Scott Walker — lost Walker's reelection race, lost the governorship in Michigan, and got crushed in its bid to win back Pennsylvania's governorship.
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But it is worth noting that last year, Democrats held the governorship in Louisiana and won the governorship in Kentucky, two states that Trump won in 22020.
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Cleave also noted that nearly all the statewide elected positions are up for reelection come 2021 including the governorship, lieutenant governorship, attorney general and the entire House of Delegates.
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" Pitched battle for open New Mexico governorship - KOB4: "U.
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We just got Gavin in the governorship, but ... Yeah.
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Hickenlooper's governorship occupied a more centrist lane in part because Republicans controlled one chamber of the state legislature throughout his governorship, but that bipartisan work has also been central to his brand.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham, who on Tuesday won the state's governorship.
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Let's back up further, though, from your governorship of Illinois.
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A guy named Rod Blagojevich had just won the governorship.
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Even after he won the governorship, he didn't let up.
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Gavin Newsom is ahead in the polls for the governorship.
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Steve Sisolak won the governorship in the 2018 midterm elections.
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A Cooper victory would be the only governorship addition for Democrats.
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Martin O'Malley poised to hand off the governorship to Lt. Gov.
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The Michigan governorship is a top target for the Democratic Party.
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But Hallquist is far from a shoo-in for the governorship.
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He parlayed his riches into a governorship and U.S. Senate seat.
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Kobach's extremism ultimately handed the governorship to the Democrat Laura Kelly.
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There currently are two governorship vacancies on the seven-member board.
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Ralph Northam (D) defeated Ed Gillespie (R) to win the governorship.
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To boot, the Democrats lost the governorship to Republican Attorney Gen.
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Trump elevated McMaster to the governorship, when he picked then-Gov.
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Democrat John Bel Edwards has won the race for Louisiana's governorship.
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In all aspects save its governorship, Massachusetts is a partisan monoculture.
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He may have lost out on a governorship at the Fed.
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To win the governorship, Mr. Kemp must have an outright majority.
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And that means that Stacey Abrams has to win the governorship.
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Democrats control both the governorship and legislature in only five states.
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That's progress, but why not go unicameral and abolish the governorship?
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In North Carolina, we won the governorship, should've won the senatorship.
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Neither were in politics until they decided to run for the governorship.
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When he decided to enter politics, he went straight for the governorship.
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IT WAS no great surprise when Democrats held Virginia's governorship in November.
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Republicans successfully defended the governorship in Indiana for a fourth straight term.
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Winning the governorship could position Rubio for a comeback in national politics.
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He coasted to the governorship over the Democratic agriculture commissioner that November.
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Haslam granted Brown clemency in January, during his last month of governorship.
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Well, he won the governorship, but with only 22019% of the votes.
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Republicans captured the governorship in Missouri, after years in which outgoing Gov.
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Whoever wins is expected to take the governorship easily in the midterms.
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In 2016, Democrats lost the governorship and every statewide office but one.
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The governorship is a vital prize for Democrats seeking a comeback there.
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It contributed to speculation he would mount a bid for Utah's governorship.
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The governorship, House and Senate in Florida are currently under GOP leadership.
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No US state had ever nominated a black woman for a governorship.
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Strong employment growth at the state level is directly correlated with governorship.
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Bruce Rauner's vulnerability and the opportunity for Democrats to flip the governorship.
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But the race closest to Trump's heart was for the Virginia governorship.
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Under his governorship, teacher salaries increased to within $400 of the national average.
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Purnama, 50, inherited the governorship after Joko Widodo was elected president in 2014.
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Unless Nixon wins the governorship, who knows when we'll have this opportunity again.
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In 2014, Scott won the governorship with 2.86 million votes against Democratic Rep.
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Deep local roots are not a prerequisite for a governorship in Russia today.
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Polis in November became the first openly gay person elected to a governorship.
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Claire McCaskill (D) this fall or of winning the governorship again in 2020?
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Northam, a former pediatric neurosurgeon and Army doctor, won the governorship in 2017.
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On the surface, Pierluisi seemed like the perfect person for Puerto Rico's governorship.
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Democrats made significant gains in the 2018 midterm elections, including winning the governorship.
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Hours earlier, the highest court declared unconstitutional the governorship of disgraced former Gov.
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Democrat Andy Beshear won the Kentucky governorship and was inaugurated earlier this month.
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In many ways, Bevin made criminal justice issues a priority during his governorship.
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Republicans captured the governorship in 1986 with the election of H. Guy Hunt.
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Unemployment in Indiana has fallen under Pence's governorship, as it has fallen nationwide.
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Republicans control both houses of the Ohio legislature, as well as the governorship.
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Heitkamp considered another run for the governorship in 2016 but ultimately decided against it.
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DeSantis and Putnam are just two among 10 Republican candidates vying for the governorship.
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No black Democrat had been elected to a Senate seat or governorship since Reconstruction.
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Nabiullina had to quickly make a series of decisions that would define her governorship.
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Six years after leaving the governorship Mr Schwarzenegger could be forgiven for shunning politics.
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Though he was unsuccessful in that bid, he won the governorship the following year.
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We've got a record here in my governorship that will continue in my presidency.
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Bevin won Kentucky's governorship in 22016 with 393 percent of the vote after Gov.
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Dino Rossi, who's previously mounted failed bids for a Senate seat and the governorship.
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Wachtler had been discussed as possibly mounting a challenge to Cuomo for the governorship.
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Democrats also won the governorship in Michigan, which is one of the key states.
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He will face the Establishment Republican Ed Gillespie for the state governorship in November.
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Instead, Mr. Trump has reportedly toyed with demoting Mr. Powell to a simple governorship.
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There's also an open governorship up for grabs in the Silver State, with Gov.
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Ms. Ivey, who is 73, ascended from the lieutenant governorship in 2017 when Gov.
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He left his governorship and did not have another major political position for years.
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Ralph S. Northam soundly defeated the Republican nominee, Ed Gillespie, to win the governorship.
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Republicans currently control both the state Senate and House, as well as the governorship.
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Gillum and DeSantis are also locked in a heated race for the state's governorship.
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For months, the accusation had dogged his young governorship and upended politics across Missouri.
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Haley, 44, climbed to the governorship in 2010 representing an aspirational brand of politics.
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In March, Trump said he would nominate Moore to an open Federal Reserve governorship.
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A Democrat did win statewide in Colorado that year, however: Hickenlooper kept his governorship.
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After his governorship, Patrick went to work in the private sector at Bain Capital.
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Despite Kansas's deep-red hue, Democrats have won the governorship reliably in recent years.
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At one point, Patrick even considered resigning the governorship, according to the Boston Globe.
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Democrats are optimistic about reclaiming the New Jersey governorship in the November 2017 election.
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"We lost the governorship of freaking Vermont," lamented Washington-based Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis.
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He retired from the military at the age of 38 to run for the governorship.
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Johnson won his New Mexico governorship in 103 before the internet was being used much.
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Vazquez said she will assume the governorship under the succession plan in Puerto Rico's constitution.
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In 13 states, Democrats now control the governorship along with upper and lower legislative chambers.
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It would be her second time vying for the governorship—she lost to independent Sen.
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Twenty-six states, including Virginia under Kaine's governorship, use these laws to protect teachers' rights.
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Branstad first won the governorship in 6900, the first of four consecutive terms in office.
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Farage, falling with the bombs over London, to seize the governorship of America's 51st state.
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Still, a fresh martyrdom might be a useful springboard for a bid for the governorship.
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And why do Democrats think they have a chance of winning the governorship of Georgia?
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WASHINGTON — Democrats pulled off an upset win to take back Kentucky's governorship earlier this month.
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Republicans have the governorship in 26 of those states, while Democrats hold nine governor's seats.
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He previously finished a close third in the jungle primary for California's governorship in 2014.
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Dino Rossi, who's also previously mounted failed bids for a Senate seat and the governorship.
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As recently as 21992, she considered returning to Missouri for another try at the governorship.
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Since then, the Republicans have ruled the Senate, while Democrats control the governorship and Assembly.
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It's not just that the Democrats easily won the highest-profile race — the Virginia governorship.
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With the governorship held by Democrats since 2007, pro-death-penalty legislators have been stymied.
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Republicans also have full control — including the governorship — of 21 states, while Democrats hold 13.
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Republicans control the state legislature and the governorship in addition to controlling the federal government.
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He inherited the governorship from Mr. Joko after Mr. Joko won the presidency in 2014.
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Before that, he finished a close third in the primary for California's governorship in 2014.
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He lost a primary for governor the next year before winning the governorship in 2013.
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She served two terms as the state's lieutenant governor before ascending to the governorship in 2004.
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That's why a win of the governorship is so important for Democrats in reversing Michigan's gerrymandering.
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For the first time in Kentucky, the Republicans [control] the House, the Senate, and the governorship.
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Republicans will now control both the legislature and the governorship in 26 of the 50 states.
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Davis lost the governorship in 2003 after a statewide recall; he was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Establishment Democrats feared that if Kucinich won, their chances of retaking the governorship would fall drastically.
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During his governorship, he signed no fewer than 17 bills containing restrictions on abortions into law.
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Indeed, since 1976, the party that won the presidency lost the Virginia governorship the following year.
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Besides the governorship, Republicans control Iowa's legislature and have a majority in the state's congressional delegation.
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Under Chris Christie's governorship of New Jersey, they've been downgraded nine times in their credit rating.
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But, if the same party holds the governorship and the legislature, the process would be streamlined.
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The Republicans also look like they will keep the governorship in Georgia for another four years.
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From Reagan through Schwarzenegger (with the exception of Jerry Brown), Republicans dominated the governorship of California.
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Bentley eventually appointed Strange to Sessions's seat, later resigning the governorship in April over his affair.
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Doubting Burr's judgment and patriotism, Hamilton had worked to deny Burr the governorship of New York.
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One interview with ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos is remembered as the low point for Pence's governorship.
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The Illinois governorship is a position that's been clouded with controversy over the past half-century.
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Kemp, who has denied nefarious action, stepped down from his post only after winning the governorship.
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Because of this "disrespect" Foley plans to back Bob Sweeney for the governorship instead of Chuck.
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The 20181 election put Democrats in charge of the House, the State Senate, and the governorship.
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Or Steve Bullock who won the governorship in Montana while Trump won by about 20 points.
