Sentences with phrase «under indictment won»

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In a poor community like this one, with a record of low turn - out — that was enough to win the election — the question is will his tactics work if he's running against someone who's well organized and not under indictment?

Mr. Donovan's biggest challenge will not be winning the special election (after all, Michael Grimm won convincingly in 2014 while under indictment); it will be winning re-election in 2016, when former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could top the ticket and drive turnout in the district.

Staten Island Republican Rep. Michael Grimm also won while under indictment.

Grimm defeated Democratic incumbent Rep. Michael McMahon — now the borough's district attorney — in the Tea Party wave of 2010 and easily won re-election in 2014 while under federal indictment in the tax case, claiming his innocence and charging he was the victim of a politically motivated prosecution.

Unlike his three predecessor resignees, however, Republican Michael Grimm appears to remain quite popular in the district, having won reelection overwhelmingly this past November while under federal indictment.