In his press conference at the State Capitol announcing his withdrawal, Amann maintained that after 18 years in the state legislature, he was the most qualified Democratic candidate, and declined to endorse any of his challengers, the Hartford Courant reports.
After struggling in the polls and at fundraising, former Connecticut House Speaker James Amann ended his bid for governor Thursday.
In his press conference at the State Capitol announcing his withdrawal, Amann maintained that after 18 years in the state legislature, he was the most qualified Democratic candidate, and declined to endorse any of his challengers, the Hartford Courant reports.
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Former Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan's congressional campaign is just getting started, but one interview she gave as a media commentator is already threatening to cut into her support with a key conservative constituency: gun owners.
Since McGlowan entered the race for Mississippi's 1st Congressional District Monday, Mississippi blogs have circulated comments she made in an interview last summer suggesting that citizens should provide an inventory of the guns they own on federal tax forms. New Castle County Executive Chris Coons officially declared his candidacy for Delaware’s open Senate seat Wednesday, giving Democrats a credible recruit against GOP Rep. Mike Castle. Coons’s announcement comes just over a week after Attorney General Beau Biden stunned Democrats in Delaware and Washington by declining to run for the seat once held by his father, Vice President Joe Biden. State Sen. Ted Deutch won a Democratic special primary election Tuesday to succeed former Rep. Robert Wexler, giving him a decided edge in the April 13 special general election in Florida's solidly Democratic 19th District.
Wexler, a seven-term Democrat, stepped down last month to become president of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. |
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