Will Pro-LGBT Stances Hurt GOP Senators?
Three Republican senators who support same-sex marriage are up for re-election in 2016, but though all three face primary challenges, they are betting it won’t hurt their chances. Sens.
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Three Republican senators who support same-sex marriage are up for re-election in 2016, but though all three face primary challenges, they are betting it won’t hurt their chances. Sens.
David Vitter lost the 2015 Louisiana governor’s race and said he would not seek re-election to the Senate, two other Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation — Reps.
. | Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington, Ky., filed paperwork on Tuesday declaring his candidacy for Senate — a last-minute move by a man viewed by most Kentucky Democrats as the party’s hope to take on Republican
Wyden is seeking re-election to a fourth full term in a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for Senate in more than a dozen years.
Pierluisi will not run for re-election.
Pierluisi, is running for governor in 2016, and thus cannot seek re-election to Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid helped insert the “atom bomb” into legislation years ago.
Chris Gibson, a Republican who occupies the seat, is not running for re-election . Teachout served as CEO of Mayday PAC, which supports candidates who want to end super PACs.
(The chamber where a vetoed bill originated gets the first shot at mustering the two-thirds vote required to re-pass the measure, and all the anti-Obama-regulation efforts started in the Senate.
Andy Barr for re-election, fears rose within the Democratic Party’s ranks that it might just forget about making a run for the district it held as recently as 2012.
It took a little finesse, but a Senate deal to confirm five of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees held this week, despite pressure from a key conservative interest group to shut down the process
Heller is up for re-election in 2018 one of the few Republicans in that cycle who faces a potentially competitive race.
Working in Democrats’ favor this year is a Senate map in which they are only defending 10 seats to the Republicans’ 24.
Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida were, as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. remarked, “going to actually be in the Senate to vote. It’s a big day here.”
Rand Paul, the Republican leading a long-shot bid for the presidency, for re-election. Since then, nobody has stepped forward.
Republicans dominate at the state Senate level in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, a potential sign of strength for the party at the congressional level.
That in turn could imperil the chance to get enough Republican support to pass a budget in the Senate, where more than a few Republicans are facing tough re-election battles
On Saturday, she re-launched a door-to-door operation, starting in voter-rich Bethesda, with just 101 days until primary day.
Scott Rigell announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2016 because he’s achieved what he set out to do. “You might ask, ‘Why is now the time to leave?’
As far back his first term in the White House, Democrats suffered catastrophic losses in the 1994 midterm elections — losing 54 House seats, eight Senate seats and 10 governors mansions.