Sentences with phrase «came during an election year»

Robinson said that she doesn't «trust» the timing of the reunification since the change came during an election year, and she blames the defunct group for holding up liberal legislation in the state Senate.

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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.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

And while Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL) have both taken criticism from lawmakers for their role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, Amazon's size and questions about whether some of its business practices are anti-competitive and bad for consumers are not likely to go away in years to come.

To be mikes advocate in this game and what they will use is that this happened 12 years ago, the payment came in 2016 during an election which is what they will use as a motivator for paying her.

At no point in time during our deliberation was the issue of who to vote for in this year's election came up for discussion.

Yesterday was Day One of the 2016 legislative session, and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state Legislature laid out starkly different agendas for the 2016 session, signaling that the coming six months will be a tricky period during an election year.

A notable instance came in the congressional elections of 1992, a year after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas during hearings on his nomination for a Supreme Court seat of having sexually harassed her when they had previously worked together.

The request came in response to a controversial vote last week by the Republicans, who hold a narrow, 32 - 30, majority, to prohibit Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy from casting a tie - breaking vote to pick a new majority leader if the Democrats win any special elections during the next two years, thereby producing a 31 - 31 split.

McDonnell raked in $ 1.6 million during the most recent six - month reporting period, which lasted from June to December, and most of his money came in after election day, when Barack Obama turned Virginia blue on the presidential level for the first time in 44 years.

HARLEM — Politicians from across the city came out in full force Monday to support a suburban senator that they turned their backs on during last year's election.

While politics was such a hot dating topic during the election year, 26 % of singles in the survey said they'd change the subject if it came up on a date.

As expected, the current fiscal year budget deficit is forecast to come in at just shy of $ 30 billion ($ 29.4 billion, to be exact) and to fall only a bit next year (to $ 29.0 billion), nearly three times the size of deficit promised during the election campaign.

In 2017, last year, during the special election, the senate seat in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools that we built to detect fake accounts that were trying to spread false news and we found a lot of different accounts coming from Macedonia.

Years of controversies came to a head during the 2016 U.S. election, when it was revealed that a handful of Russian actors manipulated Facebook users by spreading misinformation on the social network.