Republicans also control 33 governorships — though in the next two years, a total of 38 governorships (27 of them currenly held by Republicans) will be up for grabs.
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Republicans extended their majority of U.S. governorships in Tuesday's vote.
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They lost six governorships and hundreds of state legislative seats.
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They lost control of legislatures and governorships around the nation.
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In November, Democrats won governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Republicans still hold 27 governorships, a majority across the country.
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They have 27 governorships and governing trifectas in 21 states.
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Republicans previously held 31 governorships, with 18 for the Democrats.
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They gained seven governorships and nearly 350 state legislature seats.
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The July 1 elections will decide the presidency, governorships and Congress.
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I'm chair of the Democratic Governors Association — Democrats flipped several governorships.
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They hold 33 governorships and two-thirds of state legislative chambers.
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In a shocking result, the government captured 17 of 23 governorships.
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Jay Inslee (D), who is leading Democratic efforts to reclaim governorships.
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Democrats look favored to win many governorships they don't currently hold.
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Republicans' control of 33 governorships and roughly two-thirds of state legislatures.
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Democrats are overwhelmingly likely to pick up governorships in Illinois, where Gov.
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Those wins bring the number of women nominated for governorships to 11.
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Next year, Republicans will control 27 governorships and Democrats will control 23.
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Today, Republicans control the governorships of Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
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Democrats now hold 210 governorships after picking up those seven in November.
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Republicans control 22019 governorships, the House, the Senate, and the White House.
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Today, Republicans control 32, and hold twice as many governorships as Democrats.
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Republicans control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and most governorships.
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The Republican Party now controls both governorships and statehouses in 24 states.
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Early, credible reports showed the opposition winning a majority of the governorships.
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With the Justice flip, Republicans now occupy 34 governorships—the most ever.
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It's very dominant in governorships and state legislature seats and in Congress.
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Democrats won solid returns: seven new governorships, for a total of 23 states.
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A Cordray win could mean Democrats have a shot at other Midwest governorships.
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They've lost 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and 958 seats in state legislatures.
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Republicans currently hold 28503 governorships, after notching big gains in 22019 and 2014.
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Republicans control four governorships in those six states and 10 state legislative chambers.
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Republicans hold 33 of 50 governorships, the most the party has ever held.
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Republicans hold 33 governorships across the country, near the party's all-time high.
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Republicans currently hold 200063 governorships, compared with 16 for Democrats and one independent.
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The party was also able to flip several governorships and state legislative seats.
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Some have decided to seek other elective office, like governorships or the Senate.
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Republicans now hold 31 governorships, many more than when Mr. Obama took office.
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Democrats also won Republican-held governorships in Kansas, New Mexico, Illinois and Maine.
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The contests for a few Senate seats and governorships were really, really close.
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And that money does things: Republicans now hold 33 governorships in this country.
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Democrats hold only 15 lieutenant governorships throughout the United States and its territories.
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"The party cannot underestimate the significance of trying to win back governorships," Balz said.
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He has also shuffled 22022 of the provincial governorships (governors are second-in-command).
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Democrats are also likely to improve on the paltry 16 governorships they currently hold.
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White-collar whites also helped Democrats win governorships in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nevada.
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More than 1,300 seats are up for grabs, with the governorships the most important.
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There are 36 gubernatorial races on Tuesday and Sabato has Democrats netting 10 governorships.
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That's not bad, though would still leave Republicans with a majority of governorships nationwide.
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As Washington Post's Karen Tumulty reports, 79 women so far are running for governorships.
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Governors Democrats have picked up seven governors' seats, giving them control of 23 governorships.
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Iowa governor: There's no question that Democrats are going to pick up governorships tonight.
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Last June, the PRI lost governorships in six states, including Veracruz, to the opposition.
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They also won 21973 governorships previously held by Democrats, including in Ohio and Iowa.
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Although Republicans will control more governorships than Democrats will in 22019, by the time the swearing-in process concludes on January 214, a majority of Americans will be living under Democratic governors, as the party won governorships in states with more sizable populations.
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While the GOP controls two-thirds of governorships, attorneys general offices are split more evenly.
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In all, eight governorships plus the capital are up for grabs in Sunday&aposs vote.
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Red America now has the federal government, 33 governorships, and unified control over 32 legislatures.
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In 265 candidates for the presidency, governorships, congress and state assemblies spent 2000bn reais ($2bn).
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It's a boost for Republicans, who are hoping to entrench their majority of governorships nationwide.
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Do that and the party might just keep control of the House and important governorships.
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Yes, Democrats pick up five The GOP will retain control of governorships and state legislatures.
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Republicans picked up one from an independent in Alaska, giving them control of 27 governorships.
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Ten years after Obama was elected, Democrats have just 16 governorships, while Republicans hold 33.
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Elections will also be held for the governorships of another 25 of Russia's 85 regions.
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Republicans control the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and a majority of governorships.
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Not to mention control of Congress, a dozen governorships, and countless state seats since 2008.
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In the states, Democrats have lost ten governorships and nine hundred and ten legislative seats.
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Black Democratic candidates have also lost the race for governorships for the past two consecutive cycles.
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Now (before the next Congress convenes), it's 188 House seats, 46 Senate seats, and 18 governorships.
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Republicans control 66 of 98 partisan legislative bodies; the GOP also controls 85033 of the governorships.
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And that group says there are 27 more women they believe will contest governorships in 2018.
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Jay Inslee about the Democrats' plan to win back governorships in key red states next year.
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Republicans hold 33 of the nation's 50 governorships, and they could make new inroads this year.
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In the 2018 midterms, Democrats picked up seven governorships, to bring their nationwide total to 23.
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Next year, they will hold nine governorships out of the 13 states with the highest populations.
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But on June 85033, there will be odd-year elections in six states, including two governorships.
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Democrats sustained a net loss of 13 governorships under Obama, according to the Republican Governors Association.
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Republicans also amassed control of a huge number of state legislatures and governorships under President Obama.
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Republicans control the Senate, the House, 33 governorships and the vast majority of state legislatures nationwide.
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It's also true that there are a growing number of minorities on the bench for governorships.
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With their gains on Tuesday night, Democrats will control 23 governorships, compared with 26 for Republicans.
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Democrats also flipped at least seven governorships, including the long-conservative capitals in Wisconsin and Kansas.
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The jobs range from ambassadorships to important undersecretary roles to governorships at the Federal Reserve board.
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That election led to Democratic control of the House, the Senate and a majority of governorships.
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Democrats took control of the House and won several governorships, but Republicans held their Senate majority.
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The party's previous record in the modern political era was 32 governorships, according to Governing Magazine.
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Traditionally, the attorney general position is a steppingstone for higher offices, including governorships and congressional seats.
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The Kentucky race was one of two red state governorships Republicans fought to defend on Tuesday.
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What to watch: Nine House seats, two governorships and one Senate seat are still up for grabs.
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South Korea's ruling party won provincial and municipal elections by a landslide, capturing 14 of 17 governorships.
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Republicans captured the governorships of both states in November, succeeding Democratic governors who had blocked those measures.
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But in the states, Republicans added to the total number of legislative seats and governorships they control.
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Democrats now hold 23 of the nation's 50 governorships, in states that represent a majority of Americans.
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As CNN calls different races, we will be updating these links for: House seats | Senate seats | Governorships
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Republicans now control 31 state legislatures, it said, and both the governorships and statehouses in 23 states.
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Since he became president, his party has lost 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.
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In the end it won only a handful of governorships, according to the pro-government electoral board.
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Democratic candidates also triumphed in Illinois, Maine, New Mexico and Nevada, where Republicans had held the governorships.
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It's why 2018 was so important, because all of these governorships were on the line this year.
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Under his leadership, Republican gains of congressional seats, state legislative seats and governorships have reached historic proportions.
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"The Democrats have no business picking up the House and the governorships, no business," Mr. Emanuel said.
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Catch up on the results from the House, the Senate and for governorships and other state positions.
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Women currently make up less than 85033 percent of Congress, and hold just six of 50 governorships.
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The GOP now controls historical record number of governors' mansions, including a majority of New England governorships.
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Currently, the GOP controls 20183 out of 50 governorships and 67 out of 99 state legislative chambers.
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In November's mid-term elections, 36 governorships and thousands of state legislative seats will be up for grabs.
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Right now, women make up only 25% of state legislatures, 20% of Congress, and just 12% of governorships.
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There's the whole House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, 36 governorships, and many state legislature seats.
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All 435 seats in the House, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships are up for grabs on Tuesday.
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After 28503, Democrats controlled fewer than 22019 governorships and the smallest number of state legislative seats since 1928.
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Gillespie is an especially strong prospect for what is among the most constitutionally powerful governorships in the nation.
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Future of Democratic Party at stake in Maryland Only two African-Americans have won governorships in U.S. history.
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Democrats are making a run at other Republican-held governorships in states like Georgia, New Hampshire and Tennessee.
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Democrats picked up two governorships in states that rank in the top 10 in population: Illinois and Michigan.
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Members from either party planning to run for another office tend to run for Senate seats or governorships.
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Democrats flipped seven governorships in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, and formerly rock ribbed Republican Maine.
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"Once installed, this constituent assembly will eliminate governorships, mayors, and the National Assembly," said opposition lawmaker Tomas Guanipa.
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Democrats won back seven governorships, six state legislative chambers, and more than 229 state legislative seats in November.
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And is the blue wave so big that it might hurt GOP control of state houses and governorships?
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Corneille Nangaa, president of the National Independent Electoral Commission, said that independent candidates won the other five governorships.
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His reign as speaker spanned five governorships, and nobody wielded as much influence over state law as him.
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The government, which had previously controlled 20 governorships, took states across Venezuela's languid plains and steamy Caribbean coast.
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Elections for governorships, state House of Assembly and area councils are on hold until March 9, INEC said.
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Republicans now control the presidency, the Senate, the House and a strong majority of governorships and state legislatures.
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Democrats feel they have the upper hand after winning control of the House and seven governorships last month.
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MORE won his historic election, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell won the New Jersey and Virginia governorships.
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He's a former congressman who led the Democratic Governors Association last year, when Democrats won seven new governorships.
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Democrats are making a surprise play for a trio of governorships deep in the heart of Trump country.
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Democrats have long been underrepresented in governorships across the country, and they're hoping that could change this year.
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Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown each held big-state governorships that their fathers had occupied for multiple terms.
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The GOP currently holds 33 governorships, Democrats control 16, and an independent, Bill Walker, is the governor of Alaska.
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More than 500 women are currently running for the House, Senate, or governorships and many more for statewide offices.
