Sentences with phrase «seats in a presidential year»

Opposition research from Republican operatives had been hanging over her candidacy in the county, where Democrats see a rare opening to gain seats in a presidential year when Donald Trump's candidacy may keep some centrist Republicans away from the polls.

But they've fielded competitive challengers in most of these 10 districts, which, combined with the partisan fundamentals of these seats in a presidential year, make these 10 members the most likely to be looking for new jobs in 2017.

New York State Senate Democrats have picked up seats in every presidential year in the past two decades.

If the majority holds, however, it would be a remarkable turn of events for the GOP, which hasn't gained seats in a presidential year since 1976 and lost an average of three in the past three presidential years.

Running for an open Congressional seat in a presidential year was an opportunity Yandik said he could not resist.

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Hovering around No. 10 is NBC News correspondent Katy Tur's «Unbelievable: My Front - Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History,» in which Tur chronicles more than a year of traveling along with Trump on the 2016 presidential campaign.

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat.

Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential election years has historically given them more seats in the Senate.

Republican leaders and high - powered donors in Utah are waging a quiet but concerted campaign to convince 83 - year - old incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch, of Utah, not to seek reelection next year, and Mitt Romney, the one - time presidential nominee and leading Trump critic, is exploring a run for the seat.

If recent history is any guide, Senate Democrats have always picked up seats in Presidential election years.

«The numbers favor Democrats in this open - seat during a Presidential year.»

Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate, will be defending 24 seats next year, including in presidential battleground states where Democrats are mounting strong challenges.

This is a lesson Democratic candidates for state Senate have learned the hard way in recent years (including presidential years), especially in their attempts to wrestle control of seats in Long Island.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

They will represent districts Democrats carried with big margins in presidential election years — seats the newly minted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján will probably want back.

Democrats are hoping that higher turnout in a presidential year will help them gain seats in Long Island and the Hudson Valley.

He won by over 11,000 two years later, but Democrats are optimistic his seat will be winnable in a presidential year, when their voters usually turn out at higher numbers.

Latimer, however, has an eight - to - one cash - on - hand advantage, and it seems unlikely that a seat that has been repeatedly targeted by Republicans over three decades would finally flip in a presidential year.

But Democrats start the open seat race with a narrow advantage in a presidential year when former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is likely to top the ballot.

Republicans, who are defending many more competitive seats in the House this year, are trying to keep pressure on Democratic recruits in districts that Democrats have been hoping to pick off during a presidential year.

Heading into the 2016 presidential year when Democratic turnout is traditionally high, Gianaris is optimistic the Dems can pick up enough seats on Long Island to put them in a position to grab at least partial control of the chamber.

There were 29 seats that featured two major party candidates in both 2012, a presidential year, and 2014, a gubernatorial year.

But given the swing nature of her northern Virginia district and the higher turnout expected in a presidential year, Democrats say if they're going to take the seat, this is the time.

This will be the 2nd time this year that the three - time Presidential candidate will tour the region — a region for which the NPP has set an agenda of capturing at least 3 seats in parliament and 30 % of the popular vote.

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

The governor said the lower Manhattan Assembly seat Silver held for four decades before his conviction will likely be filled in a special election on April 19 — the day of New York's presidential primary next year.

But between the new district lines and the Democratic enrollment edge in a presidential election year, the Republicans are probably going to need every penny to assist members in tough general election battles, and perhaps in trying to help non-incumbents like Bob Cohen, who's making his second attempt at winning retiring Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat.

Dadey said he wants a strong Republican candidate with the ability to hold the seat in a presidential election year, which favors Democrats and their small enrollment advantage in the district.

«We need a candidate who can win not only in 2014, but keep the seat two years later in a presidential election year.»

The open seat race will draw considerable interest from both national parties, as Arizona has been competitive at the presidential level in recent years.

The seat tilts slightly toward Democrats in a presidential year but in a midterm it will be very competitive.

She said Democrats always pick up seats in a presidential election year, but this time, the choices are even more sharply defined.

Killian, a former Rye City Councilwoman, ran two years ago for this same senate seat, losing to Latimer by a 56 % -44 % margin in a presidential election year.

Two years ago, Latimer defeated Killian for the same State Senate seat by a 55 to 45 percent margin, in a presidential year where Hillary Clinton trounced Donald Trump for president in Westchester by a 65 to 31 percent margin, with 4 percent to the minor party candidates.

In 2008, the last presidential election year, Democrats took the majority by just one seat.

But Democrats in the Senate typically make gains in a presidential election years, and they are playing offense in districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley (Republicans want to flip a western New York seat as well as a district in Westchester County).

As a result, the Democrats are defending some vulnerable members in a state where they expected to pick up seats (and still might, given the presidential election year dynamic).

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the seat held for more than two decades by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver before his corruption conviction Monday will be filled in a special election on the day of New York's presidential primary next year.

Several Republicans who won their seats in the 2010 GOP wave now have to defend them in a presidential year, when Democrats tend to have higher turnout.

Mr. Bishop fared significantly better in the larger turnout presidential years than he did in mid-terms, nearly losing his seat to Republican Randy Altschuler in a 2010 race that wasn't determined for more than a month after Election Day.

Since the 1952 election, the 1st District seat has flipped just three times in a presidential year, but each time it turned over in favor of the party that won the presidency.

Katko is also the first Republican to win the 24th District seat in a presidential election year since 2004, when Walsh won his ninth term.

«But heading into a presidential election year in his district — which has flipped back and forth between the two parties in the 2010 and 2014 GOP waves — the seat is prime for a flip again this cycle,» Rothenberg and Gonzales wrote.

In a presidential election year, in a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice DepartmenIn a presidential election year, in a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice Departmenin a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice Department.

And with the district's historic inclination to support Democrats in presidential years (Obama carried the district by an 11 - point margin in 2012), the seat could be a challenge for Republicans in 2016.

Republicans want to retain the seat, while Democrats hope they can defeat Katko in a presidential election year.

While Republicans hope to retain the seat, Democrats will be looking to win it back in a presidential year.

But, Edwards, who was, interestingly enough, pushed as a vice presidential candidate by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) last year, has held the seat — winning 52 percent in 2002, 51 percent in 2004, 58 percent in 2006 and 53 percent in 2008.

And in a presidential election year, Democrats are likely to pick up seats in November, although they will still need to woo the five - member Independent Democratic Conference to join them to have a majority.

Although gerrymandering played no part in the tumultuous 2016 presidential election, it seems to have influenced who won seats in the US House of Representatives that year.