Sentences with phrase «win statehouse»

«States like ours, we wan na play a huge role in bringing back the White House in «20... we have to win statehouse races, we have to win local races and this is someone whose career has been all about that,» Pepper said.

Holland, a minister, noted that he would be the first African - American man to lead the GOP ticket in New York and that his «historic candidacy» would «not only help with the funding gap by getting earned media but also... put together the winning coalition that is needed to win the statehouse as a Republican.»

Holder is heading up the National Democratic Redistricting Committee that will focus on trying to help the party win statehouses before the new congressional lines are drawn in 2021.

Not exact matches

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

She said that the Democratic Party is in the process of developing its comeback strategy after the decimation it suffered on Election Day and in cycles prior, but argued that the party has to focus on winning back statehouses and start with grassroots organizing.

Mr. Stringer acknowledged in an interview on Monday that he would have to win support in Albany for his plan to work — no easy task at a Statehouse where suburban lawmakers are in open revolt against a payroll tax meant to pay for mass transit.

It's been helpful in winning Republicans the statehouses.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

Had the Duncan team opted to use their own judgment, the outcome might have been better in terms of who won, but he would have been accused of playing mid-term-election politics and surely the White House (and influential Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the statehouses) would have inserted themselves into that process.

So here we are again, with Republicans winning stunning victories in races for governor's mansions and statehouses nationwide.

Republican Asa Hutchinson won the governor's race in Arkansas, giving Republicans a statehouse it hasn't held since 2006, and securing another ally in the fight against new federal climate regulations.

He won acquittals in two nationally reported criminal prosecutions, one involving protests at a KKK rally on the Statehouse steps in Columbus, Ohio.