Sentences with phrase «senate races»

The group has been active in at least two state Senate races: the 40th Senate district race between Democrat Justin Wagner and Republican Terrence Murphy, along with the 46th Senate district, which is a rematch between Democratic incumbent Cecilia Tkaczyk and Republican George Amedore.

Daniel Loeb has been a prolific donor not just to Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the years, but has backed a variety of Republican candidates running in battleground state Senate races as well as a GOP - aligned super PAC.

A group supportive of charter schools and education reform that backed Republicans in key state Senate races spent $ 4.2 million on advertising, mail and GOTV to help give the GOP conference full control of the chamber.

Loeb, too, has sought to aid GOP candidates running in hotly contested Senate races.

We hope your input and leadership will result in the same outcome as last year's elections when you inserted yourself in the state senate races.

We will be covering elections in the 435 U.S. House seats as well as the 33 U.S. Senate races.

The National Rifle Association will weigh in on three of this year's key Senate races with a multimillion dollar ad buy beginning Wednesday.

After he vowed to flip the chamber in favor of his fellow Democrats in exchange for the WFP endorsement, most voters say they would prefer that Gov. Andrew Cuomo not become involved in state Senate races, a Siena College poll released this morning found.

Hey silly Philly — you think 33 % might be enough to swing tight Senate races in LI and Westchester?

Democratic victories in the two Senate races would give the party a numerical majority in the chamber.

Cuomo has endorsed candidates in other battleground Senate races, including Democrats Justin Wagner, Adrienne Esposito and Sens. Terry Gipson, Ted O'Brien and Cecilia Tkaczyk.

This is the fourth in a series of eight regional looks at the most competitive House and Senate races for 2016.

We've written about House and Senate races in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia and more.

Governor Cuomo refused to endorse more than two candidates in New York State Assembly and Senate races this year.

The two men had fought over state Senate races, and Christie wanted a more loyal ally in the job.

Question topics included the expected new bridge tolls, a toll and finance task force expected to have already been created, whether it's «overtly political» to not announce new tolls before the November election, whether there continues to be a $ 3.9 billion cap on the bridge cost, two Hudson Valley state senate races, how the crane was named, ebola and whether he anticipates limiting travelers into New York and Amtrak's announced plan to close four tunnels for lengthy repair work.

As the results trickled in, reporters in Ohio desperately tried to learn more about this mystery candidate who seemingly came out of nowhere and appeared to be on the verge of determining the outcome of one of the country's most closely - watched and competitive Senate races.

The topic that's received less attention over the last few months is the landscape for U.S. Senate races.

This chart shows how many candidates ran for state senate in Arkansas in past years and the cumulative amount of campaign contributions in state senate races, including contributions in both primary and general election contests.

Tea Party supported candidates won 5 of 10 Senate races (50 %) contested, and 40 of 130 House races (31 %) contested.

A judge's ruling set the primary date for June 26th, but only for federal offices: U.S. House and Senate races.

By late October, three Senate races were on pace to break fundraising records.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell holds a slim four - point edge over his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in a new CNN / ORC International Poll of one of the most closely watched Senate races of 2014.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

Now, Democratic campaign organizations are planning to run advertisements in states with contested Senate races.

Two House races and two Senate races lead their packs, and now readers have until Thursday at 5 p.m. for the runoff contest.

All in all, it's probably wise to avoid too many generalizations about the Senate races of 2018 at this point.

It's money House Republicans feared might not come this cycle, with many donors focused on Senate races instead.

Note: This is the fifth in a series of regional looks at the most competitive House and Senate races to watch.

Senate races will still be overshadowed by their presidential counterpart in the general election, especially when so many Senate battlegrounds — like those in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida — double as key contests in the presidential race.

By contrast, in the 2012 U.S. Senate races, this ratio was only two to one.

The Republican National Committee is going to set aside at least $ 10 to $ 15 million to aid states where there are competitive House and Senate races but minimal presidential action, a party official tells POLITICO.

Wisconsin has attracted the most outside spending of the Senate races so far, in part because Republicans view Baldwin as vulnerable on issues relating to veterans» health care.

Competitive Senate races in Colorado, Iowa, and Kansas that were so supposed to be squeakers ended up being comfortable GOP victories.

What can Facebook candidate likes and page engagement metrics tell us about the likely outcome of 2014 Senate races?

This week... the matchups were decided in three Senate races, more House contests took shape, and we ranked the most vulnerable members.

And several big Republican spenders are offsetting upset over Trump's bluster and business tactics with big investments in House and Senate races.

What's more, several competitive Senate races are this year conveniently in states that play host to early nominating contests in 2016.

On September 12, 2011, Louisiana news organization Bayou Buzz issued a report on the top five Louisiana Senate races to watch.

Tea Party candidates were less successful in the 2012 election, winning four of 16 Senate races contested, and losing approximately 20 % of the seats in the House that had been gained in 2010.

Along with those two, the DSCC said Sunday it planned to use similar lines of attack in Senate races in Florida, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Readers will have one more opportunity this week to pick the House and Senate races Roll Call will cover from the ground in the final weeks of the midterms.

Did Chairwoman Nassour and her staff help fund the efforts of the State Senate races that were closely lost with great Republican candidates, like those in Plymouth and Worcester Counties?

We have had some essentially uncontested U.S. Senate races, and frequently national politics has overridden local issues.

A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via «independent expenditure» groups, some of them narrowly focused:

just in from CNBC: Democrats are heading toward some big losses in this fall's midterm Senate races, polls say Goebbels (or should I say Mr. Nazi?)

A spate of anti-gay and homophobic mailers in at least two state Senate races was denounced today by Republican House candidate Joe Carvin.

Democrats also hope to be competitive in the Hudson Valley, where there have been several narrow Senate races in recent election cycles.

Ive been invovled with the last two US Senate races & primariesthe and hes right....

But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..