Sentences with phrase «race against incumbent»

Particularly in the case of Anderson, the strong support from reformers throughout the nation made her more - competitive in her ultimately unsuccessful race against incumbent Zimmer than would have been possible with the help of local reformers alone.

An idealist lawyer is convinced to enter an unwinnable race against an incumbent senator by being promised he can say whatever he wants while campaigning.

Nothing has been easy in Shelley's race against incumbent Republican County Executive Joanie Mahoney.

Encouraged by a closer than expected 2012 race against incumbent Republican Bill Larkin, Democrat Chris Eachus, an Orange County Legislator, tried again to unseat Larkin, but came up well short.

New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox says embattled Missouri Congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin — under fire for his comments Sunday about pregnancy stemming from what he called «legitimate rape» — should bow out of the race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill.

Polanco is keen on making a credible race against incumbent Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, a Democrat.

Alex Merced believes a Libertarian option gives him an edge in a race against incumbent Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY).

Tanya Boone is the latest Democrat to enter the race against incumbent Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York's 21st district.

He's in a race against incumbent Democrat Thomas DiNapoli, who raised more than $ 2 million for his campaign and chose not to take part in the public financing option.

A reminder of what is likely to be a close race against incumbent Dan Donovan in the Republican primary this June.

Congressman Charles Rangel yesterday threw a fund - raiser for Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera in his race against incumbent State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

Grant says she is having a minor medical procedure early this next week and then will be ready to concentrate on a race against incumbent Mayor Byron Brown and City Comptroller Mark Schroeder

Wendy Long, a Republican attorney from Manhattan is running a long - shot race against incumbent Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

This year, Doyel is receiving support and the party has marked his race against incumbent state Sen. Kelli Stargel as viable.

By January 1994, Bush had spent more than $ 600,000 on the race against incumbent Democrat Ann Richards, with $ 340,000 of that paid to Rove's firm.

Cruz filed April 10 for the SD 18 race against incumbent Republican Dana Young.

While the Lake Placid - based defense attorney has not commissioned any polls for the race against incumbent Richard Meyer, he feels as if he has a shot at victory.

This is from April 2010 when candidates were still emerging: ------------------------ http://www.tremonttribune.org/?p=533 But some say a race against incumbent Espada could be an uphill battle.

Astorino is far more polished and was actually able to win his race against incumbent Andy Spano in a Democratic - heavy area back in 2009.

MacIsaac had been defeated in last November's general election by a narrow six - vote margin in his race against incumbent county legislator Mary Wawro.

If her lead holds up, Ms. Ayala appears to be the only woman candidate to break through in a race against an incumbent male state legislator.

Washington (CNN)- Alvin Greene, the surprise Democratic nominee in the South Carolina Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, is trying it again.

Elections commissioners confirmed that Peggy Chase, the Democratic candidate for Onondaga County legislator in the 9th District (representing parts of Syracuse), won her race against incumbent Republican Bob Andrews.

Stephanie Murphy, Democratic candidate for Florida's 7th congressional district, here being interviewed by CQ Roll Call, won her race against incumbent Republican John L. Mica.

Zephyr Teachout and Timothy Wu announce their intent run a primary race against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rob Astorino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, suggested Tuesday that Gov. Chris Christie's decision not to support Astorino in his longshot race against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have something to do with the George Washington Bridge scandal.

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

And Democrats Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania and Gov. Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire are in tight races against incumbents.

Not exact matches

Most of the nasty and personal allegations have been leveled against Latimer as he faces the Republican incumbent county executive, Rob Astorino, who wants to win this race and possibly turn around and launch a second challenge to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018.

Latimer is a declared candidate in the race for the nomination to run against incumbent County Executive Rob Astorino this fall.

Multiple (anonymous) sources say George Latimer, a third - term Democratic senator, will be going against fellow Democrat Ken Jenkins, a Westchester County legislator, and the Republican incumbent, Rob Astorino, in this year's Westchester County executive race.

The race was transformed hours later as incumbent attorney general Eric Schneiderman suddenly resigned, shortly after The New Yorker reported on multiple allegations of assault by Schneiderman against romantic partners.

It doesn't seem to have come up on the record in the heated race between incumbent Queens Republican Frank Padavan, who voted against the MTA rescue, and former City Council member Tony Avella.

HAMILTON — Republican candidate Andrew Russo positioned himself as the new guy in town against Democratic incumbent David Valesky for the 49th State Senate District race during the Hamilton Forum event at Colgate Inn on Thursday night.

Democrats also hope to make competitive races against longtime incumbents Kemp Hannon and Carl Marcellino, who have in previous presidential election cycles seen closer - than - expected races.

(CNN)- The Democratic incumbent in a key Senate race that may very well decide which party controls the chamber next year is going up with her first attack ad against her likely Republican challenger.

A Senate race in Michigan against Stabenow — who has won three terms including beating an incumbent Republican in 2000 — wouldn't be easy and would require any candidate trying to replace her to spend a lot of time courting voters at town halls, rallies and debates, as well as developing a media strategy.

Tenney, who challenged Hanna in the 2014 primary, framed the race as one against a «Washington incumbent who betrays Republican and conservative values.»

It goes against every instinct I have to leave a race unfinished, but given the legal setbacks and the difficulty in mounting a challenge against a well - known incumbent, I feel it is best to suspend my 2009 campaign.»

This is one of the best - known U.S. House races in California this year, because it pits two Democratic incumbent Congressmen against each other, Howard Berman and Brad Sherman.

The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents.

But in the race that pitted State Sen. Bill Perkins against political operative Basil Smikle, incumbent Perkins seemed to enjoy the same sort of support from the community that Rangel did.

Deborah Ross, a former North Carolina state legislator, has run a surprisingly close race against Republican incumbent Sen. Richard M. Burr.

The borough's Democratic party officially nominated Tom Shcherbenko, a former computer programmer and retired teacher, Monday night in the borough president race against Republican incumbent Oddo.

-- Actively encouraging outgoing state Rep. Janet Cruz to enter the race for SD 18, where she would go up against Republican incumbent Dana Young.

In the closely watched supervisor's race in Marbletown, incumbent Mike Warren came up short against Rich Parete, 1158 - 976.

One of the races mentioned by Israel is the Republican primary in the 22nd Congressional District pitting incumbent U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna against Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

Marius officially entered the race in March to face off against incumbent Councilwoman Debi Rose and community activist Kamillah Hanks in the Sept. 12 primary.

Charlene DiCalogero, 12th Worcester: 1st time candidate, 19.7 % of the vote in a small - town - rural mixed economic area, against a 22 - year incumbent Democrat native to the area, with over $ 321,000 in his campaign fund at the start of the race and raised an additional $ 54K, while I raised circa $ 3,000.

He entered the Wisconsin Senate race, immediately grabbed the lead against an incumbent, and has yet to relinquish it.