Sentences with phrase «won gubernatorial races»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has more than $ 30 million in his campaign fund, and a recent poll shows him with a 30 - point - lead over his likely Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, but the Republican says if the past is any indication, he can win the gubernatorial race this year.

Their belief is that only Donald Trump has the ability to win the gubernatorial race and defeat Cuomo,» Trump senior counsel Michael Cohen said in a statement.

But Bevin is only the second Republican to win a gubernatorial race in the Bluegrass State in over 40 years.

On the road to try to win the gubernatorial race, Cynthia Nixon made her first campaign visit to Syracuse.

Here in Syracuse, by day, he's pushing to win a gubernatorial race that has yet to welcome the Green Party to office.

Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said on Wednesday that the Astorino announcement «will do little to curb» the notion that «only Donald Trump has the ability to win the gubernatorial race.»

Indiana — School choice champion Eric Holcomb won the gubernatorial race in the state.

Not exact matches

According to a recent Reuters report, depending on who takes a Senate seat from several of these battle ground states and who wins certain gubernatorial races could mean which of the energy topics — EPA carbon regulations, the Keystone Pipeline XL's approval, relaxing crude oil export rules, developing clean energy technology — will take priority.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

In a brief telephone interview yesterday, the Queens lawmaker said he was urged to get into the already - crowded race by numerous advisors (including his father, former Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., who won the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary).

A political party is granted automatic ballot status — the right to field a candidate in any race in the state without circulating petitions — if its gubernatorial candidate wins more than 50,000 votes in a general election.

«This kind of performance does not win Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox Jewish, Tea Party or other conservative voters to the Republican Party, and has led to some of the splits the party has seen in recent years in the 23rd Congressional District, the 2010 gubernatorial race and most recently the 26th Congressional District.»

Nebraska gubernatorial race: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the head of the Republican Governors Association, issued a statement Wednesday congratulating Pete Ricketts on his win for the Cornhusker state's Republican gubernatorial primary, beating out six other candidates.

It's all designed to keep the WFP from winning the 50,000 votes it needs in November's gubernatorial race to keep its permanent ballot line for the next four years.

Heeding the advice from fellow Western New York billionaire and former gubernatorial candidate, Tom Golisano, Carl Paladino is not relying solely on a third - party line to win the governor's race this year.

But in statewide races, winning isn't (always) everything: When a party fails to mount competent candidates for long - shot gubernatorial and Senate races, it can doom more competitive candidates down - ballot.

The best chance that Conservatives and Republicans have to win the NY gubernatorial race is to unite the vote.

It's no accident that these former gubernatorial candidates won congressional races.

Strange, though, that The Fix's sources mention Coleman, who's already lost that race once, while ignoring ostensible front - runner Marty Seifert, who's in the news today for vowing to not run for reelection to the Lege (where he's currently minority leader), whether he wins his party's gubernatorial nomination or not.

Since Democrats won both the gubernatorial and attorney general races, they kept triplex control in Virginia.

He'd been a rising star in the 1970s, entering and winning five late primaries and caucuses in the 1976 Democratic race (and nearly preventing Jimmy Carter from clinching the nomination), but had closed out his gubernatorial tenure on a sour note, then disappeared from the political world in the mid -»80s.

Kimball's win came after he and several other tea - party - backed candidates had come up short in recent races: last year, Kimball placed second in the GOP's gubernatorial primary and another tea - party favorite, Ovide Lamontagne, came up short in his bid for the GOP Senate nod.

«Republicans should look at the election last night and realize it's a giant stop sign on their tax bill,» a reinvigorated Schumer said at one of two news conferences at which he cheered convincing Democratic wins in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Clinton won Virginia, one of the two states with gubernatorial races this year, in the 2016 presidential election.

National Democrats, smarting over gubernatorial losses in New Jersey and Virginia, seized on the win, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine dubbing it «perhaps the most consequential race of the night.»

Cordray on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for Ohio's gubernatorial race — along with running mate Betty Sutton, a former U.S. congresswoman — beating former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

It's «not a Democratic district,» Israel said, pointing out that Carl Paladino, an outspoken and gaffe - prone conservative, carried the area in his 2010 gubernatorial bid, in a race where Gov. Andrew Cuomo won with 61 percent of the vote.

Republicans see their chance to win in Iowa next year after losing the last two gubernatorial races.

But the actual investment of resources is something that is too precious for national organizations to do anything other than place where they need to get wins... there is a question about the nationalization of gubernatorial races in 2018 and whether the national politics related to the president are going to be something that every governor running is going to have to confront.

Hawkins won nearly 60,000 votes in the gubernatorial race in 2010 against Cuomo and Republican Carl Paladino.

«We'll have every dime we need to win this race,» said Lazio at a news conference after winning the party's gubernatorial nod.

Though he lost a close race for the governorship to incumbent Lawton Chiles in 1994 (the same year brother George won the Texas gubernatorial bid), Bush set up a nonprofit, the Foundation for Florida's Future, which would keep him focused on public policy and education until the next election, in 1998, which he won handily.

As of the morning after the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans were each expected to win at least five of the 11 gubernatorial races.

There's also political scion Chris Sununu, who won the New Hampshire's gubernatorial race.

In the days leading up to the election, forecasts for who would win the Florida gubernatorial race bounced between Democrat Charlie Crist and Republican incumbent Gov. Rick Scott.