Monmouth County New Jersey Republican Rally 2014
On November 2nd the Monmouth County Republican party had a rally in Union Beach, NJ. Attending the rally were many of the GOP candidates for Hazlet and other local towns. Meet some of the...
By: Leonard Rapoport
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NEW ROCHELLE How tough a time is Republican Rob Astorino having in his quest to defeat Gov. Cuomo? When the Westchester County Executive went to a Baptist church to seek votes Sunday, he was stood up for a half hour by the pastor, who was busy down the street...endorsing Cuomo.
The pastor was one of a half-dozen black leaders in Astorinos home turf who not only endorsed Cuomo, but slammed the Republican gubernatorial candidate for his ongoing battle with the federal government over housing regulations in the county.
"His refusal to enforce anti-discrimination laws has no place here in New York State," the Rev DeQuincy Hentz of the Shiloh Baptist in New Rochelle said at a meeting of the black religious leaders.
But after endorsing Cuomo, Hentz went up the street to his own church and introduced Astorino to his congregation, saying he welcomed all people running for office to speak and share their views.
Adding to Astorino's woes Sunday, the Rev. Franklyn Richardson, leader of the 5,000-member Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon and a backer of Astorino's re-election campaign in the county a year ago, also threw his support behind Cuomo.
Richardson welcomed Cuomo to speak at his church Sunday, saying he supported the governor's re-election, but still supported Astorino in the role of county executive.
Astorino, who has accused the federal government of meddling in what should be locally controlled housing regulations, said he was not upset by the actions of the religious leaders.
"Pastor Hentz and I have a good relationship," he said.
The pro-Cuomo stance of the Westchester religious leaders underscored the troubled state of Astorino's candidacy as the two candidates undertook a final Sunday of church appearances and campaign appearances. Polls show Astorino trailing Cuomo by double-digit margins.
Astorino used his church appearances Sunday to make a religious appeal to voters, saying he is being attacked because of his Christian beliefs and urging church goers to vote their values, not their party because your values and your party don't always match up," he told the largely black audience at the Family Christian Center in New Rochelle.
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Republicans woke up Sunday to a wave of new polls that showed their Senate candidates surging ahead in key states -- including one in Iowa that looked particularly grim for Democrats -- giving the GOP a jolt of enthusiasm going into the 2014 campaign cycle's final hours.
Two days from the midterm election, Washington's political class was buzzing around news that Iowa GOP Senate hopeful Joni Ernst was 7 percentage points up in a Des Moines Register poll, and Republican candidates and surrogates popped up on the Sunday news shows, gleeful about their prospects.
"I think the wind is at our back," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said on CNN's "State of the Union." He added that Republicans will "in all likelihood" win control of the Senate and added: "I think people are ready for new leadership."
Fueling the Republicans' optimism was a Register poll that showed Ernst leading Democrat Bruce Braley, 51% to 44% -- prompting pollster J. Ann Selzer to tell the newspaper that "this race looks like it's decided."
Hours before the poll's release, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spelled out what a loss in the Hawkeye State would mean for Democrats.
"Iowa is critical. There's no other way to say it," Reid said Saturday in a conference call with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
"Joni Ernst would mean --- coming to the United States Senate --- that Mitch McConnell would be leader of the United States Senate, who agrees with her on everything," he said, according to Politico.
And it wasn't just Iowa that had good news for Republicans. A new set of NBC News/Marist polls unveiled Sunday morning gave Republicans boosts in three key Senate races -- including McConnell's in Kentucky, as well as Georgia, where Democrats had hoped to pickup a seat, and Louisiana, where Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is in a tough race for her political career.
Those incumbent Senate Democrats have spent the fall trying to distance themselves from President Barack Obama, whose floundering state-level approval ratings have been a drag for his party down the ticket as Republicans tie their opponents to the commander-in-chief every chance they get.
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