Sentences with phrase «then ran against incumbent»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Ellis ran for mayor in the 2009 Democratic primary against then long - term incumbent Jerry Jennings.

But then, what chance did a recently retired Army colonel running against an incumbent congressman seem to have in 2010?

Gillibrand and Schumer offered late - in - the game endorsements for Warren after she defeated incumbent Mayor Tom Richards in the September Democratic primary, but then found herself running against him again in the general election, thanks to a grassroots campaign mounted on his behalf by Independence Party members and others.

He ran an unsuccessful 2010 Democratic primary for the 20th Assembly District seat against then - incumbent Harvey Weisenberg.

He ran against a popular, deft incumbent who then decided to retire from the House after 2016, so Democrats nursed renewed hopes in last year's congressional election.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

Mr. Quiñones, a Bronx Democrat, filed sufficient signatures to run against incumbent firebrand Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., was first ruled on the ballot then iff a few days later.

Incumbent Democrat Al Krupski of Cutchogue won his then - vacant seat in a January 2013 special election against Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter, after Ed Romaine surrendered it to run for Brookhaven Town supervisor.