Sentences with phrase «election against the conservative»

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).

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Brighton Kemptown at the 1987 general election against the Conservative MP Andrew Bowden.

Not exact matches

«It's difficult to ignore that this action comes during a period of heightened tension regarding Facebook's role in our elections, and its perceived bias against conservative voices,» Petersen wrote in an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Conservative donors and operatives who gathered on a mountain shrouded resort this past weekend for the Koch brothers» annual winter retreat know that they're up against a historical tide in this year's midterm elections.

(The Liberals have the added advantage of having campaigned in an election for the changes they now propose, whereas the Conservatives had campaigned against the changes Flaherty introduced.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

As Breitbart News reported, the Washington Post and the Hill obtained a copy of the eight articles of impeachment drawn up by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against Rosenstein because he has not provided the documentation requested as part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential election.

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

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.»

Thus heavy viewers of religious programs are more likely than light viewers to describe themselves as conservative, to oppose a nuclear freeze, to favor tougher laws against pornography, and to have voted in the last election.

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.

Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, a fiscally conservative, socially liberal lawmaker from Queens, is taking the first step toward running against de Blasio in 2017, filing paperwork with the Board of Elections to form an exploratory committee.

During a live interview with NY1's Erin Billups during our live statewide election coverage, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long re-asserted that Rick Lazio will be the Conservative Party's nominee even if Lazio loses the GOP primary to Carl Paladino, although he says he's confident Lazio will be victorious against the Buffalo businessman.

Zac Goldsmith forced a by - election in Richmond Park in apparent principled protest against the Conservative government's support for expanding Heathrow.

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

The existing law is good at stopping Banksy from offering free prints to those voting against the Conservatives in the election but anything more subtle remains a challenge.

Even Conservative supporters have turned against Gove with 40 % of their voters from the last election now saying he is doing badly.

That sets up a situation where Lazio, who has pledged to remain on the Conservative line through the general election, would be running against a fellow Republican — or maybe party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy — in the general election.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Turner was a darling of Republican and Conservative Party circles when he scored an upset special election victory against Assembly David Weprin.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

A reader forwarded an e-mail from a fairly frantic - sounding Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, announcing the labor - backed party wasn't successful in getting a pre-Election Day decision in the so - called «double - vote» lawsuit it brought against the state Board of Elections along with the state Conservative Party.

It could mean the collapse of the government if Cameron loses a vote of no confidence, leading to an election which Labour would probably win against a leaderless conservative party.

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.

It still looks probable that the Conservatives will win the next General Election, with a large swing against Labour.

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.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

Austin Harig, 18, of South Buffalo, told POLITICO New York he's not afraid of going up against the conservative real - estate developer and 2010 GOP nominee for governor in an effort to bring balance to the board, which has six seats up for grabs in the May 3 election.

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

The Conservatives» poor performance in the General Election raises the prospect that the pendulum of power may have swung towards Parliament and against the government.

They're against farmers too,» added a frustrated Rep. Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Republicans express doubts that Ryan can stay on as Speaker McCarthy says early leadership election to replace Ryan unlikely MORE (R - Texas), the former chairman of the other conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee.

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.

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.

The next act of this political play comes with November's general election that pits Sheehan mainly against Republican Jesse Calhoun and Conservative Joe Sullivan.

Past elections has shown that they generally fair better against Labour than the Conservatives.

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.

Nick Clegg has defended the coalition government against criticism, telling those Lib Dems who are uncomfortable working with the Conservatives that it was the only way to respond to the general election result.

Kinnock, depicted famously as a lightbulb in the Sun, lost two elections before the Tonemeister — abundant of flowing locks — stormed to victory in 1997 and two elections thereafter against three Conservative leaders who were all challenged in the follicle area.

The Conservatives have today launched a major new offensive against ID cards, pledging to scrap the project if they win the next election.

Haigh, who was elected as MP for Sheffield Heeley in 2015 general election and was the youngest Labour member of that parliament, also railed against the «seven years of prolonged, deep cuts from this Conservative Government that have led to police officer numbers falling and crime rising».

Hazel Blears delivered a pugilistic speech to the Labour party conference this afternoon, saying she expects a real «fight» against the Conservatives at the next election.

I've now had chance to sit down and play with the election results and the picture is as bleak for Labour as Stephen paints — for various reasons, the electoral system has now tilted against Labour in the same way it was tilted against the Conservatives at the last few elections.

He supported Giuliani against the democrat in both of his elections and he is extremely conservative.

They will hope that a strong local campaign can trump their national performance in the upcoming Richmond Park by - election, where the Conservatives are not fielding a candidate against Zac Goldsmith.

In the last four general elections the voting system has delivered significant bias against the Conservative party.

I had a short spell as editor of the Conservatives Against NewLabourisation blog but I renounced the seriously misjudged views I expressed during the leadership election shortly after David Cameron was elected, as I broadly approve the policy direction that the Conservatives are taking under his leadership.

[226] She barely survived a primary against a conservative opponent, then lost badly in the general election to incumbent Democrat Philip A. Hart.