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And Democrats hold total control — of both the legislature and the governorship — in only six states.
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President Donald Trump said last week that he intends to nominate Moore for a Fed governorship.
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Congress created a special governorship for banking regulation in 2014, but the seat has gone unfilled.
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But at the same time, for the first time in his governorship, Cuomo seemed truly vulnerable.
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I just said, 'I don't want to leave the governorship and leave my family for that.
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Northam has appeared to dig in, in an effort to save his governorship — and his reputation.
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In the unlikely event all three Democrats resign, the governorship would fall to Cox, a Republican.
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It's almost unthinkable that the Old Dominion's governorship would devolve to the luck of the draw.
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This is unlikely to help his chances of winning the governorship of Kansas later this year.
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Ricardo Rossello, can accomplish the same type of fiscal rebirth New York experienced during my governorship.
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However, the island's Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional, and Vázquez was sworn into the governorship Wednesday.
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The final governorship up for grabs in these off-year campaigns is in Louisiana where Gov.
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After Bush won the governorship, he appointed Conaway to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.
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Ms. Hassan says she's running to protect the gains New Hampshire has made during her governorship.
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Last week, he resigned the governorship, 48 days before the end of his six-year term.
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The GOP currently controls Idaho's congressional delegation, the governorship and both chambers of the state Legislature.
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She would be the first woman to win the Idaho governorship — and the first Native American.
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In 2170 Mr. Bevin became only the second Republican since the 21220s to take the governorship.
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I betray no secret when I report that Schneiderman has ambitions for the New York governorship.
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After losing the governorship to Chris Christie, he took over MF Global, which collapsed in 2011.
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Without the governorship, Republicans will be hard-pressed to hold their ground or narrow the deficit.
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Although Anies won the second round, and the governorship, the F.P.I.'s job hardly is finished.
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In Kentucky, for instance, Republicans now control both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship.
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Mr. Colyer, a Republican and a plastic surgeon from suburban Kansas City, will assume the governorship.
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Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) was ahead in the race for the governorship in Puebla.
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The state Assembly and state Senate remain in GOP hands, but Democrat Ralph Northam won the governorship.
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They have the governorship, a majority in the state House, and a majority in the state Senate.
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Reagan won the California governorship in 1966 and made a last-minute attempt as the conservative wing's
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The candidates' competing stances on Confederate memorials say a lot about their respective paths to the governorship.
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But the governorship is a position of public trust, and Mr Northam appears to have lost that.
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When Mr Saakashvili resigned his governorship, he accused the president of lacking the will to fight corruption.
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Cillizza: Brownback, from the second he was elected, portrayed his governorship as an experiment in conservative governance.
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He demonstrated his own strengths, continually using examples of his governorship while avoiding criticizing Trump or others.
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As a Republican, Larrazolo won the state's governorship in 1918 by a margin of about 1,300 votes.
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In Maine, Clinton won by three points in 2016, and Democrats took back the governorship in 2018.
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Nathan Deal of Georgia has made criminal justice reform a pillar of his two-term governorship. Gov.
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He won the governorship in 2014 after his predecessor, Naoki Inose, resigned over a campaign-funding scandal.
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Rivera Schatz, widely thought to be interested in the governorship, celebrated Wednesday's announcement, touting the court's unanimity.
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She also clashed with Trump during her governorship in the 1990s over a road and tunnel project.
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Ben Jealous, the former head of the N.A.A.C.P., has a decent shot at the governorship in Maryland.
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Oregon is among eight states where Democrats control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature.
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Purnama eventually lost the next election for governorship, was jailed for blasphemy and released earlier this year.
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That same month Jared Polis in Colorado became the first openly gay person to win a governorship.
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The Senate will hold a public confirmation hearing on Monday, and vote on his governorship on Wednesday.
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Rosselló also said Pierluisi will finish out his term but will not seek the governorship next year.
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Rosselló has said Pierluisi will finish out his term but will not seek the governorship next year.
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His insurgent campaign to take the Kentucky governorship in 2015 was heavy on attacks on government spending.
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No Democrat has won the governorship since Ann Richards in 1990, or any statewide office since 1994.
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But Mr. Rosselló did not resign the governorship, as tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans have demanded.
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Mr. Gillespie may be the best-connected Republican to seek the Virginia governorship in the state's history.
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Delaware is one of just a few states where Democrats hold the governorship and both legislative chambers.
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In Virginia, Democrats are already better positioned than the last redraw, when a Republican held the governorship.
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And how could Democrats lose the governorship in Florida and win it in a state like ... Kansas?
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He dipped into his wealth to help finance his campaigns, winning the governorship in 2010 and 2014.
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They also kept control of the state's House, and Democratic Attorney General Janet Mills won the governorship.
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Pence's experience in the House and the governorship, and his strong reputation among conservative Christians, reassured conventional Republicans.
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Winning the governorship in any of these states would guarantee Democrats a seat at the table in redistricting.
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Indiana law prevented him from running for both the VP job and the governorship at the same time.
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In office since 2014, Baker seeks re-election this November for the governorship of the Bay State, Boston.
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"Northam owes his governorship to a significant degree to the overwhelming support of African American voters," Kondik said.
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His governorship was a study in practical decision-making and political maneuvering -- qualities valued by the Clinton organization.
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On April 19, he was defeated by a Muslim candidate in a run-off vote for the governorship.
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In the House, Black chaired the powerful Budget Committee for a year, stepping down to pursue the governorship.
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McMaster assumed the governorship last year after Nikki Haley resigned to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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If all three men were to resign, the governorship would fall to Assembly Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican.
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Republicans were able to hold onto the governorship in Mississippi, where Tate Reeves edged out Democrat Jim Hood.
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Hector Rodríguez, a youthful confidant of the president who won the governorship of Miranda state, is one possibility.
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Current Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is said to be eyeing the governorship — or possibly the White House.
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Chief among these is the governorship of the disputed Kirkuk province and the Federal Justice Ministry in Baghdad.
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When Republicans recaptured both the General Assembly and the governorship, they delegated new powers to the incoming Gov.
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He has said he will announce by the end of this year whether he will extend his governorship.
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Democrat Terry McAuliffe broke the mold in 20163, by narrowly winning the governorship the year after Obama's reelection.
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Democrats won back the governorship of the state in 2018, assuaging some concerns that Wisconsin was drifting away.
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The governorship of Puerto Rico has historically flip-flopped between supporters of statehood and supporters of commonwealth status.
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Some Texas Democrats are hoping he tries another Senate race in 2020 or seeks the governorship in 2022.
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He lost to the incumbent, Howard W. Cannon, by 22006 votes, but won the governorship two years later.
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Here are the main takeaways: • Former mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles are battling for the governorship.
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Vázquez isn't much more popular and even took to Twitter recently to say she didn't want the governorship.
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Should he win the governorship of Maryland, Mr. Jealous could be an even more important supporter in 2020.
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Schneiderman's two predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and Cuomo, both used the office as a launching pad to the governorship.
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" And Bernie Sanders referred to "voter suppression which cost the democratic party a governorship here in this state.
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Scott has won the governorship twice, but narrowly; the margin in each election was a scant: 1 percent.
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She said she views herself as the change candidate, despite the fact her governorship would continue Republican rule.
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If that runoff happens, Villaraigosa will likely win the governorship easily as Hispanics line up to support him.
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Raúl Labrador (R-ID) lost his primary in the race for Idaho's governorship earlier this year as well.
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And they are desperate to win back the governorship, if only to perpetuate Republican legislative power into the 2030s.
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Rivera's resignation left a vacancy in the line of succession that placed Vázquez next in line for the governorship.
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One of the state's most iconic political leaders, Brown is set to relinquish the governorship of California on Jan.
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In 2017, McMaster rose to the governorship when Nikki Haley left to join the administration as United Nations ambassador.
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Ralph Northam and a racist yearbook picture, which raised the possibility that Fairfax could be elevated to the governorship.
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Kelly, a Democrat, won the governorship last year in part due to the backlash over the state's economic woes.
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If a state's governorship and state legislature are controlled by Republicans, it is more likely to pass such laws.
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And I'd like to welcome my guest, prospective nominee for Fed Governorship by the Trump administration: Dr. Judy Shelton.
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He previously served as Montana's attorney general, and holds the governorship of a state where Republicans dominate the legislature.
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All 17 were proposed in states where Republicans will control both the state legislature and the governorship in 2019.
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She should start small, which for her would mean a cabinet post in a Democratic administration or a governorship.
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Democrat John Kerry's 2004 nomination came 503 years after he won Massachusetts' lieutenant governorship on a ticket with Dukakis.
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If all three resign, Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican, would likely take over the governorship.
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For the last two years he has occupied the governorship of Bihar, a position appointed by the prime minister.
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Even Mrs Haley's critics concede that she has grown into her governorship, performing robustly during South Carolina's recent floods.
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Terry Branstad (R) resigned Wednesday to become President Trump's envoy to China, ending the longest governorship in American history.
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While Hogg volunteered the information during the vetting process for the deputy governorship, this was ultimately beside the point.
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Mr. Reeves is locked in a close race with Jim Hood, the Democratic attorney general, for the Mississippi governorship.
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Furthermore, Mr. Videgaray is rumored to be a possible P.R.I. candidate for the governorship of the State of Mexico.
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President Enrique Pena Nieto's PRI fared poorly in state elections earlier this year, including losing the governorship of Veracruz.
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But rather than run for Congress, Ms. Nixon is shooting for the big kahuna — governorship of New York State.
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The lieutenant governorship is an office far more symbolic than substantive, with a limited budget and few formal responsibilities.
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In Wisconsin and Florida, Mr. Holder's group will help Democrats compete for the governorship and the State Senate majority.
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But Democrats have repeatedly won the governorship here thanks in part to longstanding divisions between moderate and conservative Republicans.
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Her campaign believes that she can win the governorship without having to court rural white conservative voters at all.
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A three-way race in November could split the left-leaning vote and allow Republicans to take the governorship.
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Infighting within the New Progressive Party Vázquez said Wednesday that she respected the ruling and would assume the governorship.
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While Republicans control both the governorship and the legislature in 26 states, Democrats have that monopoly in just six.
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Republican Charlie Baker won the governorship in 2014 and Brown won a special election to the Senate in 2010.
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Weeks of polling had suggested a potential tossup in the race for the post, Mexico's most coveted state governorship.
