Sentences with phrase «primary upset win»
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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.
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Four years after his upset win in the GOP Primary, Paladino believes he still has unfinished business.
(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.
Lawrence Zacarese, assistant chief of the Stony Brook University police, celebrates his upset win in September's primary for the Republican Party nomination to run for Suffolk County sheriff in 2017.
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.
Jon Huntsman's 2012 candidacy might not last much longer — unless he can score an upset win in the first - in - the - nation NH primary.
(CNN)- Christine O'Donnell's upset win over Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary is also another major victory for the Tea Party Express and for Sarah Palin.
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.
Conservative Carl Paladino, who also has reportedly shown interest in running for governor in 2014, made a stop at a Suffolk 9 - 12 Project meeting at the Riverhead's Elk's Lodge a week before his upset win in the 2010 Republican primary for Governor, and Democrat Eliot Spitzer met with Riverhead Democratics in 2003 at the Calverton home of Art Binder prior to announcing his intentions to run for governor in 2006.
Similar to Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Cuomo from the party's left in a September primary, Hawkins has no chance at winning, but he does threaten to upset the governor's quest to win in a landslide on the order of, say, 65 percent.
He won the Indiana primary Tuesday night in a small upset.
He pulled off an upset by winning the Republican primary over Rick Lazio, but lost in a landslide to Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general election, 63 % to 33 %.
Abzug won election as a progressive, anti-war reformer in an upset primary victory over longtime Democratic Congressmember Leonard Farbstein.
Leading Democrats privately predict that Hillary Clinton will win a closer - than - originally - expected victory over Bernie Sanders in the April 19 primary — but they're also conceding that «Clinton exhaustion» could produce a surprise upset.
His interest isn't solely based on the district's competitive partisan divide, he said: It's because if Tenney upset the congressman in the primary, it would give the Democrats a strong chance to win.»
In the month since O'Donnell rocked the political world with her upset win over Rep. Mike Castle in the Republican primary, she's dominated headlines despite avoiding the national media.