Sentences with phrase «election battles where»

«President Barack Obama has told Senate Democrats that he's willing to stay away from election battles where his presence would not be helpful, a Democratic source said — an apparent nod to his poll numbers.»

(CNN)- President Barack Obama has told Senate Democrats that he's willing to stay away from election battles where his presence would not be helpful, a Democratic source said - an apparent nod to his poll numbers.

Cabrera and Rivera are locked in an acrimonious election battle where negative campaign mailers have flooded voter mailboxes.

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This may be the last election where the battle is two parties.

But regardless of who wins the nomination, Republicans will have an uphill battle to reclaim the Senate seat, in a state where they are heavily outnumbered by registered Democrats, and haven't won a statewide election since George Pataki in 2002.

Whoever wins on Tuesday has four months to make their case against Senator Gillibrand, compared to the old system, where a September primary left about seven weeks for a new comer to wage a general election battle.

Also called a seat, in a general election, this is where the political battles are fought.

The focus will now shift to the general election where three candidates will battle for the elected position, which pays $ 101,050 annually.

However, had David Cameron read any history — and given that he thinks America fought with us in the Battle of Britain, he probably hasn't — he would remember the outcome of the pact between Ramsay MacDonald, then secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, and Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal chief whip, in 1903 to allow some Labour candidates a clear run at the 1906 election, in return for Labour not fighting seats where the Liberals could beat the Tories.

The polling came as the Labour leader prepared to address a Scottish fundraising dinner in Glasgow, where he warned the party faces one of the hardest battles it had ever faced in the six months to May's general election.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.