Sentences with phrase «running against an incumbent republican»

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

David Zinczenko, editor - in - chief, Men's Journal Lois Murphy: $ 1,000 Murphy is a Democrat running against an incumbent Republican in Pennsylvania's Sixth District.

The first - time candidate is running against incumbent Republican Congressman Richard Hanna in the redrawn 22nd district, which covers an area including the eastern half of Oswego County south through Binghamton.

We now have three women and six men competing to run against incumbent Republican John Faso in November.

Deacon, an SU alumna, is running against incumbent Republican Rep. John Katko.

Niccoli, the town supervisor in Palatine, is running against incumbent Republican George Amedore in the district, which stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.

Onondaga County's Democratic Committee members designated Colleen Deacon as their candidate to run against incumbent Republican Rep. John Katko in NY - 24.

Bunny, an Iraq War veteran and current Erie County prosecutor, acknowledged that running against an incumbent Republican in one of the state's most GOP - donimnated districts will be an uphill battle.

Democrat Dan Lamb is running against incumbent Republican Congressman Richard Hanna in the 22nd congressional district, which experts say is a safe Republican district.

Maynard originally ran against incumbent Republican Cathy Cook and lost.

You remind me of a Republican that wanted me to sign a petition to put him on the ballot for drain commissioner so he could run against the incumbent Republican.

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He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

The meeting between Trump and New York Republicans over a potential run for governor by Trump in 2014 against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

State Sen. George Latimer is the choice of the Westchester Democrats to run for county executive against Republican incumbent Rob Astorino, though County Legislator Ken Jenkins has vowed to fight on in the September primary.

But he also most recently worked with Harry Wilson, a Republican businessman who unsuccessfully ran for comptroller in 2010 against incumbent Democrat Tom DiNapoli.

There is no incumbent that's running, so I don't think that the Republicans have the advantage that they have when they're running against incumbent Democrats who have frankly been in office too long.

HOOSICK FALLS >> The Democrat running against incumbent state Sen. Kathy Marchione found a unique and high - profile way Tuesday to criticize the Halfmoon Republican over her handling of the water contamination crisis that has plagued the village and the town of Hooisick for nearly a year.

One of the more prominent Republican contenders to run for New York Governor against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo this year has decided he won't be a candidate after all.

Former Rep. Paul Broun announced he's running for Congress in Georgia's 9th District, and he faces not just a primary against an incumbent fellow Republican but the haze of an ethics investigation dating back to his last term in the House.

The Democratic Senate candidates who are challenging incumbent Republicans are in an even worse fix, especially if they happen to be unfortunate enough as to be running against one of the three GOP members who crossed party lines at Cuomo's request last summer to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage.

Eleven Republicans running in open seats or against Democratic incumbents were named «Contender» candidates, elevating them from the initial enrollment and «On the Radar» steps.

A curious kind of calculation is going on among some of the seven Democratic candidates seeking their party's nomination to run for Congress against Republican incumbent John Faso in November.

Two New Yorkers also ran against each other in 1904, when Democrat Alton B. Parker challenged incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt.

Three candidates seeking the Republican nomination to run against Governor Andrew Cuomo this fall appeared in Amherst Saturday morning, where they took turns taking shots at the incumbent and his policies, including the Buffalo Billion.

ALBANY — A Democrat who is a financial consultant said he is running for state comptroller as a Republican against three - term incumbent Thomas DiNapoli so that he could wield the untapped «superpower» of the job and reign in Albany's spending and corruption.

Democrats saw a potential opening in 2014, when incumbent Republican Sen. Greg Ball declined to run for re-election, but Murphy won the seat against two - time candidate Justin Wagner.

After scoring a better - than - expected 40 percent against a better funded Democratic incumbent, Republican Rob Astorino left the door open last night to running again in 2018.

Those will be followed by a high - dollar fundraising brunch for Mayer and fundraiser for Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat running in a central New York congressional district against incumbent Republican Claudia Tenney.

Ball has not yet announced his intention to seek another term this fall, and is widely speculated to be eyeing a potential run for Putnam County executive, which would mean he might mount a primary challenge against his fellow Republican and former aide, incumbent County Executive MaryEllen Odell.

Kay Hagan is running against Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole - wife of the former presidential candidate Bob - in an all - female contest.

In Arkansas, just days before the June 8 Senate runoff, Republicans leaped at the chance to score points in a contest where another pesky Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, is running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the White House - backed incumbent.

Although he was enrolled as a Republican, the Democratic and Independence parties endorsed Gould in 2006 when he ran against — and defeated — incumbent Republican Rob Outhouse.

Rozum is running against Republican incumbent Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle and former Congressman Dan Maffei, a Democrat for the central New York congressional district which includes Syracuse.

In such a blue state as New York, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1, any Republican has to be considered a long shot to be elected governor, especially if they're running against an incumbent Democratic governor.

Longstanding town supervisor Bert Leifeld, a Democrat who's been in town government for almost four decades now, is running for reelection against former councilwoman and news correspondent Cindy Johansen, a Republican; while incumbent councilpersons Henry Rank, a Democrat, and Peter Friedel, a Republican, will be facing Don Van Buren, a Republican, and Trenice Winne, a Democrat.

Cuomo also, for the first time in the 2016 election cycle, actively backed Democratic candidates to, in some cases, run against sitting incumbent Republicans for the Senate.

Howie Hawkins is the Green Party candidate for New York governor, running against a Libertarian, a Republican, as well as the incumbent, Governor Cuomo.

She has run dozens of campaigns throughout Queens, New York City and the state and is currently working on Democrat Steve Behar's bid for the 26th state Assembly District seat in northeast Queens and consulting for incumbent Assemblywoman Democrat Catherine Nolan, who is up for re-election in the 37th Assembly District in western Queens against Republican John Wilson.

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

Domenic Recchia, the former Democratic councilman from Brooklyn running against indicted incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm in the Brooklyn - Staten Island 11th Congressional District, opened a campaign headquarters on Staten Island back in March.

The two Republicans who will be running on both the GOP and the new party lines against incumbent Democratic Assembly members are Rebecca Harary, challenging Dan Quart in the affluent Silk Stocking District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of Quart's.

Recchia, the former Democratic councilman running for congress against scandal - tainted Republican incumbent Michael Grimm, has launched a new campaign effort, the «Kitchen Table Listening Tour,» in which he visits residents in their homes, sits at their kitchen tables and discusses issues with them.

Now she is a Green Party candidate running for Senate against incumbent Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican Wendy Long.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Historically, it has been hard to convince people to run in other elections against Republican incumbents, but anger over Trump ignited a spark in some to seek local office for the first time.

Ross Barkan, a Democrat running against Golden, called on the Republican incumbent to fire Testaverde

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Republican John Katko is running against Democratic incumbent Dan Maffei to represent New York's 24th Congressional District.

Fuchs ran as a Republican against incumbent Assemblywoman Nily Rozic and lost by a wide margin.

In Orange County, incumbent Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus is running for a second term against a political newcomer, Democrat Patrick Davis.