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Kate Brown in Oregon, though Republicans haven't won Oregon's governorship since 1982 and Democrats believe Brown will win easily.
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Gillum detractors could argue that Democrats would have blown their best chance at winning the governorship in a generation.
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He had already stunned Slovakia in 2013 by winning the governorship of Banska Bystrica, one of Slovakia's eight regions.
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She spent six years in the state legislature after a career in business before winning the governorship in 2010.
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"We're going to have a change in the governorship based on the vote of the people," Bevin told reporters.
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Democrats' response will come from Stacey Abrams, a rising star who narrowly lost last year's race for Georgia's governorship.
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Laura Kelly's 17-percentage-point margin in the county was crucial to her flipping the governorship to the Democrats.
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If Northam were to step down, Fairfax was next in line to take over the governorship, followed by Herring.
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Retaining her last name helped cost her husband the governorship of Arkansas in 1980 (after that, she became a Clinton).
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And though they have lost some ground since their high water mark, Republicans still hold the governorship in 20163 states.
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Democrats have controlled the Colorado governorship since 2007, and now that incumbent John Hickenlooper (D) is term-limited out, Rep.
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McMaster was unsuccessful in his previous bid for the governorship in 2010, losing a four-way GOP primary to Haley.
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Cordray, the former attorney general of Ohio, stepped down from the CFPB last November to run for the state's governorship.
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It was the start of a fence-mending mission that would eventually land Mr. Cuomo the governorship eight years later.
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Encouragingly, Ahok's main rival for the governorship, Anies Baswedan, until recently education minister in Jokowi's government, is a noted moderate.
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While there are more women in the federal delegation, the state has yet to elect a woman to the governorship.
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The opposition also plans to lodge 62 court cases contesting governorship, lawmaker, and local seats, spokeswoman Kathleen Openda told Reuters.
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Former presidential candidate and Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain is under consideration for a Federal Reserve governorship, CNBC has confirmed.
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"Recent events do not provide the ideal backdrop for Diokno to assume the governorship," Momford wrote in a Monday note.
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On Tuesday, six New Jersey newspapers joined in an effort to call on Christie to resign for the state governorship.
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As of Tuesday, Democrats have just eight "trifectas," or states where they can control both legislative chambers and the governorship.
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Its competitiveness is reflected this year in three tight statewide races — for the governorship, the Senate and the presidency. Gov.
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Franchot is not seeking the governorship (at least at the moment); Hogan is at the top of his political opportunities.
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He spent 13 years traveling the globe for Goldman Sachs and assumed the governorship of Canada's central bank in 2008.
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However, the island's Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional, and Vázquez was sworn into the governorship Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
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When Pat Brown began his governorship, Jerry was twenty and a Jesuit novice, honoring vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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Still, his choice for lieutenant governor suggests that he will lean into it in his quest to win the governorship.
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In Virginia, Ralph Northam's lopsided defeat of former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie kept the governorship in Democratic hands.
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He handed out essays by Russell Kirk, the influential conservative writer, to his staff at the start of his governorship.
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Gretchen Whitmer has dedicated much of her governorship on environmental causes — particularly on water quality following the Flint water crisis.
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Casey Cagle, left, and Secretary of State Brian Kemp are locked in a bruising primary battle for the state's governorship.
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He is said to have designs on higher office, including Oklahoma's governorship or one of the state's U.S. Senate seats.
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Republicans kept control of the governorship and the statehouse, he pointed out, enabling them to advance anti-abortion policies locally.
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The party also came close to winning the governorship when Stacey Abrams lost in a close race to Republican Gov.
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But after that 1947 law, Puerto Rican voters elected Luis Muñoz Marín to begin what would become a transformative governorship.
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She would lose re-election in 1994 to George W. Bush, ending generations of Democratic dominance of the Texas governorship.
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In Ohio, where the governorship and a Senate seat are on this year's ballot, another steel mill could soon reopen.
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Now, the former businessman is setting his sights on the governorship of West Java province, of which Bandung is capital.
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"Assemblyman Wiz," as he's known, will have a difficult primary before attempting to win back the governorship from the GOP.
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In her pursuit of the governorship in Georgia in 2018, Stacey Abrams improved by a modest 3.7 points over Mrs.
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George W. Bush was not (he'd spent six years in a "very limited governorship" and depended on his "family connections").
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Richard Nixon, after losing his bid for the White House in 1960, lost a race for California's governorship in 85033.
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Almost half the population lived in states with Republican "trifectas," that is, G.O.P. control of both houses plus the governorship.
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This means that the Illinois governorship is, perhaps by far, the most likely gubernatorial pickup opportunity for Democrats this November.
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Texas is a Republican trifecta, meaning Republicans hold the governorship as well as majorities in both of the state's legislative chambers.
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Wallace left office in 22006 — but the governorship went to his wife, to whom he served as the de-facto governor.
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In Oregon, for example, former NBA player Chris Dudley, a Republican, came within a point of winning the governorship in 2270.
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But while Florida is viewed as hyper-competitive in presidential elections, Republicans have won the governorship in every election since 1994.
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After Mr Joko, or Jokowi, ran for president and won by a landslide two years ago, Ahok assumed the Jakarta governorship.
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Trump might just be a disastrous enough candidate to hand Democrats a governorship and a second senator in bright-red Indiana.
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Things were fine between them until 1980, when Bill Clinton lost the governorship of Arkansas and Jimmy Carter lost the presidency.
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Vice President Mike Pence signed the country's first state religious freedom bill into law in Indiana during his governorship in 2015.
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Like the Clean Power Plan last year, the fate of McAuliffe's climate rule could come down to who wins the governorship.
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Reports had circulated in late-January that Trump was considering businessman and former presidential candidate Hermain Cain for a Fed governorship.
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But Palin's star quickly faded after her ticket lost the election and, months later, she resigned from the governorship of Alaska.
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Gavin Newsom wins the California governorship in November, he would instantly become a potential future competitor, though most likely after 2020.
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Josh Romney, the son of 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is seriously weighing a bid for Utah's governorship in 2020.
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Rivera Schatz led the political blockade against Pierluisi's appointment last week, and the judicial contest against his governorship as of Monday.
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Sanford never resigned the governorship, won election to Congress in 2013 and didn't even face a general election challenger in 2014.
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Democrats also have a strong chance to win the governorship in Nevada, though their candidates trail badly in Arizona and Texas.
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Mr. Williams ran a progressive campaign promising to challenge whomever wins the governorship, rather than acquiescing in the largely ceremonial position.
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Puerto Rico's constitution lays out a line of succession for the governorship, which placed Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez next in line.
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Democrats control the legislature and governorship in 14 states and Washington, DC, representing more than a third of the country's population.
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Six target states are currently under full Republican control, with Democrats locked out of both the governorship and state legislative majorities.
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After Alexander won the Tennessee governorship in 1978, the outgoing Democratic governor began accepting payments in exchange for pardoning convicted criminals.
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If he is convicted he will most likely be required to resign from the governorship and potentially spend years in prison.
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For the first time in his governorship, Scott has seen an extended period of positive net approval (approval minus disapproval) ratings.
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"It's a difficult question," said Christopher Whalen, head of Whalen Global Advisors and himself once rumored for a Fed governorship appointment.
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Polls show they stand a decent chance of winning back the governor's mansion in New Jersey and holding the Virginia governorship.
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Democrats have power in the Assembly and the governorship, but Republicans will maintain their one-vote majority in the state Senate.
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And if that's good enough for the governorship of Texas or California, why not for the presidency of the United States?
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Mr. Wilder, a grandson of slaves, won the governorship in the onetime capital of the Confederacy with 50.19 percent of the vote.
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The Democrat, who assumed office in 2015 after the then-governor resigned, became the first openly LGBTQ politician elected to a governorship.
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Carmichael is likely to contest Justice for the governorship in the near future, and his opposition likely relates to his political ambitions.
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McMaster got the governorship only after Trump elevated Haley to the United Nations and has been dogged with corruption claims ever since.
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And Georgia is a much different state than it was in 1990 when Zell Miller won the governorship as a conservative Democrat.
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Nicolas Petro, son of left-wing 2018 presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, was in a distant second for the governorship of Atlantico province.
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Under Mr Ávila's governorship there has been no improvement in the quality of life, says Eduardo Garduño of the state's Autonomous University.
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It remains to be seen whether Perry will go down in history for his governorship, failed presidential campaigns or his Cha Cha.
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Just a month into his governorship of the nation's most populous state, Newsom has sparred with Trump on immigration and other issues.
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Nonetheless Moreira was viewed as a sharp political operator and in 2011 resigned the governorship to become national president of the PRI.
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In 2014, he won the Maryland governorship at age 58 — and within months received a diagnosis of Stage 3 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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With so much at stake, many previous governorship elections have been marred by violence including shootings and armed gangs snatching ballot boxes.
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In 2014 he won the Maryland governorship at age 274 - and within months received a diagnosis of Stage 2410 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Spitzer, as a Democrat, was a rising star in national politics when he resigned the governorship in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal.
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Mr. Yunes Linares, who is trying to break the rival party's 87-year hold on the state's governorship, has denied the charges.
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At the DeploraBall, Patterson told me that the Republicans can win the governorship and then, two years later, deliver Colorado to Trump.
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Ralph Northam (D) won the Virginia governorship by a wider-than-expected margin, even with Democrats fretting about his late campaign strategy.
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Democrats won two Senate seats (including a special election) and the governorship, and the exit poll put Trump's approval at just 248%.
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Mr. Pence's vice-presidential aspirations have developed to the point where Republicans have begun preparing for his departure from the Indiana governorship.
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They flipped the New Jersey governorship and Washington state senate from Republican to Democratic control, leaving both states under unified Democratic governance.
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Democrats swept New Mexico in the 2018 mid-term elections, winning control of the governorship, the state legislature and the congressional delegation.
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A number of races continued to hang in the balance late in the small morning hours, among them the governorship of Wisconsin.
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This time the purpose wasn't disaster relief, but radically reducing the power of the governorship that Cooper was about to take over.
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The verdict is a nadir in Mr. Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.
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That year, he narrowly won the state's lieutenant governorship, and four years later he was elected governor in a highly competitive race.
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As of this month, Democrats have a "trifecta" in the state, with control over the governorship and both houses of the legislature.
