Sentences with phrase «big election win»

And, the cable news business can still be hopeful that Trump's big election win could keep viewers glued to their televisions even after the election, depending on whether or not some of the incendiary rhetoric that propelled Trump to the presidency continues once he actually begins to govern.

Not exact matches

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

Traditionally, Republicans win elections by running against big government.

Citigroup has also predicted that the stock market will drop big if Trump wins the election.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Skeptics said the United States, the world's biggest economy, might back away from targets set in the Paris climate agreement if the Republican Party wins the presidential election in November.

If Labor wins the next election and manages to get its proposed reforms through the Senate, retirees may well think twice about holding big...

OTTAWA — Toward the end of the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau was chatting with reporters on the tarmac near his chartered Liberal aircraft when someone asked if he really thought his party could win big on...

Thanks to the billionaire's surprise election win, investors around the world have been frantically trying to do just that — look beyond the present and peer into the future, trying to get a handle on just how financial markets might behave with Trump at the reins of the world's biggest economy.

Possibly the biggest upset was the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election win for tycoon Donald Trump, whose economic and trade policies will shape next year's investment landscape.

In particular, the results of the U.S. presidential election have spurred many to believe that greater government spending will stimulate the economy and bring big wins to Caterpillar.

Asked about the biggest threat to the industry, Mr Sorenson says this was «the global wave of populism» and he feels Hilary Clinton lost the US election, rather than Donald Trump winning it.

The WSJ heads an editorial this morning with «Why Not Paul Ryan?Romney can win a big election over big issues.

Republican Rep. Bobby Olszewski, who won a special election in Orange County in October, sent a letter to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Wednesday, asking to keep the schools «at the top of mind.»

Coming off of a big, successful season (UConn went to the Fiesta Bowl, Manchin won a special election to replace Robert Byrd), it is a bit of a retooling season for Manchin.

The party funds are being depleted into private pockets without any due regard for the bigger task of winning the 2016 elections.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

«This poll simply confirms what we already know — that David Weprin is winning this election because New Yorkers know they can trust him to protect Medicare and Social Security and reform the tax code to make millionaires and Big Oil pay their fair share,» said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr.

Jeremy Corbyn has just competed under the most democratic election system that Labour has ever held and has won the biggest ever mandate of a leader.

«The feeling of anger and disgust at the sentencing of trio by the Supreme Court is very understandable, but we are happy it happened, if it means serving the four months jail to allow President Mahama and the NDC to focus on the bigger picture and win the 2016 elections we are cool with it, Alistair Tairo Nelson stated.»

And even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliament.

Even so at the start of a reign a prime minister has an authority he or she will only possess again if they win a big election victory.

Turner has argued that his big win against Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin in Weiner's old Democrat - dominated Brooklyn / Queens district, which drew national attention and made him an overnight GOP sensation, afforded him more name recognition than his two primary opponents, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and makes him a better general election challenger to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

While Cuomo's praise for Republican initiatives may help the party as it attempts to fend off Democratic efforts to win the Senate, it's not certain how big an issue drug abuse will be in a busy presidential election year.

Continue reading How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

And he is sanguine about the splits at the top of the party triggered by Iain Duncan Smith's resignation from the Cabinet: «If you look at the evidence, the party is united around me, for me to win on 5 May... They [the party] also understand that this is the biggest election between now and the general election, so it matters politically as well.

How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

Politics, must not always be dirty, we must not run down people for purposes of winning elections, we need to recognize each other's contribution in a bigger picture of bringing relief to our mothers and children living in deprived areas.

In the future, to win general elections they will need to improve their relationship with ethnic minorities as they become a bigger part of the British electorate.

If the Democrats likelihood of winning the election increases after Obama's nomination, the black dot moves further into the red zone, reflecting a bigger relative payoff for the Republicans (the code for the chart is here).

In essence, Blair is telling big business that a sanitised Labour Party moving away from the unions and into alliance with the Liberal Democrats is a safer bet than a Tory Party which may not be able to win another general election.

The Aronis» first big win came in 2008, when longtime Brooklyn State Sen. Marty Connor lost on Primary Election night to then - insurgent opponent Daniel Squadron, who had Aroni backing.

Accordingly, they expected the coalition government to prove so dreadful that people would soon see the error of their ways: Labour would not need to make any big changes in order to win the following election.

Blur's Dave Rowntree becomes a councillor, one election was decided by straws, and the Tories insist they're not celebrating after big wins.

«This is a very big thing that we are on, and if we don't get the constitution to work, there is no way we can win the election.

Sure, a big margin is great, but elections are a zero - sum game — someone wins, someone loses, and except in very rare circumstances, there ain't no middle ground.

Nobody can prove how different the election would have been without the debates and the Lib Dem surge; but I agree with those Conservatives who feel that they would have enjoyed a bigger lead over Labour and probably won enough seats to govern outright.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

Cardiff North is held by Rhodri Morgan's wife by a slender Labour majority of just over 1000 and competent Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan had a big win in the local Assembly elections, so there's a good chance that Mr Evans will return to the green benches.

While the biggest union, Unite, might back Corbyn, all that could change if its general secretary, Len McCluskey, is forced to rerun the election he won last year to stay in charge of Unite, and then loses.

Equally unsurprisingly, Team Weprin had this to say: «This poll simply confirms what we already know — that David Weprin is winning this election because New Yorkers know they can trust him to protect Medicare and Social Security and reform the tax code to make millionaires and Big Oil pay their fair share,» said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr.

Making his case on Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Blay said: «If you needed people to undertake the biggest battle of an election and you thought that those that were in charge will not contribute to winning so you put them aside and you put other people in charge and they go to the battle and they are victorious.

In the 2009 Flemish and European elections, Lijst Dedecker won a disappointing 8 seats in the Flemish Parliament and 1 seat in the European Parliament despite pre-election polls that had indicated a bigger share of the votes for Lijst Dedecker.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

Given the fact that UKIP won the 2014 European elections — gaining seats in England, Wales and Scotland — and has now elected a member of parliament for the first time, something big is really happening here.

Tedisco tried to make the race a referendum on Obama, but with Election Day only two months into the president's term, the Democrat, Scott Murphy, drafted on Democrats» big 2008 win, and eventually won by less than a thousand votes.

There are three keys to winning a bigger proportion of the ethnic minority vote in 2015 - important for the election itself and essential to our long - term future.

Mr. Donovan's biggest challenge will not be winning the special election (after all, Michael Grimm won convincingly in 2014 while under indictment); it will be winning re-election in 2016, when former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could top the ticket and drive turnout in the district.

Footage of some of the biggest names in British politics failing to win seats in Thursday's general election

After winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general election.