Sentences with phrase «democrats come election»

President Obama urged Paterson to drop out of the race, ostensibly fearing Paterson would hurt other NY Democrats come election day.

«I don't think on the eve of the kind of election where opportunity is so apparent that you go courting someone who is still a democrat and will still be a democrat come election day,» Meier said.

Not exact matches

Warren's comments came with Democrats in the early stages of decoding their lesson from this month's elections.

The DNC's recruitment of Lord comes after a disastrous 2016 election cycle for the Democrats in terms of cyber security, in which operatives working on behalf of the Russian government obtained countless emails and information to selectively leak to the public.

«There's a national poll that came out this week that brought together Republicans and Democrats in saying that I would beat Donald Trump if we had an election today to become president.

The slip - up came after Democrats in both chambers called for extensive investigations into Flynn's relationship with Russia, as well as the country's meddling in the 2016 election.

The comments from Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, came one day after The Intercept reported on a top - secret National Security Agency document that said hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election.

The statement is the closest Putin has come to acknowledging the view of US intelligence agencies that Russian hackers were behind the hacking campaigns targeting Democrats during last year's election.

The main opposition to the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) appeared likely to come from Tokyo's popular governor Yuriko Koike, who launched her new Party of Hope just before the election was called.

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

The question came at a town hall - style meeting in the yard of an Albuquerque home as part of Obama's public outreach to explain his policies and campaign for Democrats in the November congressional elections.

There are mid-term elections coming up and a decent woman is smart enough to see what crap like this is... I'd say that you should look forward to a woman president who is democrat... this is going to kill the republitards.

Come election time in November, no democrats and very few independents are going to vote for Romney because he has been forced to endorse many of the far right's nutty social views.

Republicans in the house remember your election coming up in 2 years, work with the president Obama and Democrats otherwise enjoy the last 2 years in Congress because u will not be elected.

Cuomo has come under fire from some liberal advocates for not strongly pushing for the bill, which he says he supports but blames the gulf between Republicans and Democrats in an election year.

The fundraiser comes two days before a special election that will fill two seats in the chamber and potentially give Democrats a numeric majority.

Young and personable, Abbotts is a lifelong Liberal Democrat who came within 700 votes of taking the Conservative seat of Bromley and Chislehurst in a 2006 by - election.

I spoke about this to Levi, who said the Assembly Democrats came to ESPA during the elections and expressed concern that their expected losses would leave their margins thin — and their marginals under pressure — making it difficult to pass the gay marriage bill again.

The push to unite Democrats comes amid a backdrop of broader tensions within Democratic politics, heightened after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.

The Independent Democratic Conference in the Senate has come under increasing pressure since last year's presidential election to form a new alliance with the mainline Democrats in the chamber.

At the rally, attended by more than 6,000 people, Trump blasted Democrats, former FBI Director James Comey and the media, and urged Republicans not to get «complacent» ahead of the coming 2018 midterm elections.

Her re-election to the leadership post comes as Democrats struggled in elections last week, though two races remain too - close - to - call on Long Island.

«Each day that goes by, I'm coming to the conclusion that, if this was a sure win for Democrats... I'm sure the Democratic leadership and governor himself would have called a special election last week,» Reed continued.

And when it comes to looming elections themselves, Klein insisted he wants Democrats to work together in the chamber.

Marchione's surprise announcement comes one day after the Senate Democrats won two special elections in the Bronx and Westchester, putting them within spitting distance of re-taking the majority.

Democrats must win both seats in the special election, then Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder must agree to come back into the fold, which is highly questionable.

Her comments, made at a news conference in which mainline Democrats unveiled a «resistance» agenda to bolster liberal gains made before the election of Donald Trump as president, come days after yet another lawmaker moved to the IDC: Queens Sen. Jose Peralta.

And they have not been satisfied by the governor's slow yet steady move to the left since the 2014 election, including his recent forging of a peace deal among the Senate Democrats — which seemed to come together pretty darn quickly once Nixon arrived on the scene — saying it's too little, too late.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

(A ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, caucuses with Republicans but is not an IDC member — even if the Democrats gain two seats in this month's special elections, a number of Albany Democratic sources expressed doubt that Felder would come back into the fold until the Democrats strengthened their majority.)

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

I stood as a Labour council candidate in the Wiltshire Council elections earlier this year, and I came third behind the Liberal Democrats.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

Democrats hope the controversy comes too late to make a difference in the election, in which most national public opinion polls show Clinton ahead.

However, without careful thought and planning well ahead of the election, an agreement could come quickly unstuck, because there will be intense criticism that a discredited Labour Party was clinging desperately power, and that supine Liberal Democrats lacked the guts to eject it.

The 180 validated signature that the Democrats are contesting come out of 9 strategic districts that, if rejected in, would disqualify them from the general election ballot in the fall.

Its candidate, Laurence Depares, polled 125 votes (7 %) and came third, ahead of the British National Party and Liberal Democrats; [47] in a by - election in the same city's Swinton South ward on 7 January 2014 the party was fifth with 54 votes (3.7 %).

[85] Brooker stood down at the 2007 local elections and Tibby was unsuccessful in seeking re-election for the English Democrats, coming third.

The other lesson from the elections in Wales should not come as a revelation to Liberal Democrats.

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

Democrats swiftly seized on that gaffe — a particularly egregious error, considering the special election comes two days after the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

The endorsements, announced during a press conference at Perez Williams» campaign headquarters, come just four days before the Democrat goes up against independent Ben Walsh, Republican Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins in the general election.

According to Tim Storey, an elections analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures, when it comes to 2010's state legislative elections, «This is going to be an extremely challenging year for Democrats for a variety of reasons... History is not on their side.

The endorsements also come as mainline Democrats in the state Senate are avoiding support for IDC challengers as an uneasy truce remains in effect stemming for a unity deal agreed to last year that would be triggered if Democrats win a pair of special elections scheduled for April 24.

Some of those Democrats — including North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp and West Virginia's Joe Manchin — come from conservative - leaning states where President Donald Trump won in 2016, and are facing tough midterm elections in November.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

Laura Gillen, a Democrat who won the Nov. 7, 2017 election for Hempstead Town Supervisor, spoke with Newsday reporters after the results came in.

Republicans came out with 299 state legislative seats compared to the 250 seats Democrats won in the four states that held elections in 2011.

A spokeswoman for the IDC said that Senator Klein «is a lifelong Democrat who is not walking away from his strong record of core Democratic legislative accomplishments and looks forward to a healthy debate of ideas... in the coming election.»