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Mr. McMaster ascended to the governorship last year when Mr. Trump appointed Nikki R. Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations.
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Prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro had already been looking into Mr. Soares's businesses as part of corruption inquiries into the Cabral governorship.
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Beyond the presidential race in 2020, the governorship will be on the ballot, as well the Senate seat held by Thom Tillis.
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Democrats swept New Mexico in the 2018 mid-term elections, winning control of the governorship, the state legislature and the congressional delegation.
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Arkansas Democrats suffered a precipitous decline in the Obama years, losing the governorship, both Senate seats and control of the state legislature.
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Acknowledging the unusual circumstances under which he will assume the governorship, Parson held a private prayer service before being sworn in Friday.
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If younger voters and African-Americans turn out in sufficient numbers to swing those counties and cities, Northam will win the governorship.
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And Christine Hallquist, a Democrat from Vermont, made history by becoming the first transgender candidate nominated for governorship by a major party.
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"It was a rejection of his governorship," said Patrick R. Miller, a political-science professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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All 435 seats in the House, 35 seats in the 100-member Senate and 103 of the 50 state governorship were at stake.
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For anyone committed to resisting extremism in the coming Trump years, McCrory's failed one-term governorship is a case study worthy of attention.
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Saakashvili was Georgia&aposs president from 2004 to 2013, and later was given a governorship in Ukraine by then-ally President Petro Poroshenko.
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Jared Polis is making his bid for the Colorado governorship, and Maryland and Oklahoma will also be weighing tight contests for governors' mansions.
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Before the 22010 elections, Republican "trifectas"—control over the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature—were present in just nine states.
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But she is now focused on the Democratic candidate winning Florida's governorship, which has been in Republican hands for more than two decades.
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It has become a battleground state at the presidential level, and control of the governorship has swung back and forth between the parties.
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His governorship was hit hard by the great recession, which led to massive budget shortfalls and standoffs with the Republican-led General Assembly.
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Walkouts crossed a political divide when they spread to Colorado, where Democrats control the governorship and lower house and Republicans hold the senate.
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Vázquez, who previously said she did not want the position, tweeted on Thursday that if the time comes, she would assume the governorship.
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Still, Bergeson thinks closing the governorship to candidates who may or may not be old enough to drive is a bunch of bullshit.
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All 120 seats of the New Jersey Legislature are up for grabs in November, along with the governorship currently held by Republican Gov.
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Sheila Oliver won New Jersey's lieutenant governorship on Tuesday night, becoming the first black woman ever elected to the post in the state .
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Holder told the newspaper the group will home in on the "trifecta" states where Republicans control both the governorship and entire state legislature.
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Long-serving politician Marco is currently running for the governorship of Ilocos Norte, the family's traditional stronghold in the northeast of the country.
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Democrats seized the governorship from Republicans in Wisconsin, once a laboratory for conservative policymaking, but have so far struggled to get things done.
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Democrats have held the governorship for just 12 of the last 50 years, and Republicans now control both of the state's Senate seats.
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Nick Ayers, a senior adviser to Vice President Pence, is considering a bid for the Georgia governorship, according to a Wednesday Politico report.
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Likewise, the party sees improving prospects in a couple of southern states — Georgia and especially North Carolina, where they now hold the governorship.
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During his governorship, the married father of four was engulfed in a scandal after having secretly traveled to Argentina to meet a mistress.
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In Kansas, the controversial secretary of state, Kris Kobach, may still win the governorship because of a third-party candidate in the race.
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They're men like Eliot Spitzer, who forfeited the governorship in a prostitution scandal but somehow had to run for city comptroller in 2013.
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Mr. DeSantis ultimately won the governorship by a tiny margin, but Mr. Trump criticized him bitterly in the final days of the race.
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But they're up against Trump-endorsed Republican incumbents, for the House district based in Staten Island and the governorship of South Carolina, respectively.
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One of the signal moments in Mr. Deukmejian's governorship came in 1989, after a gunman killed five elementary school children in Stockton, Calif.
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The job is considered far less influential than the governorship, a position that includes a seat on the European Central Bank's governing council.
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The good news for Justin is that this moves him up to fourth in the line of succession for the governorship of Virginia.
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Meanwhile, Rispone's defeat keeps Democrats in control of the governorship in Louisiana, while Republicans fell short of a supermajority in the state House.
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Republicans currently enjoy veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate, and the North Carolina governorship is historically a relatively weak office.
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Minnesota Democrats, who insist that they do not plan to gerrymander, control the governorship and House, and are optimistic about flipping the Senate.
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Minnesota Democrats, who insist that they do not plan to gerrymander, control the governorship and House, and are optimistic about flipping the Senate.
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Yet turnout was 48 percent in 213, a year after Trump's election, when Democrat Ralph Northam won the governorship over Republican Ed Gillespie.
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Democrat Phil Murphy won the governorship last November, and now several GOP-held congressional districts are among Democrats' top targets in the country.
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The House Ways and Means Committee will undergo significant changes as several key Republicans depart due to retirements, election losses and a governorship.
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Republicans control the governorship and legislature in 183 states and so far have been relatively successful in pushing through the more restrictive laws.
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DeVos was also previously the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, and her husband, Dick DeVos, ran unsuccessfully for the state's governorship in 2006.
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Walker Stapleton speaks after he won the Republican nomination to run for Colorado's governorship during an election night watch party in Greenwood Village, Colo.
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A month into Ducey's governorship, he met with Uber Senior Vice President David Plouffe and Uber's head of policies for the Americas, Justin Kintz.
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If he is not ratified then the second in line, the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico, will take over the governorship, he said.
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In his first public appearance after losing the Wisconsin governorship he had held for eight years, Scott Walker was asked about the Baraboo photo.
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They also defeated Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration hard-liner close to Mr Trump, in deep-red Kansas, and won the governorship of Nevada.
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After Jokowi assumed the presidency a Christian also known as Ahok, or Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, took over the his post in the Jakarta governorship.
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Bolton made his appearance there just days before U.S. congressional elections that include close races for a Senate seat and the governorship in Florida.
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Republicans dominated in the 2010 elections in Pennsylvania, winning control of the governorship and the state house, and holding on to the state senate.
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If Herring, Fairfax, and Northam all stepped down, the governorship would pass to the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Republican Kirk Cox.
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With so much at stake, previous governorship elections have been marred by violence including shootings and the snatching of ballot boxes by armed gangs.
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At least 41 people were detained by the authorities, according to organizers of the event, which had been banned Saturday by the Istanbul governorship.
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"All the King's Men," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, details the rise and governorship of a Long-like politician named Willie Stark.
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Democrats and Republicans have traded control of the governorship since the 1980s, when Jim Blanchard (D) succeeded William Milliken (R) in the executive mansion.
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It's not the first time Pruitt reportedly has eyed a higher office, whether it be a governorship, a Senate seat, or even the presidency.
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One candidate running for the governorship of Georgia has been riding on a "Deportation Bus" to demonstrate his support for kicking out undocumented immigrants.
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Look no further than Kris Kobach, the current Kansas secretary of state who is currently locked in a tight race for the governorship there.
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He also challenged the state legislature's decision to make the governorship a two-year term to synchronize state elections with federal election in 2021.
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The charges overlap with an FBI investigation that haunted Gillum's campaign for the governorship, which he ultimately lost to Republican Ron DeSantis in November.
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Purnama, Jakarta's first ethnic Chinese and Christian leader, took over the Jakarta governorship from Widodo after he became president in the 2014 general election.
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And if these are the effects we see for more obscure offices like the governorship or legislatures, imagine what electing a president could do.
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Whoever wins the primary is almost guaranteed to sail to the governorship, which is why this primary race has become so contested — and expensive.
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In New Jersey the pattern started later, but in every election since 1989, the party out of the White House has captured the governorship.
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Despite Democrats in Oregon controlling both state chambers and the governorship, Republicans had the numbers to deny the necessary quorum to approve the legislation.
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In North Carolina, after Republicans lost the governorship in 2016, they went so far as to strip the office of some of its authority.
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Two other men, David Paterson of New York and P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana, were elevated into the governorship while serving terms as lieutenant governor.
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"It's going to be pretty hard to say we're just going to have a normal governorship for the next three years," Mr. Cox said.
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Virginians overwhelmingly support Medicaid expansion; last fall, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governorship by a landslide after a campaign largely focused on health care.
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Republicans on Tuesday did lose the governorship of Michigan, and they failed to win races for governor and the United States Senate in Pennsylvania.
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Or Meg Whitman, who plowed $193 million of her fortune into campaigning for California governorship in 219 and still lost to Democrat Jerry Brown.
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This year, control of Florida's governorship, the State Senate, several congressional seats and a United States Senate seat are expected to be intensely contested.
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Between the UN Ambassadorship and serving in the South Carolina Governorship and General Assembly, I have been in public office for fourteen straight years.
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The governorship The Democratic primary is a race between Stacey Abrams, a former minority leader of the Georgia House, and State Representative Stacey Evans.
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After I left the governorship, following up on the agreement that I really made in China before, we have forged this new joint institute.
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As of earlier this year, Democrats have a "trifecta" in the state, with control over the governorship and both houses of the legislature. Gov.
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Mr. Brown, 79, is entering the final 18 months of his governorship and has made battling climate change a central part of his agenda.
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He dipped into his wealth to help finance his campaigns, winning the governorship in 2010 and 2014 by about 1 percent of the vote.
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But he still has a year left in office, unless he should vacate the governorship early to accept a post in the Trump administration.
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Democrats' realistic best-case scenario to get a seat at the table in any GOP-dominated state may be winning just one race: the governorship.
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Brown is departing the governorship as California is forecast to have about $14 billion in the state's rainy day fund, and several billions in surplus.
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Under Perry's governorship, Texas led the nation in carbon dioxide emissions, pumping out almost as much CO2 in 2005 as the entire country of Canada .
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But the governorship was a springboard to the presidency for Jokowi, and Mr Prabowo may yet tap one of the pair as his running-mate.
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Between the lines: Here's Fairfax's response when asked whether allies of embattled Northam were behind efforts to block his possible ascension to the state's governorship.
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In 1931, during Norman's long governorship, the bank's insistence on public spending cuts to maintain the gold standard caused the collapse of a Labour government.
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The daughter of immigrants from India, Haley served three terms in South Carolina's State House before winning the governorship in 2010 and again in 2014.