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Sanders is also the key to Democrats retaking the U.S. Congress as well as governorships and state legislatures. Why?
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Democrats have lost a shocking number of governorships and state legislatures in the eight years Obama has been president.
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When the new year dawns, Republicans will control both chambers of the state legislature and governorships in 85033 states.
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Her win bolsters the ranks of women in governorships across the country, an office where they are currently underrepresented.
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The party also has high hopes in the Mountain West, where Republicans control governorships in all but two states.
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Using the slogan "Stay the course," Republicans lost 250 House seats and seven governorships in the 21976 midterm elections.
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We also saw Democrats flip seven governorships from red to blue, including in Wisconsin and the deep red Kansas.
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Republicans will soon control every branch of the federal government, in addition to a majority of governorships and statehouses.
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Women had been elected to governorships in Japan before, but never in Tokyo, the nation's capital and largest city.
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And his party also won a majority of governorships and an absolute majority in both chambers of Mexico's Congress.
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In the Obama era, Democrats lost 62 House seats, 11 Senate seats, 12 governorships, and 958 state legislature seats.
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Many of those communities could also tip powerful governorships into Democratic hands for the first time in a decade.
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And in the states, they held less than half of governorships and only about a quarter of state legislatures.
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Yellen's term expires in 2018 and President Donald Trump could end up filling five of the seven Fed governorships.
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There are only 11 governorships up next year, with most states choosing to hold those elections during midterm years.
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Democrats saw a net loss of two governorships, leaving fewer than a third of the states with Democratic governors.
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During Obama's tenure, Democrats lost over 800 state legislative seats, at least 13 governorships and both houses of Congress.
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The outcomes of two Senate races, 13 House seats and two governorships had yet to be settled on Monday.
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Now we need many of them to start running for school boards, city councils, county commissions, state legislatures and governorships.
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Republicans had some major wins, retaining governorships in Florida and Ohio in addition to keeping the majority in the Senate.
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The Democrats also won seven governorships, which included the defeat of Scott Walker, public-sector unions' bête noire, in Wisconsin.
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And to refresh your memory, here is our map of all the women running for Congress and governorships this year.
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So why haven't we heard much about Democrats' efforts to seize governorships, thereby reshaping progressive policy at the state level?
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The Democratic Unity coalition is targeting winning 18 governorships, but fears a confusing electronic ballot sheet could hurt its vote.
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But Democrats won governorships in states — like Nevada and New Mexico — where gun control bills are now atop the agenda.
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It should be pointed out that the connection between governorships and presidential results isn't as clear as you might think.
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They will have to show up and flip Senate and House seats as well as governorships and control of statehouses.
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In 22019, Republicans will control an overwhelming majority of governorships and state houses, along with the White House and Congress.
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Democratic control of the state governorships in both states makes it unlikely that Republicans will pass new restrictions before 2020.
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Two governorships, dozens of state legislative seats and mayorships in six states were at stake in these odd-year elections.
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Third, will the Taliban engage in normal politics in which they might be granted certain government ministries or provincial governorships?
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Obviously, the Democrats' success in flipping the House of Representatives, several governorships, and state legislatures will get the most attention.
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The body could even have the ability to remove power from the governorships or block new governors from taking office.
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Should Democrats capture several of those governorships, it could help them redraw congressional district lines to their advantage after 2020.
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The opposition pocketed governorships including the turbulent Andean states of Merida and Tachira and the oil-producing region of Zulia.
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Democrats had a net gain of seven governorships, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — swing states that voted Republican in 19753.
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Those voters flipped seven governorships and 367 state legislative seats to Democrats, giving them majorities in seven more state chambers.
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Democrats flipped seven governorships, six state legislative chambers, and more than 21.4 state House and Senate seats on election night.
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During his tenure, Democrats lost some 970 seats in state legislatures, 11 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 House seats.
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As he leaves office, Republicans control the House, the Senate and about two of every three state legislatures and governorships.
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Republicans are expected to pick up as many as three governorships in the wake of the GOP's stunning wave Tuesday.
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Some 117,000 people are running for provincial governorships, mayorships and seats on provincial legislatures and local councils in the Oct.
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As my colleague Umair Irfan wrote, Dems won seven governorships away from Republicans, with candidates who ran on clean energy.
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And, arguably, they present more favorable turf for Democrats than governorships, where Republicans have built overwhelming dominance over the last decade.
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The incoming president will have opportunities to put his stamp on the central bank: two of seven Fed governorships are vacant.
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Capturing governorships and statehouses has been a longstanding goal of the Democratic Party with the next U.S. census approaching in 2020.
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It's a similar story in Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, where Democrats likewise are battling to win Republican-held governorships.
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"They lost the White House, the House, the Senate, nearly 1,000 state legislative seats, lots of chambers and governorships," she said.
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The party now holds majorities in just 31 of the country's 98 legislative bodies, while maintaining 19 of the nation's governorships.
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His money could also help flip the Senate for the Democrats, win some governorships, and expand the majority in the House.
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But, politically, they have done no better, as Democrats control both governorships, both state houses and the state senate in Oregon.
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Republicans are running circles around the Dems at governors' mansions: Justice gives the GOP a 2279-to-2200 advantage in governorships.
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For many years, Democrats seemed to narrow their vision and ambitions, losing hundreds of legislative seats, governorships and other political races.
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Democrats also won the governorships of both Maine and Kansas, whose Republican governors had held up Medicaid expansions passed last year.
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But the State of Mexico was the crown jewel of governorships, serving as a major engine of the party's nationwide power.
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The Post reported that Democrats have picked up 435 seats in state legislatures and nine governorships over the past three years.
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It will hold 12 state governorships after the election - fewer than ever before, but still as many as any other party.
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In 2017, Democrats will control 47 or 48 Senate seats, between 191 and 197 House seats, and 16 or 17 governorships.
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It really is notable that not one of the women elected to the House or governorships in 2018 have that background.
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Despite widespread anger over economic hardship, the Socialist Party confounded opinion polls to take 17 of 23 governorships in Sunday's election.
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That said, the "blue wave" fell short and failed to unseat Republican majorities in the Senate and in governorships around the country.
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And he's donated to a roster of candidates, mostly Democrats, who are seeking their states' governorships and seats in the U.S. Congress.
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The GOP currently holds the governorships of four out of six states in the region, including Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
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That&aposs left an opening for Republicans, who are looking to continue to encroach on governorships in the traditionally liberal New England.
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Democrats patted themselves on the back for taking back the House of Representatives and for flipping seven governorships from red to blue.
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The party's national leader, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, expects the PRI to win nine governorships, though perhaps not the ones it has now.
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Coming out of November's election, Republicans hold governorships in 2628 states and control 28500 of the country's 6900 partisan state legislative chambers.
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Control of both houses of the U.S. Congress and 36 state governorships are at stake in today's elections, follow the latest coverage.
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There's also a groundbreaking number of women running for governorships across the country, including the first openly transgender woman to do so.
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Obama's "progress" no doubt includes the Democrat Party's net loss of 1,042 congressional and state legislative seats, governorships and, finally, the presidency.
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There was better news for Mr Putin in the elections for governorships, where United Russia's candidates all triumphed in the first round.
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But the State of Mexico held the crown jewel of governorships and served as a major engine of the party's nationwide success.
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NDRC measures its success in terms of breaking "trifectas," or total GOP control of governorships and both chambers of the state legislatures.
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His party, unlike Nixon's, will control the legislative as well as the executive branch, along with two-thirds of governorships and statehouses.
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He said House Speaker Paul Ryan and others must do everything they can to retain control of Congress, governorships and state legislatures.
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Republicans now control 33 governorships and have full control of the government — holding the governor's offices and the legislatures — in 25 states.
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It also took four governorships, more than any other party, although all were concentrated in Brazil's poor northeast, a traditional PT stronghold.
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During President Obama's eight years in office, Democrats famously lost about 900 elective offices — governorships, seats in state legislatures and in Congress.
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Still, the scandal tainted what had been one of the most popular governorships in America and later helped sink Christie's fledgling presidential campaign.
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Before the midterms, Republicans held 33 of 50 governorships and both chambers of state legislatures in 32 states while Democrats had only 14.
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Jose Díaz Navarro López Obrador won in a historic landslide this summer, taking a majority of both houses of Congress and several governorships.
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Its candidates won four governorships in October's vote and then infuriated many opposition supporters by swearing loyalty to a pro-Maduro legislative superbody.
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But the damage had been done to one of the most popular governorships in America and later to Christie's fledgling 2016 presidential campaign.
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Democratic ranks are almost certain to swell this fall as the party competes for governorships in Midwestern, Mountain West and even Southern battlegrounds.
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Democrats picked up seven previously Republican-held governorships, including offices in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine and even in deep-red Kansas.
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This movement has already cost the Democrats 28503 Senate seats, 22019 House seats, 10 governorships, and hundreds of state legislative seats since 2010.
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More than 28500,6900 public posts are at stake across the country, including an entirely new Congress, nine governorships and, of course, the presidency.
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Democrats had a president in the White House, a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate, 263 seats in the House and 32 governorships.
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Democratic Party groups and aligned political committees expect to spend tens of millions of dollars trying to win back legislative seats and governorships.
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It calls for creating the position of a prime minister, who would share power with the president, and governorships for the nation's provinces.
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Another slump in 2018 would imperil the party's efforts to capture the House, hold its own in the Senate and win key governorships.
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But with most governorships and state legislatures in Republican hands, and a totally Republican-dominated federal government, it's hard to see that happening.
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And that absolutely is a product of the fact that there were few women in Congress and there were few women in governorships.
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But Democrats who favor clean energy also took control of a number of key governorships and state legislatures, opening doors for expanded action.
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One recent survey gave the coalition, which aspires to win 18 governorships, 44.7 percent of voter intentions versus 21.1 percent for the government.
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These voters have been the cornerstone of Democrats' electoral revival since 2016, helping them flip governorships and propelling their capture of the House.
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Nine years ago, Republicans obliterated Democrats nationwide at all levels of government — from the Senate to the House, from governorships to state legislatures.
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It doesn't hold the White House, the Senate or the House, and it holds only about one in three governorships and state legislatures.
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Republicans, meanwhile, are hoping to pick off three Democratic incumbents and four governorships currently held by Democrats who are retiring at year's end.
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Democrats will get the first signs of their ability to flip Republican-held governorships across the Midwest when Ohio begins counting its ballots.
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In addition to the White House, Republicans hold the House, the Senate and about two out of every three governorships and state legislatures.
