Sentences with phrase «against conservative candidate»

Ben Bradshaw «s 1997 victory came after a particularly bitter campaign against the Conservative candidate Adrian Rogers who was the head of the Conservative Family Institute and a vocal critic of homosexuality.

The by - election will be held on February 6, with Mr Sargeant running against Conservative candidate Sarah Atherton and Liberal Democrat Donna Lalek.

Not exact matches

Top allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Bannon, the head of the far - right website Breitbart News who pledged to run opponents against McConnell - backed candidates whom Bannon deemed not sufficiently conservative.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

And similarly, the story is being exploited by conservative media to deflect from accusations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

-- Former Progressive Conservative MLA Matt Jeneroux was chosen as the Conservative candidate in a race against relator Sandy Pon and past Wildrose candidate Ian Crawford.

Agreed so long as they go against those who support liberal agendas and candidates as well as conservatives.

Most of the 2012 cycle presidential candidates who marketed themselves as authentic conservatives (which is to say, to the right of Mitt Romney), had very shallow and brittle arguments against Obamacare.

This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

Plus the latter are much more likely than even conservative Catholics to demand that the candidate offer a clear choice against Obama on healthcare.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

«I think some of the members were upset that he campaigned against the Conservative Party candidate Jane Corwin,» Long said.

Stachowski also had the added benefit in 2008 of the Conservative Party line, but this year that went to Kennedy (which is sort of amusing, when you consider that the Erie County Conservative chairman, Ralph Lorigo, has launched a primary against GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for Row D, complaining that he's too liberal).

As Long pointed out, that's sort of a dangerous game, because the GOP and Conservatives could end up spreading themselves very thin indeed, with three candidates who were supposed to be on the same team all competing against one another for the same pool of voters against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who already has the Democratic enrollment edge working for her.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

A candidate in the 2010 general election, Nick stood against Yvette Cooper, achieving a 12.5 % swing to the Conservatives.

Goldsmith is running as an independent, though the Conservative party has given him a free pass by declining to stand its own candidate against him.

Five candidates have declared an intention to run against Ms. Stefanik, who, like several other Republicans, will most likely have to balance between pleasing conservatives who adore Mr. Trump and appealing to independents who may be put off by the president's first year in office.

As I'm sure you would agree, we must make certain that your candidate against Tim Bishop is afforded every possible advantage; however, what is absolutely required for success, is that your nominee shares Conservative and Republican support.

Candidate: Avraham Rosenberg Running Against: Senator Carl Kruger Odds of winning: 1 in 100,000 Mr. Rosenberg is a 19 year old Touro College student who is a Republican but is running on the Conservative party line.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand can expect a strong political assault in her re-election campaign against Republican, Conservative and Reform candidate Chele Farley, The challenger made her first visit locally Thursday.

Instead, the new district contains a very heavy Orthodox Jewish population, which would open the opportunity for Democrats to run a conservative, Orthodox Jewish candidate against him.

On the surface, it's a surprising win for a political neophyte who is not known outside of conservative activist circles against two other candidates with clear geographical bases who are also current officeholders.

Clarey is referring to Paladino's effort to remake the Senate GOP by supporting conservative primary candidates against more moderate incumbents.

Had the Conservatives fielded a candidate against him, Goldsmith could have capitalised on anti-Heathrow sentiment to deal a blow to the government; but all of his viable rival candidates agrees with him on Heathrow.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis held a City Hall press conference today to promise enhanced enforcement efforts against illegal home conversions.

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

While the Queens Republican Party can't quite seem to get its act together and unify behind Councilman Eric Ulrich, the leading GOP candidate against Democratic Senator Joe Addabbo, the county's Conservative Party gave Mr. Ulrich a fist bump with an official endorsement today.

It would probably be a Conservative / Labour marginal but in 2001 it was won by an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, Dr Richard Taylor, on the back of a campaign against the closure of the casualty unit at Kidderminister hospital.

Buerkle was recently among six in - state House candidates for whom Dan Senor, who almost ran for U.S. Senate against Kirsten GIllibrand, raised funds along with former gubernatorial nominee John Faso and Conservative Party chairman Mike Long.

The Crown Prosecution Service has ruled that no charges will be brought against Conservative Party candidates following an investigation into how 2015 campaign spending was reported.

In Somerton and Frome, where the party's Commons spokesman David Heath faces a tough fight to hold on to his slim majority against Tory candidate Annunziata Rees - Mogg, Conservative leafleting also appears to be having an impact.

A YouGov poll in January 2012 also howed Ken Livingstone with a small two point lead against then then Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, only for the Labour candidate to go on to lose.

«We are up against a huge amount of money being poured into the seat by the Conservatives,» Labour's candidate in Barrow - in - Furness John Woodcock said.

In 1997 however it was famously lost to the television news reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an independent candidate against the then Conservative MP Neil Hamilton who had become embroiled in the cash - for - questions scandal.

The messages, attributed to Tory candidate Dan Watkins, who stood against Sadiq Khan in Tooting at the 2015 election, refer to Mr Gani by name, and invite him to the Conservative Muslim Forum held in the constituency in November.

In Ward 1, political newcomer Jeffrey Ventura Morell will run on the Democratic and Working Families line against Republican, Conservative and Independence Party candidate Michael T. Russell for the seat being vacated by Eckert.

A City business run by a former Conservative party treasurer has agreed to pay back donations made to five of the party's general election candidates running against Liberal Democrats following a shareholder revolt.

Their still unofficial favorite to challenge Schumer is little - known conservative lawyer Wendy Long, who was crushed by a record 46 percentage points in 2012 when she was the GOP candidate against US Sen Kirsten Gillibrand.

There are numerous messages in which Mr. Howe and Mr. Percoco call each other «Herb,» a nickname that began circulating in the first Cuomo administration after the elder Mr. Cuomo, New York's governor from 1983 to 1994, teased Mr. Howe that his hair looked like that of Herbert London, the Conservative Party candidate against Mr. Cuomo in the 1990 election for governor.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — County executive candidate Legislator Ed Day has initiated court proceedings against Conservative Party opportunity - to - ballot candidate Simon Leschinsky, alleging petitioning irregularities.

According to mayoral candidate Joe Sullivan — 5th ward Common Councilman Mark Robinson, who will face - off in September's Democratic primary against Sheehan - backed Corey Ellis and County Legislator Chris Higgins, has already accepted the conservative line.

Kathy Hochul, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, went on the attack against Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino, saying the GOP opponent and his running mate are too conservative and his portrayal of the state as economically troubled and dysfunctional is too pessimistic.

Peter Griffiths stood as the Conservative candidate against the shadow foreign secretary Patrick Gordon - Walker.

Peggy Jeffries, Fort Smith - Former Arkansas State Senator, served from 1996 to 2000; Arkansas contact for Eagle Forum, former Arkansas RNC Committeewoman Bishop Robert Smith, Little Rock - Founder of Total Outreach for Christ Ministries, Inc. and Word of Outreach Christian Center Tami Greever, Little Rock - Executive director of Team Coleman, which is focused on electing conservative, constitutional candidates statewide Luke Helms, Russellville - Students for Cruz Arkansas Diana Harton, Monticello - Chairwomen Drew County Republicans, President of Arkansas Republican County Chairman's Association Hunter Ray, Benton - Board Member of Arkansas for Education Freedom, Board Member of Arkansas Against Common Core Mark Shaffer, Van Buren - Crawford County Republican Party Chairman Neil White, Sebastian County - Veteran and business executive

But in many other cases, Paladino gave to Democrats, like Poloncarz and Dyster, who are major party figures and compete in elections against candidates backed by the Republican and Conservative parties.