Sentences with phrase «race in one's favor»

Montgomery County Guy Tomlinson has certified the final outstanding state Senate race in favor of Republican George Amedore, but the move allows Democrats to appeal the hundreds of unopened paper ballots that have been tossed out.

No details were provided, but I think it's a safe bet this is the concession speech to his Democratic opponent, incumbent Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, that we didn't see very early this morning after NY1 / YNN called the extremely close race in favor of the former Long Island assemblyman.

In total, the report changed the rating of ten house races in favor of Democrats.

Turnout was pegged at 26 percent for the City of Buffalo, a result that was considered relatively strong because the September Democratic primary all but settled the mayoral race in favor of incumbent Democrat Byron W. Brown.

Weekend efforts to coax Democrat Nathan D. McMurray out of his congressional race in favor of Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul have apparently failed.

Last year, Baldeo bowed out of a primary race in favor of then - City Councilman Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), who went on to defeat then - state Sen. Serphin Maltese (R - Glendale) in November.

A highly successful Paris stockbroker, Gaugin decides to drop out of the rat race in favor of developing his self - taught painting skills.

A win for teen first - timer Hailee Steinfeld would tilt the Oscar race in her favor, but I feel that Golden Globe and Critics» Choice champ Melissa Leo, a longtime stalwart of film and television, is still the best bet to earn her peers» approval.

But if they don't — if any of these powerful movies about women get snubbed for best picture, or the women that anchor them get left out of the best - actress race in favor of films that won't make a dent in any other category (I see you, Victoria & Abdul)-- it might be time for a serious intervention.

(PSN, XBLA)-- In a strange reversal of the direction they took with Burnout Paradise, Criterion Games has taken its cataclysmic racing series and thrown out the actual racing in favor of focusing on just Crash mode, which now plays out from a top - down perspective.

Calls by state Democratic politicians and union leaders are mounting for him to bow out of this year's governor's race in favor of Cuomo.

The probe, broadly, has two main threads related to Trump: whether members of his campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the race in his favor, and whether he sought to obstruct justice when he fired James Comey as the FBI director last May.

The explosive dossier has not been verified in whole, but it is currently being used as a «roadmap» by the FBI as it conducts its own investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 race in his favor.

Section 702 of FISA came under scrutiny as the intelligence community began looking into Russia's election interference and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the race in his favor.

He is also said to be focusing more on the central question in the Russia investigation: Did members of the Trump campaign collude with Moscow to tilt the 2016 race in his favor?

If he can pull off a string of late victories he will close the gap substantially heading into California, where 475 delegates are up for grabs (more than enough to flip the race in his favor).

It was once speculated that the Senate Dems would try to push Stachowski out of the race in favor of a stronger candidate, but Sampson has since made it clear that's not the case.

That friction has mostly been exhibited by Faulkner, chafing as Massey and party leaders have worked to push him out of the race in favor of the dramatically better funded Massey.

Republicans have already declared that Republican George Amedore is the winner in the newly drawn 46th Senate District after acting Montgomery County Judge Guy Tomlinson certified the race in his favor.

The new poll comes within the same week that two political analysts in Washington, D.C., moved their ratings on the race in favor of Katko.

One candidate for the district, clean energy expert and entrepreneur Levi Tillemann, charged that Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, pressured him to get out of the race in favor of Jason Crow, a veteran and partner at powerhouse Colorado law and lobbying firm, who is backed by the DCCC, the local Democratic congressional delegation, and End Citizens United.

Democrats continue to believe that financial disparity enables them to define these races in their favor before voters know who Republicans are running.

If Rep. Charles Rangel wins the election, he may want to send flowers to Yolanda Garcia, who could receive enough votes to tip the race in his favor.

Three of the top political prognosticators rate the race in his favor.

But Liu has refused to concede and believes roughly 1,000 untallied absentee ballots may turn the race in his favor.