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His approval rating was just over 50% when he left the governorship—a job he loved and is not ruling out seeking again in 2021.
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However, similar falsehoods did not prevent Ridwan Kamil, the modernising mayor of Bandung, from winning the governorship of West Java, a province of 47m people.
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This puts Mr Gillespie in a tricky position: to win the governorship, he needs solid support from Republicans and the backing of election-deciding independents.
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"If I am not ratified then the second in line, the secretary of justice of Puerto Rico, will take over the governorship," Pierluisi told reporters.
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If all three officials step down, the third in line to the governorship would be Kirk Cox, the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates.
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The number of states where Democrats control both the governorship and the state legislature has been cut to 7 — the fewest since the Civil War.
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Newsom, 51, California's lieutenant governor since 2011, defeated Republican challenger John Cox for the governorship of the nation's most populous state, according to NBC News.
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"We must break Wall Street's choke hold on state finance and develop our own state bank," Newsom said last year prior to winning the governorship.
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Stacey Abrams said Monday that she is mulling another possible bid for Georgia's governorship in 85033 or one of the state's Senate seats in 2020.
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If in the unlikely event all three Democrats resign, the governorship would fall to Republican Kirk Cox, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Mike Hayden (R) on Thursday joined the ranks of Kansas Republican leaders endorsing Democrat Laura Kelly's run for the state's governorship over Republican Kris Kobach.
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Two African-Americans in red states, the reddest of states, rising to the top, and could possibly wind up getting the governorship of these states.
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The results of the poll align with other recent polls, which have shown Brown with a slight edge in the race to maintain the governorship.
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If Democrats can win the governorship in Illinois and maintain control in the state legislature, they could create a truly liberal stronghold in the Midwest.
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This is a marked reversal from 30 years ago, when the Democrats' loss of the governorship was attributed to Republican attacks on proposed handgun controls.
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But Ms. Bergenty has not forgotten the governorship, especially in a year when the incumbent, Dannel P. Malloy, has decided not to seek re-election.
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Mr. Moreno Valle won the governorship of Puebla in 2010 and rose to become a powerful leader, close to Mexico's former president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Turnout in Florida — which had competitive races for both the Senate and the governorship — increased less than in other places, though still significantly: 57 percent.
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In December 2016, a few weeks after the election of Democratic governor Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Republican legislative leaders significantly weakened the state's governorship.
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This owes much to his swashbuckling bravado and the fact that he won the governorship as an independent by a landslide, and against all odds.
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He is in survival mode, telephoning scores of legislators and donors in a furious scramble to contain the damage and hold on to the governorship.
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In New Jersey, Philip D. Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, won the governorship by a vast margin that brought an unceremonious end to Gov.
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In other words, there is no "pivot" at work in the presidency, in the mold of Arnold Schwarzenegger's leftward turn during his governorship of California.
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Democrats are vying for Republican-held congressional seats, the governorship is up for grabs, and the veteran senator Dianne Feinstein is running for re-election.
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The Indiana emergency peaked during Pence's governorship, when public health officials noticed a cluster of HIV and hepatitis C in rural Indiana around November 2014.
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A ballot measure that would have severely restricted fracking in Colorado failed last year, despite Democrats winning the governorship and majorities in both state houses.
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Right now, there are 25 states in which Republicans control the whole government — the governorship and the legislature — versus just six wholly controlled by Democrats.
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The party out of power in the White House has won the governorship in Virginia every election since 1977 – the only exception being current Gov.
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If Republicans cannot pivot toward the political center, they may offer Democrats an opening to win the governorship for the first time in two decades.
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Election Day 2017 couldn't have gone much better for the party, which won victories from coast to coast including the day's top prize: Virginia's governorship.
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Trump won it easily in 2016, but the state split last year, with Democrats flipping two battleground House seats while Republicans narrowly retained the governorship.
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A ballot measure that would have severely restricted fracking in Colorado failed last year, despite Democrats winning the governorship and majorities in both state houses.
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In 85003, Democrats have a chance to put Nevada solidly in the blue column if they can win an open-seat governorship and defeat Sen.
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Tim Pawlenty's (R) bid to retake the governorship, hoping that a tighter race for governor drives Republicans to the polls for their Senate candidate, too.
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If he lost his home state, people argued he could kiss goodbye any chance of winning Florida's governorship — or running for the White House again.
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Kraft will ultimately avoid jail time after his lawyers convince a judge that he is in the line of succession for the governorship of Virginia.
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In 2012 the national legislature passed a law permitting the sultan to "inherit" the governorship, and reclaim land that had traditionally belonged to the sultanate.
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But a Northam loss would be a major setback for Democrats, who currently hold the governorship and won the state in the 28500 presidential race.
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In the nearly two weeks since his governorship was upended by revelations that he had a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page, Gov.
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And that's when Ms. Wallace met Sarah Palin, who was plucked from the relative obscurity of the Alaska governorship to be Mr. McCain's running mate.
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Women candidates have been responsible for some of this year's biggest upsets, won historic governorship nominations, and played a key role in questioning establishment politics.
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More prosaically, an attorney general or an insurance commissioner is someone who could be a good future candidate for a Senate seat or a governorship.
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In Georgia Stacey Abrams acknowledged that her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, had won the governorship, but claimed that the election had been neither free nor fair.
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The jackpot: If one party ends up in control of the state House, the state Senate and the governorship at redistricting time, they've hit the jackpot.
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Christie is in the last year of his governorship and had been expected to land a top administration job when Trump won, such as attorney general.
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Ahok is a longtime ally of the Indonesian leader's, becoming his running mate in the 2012 Jakarta election and assuming the governorship after Joko stepped down.
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Beyond determining the governorship, it will decide whether Nelson returns to Washington for a fourth term or whether Republicans will pad their majority in the Senate.
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This proved no roadblock for either Obama or Clinton, as they parlayed a brief time in the Senate or a governorship of Arkansas into presidential material.
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That added to gains seen Monday after the ruling party managed to hold onto the governorship in the populous State of Mexico, according to preliminary results.
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If Murphy wins this race, it will be show of just how toxic Christie's governorship — and perhaps even Donald Trump's presidency — became in the Garden State.
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THROUGHOUT his 24-year tenure as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio repeatedly suggested that he would run for higher office, usually the governorship.
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This time round, given the deep distaste for Donald Trump, Democrats in Virginia want to believe the governorship is theirs for the taking on November 7th.
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It's hard to dispute he has the experience for the job — but then again, Spitzer resigned the governorship when he was caught in a prostitution scandal.
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But his concessions failed to appease demonstrators on Monday, who called for him to immediately surrender the governorship in the latest scandal to hit Puerto Rico.
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Mayoral and governorship elections are due anyway this year, but Maduro has said repeatedly he will not cut short his presidential term ending in January 2019.
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"Obeying the laws of the land, living up to the duties of the office and defending the Constitution is the foundation of my governorship," McCrory said.
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Previous governorship elections in Rivers and other parts of Nigeria have been marred by violence, including shootings and the snatching of ballot boxes by armed gangs.
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In 33 states, the Republican Party controls the governorship and has majority representation in both chambers of most state legislatures, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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Danny Tamaki, the son of a U.S. Marine and Japanese mother, won Okinawa's governorship Sunday on a platform opposing the U.S. base relocation on the island.
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Here are excerpts from the interview, translated from Dari: On rumors of a deal to leave the governorship: I have not received any messages about that.
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He had lost a bid for the governorship in 1966, when he was a state senator, in part for appearing insufficiently conservative on matters of race.
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At the time of his governorship, Patrick was part of a political sphere that included longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who served from 1993 until 2014.
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Plus, when Democrats have won the Virginia governorship (in 2001, 2005 and 2013) the races have been close (five points, six points and three points, respectively).
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If the Senate votes no, Pierluisi said, he will step down and hand the governorship to the justice secretary, the next in line under the constitution.
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Republicans have won the governorship just once since the turn of the century, and polls show the current gubernatorial contest tilting toward Democratic nominee Ralph Northam.
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After losing the governorship to Democrat Laura Kelly in 2018, Kobach expressed interest in running for the state's Senate seat, which is up in 2020. Sen.
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He was the last Republican to win Minnesota's governorship and is seeking to replace Democrat Mark Dayton, who is retiring after holding the seat since 2011.
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Foremost in the minds of party leaders is whether Rosselló's successor can help them retain the governorship when it comes up for grabs in November 2020.
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Victories in 2018 could help them contest the state in 693, and winning the governorship could give Democrats a hand in the drawing of congressional maps.
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But there's more at stake in the state than just the governorship — all 100 seats in Virginia's House of Delegates will be on the ballot too.
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The strategy, which he defines as "just a euphemism for the politics of white identity," is a key to understanding why Mr. Gillespie lost the governorship.
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But the last few weeks have been a revelation for DeWine's doubters and vindication for those who believed his governorship could be more than a capstone.
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Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) -- who is leaving Congress to run for his state's governorship -- wrote a $250,000 check to the party committee during an altar call.
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The editorial board pushed him on his late entry into the race, his moderate proposals for America's varied crises and the lingering scandals from his governorship.
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His main agenda item, combating the opioid epidemic plaguing his state and the country, is one he addressed during his 2009 initial run at the governorship.
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A December poll found that 71 percent of New Jersey residents thought Christie should be a defendant in the "Bridgegate" scandal that has plagued his governorship.
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The foundation has collaborated with businesses to create centers for entrepreneurship, works with global leaders to promote good governorship and spotlights the effects of climate change.
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And while Republicans are favored to hold the governorship in Mississippi next month, Democratic state Attorney General Jim Hood is considered Democrats' strongest candidate in decades.
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They control both the governorship and the legislature in 21625 states, as opposed to only 2900 states where Democrats control both the executive and legislative branches.
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"There's a saying in Georgia: 'So goes Gwinnett County, so goes the governorship'," Gabe Okoye, chairman of the Democratic Party in Gwinnett County, told VICE News.
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But Strickland, who narrowly lost his governorship to John Kasich in 2010, is well-known in the state and neck and neck with Portman in polls.
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Cuomo, a two-term incumbent with potential political ambitions beyond the governorship, is a skilled operator hailing from one of New York's most famous political families.
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MORENA was also seen winning the governorship in Baja California with between 53.8% and 57.2% of votes, according to an exit poll published by Consulta Mitofsky.