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They have a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court and, at least for the moment, huge majorities in governorships and state legislatures.
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But Republicans have complete control over their state legislatures and governorships, paving the way for them to enact far-reaching conservative policy agendas.
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In 2018, 87 of 99 state legislatures and 36 governorships are up for re-election, the vast majority of which are held by Republicans.
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It could hang on for years in sparsely populated states where it still holds governorships, such as Campeche, Coahuila, Sonora and San Luis Potosi.
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Republicans hold governorships in deep blue states like Massachusetts, Maryland and Vermont; Democrats run the governor's mansion in red states like Montana and Kansas.
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The more governorships and state legislatures the Democrats manage to win, the more opportunities there will be for new liberal legislation across the country.
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And then there's the state of Obama's Democratic Party: When he took office, Democrats held 256 House seats, 58 Senate seats and 28 governorships.
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Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, 239-192; the Senate, 203-47, and most of the country's governorships (at least 33 states).
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The governorships of George W. Bush and Rick Perry in Texas were marked by tolerance, as well as outreach to, and support from, Hispanics.
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And Republicans are poised to lose seats in the Senate and the House, making governorships the party's only likely path to boost their ranks.
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Before the vote, government loyalists held all but three governorships, but observers had said there was a chance for the opposition to make gains.
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They netted governorships in New England (Maine), the Midwest (Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin), the Great Plains (Kansas) and the Southwest (Nevada and New Mexico).
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MORENA won more support for López Obrador, adding two more governorships to the five it already held while faring well in many local posts.
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In addition, Democrats flipped at least seven governorships, won back control of seven state legislative chambers and flipped more than 22019 state legislative seats.
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Instead, Democrats can leverage Trump to retake governorships and state legislatures over the next two election cycles, setting themselves up nicely for the 2020s.
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Despite the midterm setback last year, the Republican Party still controls the White House, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures.
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Republicans control all three branches of government, along with 34 governorships and 32 state legislatures; in 26 states, the GOP fully controls the government.
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The party secured both of the governorships on the ballot in 2017 and flipped a deep-red Senate seat with the election of Sen.
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But Democrats are poised to pick up an array of governorships in major states and could dislodge Republicans' eight-year hold on the House.
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Republicans are likely to expand their majority in the Senate, and Democrats lost some governorships that they badly wanted, especially in Ohio and Florida.
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Democrats won governorships in seven states that were not already part of this climate alliance: Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
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"I do have concerns when Republicans have the House, the Senate, the presidency and 33 governorships across the country if we don't govern," Gov.
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We have our work cut out for us, with progressives still facing anemic levels of control of state legislatures, governorships, and state attorneys general.
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And unlike the favorable map Democrats see in the battle for the Senate, the fight for governorships isn't on the best turf for Democrats.
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Democrats hold just 15 governorships and control all three levers of government in only six states: Oregon, California, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware.
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In the Midwest, the party opted for more traditional candidates to try to win the governorships in two 2020 battleground states, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Moreover, this is a model that will surely be copied in every state in which the Republicans control state legislatures and governorships in 2020.
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They've lost 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and, this is the number that I keep getting caught up on, 958 seats in state legislatures.
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In addition to facing full GOP control in Washington, Democrats currently hold only 18 of 22017 governorships and 22020 out of 2438 state legislative chambers.
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Between the lower House of Deputies and Mexican Senate, 630 seats are up for grabs and nine out of 32 governorships are being voted on.
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Blue America has 16 governorships but total control over state government (governor and legislature) in just five states: Hawaii, California, Oregon, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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Although his nomination was uncontested, the party has been tearing itself apart over which candidates will run for state governorships and seats in the senate.
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As of mid-January of this year, Republicans will control 33 out of 50 governorships and at least 66 out of 99 state legislature chambers.
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Over the past eight years, the Republican Party has taken eleven Senate seats, 62 House seats, twelve governorships, and nearly 1,000 seats in state legislatures.
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Tapper's assessment appears to be based on a PolitiFact fact-check of colleague Fareed Zakaria's statement in June on Democratic representation in Congress and governorships.
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Democrats are contesting a huge number of Republican-held governorships across the country, seeking to put a dent in the GOP's grip on state mansions.
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The Republican advantage has been diminished in part because Democrats won key governorships this year in Kansas, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and last year in Virginia.
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In August, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice switched parties for the second time, from Democrat to Republican, handing the GOP control of 34 state governorships.
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Indeed, the best estimate is that Republicans will end up with just 248.3 of the governorships up for grabs on Tuesday to the Democrats' 22.4.
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After Trump's shocking wins in places like Wisconsin, few suspected Democrats would win governorships and hold Senate seats in places like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Democrats are also favored to win the governorships in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota and are locked in toss up races in the other three states.
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Democrats seized seven Republican-held governorships, including in several states that helped deliver Republican President Donald Trump's surprise win in 2016, without suffering any losses.
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Even though polls showed the opposition winning most of the 23 governorships, Maduro allies took 18 of them as a result of low voter turnout.
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Since the 85033 midterms, a radicalized Republican Party has gained total control of 26 states (the legislatures and the governorships), compared to the Democrats' seven.
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Whether the victories reached as far as the Senate or governorships is not as important as the fact that the tsunami was born and arrived.
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Republicans have a huge lead after two strong midterm elections in a row, in which the party netted eight new governorships once held by Democrats.
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Democrats won governorships and claimed 40 House seats last year by emphasizing poll-tested, broadly popular issues and averting their gaze from Mr. Trump's provocations.
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Those seeking governorships may have an eye on the 2022 poll when Kenyatta, if he wins next year, will have completed a maximum two terms.
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The year saw Democrats pick up seven governorships across the country, a fact that the governor has touted in the wake of the midterm elections.
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In his news conference, Maduro said the socialists also won Bolivar state, which would take its total to 18 governorships versus five for the opposition.
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That's a long way of saying that the contests for 36 governorships this year matters a great deal whether you live in Penobscot, Peoria or Pocatello.
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Since 2010, Republicans have gained control of a record number of legislatures and governorships — and have used that control to steer state policy to the right.
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Many forget the carnage in the states, where Democrats lost 568 seats in state Houses, 290 seats in state Senates and six governorships (see chart 10).
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Democrats won high-profile governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, providing a boost to those who wanted to turn grassroots resistance to Trump into election victories.
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As of Wednesday, it looks like Democrats committed to fighting climate change gained several key governorships that could accelerate local and national progress in clean energy.
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In many states where legislative district lines give Republicans an advantage, winning back governorships is Democrats' only hope of securing a seat at the redistricting table.
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"When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years," Zakaria said on June 15.
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His party swept through with absolute majorities in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as a majority of state legislatures and several state governorships.
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The wins mean Democrats now control the governorships of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- the three "blue wall" states that delivered Donald Trump the presidency in 2016.
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Acrimonious deadlocks have become the new normal in Wisconsin, one of three Midwestern states where Democrats ended full Republican control last year by flipping governorships. Gov.
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If you are a Republican right now, you are focused on getting through these midterms and trying to hold on to the House, Senate and governorships.
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Sabato said that means Republicans have the most to lose at the state level, especially because they hold 26 of the 36 governorships up for grabs.
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Opposition leaders suspected that even if they swept the statehouses, Mr. Maduro's constituent assembly, which now governs the country, would ensure that their governorships were neutered.
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In the 2018 races for governorships, six states could swing from red to blue with the right voter mobilization plan and the proper funding and support.
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The Democrats' broad gains in the House, and their capture of several powerful governorships, in many cases represented a vindication of the party's more moderate wing.
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By Election Day, the Republicans held 31 of 50 governorships, and full dominance over chambers as well as governor's offices in at least 22 state capitals.
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Among all voters, 29 percent said health care was a key issue for candidates to talk about going into the 2018 elections for Congress and governorships.
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Republicans currently control more than 28500 governorships, the majority of state attorney general offices and more state legislatures than at any time since the Civil War.
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Though the opposition looked set to win comfortably due to public anger over food and medicine shortages, plus soaring inflation, the government took 18 of 23 governorships.
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The shift in control came through a combination of changes in governorships and control of legislative chambers, many of which have been split between Republicans and Democrats.
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The party also grew its margins in state legislatures and now holds a record number of governorships, burying Democrats to a vast degree across the United States.
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Today, Republicans not only control all three branches of the federal government, they also hold majorities in 32 state legislatures, along with the governorships of 33 states.
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They were overruled by the majority, which reckoned that they would either win a lot of governorships or have further grounds for attacking the regime as undemocratic.
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And yet, this leftist Democratic Party in 2018 snatched 41 House seats from the GOP along with numerous governorships in presidential battleground states like Wisconsin and Michigan.
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While Republicans gained Alaska's governor's mansion in November's midterm elections, they lost seats in seven other states, leaving them in control of 22019 governorships across the country.
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His party has taken control of both chambers of Congress, holds seven governorships and controls 22 out of 32 state legislatures — all in less than two years.
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That's one of the reasons the Republican party currently has control of the White House and Congress, as well as the majority of governorships and state legislatures.
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The Republican Party will soon control the presidency, Congress, most governorships and state legislatures; in all probability, there will be a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
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But even before the weekend, he was largely banished from the most competitive campaigns for the House and various governorships because of his unpopularity with swing voters.
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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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And when it comes to governorships, in which, oddly enough, the winner is the person who gets the most votes, a huge flip to Dems seems likely.
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The P.R.I.'s challenges in the state were perhaps foretold last year, when the party lost control of four governorships it had also held uninterrupted since 1929.
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His divisive record and conduct in office helped propel Democrats to a new House majority in 2018 and a number of governorships in the last three years.
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Then, what will he do to recruit new and dynamic candidates to run for office at all levels — especially U.S. Senate seats, governorships and state legislative seats?
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On November 9, the sentiment was that Republicans had won with a mandate; they took the White House, the House and Senate, and governorships in 244 states.
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His party then dominated regional elections, taking most of the nation's governorships, and solidified its gains by sweeping municipal elections amid a boycott by the opposition alliance.
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"There are a number of Midwest governorships that are at stake obviously in 2018 and that's where a lot of Democrats think the party really needs to concentrate."
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Mr López Obrador's Morena party and its allies won a majority in both houses of congress and five of the nine governorships that were contested in the elections.
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Polls had suggested the opposition would easily win a majority but in the end it won only a handful of governorships, according to the pro-government electoral board.
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In November, Republicans won control of governorships and state legislative chambers in key states, handing the party total control of all levers of state government in 24 states.
