Sentences with phrase «recent special election»

Unifying a fractured Democratic base and mobilizing them to the polls in an off - year is a tough challenge, especially considering that Democrats have come up short in recent special elections in Georgia and Kansas.

If Lesko wins by single digits, it would reflect the broader trend of Democrat over-performance in other recent special elections.

And after a series of Democratic upsets in recent special elections — first with Doug Jones in Alabama and then with Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania — Dr. Tipirneni believes that she can win.

They did not succeed in doing so in a recent special election in Pennsylvania, where a Democrat won in a district that should have been especially receptive to Mr. Trump's argument about trade and tariffs.

The generic ballot, the president's approval rating, recent special elections and a seat - by - seat look all point to a modest edge for Democrats.

Republicans initially focused on the tax cut messaging in the recent special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, but by election day, they had pivoted to decrying so - called «sanctuary cities» after determining the tax message wasn't breaking through.

In the recent special election for the 142nd Assembly District, for instance, the largest percentage of votes were on the Democratic Party line.

O'Malley, who traveled to Iowa and Delaware to campaign for three Democratic candidates in recent special elections, recalled seeing Delaware state Senate candidate Stephanie Hansen's headquarters packed with hundreds of volunteers at 9 a.m. one day.

The Republicans, until the recent Special election in Brooklyn, controlled that body by one seat.

«It's very clear that Democrats will retain a majority in the House,» he said, noting that Republicans had boasted of victory prior to recent special elections in New York and Pennsylvania, only to fall short.

BEEKMANTOWN A town supervisor last week implored the county legislature to consider reimbursing his town for the recent special election.

Concluding that all the recent special elections and other factors are putting Democrats in a good position, the political assessment service Sabato's Crystal Ball is pushing its views of the congressional races involving Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan and Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy in the direction of improving chances for Democrats.

(CNN)-- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani strayed from the facts in discussing the discord within the Republican Party caused by the insurgent candidacy of Doug Hoffman, a Republican who chose to run on the Conservative Party ticket in the recent special election for New York's 23rd congressional district.

American Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram, who got 0.35 % of the vote for Governor of West Virginia in the recent special election, ran a controversial ad in the campaign's closing days that proclaimed him to be the «voice for white American issues,» according to WTOV channel 9.

40th District (Queens): We interviewed Elizabeth Crowley, who is unopposed in the primary and is running against the newly minted Republican incumbent, to whom she lost by a narrow margin in the recent special election.

Today, though, Democrats in the Senate, following a recent special election to fill Skelos» Nassau County seat, has a numerical edge of 32 - 31 over Republicans.

Candidates who come into office via a recent special election are far more vulnerable than their peers who are well tenured or first won via a standard election.

But health care wasn't a bridge to victory in the recent special election in Montana.

The 22 - year - old recently registered a campaign committee to run in 2012 against Queens Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz, after getting tossed from the ballot on the most minor of technicalities in the recent special election for the seat.

«The Republicans lost pretty bad and I was struggling to figure out what happened,» he said, referring to the recent special election pitting Republican Sean Walter against Democrat Al Krupski in a race to fill the county's first legislative district seat.

Republicans have had a rough go of it in recent special elections, even losing a few competitive races in the run - up to their big gains in 2010.

Only 25 percent of registered voters in New York City participated in the November 2014 elections, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and a recent special election in The Bronx for a vacant City Council seat saw roughly 3,300 out of 85,000 registered voters cast ballots.

I would have liked, for instance, to be able to keep an eye on or switch to any live sports event, to break up the tense coverage of any of the recent special elections.