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Raimondo campaigned on her fiscal management efforts as state treasurer to win the governorship in 2014, but some of the measures have since stirred a backlash.
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There are plenty of other offices and positions he could seek — A California governorship wouldn't be out of the question, nor would a White House Cabinet position.
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Even in an extremely favorable election for Republicans, he was narrowly defeated, though he returned to win the governorship in 1998 and was re-elected in 2002.
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That means Democrats' realistic best-case scenario to get a seat at the table in any GOP-dominated state may be winning just one race: the governorship.
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Whoever wins the Jakarta governorship would have a high-profile platform from which to challenge Joko in 2019 -- or be an invaluable ally to whoever does run.
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However, goodwill from Mr Kaine's governorship, which ended in 2010, and a weak Republican nominee, allowed him to run more than 200,000 votes ahead of the president.
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Instead they called a special session of the General Assembly, in which they summarily diluted the power of the governorship before Mr Cooper assumes it in January.
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Indiana, too, decisively voted for Trump, and although Vice President Mike Pence was not particularly popular when he left the governorship there, it is his home state.
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Early in his governorship he survived a recall election that pitted furious city-dwelling voters against Republicans mostly in small towns and villages spread around the state.
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Democrat Steve Sisolak won the governorship of Nevada after announcing his support of a ballot initiative that would mandate Nevada use 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.
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Unh-unh. Georgia has not elected a Democrat to its governorship or the Senate in almost 20 years, and that shows little sign of changing this year.
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The success of his governorship will be judged by how much he can relieve the primary reason for residents' economic struggles, which is the cost of housing.
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The race to replace him should be one of 2018's most competitive gubernatorial elections in the country, giving Democrats a major chance to reclaim a governorship.
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WHEN Elvira Nabiullina took over the governorship of the Russian Central Bank (CBR) in 210, she faced a bloated and leaky finance sector with over 22014 banks.
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Last year Unite America, a political organisation that I founded, supported more than 40 independent candidates in races ranging from state legislatures to the governorship of Alaska.
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Key primary races were also underway in Connecticut, where Republicans hope to snatch yet another governorship in deep-blue New England, as well as Vermont and Wisconsin.
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An avid swimmer and prominent member of the opposition party Justice First, he aspires to run for the Barinas governorship, currently held by a brother of Chavez.
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Following Justice's defection, Republicans will control both the legislature and the governorship in 258 states, with a total of 2195 Republican governors, 243 Democrats, and one independent.
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Polls close: 7 pm Mountain time Democrats are looking to flip both the governorship and one of the state's three congressional districts in this fall's upcoming election.
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D John Hickenlooper He didn't stick to his strongest arguments like he did in the previous debate when he constantly pointed to examples of his successful governorship.
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But he waited to do so until the waning days of his governorship, just two weeks before he was to be replaced by a Republican, Matt Bevin.
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Two top candidates for the Bank of England governorship, Raghuram Rajan and Janet Yellen, have not applied for the role due to the political turmoil surrounding Brexit.
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Another opposition leader won the Zulia governorship in elections last month but was prohibited from taking office for refusing to bow to a pro-Maduro legislative superbody.
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Democrats will have a good chance of holding on to the governorship if they can keep up those turnout levels while Republican voters sit on the sidelines.
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In 1980, her husband lost the Arkansas governorship after his first term in part because, many voters said, she had the temerity to go by Hillary Rodham.
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"What's needed in Puerto Rico is a whole new political system, because the two parties that have dominated the governorship have proven to be corrupt," he said.
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They enter a press conference where he will resign his governorship because of an allegation that he helped one of his donors' sons get off for murder.
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On top of which, many experiences other than lower-level government work can be useful, as Michael Bloomberg's New York mayoralty and Ronald Reagan's California governorship show.
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Haley has a famously poor relationship with the state legislature, one that began with her accountability fight as a House member and dogged her into her governorship.
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That might seem like a small thing, but Democrats are very bad at winning governorships in states where they totally should be able to win the governorship.
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Mr. Kemp went so far as to resign as secretary of state — but only after the election, when he believed he had all-but-secured the governorship.
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Even before Tuesday's voting Republicans had feared that Mr. Kobach's nomination could imperil their hold on the governorship and a pair of congressional seats in November's election.
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Ralph S. Northam, Virginia's lieutenant governor, defeated his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, according to The Associated Press, on Tuesday to keep the state's governorship in Democratic hands.
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But a legal challenge by Senate president Thomas Rivera Schatz, a Rosselló rival who himself has sights on the governorship, had asked island's highest court to intervene.
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Greg Orman, a wealthy businessman who ran as an independent against Senator Pat Roberts in 2014, is also seeking the governorship this year, again as an independent.
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While his party failed to win a governorship in last year's elections, it performed strongly in the three races it contested and won seats in local elections.
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The GOP had controlled the latter two for over a decade and the governorship for eight years, but Democrats won all three offices in this year's midterms.
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Despite Democratic gains in both 2018 and 103, Republicans still have trifectas—control of the governorship and both legislative chambers—in 21 states, versus 15 for Democrats.
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And as the former minority leader in the California Legislature during the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger, McCarthy is experienced in the care and feeding of celebrity egos.
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We got U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks of NY's 5th congressional district on Capitol Hill Tuesday, and asked him to weigh in on Nixon's candidacy for the Governorship.
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In North Carolina, after a Democrat won the governorship, Republicans used the incumbent's final days to pass legislation stripping the governor's office of much of its power.
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The statement by the state prosecutor's office said it found 9mm shells near where Tamayo was killed, taking the total number murdered under Duarte's governorship to 17.
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In state government, it holds complete control of government (the governorship and majorities in all legislative chambers) in 24 states, compared with only six for the Democrats.
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At one point she asks Bush about the number of executions during his governorship of Texas, and he responds by refusing to answer any of her questions.
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The situation is even worse for Democrats when you consider states like Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois, where they control the legislature but not the governorship.
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The contest for the governorship has sent political tension soaring, with rumors of plots to undermine Widodo and scupper his chances of winning a second term in 2019.
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Florida, America's most notorious swing state, is headed for a recount in its major statewide elections for both the Senate and the governorship, where Republicans are narrowly leading.
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On Monday, it released a list of 14 candidates it is supporting who are running for Congress, state legislatures, and the Virginia governorship seat in 2017 and 2018.
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That means that if one party has majorities in both the state House and state Senate, as well as the governorship, they can gerrymander to their heart's content.
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Democrat Ralph Northam won the governorship, and depending on how recounts pan out the party has a shot at retaking the state House of Delegates from the Republicans.
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Mr Northam, a doctor who has described treating children and soldiers for bullet wounds, made gun control a big issue in his campaign for the governorship in 2017.
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Even though Democrats have the clear registration edge, Republicans still hold the governorship, both U.S. Senate seats, and 10 of 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Democrats secured important victories in local and state elections, including the governorship of New Jersey, mayoral posts in North Carolina and New Hampshire and seats in state legislatures.
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Moreira had resigned the governorship in 2011 to become party chairman in the run up to the presidential elections the following year that put Peña Nieto in power.
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Puerto Rico's Constitution holds that the Secretary of State is next in line to the governorship, but Secretary of State Luis Rivera Marin resigned amid the recent protests.
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Republicans control the legislature and the governorship of North Carolina, the nation's ninth most populous state, which has more than 10 million people and 6.7 million registered voters.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger won the governorship of deep-blue California, and would have contended for the presidency if not for the constitutional requirement that candidates be natural-born citizens.
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This Thursday, key New York state offices are on the ballot, featuring a high-wattage Democratic primary for the governorship and an open race for state attorney general.
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That means Braun skipped some of Indiana's most competitive Republican primaries in recent years -- including Mitch Daniels' bid for the governorship in 2004 and, in 2010, both Sen.
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Another 17 are split control, with one party in control of the governorship and the other with a majority in at least one of the state legislative bodies.
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Sisolak, who beat family feud-plagued Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt to win the governorship last year, made the pledge to donate his gubernatorial income in February 2018.
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Colyer served less than a year in office after ascending to the governorship when his predecessor Sam Brownback (R) left to take an ambassadorship in the Trump administration.
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Democrats later captured the governorship and the State Supreme Court, which recently voided the existing district lines and forced an icy standoff between Republican legislative leaders and Gov.
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The proposal is probably dead in the water in Nebraska and South Carolina, but in Oregon and Maine, Democrats control both houses of the legislature and the governorship.
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The key races in the state, which President Trump won by 26 points in 2016, are for the governorship and the Senate seat being vacated by Bob Corker.
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He was referring to his campaigns for the governorship in 2004 and 2008, the first of which he lost by fewer than 200 votes in a third recount.
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Morris noted that with Democrats in control of the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature, Colorado could swiftly move forward with legislation to rename the holiday.
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Jon S. Corzine was also a former executive at the investment bank and spent $43 million of his own money in 2005 to help him win the governorship.
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Since ascending to the governorship after her predecessor quit over an influence-peddling scandal, Brown has pursued arguably the most aggressively liberal agenda of any governor in America.
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A Rhodes Scholar who received a law degree from Yale in 1973, Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general in 1976, going on to win the governorship in 1978.
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Black, who had a shot at becoming Tennessee's first female governor, had forfeited the powerful Budget Committee chair position in the House in her bid for the governorship.
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So the government's capture last week by Brexiteers has injected an interesting element of unpredictability into the race to replace Mark Carney, who vacates the governorship in January.
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Clinton knew politics — he had lost his governorship in 1980 and adjusted his thinking and conduct and came back in 1982 to resume a brilliant political career; 41.
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The union measure was offered as a lightning surprise as the Republicans last month took control of both houses and the governorship for the first time since 1998.
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Meanwhile, Lane was a relative newcomer to the international scene with a much lower profile, having only taken over the governorship of Ireland's Banc Ceannais in late 2015.
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Without a veto override, the state's bond ratings would be sent to junk status, a black mark on his governorship from which it would be difficult to recover.
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During his governorship, Mr. Hickenlooper and Colorado's divided Legislature expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a fact he highlighted as speculation about a possible presidential run increased.
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Then in New York state under the [George] Pataki governorship, a similar legislation was signed which removed the tuition assistance program from access to people who are incarcerated.
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The simultaneous controversies embroiling the top three-elected politicians in the executive branch of Virginia's government raised the unlikely prospect of Democrats losing the governorship to a Republican.