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To have a unified front against PRI, Mexico's main opposition parties were fielding joint candidates for five governorships in Durango, Zacatecas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, in addition to Veracruz.
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His Morena party also leads in most polls for majority representation in both houses of Congress, and in four of nine governorships, including the crown jewel, Mexico City.
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Their decisive victories stand in contrast to a midterm election cycle in which Democrats flipped seven governorships, seven state legislative chambers, and more than 300 state legislative seats.
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On one side, Democrats mostly committed to action against climate change regained the majority in the House of Representatives and recaptured control of several governorships and state legislatures.
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It's the mistake that cost them the House in 28503, the Senate in 22019, the presidency in 2016, and oodles of state legislatures and governorships along the way.
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By aligning with Wall Street over working men and women, the Democratic Party has allowed Republicans to take over most state legislatures, most governorships, Congress, and the presidency.
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As a result, even if Democrats win governorships in places like Ohio and Florida, they are all but certain to face divided governments and formidable Republican opposition. Gov.
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If Democrats win more governorships and state legislatures, they can keep Republicans from drawing ridiculous congressional maps and infringing on African-Americans' voting rights — among many other things.
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But not only had Donald Trump won a shocking victory, but the GOP retained both houses of Congress, held 33 governorships, and controlled the legislature in 32 states.
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What's at Stake Thirty-five seats in the Senate, 435 seats in the House of Representatives, the governorships of 39 states and territories, and hundreds of state offices.
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Ms. Raimondo said she was hopeful that 2018 would see breakthroughs for women in governorships, but that the country's political culture had been slow to embrace female executives.
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FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about the winners of several governorships misstated the last year a Democrat was governor of New Mexico.
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A record number of women ran or are running for the Senate, the House and governorships, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
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The analysis follows news from last month that a record number of female candidates have won major party nominations for governorships and House seats in the past year.
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Democrats have taken 435 state legislative seats and nine governorships in the past three years, but Republicans still control the majority in 29 state legislatures, notes the Post.
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Republicans control the White House, both chambers of Congress and 33 governorships, and they are preparing to install a fifth conservative, Neil M. Gorsuch, on the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON — After claiming governorships from Republicans in seven states last year, including in crucial presidential battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic governors should have good reason to celebrate.
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But Democrats have suffered dire losses on the state level and now hold 16 governorships, most of them in solidly blue states like New York, California and Oregon.
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But party strategists on both sides say the stakes are highest in the races for governorships, because governors will have substantial sway when the decennial redistricting process begins.
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For years, anti-abortion activists have advanced a long-term and wide-ranging strategy to control state legislatures and governorships, in order to chip away at abortion rights.
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The Republicans have been given the majority in the House and the Senate, most of the governorships, they've won over 1,000 state legislative seats under President Barack Obama's watch.
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It will be the first time Renamo, now the country's main opposition party, can compete for provincial governorships, satisfying demands for political inclusion and control over areas they dominate.
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More than 500 women are currently running for the House, Senate, or governorships— and that's without taking into account the number of candidates vying for local and statewide seats.
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More than 500 women are currently running for the House, Senate, or governorships — and that's without taking into account the number of candidates vying for local and statewide seats.
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The ruling party is confident Kenyatta can win and secure a second and final four-year term in office, Ruto said, citing their majority in parliament and regional governorships.
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So, like guests who wouldn't leave, Yellen and Fischer can hang around on the board until their governorships expire, even while they are no longer chair and vice chairman.
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Two governorships are vacant on the board already that won't be filled by President Barack Obama and the job of vice chair for supervision of financial regulation remains unfilled.
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Just a few election cycles later, Democrats retook the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and won a majority of governorships for the first time in over a decade.
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"Since Obama's win in 28503, Democrats have taken a pounding in the polls, losing 22019 seats in the House, 12 seats in the Senate and 10 governorships," he said.
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Since 2010, as Republicans have gained more and more governorships and seats in state legislatures, they have deliberately made it harder for minorities, young people, and women to vote.
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Democrats would be lucky to hold a majority of governorships if the trend seen in previous years with race ratings at this point to Election Day holds in 2018.
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The GOP also took back six seats in the Senate, seven governorships, and the greatest share of state legislative seats since 1928, with more than 600 seats flipping Republican.
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Obama and Democrats should consider with prayerful reflection why, since Obama became president, Democrats have lost control of the House, the Senate, governorships and state legislatures across the nation.
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Republican candidates for the House and Senate, and for governorships across the country, chastised Mr. Trump sternly but stopped short of renouncing him as their choice for the presidency.
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In November's midterm elections, voters across the country handed the Democratic Party 40 House seats, control of multiple state legislatures, and an assortment of governorships and other state offices.
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Polls show that Mr. Feo la Cruz — like most opposition candidates for the governorships up for grabs in all 23 Venezuelan states on Sunday — should be a shoo-in.
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Even as they attempt to reclaim governorships and congressional seats in red-tinged regions, moderates recognize that bearing the mark of the N.R.A. could be fatal in their primaries.
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Born in the wealthy, central state of Queretaro, the career politician helped the party take more than 10 of the country's governorships for the first time in its history.
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Democrats faced mixed results in the governor's races, picking up governorships in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin, but failing to claim the coveted battleground of Florida.
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Mr. López Obrador eventually rose to the head of the P.R.D., and under his leadership the party secured several governorships and seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
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Democrats also held on to several governorships in several states where they were heavily favored — Andrew Cuomo in New York, Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania and Tim Walz in Minnesota.
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She won handily, and Democrats picked up other governorships that had belonged to Republicans, for instance in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, where Scott Walker was denied a third term.
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He has ousted prominent members of other branches of the family from governorships and top ministry jobs, consolidating power but sowing some discontent in a family that demands unity.
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Come 2020, Democrats could lose it all, from the presidency to governorships to Senate seats to House control, if the American people determine that they overreached on this issue.
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Hundreds of women have filed to run for the House of Representatives, Senate, governorships, and other offices, and thousands more have expressed interest in running later down the line.
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Over the past eight years, Democrats suffered massive losses at the state and local level — letting Republicans win back 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and 958 seats in state legislatures.
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As things stand, the courts are Democrats' last refuge in a political system where both houses of Congress, the White House, 32 statehouses and 33 governorships lie in Republican hands.
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Twelve governorships, 93 state executive officers, about 80 percent of the seats in the 99 state legislative chambers of the U.S. and over 100 issue-specific referendums in 35 states.
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The party has lost hundreds of state legislative seats, Republicans now control two-thirds of state chambers and have a comfortable majority of governorships (who will determine redistricting in 2020).
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Even if violence is avoided at a national level, it could nonetheless marr local races for governorships and parliamentary seats, some of which are as hotly contested as the presidency.
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The assembly has established a truth commission to investigate opposition candidates to ensure that any who were involved in violent protests would be barred from running for governorships, Rodriguez said.
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He was chair of the Democratic Governors Association in 0003, a year that saw the party flip seven governorships, or the biggest gain for Democrats in more than three decades.
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As for governorships and state legislatures, Republicans are nearly maxed out in terms of gains -- meaning that the party is primed to suffer large-scale losses consistent with historical norms.
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Democrats are seen as likely to pick up governorships in Illinois and New Mexico and have decent prospects in Florida, Michigan and Maine, all of which currently have GOP executives.
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After the eight-year presidency of Obama, Democrats lost the presidency, the House, the Senate, governorships, state legislatures and what should have been a progressive majority on the Supreme Court.
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The Republicans hold the Presidency, both houses of Congress, thirty-three governorships, and thirty-one statehouses, and they have steadily been appointing judges, from state benches to the Supreme Court.
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After Democrats captured the House and picked up seven governorships last month, Schumer cast doubt on the possibility of striking a deal with Trump on immigration or anything of significance.
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The whole House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, and most governorships will be at stake, along with hundreds of state legislative seats and local offices around the country.
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She has to fortify her party in a hostile election environment as it tries to keep control of the House, the Senate and 13 governorships where incumbent Republicans are leaving.
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Trump will have the unique opportunity to fill at least four of the seven governorships at the Fed, giving him the chance to shape it in his own ideological vision.
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A record number of women have won major party nominations for governorships and seats in the House of Representatives this year — a full month before primary season is officially over.
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American politics has tended to be hostile terrain for the idealists and romantics who have started third parties or mounted independent campaigns for the presidency, governorships and other elected positions.
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Party leaders in Washington, like Ms. Pelosi, have also come to see winning governorships as a priority because of the power many state executives have in drawing congressional district lines.
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The party is favored for the governorships in Michigan and Pennsylvania and locked in close races in Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa -- the fifth Midwestern state key to Trump's 2016 victory.
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Neither party has won statewide elections (Johnson and his running mate, William Weld, both won governorships as Republicans), but each boasts more than 100 elected officials in municipal and regional office.
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In a historic victory for female candidates, at least 117 women won elections across the country Tuesday night, taking over high-level political positions including House seats, Senate seats, and governorships.
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But history shows that even governors' races are susceptible to a national electorate's mood: In a Republican president's first midterm, the president's party tends to lose an average of five governorships.
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It wrested seven governorships from Republicans, and while the wave wasn't big enough to lift Andrew Gillum in Florida or Beto O'Rourke in Texas, they demonstrated unexpected strength in their campaigns.
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Many politicians have been killed during the campaign According to the Mexican Election Institute, more than 18,000 other posts are up for grabs, too, including congressional seats, governorships and municipal positions.
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McConnell helped his party come back from a disastrous defeat in the 2008 elections to regain power across the government, including control of the White House, Senate, House and 33 governorships.
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A key question on Tuesday is whether Democrats can recapture some of the statehouses and governorships they lost during the Obama years, in states like Nevada and New Hampshire, where Mrs.
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On the contrary, Republicans have done quite well — holding the House, the Senate or both for much of the past three decades while increasing their tally of governorships and state legislatures.
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Voter turnout nationwide was the lowest since World War II. Republicans picked up an additional 13 seats in the House, nine Senate seats, two more governorships, and eleven more legislative chambers.
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Republicans are in fighting shape in many Senate contests, but their 23-seat majority in the House and their hold on governorships in Illinois, Michigan and Florida are at real risk.
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The P.R.I.'s challenges at the voting booth in Mexico City were foretold last year, when the party lost control of four state governorships it had also held uninterrupted since 1929.
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She cited the example of the 2018 midterms, when Democrats flipped governorships in Wisconsin and Michigan and gained a House majority by appealing to independents and disaffected Republicans in the suburbs.
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If you're tempted to excuse this by noting that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, I'd point out that Democrats also hold only about one-third of state legislatures and governorships.
