Sentences with phrase «election as a blow»

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The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

The news will come as another serious and demoralizing blow to GOP hopes of holding the party's congressional majority in this fall's midterm election.

It's been a rough year for Conservatives in Canada as two major elections in six months have resulted in major blows for Conservative parties in Alberta and Ottawa.

Basically in 2010, after 4 extremely competent years as opposition the Tories blew the election campaign by not giving the voters a good reason to vote for them.

Sen. Roy McDonald's decision not to campaign on the Independence Party line through November is a particular blow to Republican same - sex marriage supporters, who just this morning released a poll paid for by New York Unity PAC that found the senator could have won the general election even as a minor party candidate with a single ballot line.

May 11, 2015 (readMedia)-- The election of Senator John Flanagan as the the leader of the New York State Senate Republican Caucus is a divisive blow to the freedom loving people of New York and should send a chill down the spine of every gun owner since the new leader voted in favor of the so - called SAFE Act.

The move comes as a blow to Espaillat, who is planning to run again for the congressional seat he lost in a close election to U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel in 2012.

The agreement has not publicly blown up, even as it has left the sides with uneasy truce ahead of the special election.

Addressing captains of industry in Accra as part of his campaign in the region, he said «when we are getting to elections, the political rhetoric rises, I urge you not to be afraid or frightened because it will not lead to any blow - up.

U.S. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, announced that she would not vote for Trump in the presidential election, dealing another blow to the presidential nominee as he tries to unite his party and win more support from women.

Nevertheless, the failure of Democrats to win a clear numerical majority in a presidential election year is a blow to the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference, whose leader Jeff Klein was widely expected to wake up as the Senate's kingmaker on Wednesday morning.

That was the message from Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday as he weighed in on Tuesday's election results, which dealt blows to the candidates he endorsed for both attorney general and comptroller.

Heidi Alexander's departure will trigger a by - election in Lewisham East and will be seen as another blow to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

September 6 - Labour MPs and peers back proposals to restore elections to select the shadow cabinet in a move viewed as a fresh blow to Mr Corbyn's authority.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN)- Republican Norm Coleman was dealt a major legal blow Friday evening as the three judge panel overseeing the post-election trial issued an order that significantly limits which rejected absentee ballots may be reconsidered in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race election.

UNION bosses have traded blows over a bid by Red Len McCluskey to rebrand a general election meltdown by Jeremy Corbyn as a success.

The overall increase of 58,000 in the net migration figure will come as a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May's aim of cutting it to the «tens of thousands» by the time of the next election in May 2015.

If the Coalition can put forward an option that seems competitive in comparison to Labor, it will be painful blow to Shorten's election hopes, as he holds on by his fingernails to convince Australians that Labor is still the party to fix the nation's schools.

Tonyb, instead of blowing over as everyone expected, this latest thing on the Russian involvement in the elections seems to be snowballing, largely because Trump is attacking the CIA for bringing this information to Congress.

As if the battle wasn't uphill enough, we now have witnessed the first round of elections post-Citizens United, in which powerhouses like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised tens of millions of dollars from the corporate titans it serves and funneled the money into attack ads, sending a warning message to politicians who aren't bending over backwards for big business, if not delivering a crippling blow to their election campaigns.

Given Cambridge Analytica's role working for Donald Trump's campaign in the last US presidential election, as well as the fact that thisisyourdigitallife's creator has received funding from the Russian government to study «stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks», it's hardly surprising these stories have blown up worldwide.