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The shutout: Conversely, the worst-case scenario for a party is to be on the opposite end of a trifecta — winning neither the governorship, state House, or state Senate.
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He said he would leave the finance ministry at an unspecified date between now and May and then have a period off the job to prepare for the governorship.
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He had his eye on the governorship, but Murphy — a very wealthy former Goldman Sachs executive — locked up support in the Democratic primary, and Sweeney didn't end up running.
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For two years, Cooper's governorship has been reduced to two jobs: energize the people of North Carolina around an explicit Republican power grab, and a fight in the courts.
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From 1952 to 1988, Republicans carried the state in nine of 10 presidential elections, held the governorship in the majority of those years and were competitive in congressional contests.
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The states were among four, including Kansas and New Hampshire, where voters broke Republican "trifectas," in which one party holds the governorship and both houses of the state legislature.
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Democratic Senator Bill Nelson from Florida will probably end up losing by fewer than 40,000 voters in the Sunshine State, and the Republican candidate, Ron DeSantis, won the governorship.
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African American Republicans had occupied the Grant Parish, Louisiana courthouse in order to preserve the results of the 1872 gubernatorial election, which had elevated a Republican to the governorship.
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And while everyone knows Texas is a red state—both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship are Republican—it's increasingly clear that it should probably be purple.
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In North Carolina, for example, the "Fusion" party of black and white farmers seized control, winning a majority of the state legislature in 85033, and the governorship in 1896.
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But Bailey would not be drawn on his chances of replacing the Canadian, or whether he was interested in the job when asked about the governorship on BBC radio.
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Héctor Yunes Landa, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the governorship of the state, calls his rival, Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, "a pervert, sexually sick".
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Michael Williams (R), who ran a "Deportation Bus Tour" to the state's "sanctuary cities" in his unsuccessful campaign for Georgia's governorship, was indicted this week on insurance fraud charges.
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Democratic voters in Vermont chose Christine Hallquist as their gubernatorial nominee, making her the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for a governorship by a major political party.
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Since the early 1990s, the party has lost the governorship, the entire congressional delegation, and 50 seats in the legislature, leaving the GOP with overwhelming majorities in both chambers.
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The joke became a reality in July: Yevgeny Zinichev, also a former Putin bodyguard, assumed the governorship of Kaliningrad province, an exclave separated from Russia by Poland and Lithuania.
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State Attorney General Mark Herring (D), the second in line to the governorship, admitted that he, too, wore blackface to a party while he was an undergraduate in college.
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" During his campaign for Georgia's governorship, he said he would use the vehicle to find immigrants in the country illegally "to send them back to where they came from.
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In the years after Brown left the governorship, he travelled to Japan, to study Zen Buddhism, and to India, to work with Mother Teresa in caring for the dying.
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The Maine governors with low winning percentages include Angus King, who is now an independent US senator, but won the governorship in 1994 with just 35% of the vote.
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Fairfax would be next line in line for the governorship if Northam resigned, followed by Herring, followed by the Republican Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Kirk Cox.
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Cooper's win over the one-term incumbent marks the only governorship picked up by Democrats nationally, while Republicans added governor seats last month in New Hampshire, Missouri and Vermont.
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Progressives may not win the governorship in 2021 (Northam is term-limited) or 2025, but they are on the path to winning the reins for one of their own.
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But any Republican would likely begin the general election as something of a favorite in Georgia, where no Democrat has won the governorship or a Senate seat since 2000.
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"The governorship isn't a definitive solution, but it's one way to start breaking up" Mr. Maduro's power, said José Manuel Olivares, an opposition candidate in the state of Vargas.
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Democrats here, already holding large majorities in the Legislature, are hoping to be part of a national wave that could return control of the governorship to them as well.
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He gracelessly likened the governorship of his predecessor, George Pataki, to Rip Van Winkle, sleeping the years away — this in his inaugural speech, with Mr. Pataki sitting right there.
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And legislators in Indiana have passed a number of new restrictions on abortion in recent years, both during and after the governorship of Mike Pence, a vocal abortion opponent.
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The phenomenon is especially striking in this heavily Democratic state, where no woman has ever held the governorship and women account for only 26 of the 120 state legislators.
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Republicans won the governorship there, along with every partisan statewide election, save one: the Senate race, in which Sherrod Brown, a populist Democrat, was elected to a third term.
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In Nevada, where Democrats had not won a governor's race since 1994, they captured the governorship and the offices of lieutenant governor, attorney general, state treasurer and state controller.
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In Kansas, Democrats selected Laura Kelly, a state senator, to compete for the governorship in a red state where Republican strife may have created a political opening for Democrats.
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She became the first transgender candidate to be nominated for a governorship by a major party, beating three other candidates in Vermont's Democratic primary, according to The Associated Press.
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But the governorship has passed from party to party, and had been under Democratic control from 2003 until early 2011, a fact mentioned often these days by nervous Republicans.
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Mr. Greitens, whose brief governorship has been consumed with scandal and the threat of impeachment, is to be tried next week on one felony count of invasion of privacy.
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That year, Democrats took back both the US House and Senate, but Republicans easily won the major statewide races in Texas, including the governorship and a US Senate election.
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He easily won re-election in 2006, and Democrats had hoped the goodwill left from his governorship would override the fact that Trump won the state by 26 points.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican seeking the Connecticut governorship conceded the race to his Democratic rival on Wednesday, handing the Democratic party another statehouse win following Tuesday's midterm U.S. election.
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Ralph Northam's supporters were trying to block his ascent to the governorship at a moment when Mr. Northam is besieged by demands that he resign over charges of racism.
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"I have never been in blackface, unequivocal," said Kirk Cox, the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates and the next in line to the governorship after Mr. Herring.
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He has tied his governorship to big infrastructure projects and has spent the new year touring the state, promising a program to equip New York for the next 100 years.
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B John Hickenlooper He may not be the most exciting candidate on stage, but after listening to all his answers, I would have moved to Colorado under his former governorship.
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As many stories on the Virginia scandals have noted, a scenario where Northam, Fairfax, and Herring all step down at once could hand the governorship to Republican Speaker Kirk Cox.
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By contrast, Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, now Abrams' opponent for the governorship, positioned himself as a Trump-loving, Second Amendment supporter with an A+ from the NRA.
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Christine Hallquist, the former boss of a public utility who ran on a progressive message of universal health care and higher minimum wages, won the Democratic nomination for Vermont's governorship.
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But his grandfatherly demeanour and family values shtick, plus a crowded Republican field, helped him to the governorship in 2010; his devoted wife Dianne baked cookies for the campaign team.
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"If the Senate decides to take any type of voting action on my governorship, I will respect the result of such vote," Pierluisi said in a Twitter message on Monday.
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Wednesday's more detailed schedule also listed Trump's meeting with former presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain, whom he is considering for a Federal Reserve governorship, per Bloomberg.
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Since 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the state, Democrats have triumphed in elections in Virginia, taking the governorship, picking up three congressional seats and making stunning gains in the legislature.
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Ahok is an ally of Indonesian President Joko Widodo, also known as Jokowi -- in fact, he was his running mate during Widodo's own successful run for the governorship in 2012.
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Rosselló's resignation with a massive street party The secretary of state would normally be next in line to take over the governorship — but Puerto Rico doesn't have one right now.
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When it comes to the governorship, Democrats have strong momentum on their side, fueled by constituent outcry about the economy and rising crime rates under current, term-limited Republican Gov.
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Bill Clinton took the Democratic nomination and the presidency in 1992, 16 years after his first election as Arkansas' Attorney General and 14 years after he captured the state's governorship.
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And he talked about his hopes of reviving the American dream, which had propelled him, the son of a postman, to the governorship of one of America's most important states.
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Late-night comedy: "Democrats just picked up a governorship in a state as red as Trump's face when he heard about this," Samantha Bee said about the Kentucky governor's race.
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Brian Kemp, who ran for the governorship of Georgia while he was supervising the election in his role as secretary of state, resigned as secretary of state on Thursday morning.
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Fox News rates the gubernatorial race as lean-Republican, but Democrats are hoping to change the governorship back to blue for the first time since 2011 — especially if Kobach wins.
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International Filmmor Women's Film Festival announced that the Governorship of Istanbul banned on Saturday the planned screening of an Armenian-Iranian movie titled 'Yeva' over emergency rule and security concerns.
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Jesse Ventura, of course, who won the governorship of Minnesota out of the blue and served as the catalyst for Keith Ellison's now famous lonely cry that Trump might win.
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Republicans have held total control of the state government since the 2010 election, and Mr. Obama helped encourage Mr. Cordray, also a former state attorney general, to seek the governorship.
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In 1003, the party lost all but one statewide office seat, including the governorship, according to Terry Jones, a professor of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Republicans currently hold the state's House of Representatives, which they wrestled away from Democrats in 2016 — the first time Republicans have taken control of the state House, Senate, and governorship.
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Mr. Ghani has already named a new governor of Balkh Province, but Mr. Noor has said that choosing his own successor is one of his conditions for leaving the governorship.
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But as Ms. Palin answered questions about her campaign and governorship in a television interview, a farmer began casually killing some birds behind her — well within view of the camera.
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First, there's the statement that Kaine accepted expensive gifts during his governorship — which is true, though the specifics are exaggerated by Trump, and also perfectly legal according to Virginia law.
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Whitmer, who won the governorship in 2018 by an 11-point margin, is in a good position to make the case for why her state should turn blue in 2020.
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But the health care initiative implemented by Mitt Romney during his governorship of Massachusetts, which was based on proposals by the conservative Heritage Foundation, effectively put that concern to rest.
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A solid small-government conservative, for whom a big future was once predicted, he is now best-known for the calamitous denouement to his governorship and marriage a decade ago.
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And he faces a looming threat to his governorship from the Missouri General Assembly, which has scheduled a special session on Friday that could lead to a vote on impeachment.
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Jones's win comes about a month after Democrats swept to a similarly stunning victory in Virginia, where they won the governorship and gained seats in the state's House of Delegates.
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For another, they actually believe they can win this time in the state's top races — for the governorship, in a Senate contest and perhaps in a House battleground or two.
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Some moderates, including Ms. Sink, say flatly that Democrats would have won the governorship had they nominated former Representative Gwen Graham, who narrowly lost to Mr. Gillum in the primary.