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There's no doubt that in a legitimate election, pro-government candidates would lose in a landslide, with the opposition taking control of the large majority of governorships in Venezuela's 23 states.
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Hence when it comes to personal legacies, the Democrats who won governorships in Virginia and New Jersey this month owe a big thank you to the respective incumbent of their states.
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That has done little to extinguish the intraparty debate, after a banner year for Democrats nationally, when they gained 40 House seats and seven governorships amid a backlash against President Trump.
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There are 22 House seats, 20213 Senate races, 22021 governorships, 22018,22021 or so state legislative seats, dozens of referenda, and many more state and local offices on the ballot this November.
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Almost all of the 18 candidates killed across the country so far have been running for local posts in the July 1 elections, which will also decide the presidency, governorships and Congress.
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"We are defending 26 of the 36 gubernatorial elections this year — the highest number of governorships Republicans have had to defend in a single election year in history," the RGA's Thompson said.
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Come January, Democrats still will hold a minority of the nation's governorships, but the gains they made since 2017 — from a record low of 15 to 23 — have given them some swagger.
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It's a big deal that they now have governorships in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — as evidenced by Democrats' netting three House seats in Pennsylvania alone Tuesday night after a court-drawn remap.
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Nor would Republicans now enjoy such lopsided control of state legislatures and governorships, as well as majorities in the House and Senate, and likely control of the Supreme Court for a generation.
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President Obama in an interview broadcast Sunday accepted some of the blame for the Democratic Party's loss of seats in the House, Senate, governorships and state houses during his time in office.
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Born in the small, central state of Queretaro, the 39-year-old career politician helped the party take more than 10 of the country's governorships for the first time in its history.
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Republicans are defending dozens of governorships and state legislative chambers across the country, including in several Southern and Western states where all-Republican governments have passed sweeping reductions in taxes and spending.
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Taking back state legislatures and governorships ahead of the 85033 redistricting – playing the long game as Republicans have done over the past twenty years – should be at the heart of Democratic strategy.
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Indeed, more can and must be done in order for the party to win back more governorships nationwide, to win back control of state legislatures, and to return to power in Washington.
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But given we lost a lot of statehouse seats, governorships, secretary of states, his true legacy is in danger, and I think he can't say that he wasn't part of those losses.
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Hope delivered the White House to the Party twice, but anger helped Republicans capture more than 1,000 state legislative seats previously held by Democrats, most governorships, and both the House and the Senate.
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The big picture: Republicans will still control most legislatures and governorships, but Democrats almost doubled the number of states in which they hold the governor's mansion and both chambers of the state legislature.
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After the voting that year, Republicans dominated state legislatures; they controlled a clear majority of the governorships; they had taken one chamber of Congress and were on their way to winning the other.
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While overall records for women governorships may not fall, there are more women running for governor than ever before, according to Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster and the president of Lake Research Partners.
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Alf Landon won the GOP nomination in 1936 and Adlai Stevenson captured the Democratic nod in 1952 just four years after each won their first offices, the governorships of Kansas and Illinois respectively.
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Nayarit was one of two other governorships up for grabs, and critics of Lopez Obrador noted on Monday that MORENA was unable to mount a serious challenge alone in either of those races.
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If Democrats swept all the races where they had at least a 33 percent chance of winning as implied by the polling, they would end up with a net gain of 14 governorships.
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Democrats suffered grievous down-ballot losses during Mr. Obama's presidency in off-year elections, including the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey in 2009, when he similarly sought to rally African-American voters.
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But Republicans fended off strong Democratic challenges to hold on to the governorships of Florida, Ohio and Iowa, maintaining their control of three states likely to be crucial in the 2020 presidential elections.
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But the question you don't address is: Why have Mr. Obama and the Democrats been unable to translate the president's success to political success within Congress, let alone in governorships and state legislatures?
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The Know-Nothings, a secretive third party, ignited riots and torched churches yet captured about 50 seats in Congress and a few governorships with their virulent opposition to immigrants from Ireland and Germany.
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Ayers served as the executive director of the Republican Governors' Association during the 2010 elections, when the GOP netted six governorships, and has earned praise for Pence's political strategy surrounding the 2018 midterms.
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Instead they lost not only the White House but several governorships, their gains in Congress only pifflingly compensating for the attrition they have suffered, from the Senate to state houses, during Barack Obama's presidency.
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Due to pressure from anti-abortion activists and Republican-held legislatures and governorships, most states are substantially less friendly to abortion rights than they were in the first two decades following Roe v Wade.
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Expect more state-level initiatives if Democrats succeed in taking over more statehouses and governorships this November, said James Watkins, a Georgia-based attorney who is an expert in fiduciary law and securities compliance.
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But governorships, much like the US Senate, are the places where people who are in those seats think about running for president of the United States — and are in a position to do that.
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President Bush's Operation Jump Start began in May 2006, five months before the midterm elections which saw the Democrats retake the House, the Senate and a majority of the governorships from the Republican Party.
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But there's only one way to ensure that what happened to Democrats in 2011-2018 doesn't happen again for the next decade: Win governorships and state legislative seats by the bushel-full this fall.
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Let's assume that Stacy Abrams and Jamie Harrison are the party standard bearers for Senate in Georgia and South Carolina, and Dems have fielded dynamic candidates all over the country for Congress and Governorships.
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O'Malley said there's a sense of urgency for Democrats — who, "asleep at the wheel," have lost numerous local legislative seats and dozens of governorships since 2010 — to start recovering lost ground at that level.
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But many other candidates — both for Congress and for governorships — who are talking "Medicare for all" on the campaign trail either did not acknowledge or declined multiple requests to be interviewed on the subject.
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Preliminary results showed President Enrique Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, losing seven of the dozen governorships at stake in Sunday's polls — including four that the party has controlled for 87 straight years.
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The West looms large for Democrats at every level: More than a dozen House seats are at stake across the broader region, including seats in Texas and California, along with a handful of governorships.
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The president's remarks, five days before U.S. voters determine which party will control Congress and state governorships across the country, drew immediate criticism as an effort to generate fear and energize his political base.
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Op-Ed Contributor The 2016 election has left the Republican Party in its most commanding position since the 1920s, with control of the White House and Congress and a majority of statehouses and governorships.
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The last redistricting wave began eight years ago when the conservative Tea Party movement, driven by opposition to Democratic former President Barack Obama, gave Republicans control of the U.S. House and 10 new governorships.
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The Louisiana law is just one case in a broader strategy to chip away at abortion rights, as abortion opponents advance a long-term and wide-ranging strategy to control state legislatures and governorships.
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They appear more likely than not to lose their House majority and a passel of midwestern governorships, and Trump's unpopularity is the only reason Democrats have any hope of defending their vulnerable Senate seats.
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The governorships offer a chance for Renamo to demonstrate it is a functioning political party with the capacity to govern effectively, said Edward Hobey-Hamsher, senior Africa analyst at British-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.
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"These changes will allow the Executive (branch) an intense political campaign in a shameless way in 2021 just when this chamber and 13 governorships are renewed," said opposition lawmaker Xavier Azuara, from the PAN party.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Hollywood celebrities will make a push next week to urge young people to the polls in Tuesday's U.S. elections, when control of Congress and many state governorships are at stake.
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President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, holds nine of the 12 governorships, while the center-right National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), jointly have three.
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While Democrats have yet to flip a seat in Congress, they have had some successes in state legislative races and hope to win governorships next month in New Jersey and Virginia, where they are favored.
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Roughly 89 million voters will be eligible to vote for the head of government in Mexico City as well as governorships in the states of Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz and the Yucatán.
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Now that Democrats have taken back the House, and a number of governorships and state legislative chambers, we'll be able to restore some of the fairness, integrity, and accountability that Americans deserve from their leaders.
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But the party suffered big losses this year when Democrats picked up governorships in seven states, including states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada that will be important to both parties in the 2020 presidential election.
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It's a coalition that helped moderate Democrats flip seven governorships, two Senate seats and about 40 House districts (the newly Democratic suburbs alone would have secured a House majority) from red to blue in 2018.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, formed in 2017 under Mr. Holder, aims to contest a combination of governorships, legislative seats and more obscure state offices to chip away at Republicans' control of the redistricting process.
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If they are indeed held as planned, it will be a major opportunity for the opposition to make inroads among the 23 governorships up for grabs, which are almost entirely dominated by Maduro-aligned politicians.
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Other exit polls projected that Lopez Obrador&aposs left-wing Morena party would win governorships in the states of Chiapas, Morelos, Tabasco and Veracruz, as well as the race for head of government in Mexico City.
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Its members have a majority in at least two branches of federal government (it's hard to measure partisanship in the judicial branch), and the party controls 68 of 99 state legislatures and 33 of 50 governorships.
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But it's clear, based on that we've lost all of these legislatures and all of these governorships and all of these states during the Obama administration, that the current community organizing we have is too small.
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Trump and the presidency may not be on the ballot, but congressional seats, statehouse races, and governorships are, and Democrats have a lot of ground to gain if they want to reshape the country's power dynamics.
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Avoiding disaster isn't the same as winning, of course, but when the party has only 503 governorships and 250 state legislatures, and is completely powerless in D.C., veering away from catastrophe is a victory in itself.
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Avoiding disaster isn't the same as winning, of course, but when the party has only 25 governorships and 22018 state legislatures, and is completely powerless in D.C., veering away from catastrophe is a victory in itself.
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At least half of the dozen U.S. governorships being decided on Tuesday remain too close to call, though political experts agree both Republicans and Democrats could gain seats in states they would seem unlikely to win.
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True, the Democrats did well, picking up state legislative seats from Georgia to New Hampshire, including a massive swing of at least 20163 seats in Virginia, as well as the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.
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We've got a third of the Senate that's running, we've got all the House that's running, we've got state houses and governorships across the country where this is going to be an issue on the ballot.
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And Democrats won a handful of governorships that had been held by Republicans, including in Kansas where Democrat Laura Kelly beat Kris Kobach, who Trump had appointed to co-chair his now-abandoned voter fraud commission.
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While this may be true, it did not appear to stop Democrats from taking back the House, picking up governorships in battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin, or Senate seats in target states Arizona and Nevada.
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Democrats, playing catch-up after a net loss of 13 governorships and more than 900 state legislative seats during the eight-year Obama administration, fielded their largest slate of legislative candidates in more than three decades.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Democratic voters in New Hampshire selected Molly Kelly, a former state senator, as their nominee for governor on Tuesday, as female candidates for governorships continue to show their strength in primary elections this year.
