Sentences with phrase «party over the campaign»

I noticed a huge swell of activism throughout the party over the campaign period, with teams of activists from places like London, where there were no elections, going to help parties where seats were being contested.

Not exact matches

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

North Carolina's Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint over work performed by Cambridge Analytica for the campaign of Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis.

«The reason the Republican party essentially forgot to celebrate America this year might have been because they were too busy celebrating Donald Trump's claims that he would fix whatever Donald Trump thinks is wrong with America,» Oliver said before launching into a takedown of the «countless awful things» Trump has said over the past year, stirring up any number of controversies throughout his campaign for the White House.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

In October, Wang stepped down from the Communist Party's top rank under informal retirement rules, after spearheading Xi's relentless anti-corruption campaign that has punished over 1.5 million officials over the past five years.

De Maistre was also accused of getting Bettencourt to hand over envelopes of cash to members of the conservative former ruling UMP party, such as his friend, Eric Woerth, a former minister and campaign treasurer of Sarkozy's 2007 presidential bid.

Intriguingly, he or his party boosters were not active in the federal leadership campaigns that began to crank up over the holidays.

With just over four weeks to go in a 78 - day campaign thatâ $ ™ s starting to play like an endless loop of a clichà © - ridden infomercial, the three main parties remain in a virtual tie, each hovering aroun...

While both parties have denied explicit wrongdoing, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are facing whistleblower claims this data was used to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, with the latter firm also being said to have yielded influence over other democratic votes including the EU referendum.

«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Akin's campaign became a national cause for conservative Christian activists after the Republican Party abandoned the candidate and encouraged him to drop out over his abortion remark.

But yesterday at a party I took a poll of all the mothers there (over 10 of them all with kids ages newborn to 7) and none of them considered themselves babywearers nor had a real issue with the campaign.

She made the comments on a campaign platform over the weekend while addressing party faithful in the constituency.

Through personal involvement in many NY political campaigns over the past 25 years, I can tell you that getting on the ballot in NY is no easy task for outsiders (i.e., candidates not backed by a party).

At the final moments of the 2016 electioneering campaign when all parties should be deploying their best arsenals to win over undecided voters, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), sensing defeat, has taken political decency a notch lower and sprung up what could best be described as the most ridiculous story in the 2016 electioneering season.

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

Huge resources have been poured into the Tory election campaign, with the party expected to outspend Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.

The party doesn't hold much sway in Democrat - dominated NYC, and hasn't managed to elect anyone to a city or state post for decades, but it is nevertheless prominent in Republican circles, since the city is a must - stop for candidates from all over the nation who are trying to raise campaign cash.

First, the campaign emails, which demonstrate an appreciation of the vast array of tricks perfected by Democratic campaigns, party groups and other political organizations over the past few election cycles.

Those campaigns, parties and PACs that do so, I argued, have a powerful new advantage over traditional organizations: limitless real relationships with millions of people as opposed to limited real relationships with a small number of people.

So the pluralist challenge for Caroline Lucas is whether she is going to strongly back the Yes campaign, which is seen as positive by most - longstanding pro-PR voices across various campaigns or parties, or continue to argue after the next few weeks over the Bill that there is nothing much at stake, so that through to next May her primary point is that it doesn't really matter if its not PR.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's campaign has deployed his hometown county GOP chairman, John Jay LaValle, to push back against shots fired over the past 24 hours by state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King and «boss» (as per Team Levy) Jay Jacobs.

While Kaminsky has been hammering Republicans over ethics as well as education issues, McGrath's campaign has framed the race over the impact of one - party control in Albany.

He made women's rights a hallmark of his campaign, even going so far as to create the Women's Equality Party, (which is now more or less defunct after a battle over its leadership, though don't be surprised to see it revived in advance of the 2018 election).

Above all, political parties will be aiming to set the news agenda over the campaign.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

Paul Manafort, who was forced out as Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed that his consulting firm had received more than $ 17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

During a CNN interview, former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein defended her refusal to fully cooperate with the U.S. Senate's investigation of Russian meddling, arguing that her decision not to turn over some campaign communications pertaining to Russia is a matter of «principle.»

Or will news values dictate which stories and parties are covered over the campaign?

The National Republican Congressional Committee spent over $ 700,000 on the race, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Minnesota Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party spent a total of $ 577,000 on the race.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

When the Democratic Party and other committees affiliated with Cuomo's campaign are included, his top 20 donors each gave over $ 300,000.

The promise of an In / Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

With news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaign.

Bronx Democratic Party Chairman Carl Heastie, one of the few members of the Assembly who turn up in the Commission documents, attracted attention for the approximately $ 25,000 in unitemized credit card expenditures his campaign made over the years the investigators analyzed, most of which without any explanation of their purpose.

However, the vote share of both main parties was eroded over the final few weeks of the campaign.

The candidates» 11 - day pre-election campaign finance reports show that Sini, who also has the backing of the Conservative, Independence and Working Families Parties, spent $ 454,382 over the past two weeks, compared with $ 120,099 for Perini.

Somerville, Mass., April 1, 2010 — Voter Activation Network (VAN), the company whose «VoteBuilder» software helped propel the Democratic Party to a significant technological advantage over the GOP in 2008, announces the release of «VoteSuppressor,» a software program especially tailored to the needs of Republican campaigns.

The state Democratic Party — controlled by Cuomo — has launched an online campaign targeting upstate GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney over her recent comments that «so many» mass murderers «end up being Democrats.»

In campaigning, serving on committees and attending Conference over the years I have made many friends in the party and have worked with some incredibly inspiring people.

The situation has been linked to his penchant for trusting family and friends over party procedures during his campaign.

Sturgeon has faced the embarrassment of «the 56» becoming «the 55» and then «the 54» as first Michelle Thomson and then Natalie McGarry were suspended by the party over, respectively, allegations surrounding property deals and claims of missing funds from the Women for Independence campaign group's Paypal account.

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

Stalwarts of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have been left in tears and equally opened fire on President John Dramani Mahama, over his recent politically - charged big blows directed at their three - time flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, during his nationwide campaign tour.

The party had a special phone bank to allow members to campaign over the weekend.

The party can now campaign as the most viable local opposition in these seats, looking to win over a broader coalition of voters angry with the government.

And it will be no different this fall, when each of the party's presidential nominees — with vastly more resources at their disposal — target specific voter blocs over the Supreme Court in many of the same ways the Senate campaigns will.

While he and his wife Marilyn gave a similar amount — $ 105,000 — to the governor's campaign committee from 2011 — 2014, they also gave over $ 1.5 million to the state party at a time it was working solely to advance Cuomo's agenda.

Over 500 people signed up to volunteer for Josh's campaign — and they are attending weekly phone banks, house parties, or neighborhood canvassing events in each of their major cities.