Sentences with phrase «special election losses»

It was also a redemption of sorts for GOP County Chairman Nick Langworthy and ex-County Executive Chris Collins political team after last year's NY - 26 special election loss of Assemblywoman Jane Corwin to Rep. Kathy Hochul.

The state Independence Party has endorsed Republican Matt Doheny's challenge to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in NY - 23 — a move that could prove significant in the GOP's effort to win back the North Country seat it had held for over a century until last year's special election loss.

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The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

Also approved: The election of John Reidman from Rochester to serve as treasurer, replacing Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, who stepped down prior to her loss in the NY - 26 special election.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

Though the WFP was not without its low points in 2011: the shuttering of its controversial for - profit arm Data and Field Services on Oct. 26 and the loss of WFP - endorsed candidate David Weprin in the NY - 9 special election.

The ever - colorful Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has re-emerged after all but dropping off the face of the earth following his loss in the NY - 20 special election, (OK, he lost his leadership post and was relegated to the back row in the chamber, which is almost like being banished to Siberia).

Trump's decision Saturday to intervene in the Alabama special election followed weeks of pleas from senior Republicans who fear that a loss will invite a wave of primary challenges against GOP incumbents and damage the party in the 2018 midterms.

(So far, they've had two successes with the primary loss of Sen. Bill Stachowski and the special election defeat of ex-Sen.

There was a lot of grumbling about the party's loss in a special election Tuesday to fill the seat held by the late Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha.

Washington (CNN)- Two days after Democrats suffered losses in special House seat elections, Republican campaign officials are calling the pair of defeats a reflection of President Barack Obama's failed economic record, and predicting similar losses for Democrats running on Obama's ticket in 2012.

We'll stick to statewide general elections for Senate and governor, even though there are plenty of eyebrow - raising results in party primaries (Sen. Dick Lugar's loss in 2012), off - season special elections (Scott Brown's triumph in early 2010) and U.S. House races (a good half - dozen of them every election year).

In the first of a series looking behind the election result, the BBC's Special correspondent Lucy Manning examines Labour's loss.

Since then, he's made two failed attempts to rejoin the congressional delegation: a 2010 special - election bid for the 1st District and last cycle's loss to now - Sen.