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The G.O.P., which lost the House in November as well as four key governorships in the Midwest, depends on its gerrymandered districts in the region for a trove of seats in both Congress and state legislatures.
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Furthermore, 38 governorships will soon be on the ballot, in Virginia and New Jersey in 2017 plus three dozen more states in 2018, including in pivotal major states like Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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The PRI was also on track to lose all the governorships at stake and even the bulk of the mayoral and congressional races in its last urban bastion, the state of Mexico, which nearly surrounds Mexico City.
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Since Obama became president in 220006, Democrats have lost 2202 governorships, 2628 Senate seats, 28500 House seats and more than 6900 state legislature seats, according to an analysis conducted by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
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Dems pick nominees in critical Wisconsin, Minnesota gov races Winning, or holding, governorships in states like Wisconsin and Minnesota will be critical two years before the next reapportionment process is scheduled to start with the 2020 Census.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Allies of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila won 14 of 19 provincial governorships decided on Saturday, the election commission said, shoring up the president's local support despite calls to step down this year.
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The Democratic Party was significantly weakened in the 2016 elections — not just at the very top, but in state legislatures and governorships — and its members have been disagreeing quite vehemently about what the future should look like.
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"Those senior Democratic officials have been unable to hold on to any of these states for governorships or for congressmen," said Richard A. Harpootlian, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, who backs Mr. Sanders.
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Democrats are also in contention to retain or capture governorships in rust belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that were pivotal to Mr. Trump's victory and fertile ground for Republicans for much of the last decade.
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They lost nearly 40 House seats, lost control of at least seven governorships and over 300 state legislative seats, and lost a sizeable proportion of suburban white voters in key states they'll need to win in 2020.
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But now a whole lot of those governorships and state legislature seats will be up for grabs again — giving Democrats the chance to make similar gains, or at least to make substantial improvement from where they are now.
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The GOP controls the governorships in most of the major swing states and officials from both parties have criticized Trump for sowing doubts about the legitimacy of an election that polls show him losing by a decisive margin.
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Republicans hold the governorships of four out of six states in the region, including Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire -- which the GOP attributes to its candidates&apos fiscal conservatism, moderate social policies, and Democrats&apos financial mismanagement.
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Beyond Washington, the news isn't much better: Women hold fewer than 245% of state legislative positions, 0003% of governorships and 2000% of mayoral posts in all cities with more than 299.9,245 residents, the Center for American Progress reports.
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If there is any good news for Democrats, it is that control of the legislatures in all 2628 states and the governorships in 28500 states is at stake in the 6900 election, which is only 2628 months away.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party holds nine of the 12 contested governorships, but he is polling lower than any president in the past two decades, and his plummeting popularity could hurt his party's chances on Sunday.
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Inslee on Saturday relinquished the chairmanship of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) after a year in which his party picked up seven gubernatorial offices, the largest single-year swing since Republicans won 2628 governorships in the 28500 elections.
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Tuesday night, the Republican Party lost considerable ground in state government, with Democrats taking over the governorships of Nevada, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maine while also flipping critical state legislatures in New Hampshire, New York, and Colorado.
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Democrats wrested control of governorships from Republicans in seven states on Tuesday including Wisconsin, where they ousted Scott Walker after eight tumultuous years as the state's chief executive, and Kansas, a surprise victory in a longtime Republican stronghold.
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The House cultivates talent for the White House and executive branch, the Senate, governorships, lobbying firms and policy shops across the country, so the makeup of House staff has an effect far beyond one side of the Capitol.
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And if you're tempted to dismiss the notion by pointing out that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, I'd point out that Republicans control the Senate, the House and roughly two out of three governorships and state legislatures.
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Granted, Republicans — both men and women — have suffered dramatic losses in elections at national, state and local levels since 2016; they have lost control of the House, eight governorships and nine state legislative chambers since Mr. Trump's election.
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And although Nicolás Maduro would almost certainly lose a presidential contest in Venezuela in 2018, if one were to be held, his party was able to win or steal a large number of state governorships just last month.
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With more than 500 women currently running for the House, Senate, or governorships and many more for statewide offices, this is a time for women to make their voices heard not only in protests but at the ballot box.
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A year after Democrats claimed 40 House seats and a series of governorships thanks to a surge of support from suburbanites, the results in Virginia in particular make clear that their drift from the G.O.P. won't be easily reversed.
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The study focused on governorships because, according to the foundation's previous research, executive offices are hardest for women to attain: Voters have long been more comfortable electing women to legislatures than to offices where they can make unilateral decisions.
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Mickey Ibarra, a veteran Latino lobbyist who served as director of The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs under President Clinton, said that's kept Hispanic politicians away from the two traditional springboards to the presidency: governorships and Senate seats.
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In addition to the highly contested presidential seat, Mexicans cast their ballot for more than 3,400 posts, among them 500 Congressional positions, 128 Senate seats and nine state governorships — including for Mexico City, won by AMLO ally Claudia Sheinbaum.
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Many Republicans believe Mr. Kobach and Ms. Black as nominees in Kansas and Tennessee would bolster the Democrats' chances to win, or at the very least make the R.G.A. spend more money to hold the governorships in both states.
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Polling in the days leading up the vote suggested that the opposition was poised to win most of the contests, increasing the number of governorships under its control from three to as many as 19993, according to some predictions.
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The Democrats took control of the House and won a few critical governorships during Tuesday's midterm elections, delivering a rebuke to President Trump, as Republicans maintained control of the Senate and had their own big successes in state races.
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In the eight states within the region, stretching from Montana in the north to Arizona and New Mexico in the south, the GOP owns 10 of 16 Senate seats, 19 of 31 House seats and six of eight governorships.
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The platform itself is reminiscent of a message Democrats campaigned on in 22017, a midterm election year that also came after historic Republican corruption scandals and resulted in Democratic control in the House, Senate, and a majority of governorships.
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The platform itself is reminiscent of a message Democrats campaigned on in 2006, a midterm election year that also came after historic Republican corruption scandals and resulted in Democratic control in the House, Senate, and a majority of governorships.
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And that will mean convincing Republicans, who control almost two-thirds of state legislatures and a smaller majority of governorships, to give up the institutional advantage that has given them multiple recent presidents who got fewer votes than the also-rans.
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A midterm election that became a referendum on President Donald Trump's divisive first two years in office cost his Republican Party the House and key governorships Tuesday, but gave enough wins to Republicans for Trump to attempt a victory lap.
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Why it matters: Years-long strikes and rallies across the country have paid off, and several states with Democratically-controlled legislatures and governorships have made it easier to institute such policies with the goal of lifting people out of poverty.
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STATE-LEVEL RACES Republicans now hold 33 governorships and 65 legislative chambers, with Democrats controlling 31 and two being tied, according to the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which does not include Nebraska's nonpartisan, unicameral legislature in its count.
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And the opposition, a fragile coalition of parties united only in their determination to defeat him, began to fracture visibly last month, following a rout in elections for state governorships (which appear to have been partly rigged by the government).
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The House will likely get a bit easier in 2022, as Democrats now hold governorships in some big states that have GOP-gerrymandered maps where they'll be able to fight for court-drawn or compromise maps after the next census.
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He promised single-payer healthcare and free tuition at public colleges; she made inconvenient references to the Republicans' control of Congress and lots of governorships, which might disrupt, for example, his plan to release roughly 500,000 prisoners in short order.
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Democrats need to clearly understand why former President Obama, by failing to rally his base in congressional elections, left a legacy of political disaster for Democrats, with Republicans controlling the House, Senate and a majority of governorships and state houses.
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President Obama, whose personal popularity was not transferable and who presided in eight years over a historic loss of Democratic congressional seats, state legislative seats and governorships, has already absolved himself of any responsibility for the decimation of his party.
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Democrats have a decent chance of winning control of the House of Representatives in November along with several governorships and state legislative chambers as voters across the country are energized by what they consider to be a dangerous Trump presidency.
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Many of the voters who propelled Barack Obama to victory twice didn't show up for midterm elections, helping Republicans recapture both houses of Congress by 2014 and win control of 31 governorships and nearly 70 percent of state legislative chambers.
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Despite Trump's description of the midterm results as "close to complete victory," there were some notable setbacks for his party, especially at the state level, with a net loss of at least six governorships and more than two hundred legislative seats.
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But late Sunday night, Venezuela election officials announced that it was President Maduro's governing party that had scored a lopsided victory, taking 17 governorships, while the opposition won only five, with the results of one state still hanging in the balance.
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Here's what you need to know: • Voters delivered a forceful rebuke of President Trump and his party on Tuesday, with Democrats winning the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey and making inroads in suburban communities that once favored the Republicans.
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The Republican Party will either rally around its Republican president — and defend our shared accomplishments — or it will enter the fall with a depressed base and a turnout disadvantage that will lead to major losses in Congress, governorships and state legislatures.
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After women are elected to statewide office, including governorships and Senate seats, more women pursue roles in the state legislature four years down the line, according to research by Amelia Showalter, the digital analytics director for President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
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And the impact could be considerable, especially if the states where Democrats picked up governorships commit themselves to the 26 percent to 28 percent reduction in greenhouse gases promised by President Barack Obama at the 2015 Paris summit on climate change.
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Here's what you need to know: Democrats gained control of the House and several important governorships in the midterm elections on Tuesday, most likely presenting President Trump with a considerably more hostile political environment for the remainder of his term.
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During the Trump era, Republicans have still succeeded in holding blue-state governorships — including G.O.P. re-election victories by incumbents in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire and Vermont on Tuesday — but voters have long treated federal contests differently from state ones.
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Democrats lost more than 1,000 seats in state legislatures and governorships during President Barack Obama's two terms in the Oval Office, and those defeats found increased scrutiny once Mr. Trump ascended into the presidency and the Democrats held diminished political power.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, in an interview, also held up Democratic wins for governorships in New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin to argue that the party's path back to 270 Electoral College votes had come into focus on Tuesday.
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In 2015, he was elected as the PAN's national president, and a year later engineered the party's remarkable successes in regional elections, gaining seven of the nine governorships in play and walloping President Peña Nieto's party, the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Progressive Populism Can Save the Democrats," by Dan Kaufman (Sunday Review, July 8): Since 2010, the Democratic Party has lost control of the House and the Senate, as well as numerous governorships and state legislatures.
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I have said this before: The "consultant industrial complex" that has dominated the Democratic Party is one reason the GOP now controls Congress and a majority of governorships and state legislatures after we just had a two-term Democratic president.
