Sentences with phrase «at winning back the majority»

The Democrats, who continue to insist they have a shot at winning back the majority this fall despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approval of a gerrymandered redistricting map that benefits the GOP, remain more than $ 1 million in debt from the 2010 elections in which they lost control of the chamber.

Not exact matches

So I can tell you this: Our goal here at Emily's List — and I said this to Leader Pelosi — Democrats need 23 seats to win back the majority.

Noble has won the backing of its senior creditors, but also needs approval from a majority of its shareholders at a special general meeting, for which a date has not been announced.

Overall I am happy with a draw... Yes we could easily have won the game if giroud had taken some of the easy chances he was presented with, but the spuds could just have easily gone 2 - 0 up a number of times... We could have gone top of the league today but with all the injuries at the moment the most important thing is that we didn't lose ground on city... Looking forward to after the international break when we will have the majority of our players back #COYG

It makes a lot of sense that the majority of casual bettors are backing the better team to win at home, but this will not be easy for Burnley and the market agrees.

The senator's main focus, however, seems to be on helping fellow Democrats elsewhere in the country, in hopes that his party will see success in winning back the majority, allowing Schumer to succeed Majority Leader Harry Reid retires at the end of tmajority, allowing Schumer to succeed Majority Leader Harry Reid retires at the end of tMajority Leader Harry Reid retires at the end of the year.

In the immediate aftermath of Carl Paladino's surprise landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary, Senate Republicans rushed to embrace him — Minority Leader Dean Skelos was the first out with a congratulatory statement — and insisted his presence at the top of the ticket would help them win back the majority.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

This is not in keeping with the message being put out by DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris, who has been insisting that the Democrats have a good shot at winning enough seats to take back the majority.

His manifold political successes — from beating David Davis for the Tory leadership to becoming Prime Minister in 2010, turning back Scottish independence in 2014 and winning an unprecedented majority at the 2015 election — will be wiped from the historical record.

The Senate Democrats and the governor have been at odds over the past year, following Cuomo's failure to significantly follow through on his pledge to help the conference in its 2014 quest to win back the majority.

The statement by reader — «In fact calling a special at all will severely hamper their efforts to win back the majority and would have to be viewed as a slight against them.»

There is a movement to put Senator John Sampson at the head of the group in an effort to lure back at least Senator Hiram Monserrate, who defected to the Republican side on Monday to help win them the apparent majority.

The paper reports that Labour is intending to try and highlight divisions with Conservative Party over climate change in the top Tory target seats where the Green Party won more than 2 % of the vote at the last election - in the hope of stopping Green supporters from switching to back the Conservatives and helping to deliver a Tory majority in the Commons.

The government backed down on a programme motion but won a thumping majority at second reading, moving an elected Lords to the next legislative step, or perhaps, steepe — stretching out to the horizon as we enter months of trench warfare.

Though it appears the Republicans have a good shot at taking back the majority in tomorrow's elections, they'll be living on borrowed time if they win.

Labour will need to win 68 back at the next election to form a majority government.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.