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I want to talk about where things are going, because if you win the governorship you've got to be thinking about a lot of big issues around economic development, obviously.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Six foreign nationals were taken into custody in an overnight raid against Islamic State in the central Anatolian city of Konya, a statement from its governorship said on Saturday.
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For one possibility, we can look toward New Jersey, where the blue wave came one year early — when Democrat Phil Murphy won the governorship after Chris Christie's eight years in office.
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"I have never seen this level of intimidation by the state against the electorate," 71-year-old Senator Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, an Odinga ally running for Kisumu county governorship, told Reuters.
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Her departure cleared the way for McMaster in early 2017 to ascend to the governorship he had sought since losing a bruising primary to none other than Haley seven years earlier.
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Together with their statehouse majorities, the GOP controls both legislative chambers and the governorship in 25 states; Democrats have all three in eight states; and 16 states have split party control.
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Whitmer came out of a competitive primary to defeat Republican state Attorney General Bill Schuette for the governorship in Michigan, a state that Trump carried by a thin margin in 2016.
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That meant that if one party controlled the governorship and both chambers of the legislature, they could more or less gerrymander to their hearts' content, which Republicans did last time around.
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UNTIL November, the rise of a former professional wrestler and talk-radio host, Jesse Ventura, to the governorship of Minnesota was perhaps the most unlikely tale in recent American political history.
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The spot implies that Kasich awarded the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax breaks because they paid him money before he won the governorship -- which has not been proven.
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Vazquez, who last week initially expressed an unwillingness to assume Puerto Rico's top government office, said on Wednesday she will assume the governorship under the succession plan in Puerto Rico's constitution.
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Since Pearce, the district's current representative, is pursuing the governorship, the seat is up for grabs and being targeted by Democrats as part of their efforts to regain the House majority.
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Franklin Roosevelt similarly won the White House in 1932, 22 years after his first election to the New York state senate, but only four years after he captured the state's governorship.
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Steyer's efforts are credited with helping Democrats make inroads in swing states and conservative areas, and his involvement helped propel Andrew Gillum's insurgent albeit unsuccessful campaign for Florida's governorship last year.
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Since the Republicans captured the legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, there's been an onslaught of conservative changes, from stricter voter laws to looser gun laws to overhauling taxes.
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Before Maine, the most recent state to authorize expansion was Lousiana, almost two years ago, when Democrat John Bel Edwards took the governorship and quickly signed an executive order doing so.
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As Patrick weighs a run for the Presidency, he is confronting widespread dismay that, of all the places he could have chosen to work after his governorship, he chose that one.
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The Banking panel hosted Trump's nominees for chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a Federal Reserve governorship and the Financial Stability Oversight Council's (FSOC) member from the insurance industry.
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Ms. Raimondo, a 47-year-old former venture-capital executive, is one of just two female Democratic governors, and the only one who originally won the governorship in her own right.
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Christie, who is not eligible to run for a third term, won the governorship in 2009, when he beat one-term Democrat Jon Corzine, also formerly of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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In Ohio, that will mean pursuing not only the governorship but also the offices of state auditor and secretary of state, both of which play a role in shaping legislative maps.
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Fischbach views her elevation to the lieutenant governorship as essentially a dirty pool play by Minnesota Democrats to create a vacancy, so she has refused to relinquish her state Senate seat.
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Since Republicans swept to control of the North Carolina Legislature and the governorship in 2010 and 2012, the state has become ground zero for struggles over election rules and voting rights.
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Ms. Whitmer was not one of the surprising, insurgent Democratic nominees for governor this cycle, as her campaign for Michigan's governorship was flush with money and key endorsements from the outset.
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And they are dominant to an extent that Democrats can only envy, having captured both the governorship and the legislature in 26 states, a monopoly that Democrats claim in only eight.
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He is a man who understands hard work, which is evident by his success in business, with the Olympics, and also as a politician from the Massachusetts statehouse to the governorship.
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Republicans have top-to-bottom control in 25 states now, holding both the governorship and the entire legislature, and Republican lawmakers are acting with lightning speed to enact longstanding conservative priorities.
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Amendment 4 was also a bipartisan success, passing with more than 64 percent of the vote in the same year that Republicans won both the governorship and a key Senate seat.
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A former chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, Mr. Jones said Republicans would imperil their hold on the governorship if they did not address voters' alarm about properly funding public services.
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Collins, who earlier on Friday announced she was staying in the Senate and would not seek her state's governorship, said the payments were important in helping the poor get health insurance.
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Even if Mr. Cooper was to succeed in beating back these efforts to weaken the governorship, he would assume power with Republican veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate.
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The journalist Jonathan Rauch has noted that candidates typically have fourteen years from the time they are elected to a major public office—the Senate, a governorship—to achieve the Presidency.
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Bill Clinton was able to rise from a small-state governorship to the presidency — in a race with a Republican incumbent — by concentrating on New Hampshire early in the 1992 contest.
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Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont were among the potential Democratic presidential candidates who posted hopefully about the possibility of a Fairfax governorship.
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Polling firm Consulta Mitofsky also predicted that Morena would win the governorship of Baja California, in elections that are seen as a test of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's popularity.
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Despite the Democratic Party's current zero tolerance for bigotry and sexual misconduct, Democrats might be motivated to rally behind Northam if faced with the prospect of Republicans suddenly assuming the governorship.
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As for the governorship, where Walker is running for a third term, the Democratic field is currently inchoate — no candidate polled higher than 18 percent in a recent Marquette primary poll.
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And even gaining partial control of a Republican-dominated state — the governorship, the state House, or state Senate — would have a similar effect, for Democrats, of winning a house of Congress.
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But even as Mr. Zeigler insisted that the renovation was wasteful, he said his hostility toward a benefit of the governorship had not been universally welcomed: His wife backed Mr. Bentley's plan.
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With every state legislature seat and a governorship up for grabs, Aquino says there's a real opportunity to create a more lasting political statement than standing in the street with a sign.
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Even in a red state like Kansas, which Trump won by 20 points in 2016, one of Trump's closest allies, Kris Kobach, lost the governorship and the party lost two House seats.
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You have to ignore the fact that, in North Carolina, the Democratic Party won the state's governorship on the strength of a movement rooted in black churches and tied to religious leadership.
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He was first elected to Congress as part of the 20203 Republican Revolution, where he was named the most fiscally conservative member of the chamber; then to South Carolina's governorship in 2002.
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Republicans also control the Senate and governorship, and with their new power, they are expected to push for a number of tax-cut proposals, versions of which Democrats blocked in the past.
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Should Edwards secure more than 50 percent of the vote, he will retain his governorship; however, if he gets less, he will enter a runoff election against whoever is in second place.
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If Democrats want to break the trifecta in Arizona, they'll need to flip either three seats in the state Senate or six in the House (or win the governorship, which is unlikely).
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The bottom line: As NBC's Alex Seitz-Wald points out, it's unlikely that all three of the state's top Democratic officials would resign at once and hand the governorship to a Republican.
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And a 14-year old boy, Ethan Sonneborn, has also thrown his hat into the ring, taking advantage of the state constitution&aposs lack of an age requirement to seek the governorship.
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Hallquist is aware that if her bid for the Governorship is successful, she will have made major progress toward creating a nation with a government that is actually representative of its population.
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Democrats are close to regaining control of at least one legislative chamber and maintaining the governorship in the state, which would allow them to veto and redraw Republican-favored maps in 85033.
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A spokeswoman for Vazquez clarified on Monday that she would assume the governorship if it gets to that point, in accordance with the Puerto Rico Constitution, according to The New York Times.
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Among the 62 charged were one sitting lawmaker and a candidate for the governorship of one of the country's 47 local authorities, the director of public prosecutions (DPP) said in a statement.
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Perpetually a bellwether — with bipartisan representation in the United States Senate currently and seesawing control of the governorship for decades — Pennsylvania has assumed an especially prominent place in the present political moment.
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The Republicans didn't need them to pass legislation, and once their own Pat McCrory took the governorship in 2013, they didn't even need to go through the cumbersome veto-override process anymore.
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When he won the governorship in 2018, one of Dunleavy's campaign promises was to balance Alaska's budget, which was in a multibillion-dollar deficit following the 2014 crash in oil market collapse.
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As for Mr. Adams, his admirers praise him for helping to revive Mr. Ducey's governorship after Arizona's high-profile teachers' strike this year, and they believe he would make an excellent senator.
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After two elections where Republicans lost control of the governorship, North Carolina in 2016 and Wisconsin in 2018, the state legislatures stripped power from new Democratic governors before they could take office.
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Then came more complicated decades: the Free Speech Movement, which helped propel Ronald Reagan to the governorship; Proposition 13, which slashed state revenues; Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action; and multiple recessions.
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Democrats hope that the governorship and a Senate seat may be up for grabs, and the state, which President Trump won by 26 points in 2016, also has three open House seats.
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Having already spent $650,000 of his own money, Mr. Orman threatens to siphon votes away from Democrats, potentially allowing Mr. Kobach or Mr. Colyer to win the governorship with only a plurality.
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After losing the governorship in North Carolina in 2016 and Wisconsin in 2018, Republicans used lame-duck legislative sessions to push through a flurry of bills stripping power from incoming Democratic governors.
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With Democrats controlling the House, Republicans, who will have a 2023 percent lock on the Texas Senate and governorship in 2021, would be unable to draw tailor-made congressional districts in 2021.
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Democrats face a tall task in holding the governorship in Montana; incumbent Steve Bullock, who is running for president as a Democrat with electoral success in a red state, is term-limited.
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Though he has repeatedly toyed with running for high office, including the governorship of California and a Senate seat there, this moment appears to be all about entering the Democratic primary field.
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"The rise of Latino political power in places like Texas poses a threat to the existing state power, which is dominated by Republicans in the governorship and State Legislature," Professor Morel said.
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Ralph Northam, a Democrat who won the governorship of Virginia in a landslide, is facing a firestorm of denunciation from his own party over racist images on his medical school yearbook page.
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Only a week ago, it seemed that Mr. Fairfax, who is African-American, was poised to ascend to the governorship and lead Virginia through a reckoning with its painful history on race.
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" He made national news in 1998 when he won the governorship of Minnesota as a Reform Party candidate — as he said in his victory speech on election night, "We shocked the world!
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