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And unless they break the Republican lock on state governments by winning governorships in a handful of big states, like Wisconsin and Ohio, they may be unable to prevent Republicans from continuing to draw congressional maps that favor their candidates.
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After Republicans won big in successive election cycles to take control of more governorships than at almost any other time in the party's history, the GOP now finds itself defending a huge number of seats in critical swing states in 2202.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president is expected to score comfortable wins in Sunday's state elections in the first test of his popularity since taking office, with preliminary results and an exit poll showing his party taking both governorships up for grabs.
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The consequences of this week's midterm elections will ripple outward through the next decade: Should Democrats win key governorships and state legislative seats, they can begin to roll back the advantage Republicans have built in for themselves in the House of Representatives.
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All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 35 U.S. Senate seats and 36 governorships are up for grabs on Tuesday in elections focused on dozens of competitive races from coast to coast that opinion polls show could go either way.
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If either Clinton or Sanders gets elected, they're likely to inherit part of Obama's record that they would prefer to leave behind — the absolute dominance of Republicans of every branch of government, from governorships to state legislatures to Congress to the Supreme Court.
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The speaker's move could help his party's members deflect questions about Trump -- but it also means discord will continue ahead of a general election in which control of the Senate, several governorships and blue-state House seats are also on the line.
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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — The golden days for Republican governors are gone: Elections over the last two years have whittled the party's record-high 33 governorships to 27, with discouraging returns in the Midwest and losses in four states President Donald Trump carried in 2016.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Republicans extended their majority of U.S. governorships on Tuesday as 12 states voted for chief executives, though the high-profile race in North Carolina was too close to call and the outcome may not be known until next week.
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The good news for Democrats and bad news for Republicans is that, despite their implied differences, both the polls and race raters at this point are suggesting that Democrats are probably going to gain a significant number of governorships in the fall.
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In 22012, this insidious form of targeting poor, black, Latino, and young voters could be the hidden factor in delivering a passel of key elections for Congress and governorships to the GOP—just as it boosted Donald Trump's presidential bid in 230.
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Voters gave Democrats a mandate to share power in Washington and the states, such as the decisive victories for the governorships in Wisconsin and Michigan, two midwest states where Trump squeaked out a 220006 victory, but could not do so in 2202.
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It's now the second biggest party in Congress, behind Mr. Haddad's PT. And Mr. Bolsonaro's supporters also look likely to win governorships in key states, such as São Paulo and Minas Gerais, Brazil's most populous state, in the runoff on Oct. 28.
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In addition, reactionary Republicans control more than sixty per cent of the country's state legislatures and governorships, and vacancies on many courts, where appointments have for years been held up by extremists in Congress, will likely now be filled by right-wingers.
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"Some of it is even more egregious than what is currently happening in Washington, D.C." Republicans have gained power rapidly in the states since the 2008 presidential election, winning 33 governorships and in many instances entrenching themselves in power through legislative redistricting.
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These are the constituencies that did not like Hillary Clinton and were ready to give Trump a chance in 2016 — but abandoned him in 2018 and delivered the House of Representatives to the Democrats, and then also two governorships in red states.
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Hillary Clinton became the sixth Democratic Presidential candidate in the past seven elections to win the popular vote; yet during Barack Obama's Presidency the Party lost both houses of Congress, fourteen governorships, and thirty state legislatures, comprising more than nine hundred seats.
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His presidency will end with Democrats in possession of 11 fewer Senate seats (depending on how you count), more than 60 fewer House seats, at least 14 fewer governorships and more than 900 fewer seats in state legislatures than when it began.
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Republicans have engaged in gerrymandering practices in recent years in part because they have had the opportunity to do so — the GOP controls the governorships and state legislatures in about half the states, after wave elections in the 2010 and 2014 midterms.
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The brightest statewide spots for Democrats, in fact, were largely in the Midwest, where Democrats won governorships in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — the three states that handed Trump the presidency in 2016 — and posted impressive margins in Minnesota, a state Trump lost only narrowly.
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Across the board, the failure to win governorships, legislatures, U.S. Senate seats, the House of Representatives, and most importantly the White House, sent a very powerful message: We're mad as hell, and since you won't listen to us, we're going to make you listen.
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Hotly contested gubernatorial primary races across the country could make history on Tuesday, as Republicans hope to continue to erode Democratic control of New England governorships and progressives look to nominate the nation&aposs first-ever transgender candidate to a state&aposs highest office.
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Not only was the loss a devastating emotional blow, it also left Democrats broken at every level of federal and state government: they lost the presidency, remain the minority party in the House and Senate, maintain only 17 governorships, and control just 18 state legislatures.
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This midterm elections this week that handed Democrats control of the House and governorships of swing states showed that voters demanded action to protect workers and rebalance our economy, and provides an action agenda for new state and congressional leaders as we look towards 2020.
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In Illinois and Wisconsin, fast food workers went door to door to mobilize voters around $85033 minimum wage and union rights, helping candidates who backed workers win these key governorships, and putting an end to the punitive reigns of Bruce Rauner and Scott Walker.
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In addition to the House and Senate, the party now holds 873 governorships to the Democrats' 18; has total control of 30 state legislatures; has split control in eight others; and has gained a total of 913 state Senate and House seats since 2010.
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In the midst of an economic calamity largely of his own making, with opinion polls showing support among Venezuelans for his government at less than 30%, his United Socialist Party (PSUV) won 563 out of 23 governorships and more than half the national vote.
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Half of the House members who've announced they're retiring next year, 15 of the 30, are leaving to run for governorships or Senate seats in their home states, and among those running for governor there's an even party split: five Democrats and five Republicans.
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Their timing was particularly fortuitous: It gave the GOP control of key state legislatures and governorships immediately after the 2010 U.S. Census, which gave them the upper hand when drawing the state legislative maps and federal congressional districts that would stand for the next decade.
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After Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams, two African American candidates in the midterm elections who lost their respective bids for the governorships in Florida and Georgia, Sanders attributed their losses to race while appearing to excuse any role racism may have played in voter choice.
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Earlier this week, Venezuela's election board delayed an election for state governorships to 2017 from December, giving the government more breathing room before going to the polls.. Reporting by Corina Pons and Alexandra Ulmer; Writing by Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Peter Cooney, Andrew Cawthorne and Michael Perry
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The fear is that if the Democrats go too far left in the primaries this year, they risk alienating voters they need to win in general elections come November, when regaining control of Congress, as well as picking up governorships and seats in state legislatures, is paramount.
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In a new analysis, Cook editor Amy Walter says she feels a similarity to a wave of Democratic congressional victories in 6900, in which the party took control of the House, the Senate and a majority of governorships during former President George W. Bush's second term.
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Along with regaining control of the House, that 2628 election saw statehouses and governorships flip from blue to red; and this was crucial as the 28500 census led the way to the 6900 redistricting in which GOP statehouses re-drew districts more favorable to GOP candidates; 2628.
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If the Democrats are ever to regain the power they have lost during the past eight years (the House, the Senate, a majority of governorships and a majority of state legislatures), they will have to balance their decades-long lurch into "diversity" issues with political realities.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — A polarizing president electrifies the opposition party going into his first midterm election, raising the party's hopes that it can reclaim governorships, ram through major policy change at the state level and redraw legislative lines in its favor for a decade to come.
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Both Democrats and Republicans draw biased maps, of course — the two cases before the Supreme Court this term make that clear — but modern partisan gerrymandering is mostly the work of Republicans, who control a majority of governorships, as well as the legislative chambers in 32 states.
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Others note that in last year's midterm elections, Democrats were able to wrest four Midwestern governorships from Republicans, including three in states Mr. Trump captured in 2016 — showing the value of trying to win back voters in that region who might be disenchanted with the president.
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Any reversal of an election that Republicans believe they already won in a state as symbolically important as Florida — the country's most competitive political battleground — would be a blow to a party that had a net loss of at least 2784 House seats and six governorships.
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FAIRFAX, Va. — Voters delivered their first forceful rebuke of President Trump and his party on Tuesday night, with Democrats exploiting Mr. Trump's deep unpopularity to capture the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey and make significant inroads into suburban communities that once favored the Republican Party.
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But by maintaining the intense support of his red-state conservative base, Mr. Trump strengthened his party's hold on the Senate and extended Republican dominance of several swing states crucial to his re-election campaign, including Florida, Iowa and Ohio, where the G.O.P. retained the governorships.
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In total, governorships in two states, state legislative seats in three states and a handful of big-city mayoral posts are all up for grabs on Tuesday, as well as some important down-ballot statewide offices that could be launching pads for future senators or governors.
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The Lima group this week criticized a nationwide election held in Venezuela on Sunday, when the ruling Socialist Party took 18 of 23 governorships in a nationwide vote despite widespread anger over economic hardship, that has left millions suffering food shortages, a currency collapse and soaring inflation.
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Walker, who lost his bid for re-election in November's elections, argued in a Facebook post that his office would remain among the most powerful governorships in the country even if he approves the new legislation, although he stopped short of explicitly promising to do so.
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Rebuilding the Democratic Party The veteran political scientist Theda Skocpol, in an article titled, "A Guide to Rebuilding the Democratic Party, from the Ground Up," is more interested in how Democrats can rebuild their party after losing the White House, Congress, 18 governorships and 33 state legislative bodies.
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Interstate policy and state power-building promptly dropped out of view again during the Obama presidency, even as Democrats lost dangerous ground in state legislatures and governorships, and conservatives showed how well prepared they were to quickly implement an agenda of tax cuts, right-to-work, and aggressive redistricting.
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Contenders for governorships are perfectly positioned to spell out the disastrous effects for their states of Trump-GOP eviscerations of health and social spending; they can also articulate bold, inclusive plans to promote economic innovation and growth in ways that reach into smaller cities, towns, and rural districts.
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The Democratic Party hasn't managed to elect many women to the technocratic executive jobs — governorships — from which those (boring!) campaigns are most often run, though Gina Raimondo in Rhode Island is sometimes mentioned, and Stacey Abrams could do it if she wins in Georgia and doesn't pause for breath.
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In 20203, we had a very unpopular president pursuing a very unpopular far-right agenda in cahoots with a far-right Congress, and what we were able to do in 2005, which we haven't been able to accomplish since, we won the governorships in both New Jersey and Virginia.
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Pessimism about government Although November's elections led to Democratic control of the US House and gains in governorships and state legislatures, Democrats themselves remain largely pessimistic about both the direction of the country (68% pessimistic) and the way the government in Washington will work (93%) in the coming years.
