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Other political figures, such as Ed Koch, Jim Leach, Zell Miller, Colin Powell, did not formally leave their parties, but supported a candidate from another party. Miller and Koch, though Democrats, supported Republican George W. Bush 's 2004 reelection campaign, while Powell and Leach supported Barack Obama 's 2008 presidential campaign.
This marks the beginning of the "party switch" – liberals in the North and Urban Cities slowly flip Democratic. Democrats have the full trifecta of government for 26 years, government was divided for 8 years, [m] and Republicans had a trifecta for 2 years. [n]
1999 – Bob Smith, U.S. senator from New Hampshire (1990–2003), left the Republican Party on July 13, 1999, while running for the party's presidential nomination; became an independent and declared himself a candidate for the U.S. Taxpayers Party presidential nomination and an independent candidate. On November 1, 1999, he returned to the ...
Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938 75th: Democratic: Republican: Lost Democratic renomination, defeated for re-election as a ...
Democrats were hoping to flip at least one U.S. House seat in Wisconsin to retain control of the lower chamber. ... Either party needs 218 of the 435 seats to secure the majority. According to USA ...
This is also the last election where both parties flipped states and is also the most recent year when an incumbent candidate from either party would flip any states, with Bush taking the two which he did not win in 2000, in both New Mexico and Iowa.
Republicans finally rallied behind a new standard-bearer Wednesday as the US House of Representatives elected its 56th speaker -- ending weeks of party infighting that paralyzed Congress in a ...
The party is also using the January 6 riot and its aftermath in critical state legislative races. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is revving up its push against 2020 election deniers.