line.

Florida Rep. Al Lawson is facing criticism from a primary challenger over gun control.

A year that began with concerns among members of his team over whether Arizona Sen. John McCain would face a viable primary challenger from his right is ending with the fifth - term Republican looking mostly unfazed.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan is still maintaining a sizable lead over her two Democratic challengers going into Tuesday's primary, according to the results of a Spectrum News / Siena College poll.

Incumbent Byron Brown still holds a commanding lead over his two Democratic primary challengers as he seeks a fourth term as Buffalo mayor, according to a new survey by the Siena College Research Institute and Spectrum News.

It's supposed to be Hillary Clinton's convention, but the focus Monday was on her primary challenger, Bernie Sanders, and his delegates, who continue to stew over a WikiLeaks release of Democratic National Committee emails that showed favoritism to Clinton over Sanders.

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

(CNN)- Two days after primary day, it's finally all over in the bitter battle between longtime Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York and his main primary challenger.

In 2014, an unknown challenger to Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, won over one third of the primary vote.

Rep. Jerry Nadler on Monday endorsed challenger Robert Jackson over Manhattan state Sen. Marisol Alcantara in September's primary, shattering a so - called Democratic «unity» deal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds wide leads over his potential general election and party primary challengers, a Siena College poll released Monday found.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner won the Democratic Primary Tuesday over challengers Pat Hogan and Alfonso Davis

It came after he and his political advisers concluded over the weekend that he could not win a Republican primary against a conservative challenger, particularly in light of his vote for the president's economic stimulus package.

Teachout, who won one third of the vote, the highest percentage of any challenger in over 40 years of primaries in the state, spoke to excited supporters.

Syracuse, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner won the Democratic Party primary Tuesday with about 54 percent of the vote over two challengers to her second term.

Meng, who defeated three challengers in a June primary, is on a fundraising roll, as the campaign raised over $ 280,000 during the two week period between June 15 and June 30.

The governor said that with the new primary date, plus the uncertainty over redistricting, has helped incumbents at the expense of potential challengers.

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.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren faces new accusations of favoritism, with Democratic primary challengers alleging special treatment for Uber over other ride - hailing companies.

Polls have shown he would win by a large margin over a crowded field of Democratic primary challengers and is far ahead of Paul Massey, a Republican real estate executive who held his first press conference on Tuesday morning.

PEF did back a primary challenger to another scandal - scarred senator, supporting former NYC Councilman Leroy Comrie over Sen. Malcolm Smith (another former Senate Democratic leader) in Queens.

«I lose no sleep over these falsehoods,» said Espada, who suggested his new primary challenger, Desiree Pilgrim - Hunter, is somehow connected to his latest legal troubles.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren faces new accusations of favoritism, with Democratic primary challengers alleging special treatment for Uber over other ride - hailing companies.

With campaigns by Democratic challengers to de Blasio stuck in a larval stage, Republicans in New York City have begun jostling over who will be their party's standard - bearer in the general election — and quietly trying to avoid a primary.

With just over six months until the Democratic primary, no credible challenger — a person with some combination of name recognition, a political base, governmental experience and the funding to wage a knockdown campaign — has emerged to take on de Blasio, despite all his problems.

Sen. Neil Breslin officially has a primary challenger, Luke Martland, who announced over the weekend.

Hawkins also said that Republican Astorino was being hypocritical for chiding Cuomo's over his failure to debate his challengers during the Democratic primary while he himself refuses to debate his challenges in the general election and holds a «debate» with only one of the challengers in the Democratic Party primary.

In that sense, Julian Schreibman's landslide victory over challenger Joel Tyner in Tuesday's Democratic primary was a mixed blessing.

With campaigns by Democratic challengers to Mayor Bill de Blasio stuck in a larval stage, Republicans in New York City have begun jostling over who will be their party's standard - bearer in the general election — and quietly trying to avoid a primary.

«Today's announcement signals that the DCCC believes Colleen Deacon is best positioned to take on Congressman John Katko this November over her primary challengers,» the DCCC said in a statement Friday.

Rep. Bill Shuster, R - Pa., holds a more than 50 - point lead over his Republican challengers in the 9th District primary next year, according to a new automated telephone poll from a GOP firm.

Sen. Stephen Saland is now leading by 55 votes over Republican primary challenger Neil Di Carlo, according to a GOP source briefed on the morning absentee ballot count.

Cuomo endorsed Rangel over Espaillat in the 2014 congressional primary, but endorsed Espaillat over a Rangel - allied challenger in the 2014 state senate primary.

Republicans are facing rebellions from Mississippi to Arizona that could imperil their grip on Congress, as Roy Moore's win in the Alabama U.S. Senate primary runoff over Trump - backed Luther Strange emboldens populist challengers.

In Western New York, for example, MacKay & Co. decided to support embattled Democratic Sen. Bill Stachowski over his primary challenger, Tim Kennedy (he's already got the Conservative line).

That's why over 45,000 of them signed petitions for Cuomo's primary challenger.»

CNN is projecting tea party challenger Carl Paladino the upset winner over Rick Lazio in New York Republican gubernatorial primary.

Assuming Democrat Hayes Clement's whisker - thin six - vote primary victory over challenger Shayne Gallo — with perhaps a little more than a hundred absentee ballots to be counted — holds up, the finalists in November will be running on the same platform.

Given Chafee's moderate politics, independents who decide to vote in the GOP primary are much more likely to support the incumbent over the challenger.

His top challenger, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat — who came within around 1,000 votes of knocking Rangel out in the 2012 primary — raised just over $ 185,100 and paid out about $ 246,000, leaving him approximately $ 161,000 in the bank.

While nearly half of Palin - backed candidates were victorious, her picks of some GOP primary challengers over establishment - backed candidates who were believed to have a better shot of winning a general election has left a sour taste in the mouths of some in the GOP.

Establishment GOP candidates across the country backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee are struggling to gain grassroots traction over their primary challengers, with conservative darlings like Marco Rubio surging.

The survey also says that Governor Andrew Cuomo has massive leads over possible primary challenger Cynthia Nixon and both Republican challengers John DiFrancisco and Marc Molinaro.

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.

(CNN)- Sen. Pat Roberts» primary challenger is going up with a radio commercial that highlights what appeared to be a gaffe by the longtime Republican senator from Kansas in the controversy over his residency.

(CNN)- An influential conservative political action committee is pledging to support primary challengers to any Republican senator who supports President Obama's stimulus package - the latest public show of dissatisfaction from the right over the massive measure before Congress.

The defeat last year of frontrunner Hillary Clinton was an especially tough loss, considering hacked emails revealed that committee leaders tried to give Clinton the edge over primary challengers.

CROWN HEIGHTS — In a hotly contested race, incumbent Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo pulled out a decisive victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday over her second - time challenger, Ede Fox.