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USA-ELECTION-HOLLYWOOD 'Cool to vote': Hollywood election telethon aims to get youth to polls LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood celebrities will make a push next week to urge young people to the polls in Tuesday's U.S. elections, when control of Congress and many state governorships are at stake.
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Mr. Maduro's party then won regional elections in a landslide last October, taking most of the nation's governorships, and it further solidified its gains in December by sweeping municipal elections amid a boycott by the fractious alliance of opposition parties protesting what it called a rigged electoral system.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, formed last year under the leadership of Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, has settled on a strategy to contest a combination of governorships, legislative seats and more obscure state offices to chip away at Republicans' sweeping control of the redistricting process.
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In taking stock of conservatives' gains in the Senate on Wednesday morning — a bright spot in an election in which the Republicans lost their hold on many moderate suburban districts and seven governorships — Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, vowed to continue pressing ahead with the confirmation of judges.
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Democrats picked up at least 27 seats in the House on Tuesday, with 20163 still undecided, and claimed seven additional governorships in places like Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas, states that Mr. Trump won two years ago and will be crucial to his chances of re-election in 2020.
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THE TWIN RACES for the governorships of Mississippi (on November 5th) and Louisiana (on the 16th) will show whether, as a former House Speaker once said, "all politics is local", or whether, in the days of Donald Trump, national partisanship supersedes everything and even local politics are not local any more.
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The races for the House and Senate as well as state governorships and legislatures have been a headache for the market going back to World War II. In the period since, the has declined 2.2 percent in the second quarter and 0.9 percent for the third quarter in midterm election years.
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Democrats can stage a dramatic comeback in the 2018 midterm elections by starting — now — to compete aggressively for and win many of the governorships that are currently held by Republicans and to effectively coordinate this campaign with House and Senate Democrats to create a rising tide that lifts all Democratic boats.
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Their political fortunes remained intermingled while both were in office—when Patrick handily won a second term in 2010, a year in which Democrats dropped 11 governorships nationwide, it augured Obama's own successful reelection two years later—but that's where the similarities end; their tenures as executives do not bear comparison.
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Should the official vote count confirm Mr. Maduro's predictions of a landslide victory, his party would own nearly the entire electoral landscape of Venezuela, including nearly all governorships and the all-powerful Constituent Assembly, the lawmaking body that Mr. Maduro created over the summer while neutering the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
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Democrats harnessed voter fury toward President Trump to win control of the House and capture pivotal governorships Tuesday night as liberals and moderates banded together to deliver a forceful rebuke of Mr. Trump, even as Republicans held on to their Senate majority by claiming a handful of conservative-leaning seats.
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The '21923 midterm elections produced what was called the Republican Revolution, with the party winning control of both the House and the Senate for the first time in 21942 years, capturing a majority of the nation's governorships and dealing Bill Clinton a crushing setback only two years into his presidency.
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Here's everything we know to date about who might be speaking: Congressional leaders: Trump's former presidential rivals: Senators: Governors: Members of Congress: Other party figures: State attorneys general: Candidates: Not on the list: Given that Republicans currently hold 31 governorships, surprisingly few state chief executives are on the preliminary list.
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Meanwhile, the third-ranking Democratic leader, Herring, a 57-year-old white former state senator who is running for governor in 2021 (Virginia has a one-term limit on governorships) had an admission of his own: He and his friends "dressed like rappers" in blackface for a college party in the 1980s.
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Sentiment waxes and wanes in reaction to the events of the day, but Second Amendment rights are in fact widely and energetically supported today, and the prospect of the Second Amendment being undone — with a Republican Congress, Republican president, and a healthy Republican majority in the nation's state legislatures and governorships — is preposterous.
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In the past few years, however, I have had a very poor return on my investment; despite controlling both houses of Congress, most governorships, and most state legislatures, incumbent Republicans seem to exist in a perpetual state of emasculation, ready to bow to leftist wishes without even a whisper of genuine protest.
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The nation was shocked by the discovery of Mr. Musando's strangled, beaten body on the outskirts of Nairobi last Monday, just as the various campaigns — for the presidency and vice presidency, the governorships, the county assemblies, the National Assembly and the Senate (including some seats set aside for women) — entered the final stretch.
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Here's are POLITICO's top takeaways from Tuesday's primary elections: Democrats bet on boring in the Midwest As Democrats plot to rebuild the "blue wall" after years of neglect that resulted in Donald Trump's 2016 victory, the party turned Tuesday to two rather boring candidates to recapture governorships in two crucial, upper Midwestern states.
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Although Kavanaugh's nomination process has galvanized both the right and the left, in the areas where Trump is campaigning — mostly states he won in 2016 where Democrats are now defending 10 Senate seats and some governorships — Republicans are counting on the political divide to favor their side in pushing Trump supporters to the polls.
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Thousands of narrower "down-ticket" contests are also in play: for all 250 seats in the House of Representatives, which are up for grabs every two years; 2000 of the 100 slots in the Senate; 12 governorships; almost 6,000 state legislative posts; and countless local mayoralties, judgeships, school board posts and city council seats.
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Those Senate seats, which may be back in play for Republicans, would have certainly give, a Clinton White House the right to complain that it's the Republicans to blame for the gridlock in D.C. And that's not even to mention the really "down ballot" races that are crucial for control of statehouses and governorships.
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In states from Massachusetts to Florida, a phalanx of young black leaders in the Democratic Party is striding into some of the biggest elections of 212, staking early claims on governorships and channeling the outcry of rank-and-file Democrats who favor all-out battle with Mr. Trump and increasingly question his legitimacy as president.
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Democratic donors are flooding the wide-reaching legal effort with millions of dollars not only to help defeat President Donald Trump in 218 but to affect elections all the way down the ballot — from the Senate and the House to the governorships and state legislative races that will shape redistricting and the next 230 years of state political maps.
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All in all, such a political platform proved to be alluring to Mexicans, who flocked to the polling stations on July 1 and handed AMLO and his MORENA-led coalition the presidency, control of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, five governorships — including that of Mexico City — and the majority in several of the local legislatures.
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This is AMLO's third bite at the presidential cherry: His newly created party is currently expected to win up to five governorships, will come close to or could obtain a majority in both chambers of the congress, and AMLO himself holds what appears to be an unassailable lead of 2628 to 28503 percent in the presidential vote polls.
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But the midterm elections also made clear that Mr. Trump and his party continue to hold important structural advantages on the electoral map — including near-total dominance of the conservative states that hold outsized power in the Senate, and a tenacious hold on the governorships of the two biggest swing states on the presidential map, Florida and Ohio.
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If the country delivered a mixed verdict nationally on Mr. Trump and his brand of unrepentant nationalism and white-hot rhetoric on immigration in the 2018 midterms — Democrats seized the House and ceded ground in the Senate, and the two parties split key governorships — the results were far clearer in a region that once defined moderate Republicanism in America.
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In 22019, after Democrat Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE won the White House, Republicans Christie Todd Whitman and George Allen won the New Jersey and Virginia governorships respectively.
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Demand for commercial airtime is particularly strong ahead of elections for one third of the U.S. Senate seats, and all 435 House of Representatives seats as well as positions such as state governorships, because U.S. President Donald Trump's Republican party is fighting to keep its majority in both houses of Congress while Democrats are battling to turn the tables.
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Spurred by Mr. Trump's election — or at least encouraged by it — a contingent of rich, fairly famous and largely Democratic neophytes has begun to line up for some of the most important elections of 2017 and 2018, including for governorships in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Nevada and New Mexico, and a mayoral race in New Orleans.
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We took home governorships in Virginia and New Jersey; at least tied if not flipped the Virginia House of Delegates in the party's best performance in the state since the literal 22018s; and won a special state Senate election in Washington that gave Democrats control of the state's entire government and therefore control of all of the state governments on the West Coast.
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And gun control advocates saw some important victories in the 2018 midterms — Washington state voted to raise the legal age to buy semiautomatic refiles from 78 to 21, and Democrats won governorships in states such as Wisconsin and Nevada and took back the House of Representatives, potentially setting the stage for more action at both the federal and state level.
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At this writing, his margin is less than 103,210 votes, but if it holds it will be the latest in a string of victories for Democrats in the Trump era, part of a blue wave that progressive hope will wash away hundreds of Republicans and install Democrats in 22018 when 218 governorships, 435 House seats, and thousands state legislative seats are on the ballot in November.
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At this writing, his margin is less than 20183,000 votes, but if it holds it will be the latest in a string of victories for Democrats in the Trump era, part of a blue wave that progressive hope will wash away hundreds of Republicans and install Democrats in 2018 when 36 governorships, 435 House seats, and thousands state legislative seats are on the ballot in November.
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Since the election of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 28503 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE in 22019, Democrats have lost 64 House of Representative and 13 U.S. Senate seats, Republican governorships stand at 33 and Republicans have won or converted more than 1,000 seats of state legislatures.
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Whatever Obama accomplished after eight years of his presidency, Republicans control the House, the Senate, the presidency, governorships, state legislatures and possibly soon the Supreme Court to pursue policies that impose hardship on the middle class, division among our people, antagonism against our president throughout the free world, and pain against the poor that is the antithesis of what leaders of faith such as Pope Francis teach.
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With approval ratings of 2628 percent for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and a dismal 28503 percent for the Republican Congress, Democrats could be poised to win landslide victories in this year's elections — from the U.S. House and Senate to governorships and state legislatures.
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Meanwhile, the Tea Party – a conservative movement born from the backlash against Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction MORE's presidency – successfully mobilized Republican voters, giving the GOP a majority in both the House and Senate, not to mention a grip on 33 governorships across the country.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE suggested early Wednesday that Republican candidates who did not embrace him in the midterm elections lost as a result, calling the final outcome a "very Big Win" despite the GOP losing control of the House and several governorships.
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It was a gamble to speak publicly, but it wasn't crazy to imagine that by the time this article appeared, the political landscape could be transformed — that the opposition, which already held a supermajority in Congress, could win a similar proportion of governorships; that a regional victory would carry into the municipal campaign in December; that they would enter this year's presidential race with momentum against a deeply unpopular president, polling at 25 percent; that the negotiation for political prisoners might even allow López to challenge Maduro himself.
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His victory caps a season of breakthroughs for African-American Democrats running for powerful governorships, including next door in Georgia, where Stacey Abrams could become the country's first black female governor, and in Maryland, where Democrats nominated Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P. Mr. Gillum is likely to face a difficult fight in the general election against Representative Ron DeSantis, the G.O.P. nominee who is a vocal ally of President Trump, and Republicans have already signaled that they intend to brand Mr. Gillum as outside the political mainstream of his traditionally moderate state.
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