Sentences with phrase «election campaign as»

Mr Corbyn had previously questioned Labour's education policies during the election campaign as «too comfortable and timid».

«We have a programme, we have support and we are ready to fight another election campaign as soon as may be.»

Opposition leader Keith Rowley described the election campaign as one of the most «gruelling» in the country's history, but highlighted that the campaign had been conducted in high spirits and without violence or unrest.

He didn't have much exposure during the election campaign as he failed in his bid to make Law and Order a campaign issue for the Tories.

Mrs Duffy had confronted Mr Brown in the final days of the election campaign as he went walkabout in her home town of Rochdale, where she took issue with him about the deficit and mass immigration.

Purnell had been highly critical of Brown's attempts to frame the general election campaign as a choice between Labour «investment» and Tory «cuts».

The Liberal Democrats, in search of identity were preparing to run an election campaign as the Not Gove party.

I am about to embark on my seventh general election campaign as a political journalist.

Labour has cancelled the launch of its general election campaign as the human tragedy in the Indian Ocean takes precedence over domestic affairs.

Miliband was portrayed during Labour's 2015 election campaign as being genuine in his desire to improve the lives of working people and to display progression from New Labour, but was unable to defeat interpretations of him as being ineffectual, or even cartoonish in nature.

Her turbulent reign has been compared to Gordon Brown's, but he had a large overall majority, had every intention of fighting a future election campaign as prime minister and was well qualified to respond to the financial crisis that erupted in 2008.

Did Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core work for Obama's election campaign as we see Eboo is not only on the recent Chicago Council of Global Affairs» task force but also on Obama's Faith advisory council?

And did Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core work for Obama's election campaign as we see Eboo is not only on the recent Chicago Council of Global Affairs» task force but also on Obama's Faith advisory council?

The strong connections between the federal Conservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wildrose Party).

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

Republican candidate and three term Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan today described his three general election campaigns as similar to this congressional special election.

We don't normally publicise local by - election campaigns as there are so many of them.

The commission also singled out matching small private donations with public funds for election campaigns as an effective strategy to generate greater citizen participation.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — As news broke Monday morning that a grand jury indicted three people who were involved in President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, tension heightened among senators worried that Trump may retaliate and attempt to oust Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Throughout his 2016 election campaign, Trump routinely threatened to impose a 45 percent across - the - board tariff on Chinese goods as a way to level the playing field for American workers.

And after many peaks and valleys during the 2016 election campaign, this relationship will reach a metaphorical peak when Kelly interviews Trump on Tuesday night as part of a prime - time Fox Broadcasting special.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

The meeting came as the intelligence community was assessing Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign had colluded with Moscow.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off the 2015 Federal Election on Sunday morning, framing the campaign to come as a choice about the fiscal stewardship of Canada's government and economy overall.

Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as well as the FBI are conducting simultaneous investigations into the prospect of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and collusion with associates of Donald Trump's campaign.

If you've grown resentful of the never - ending 2015 election campaign, and you feel like punishing the next candidate you see, here's a suggestion: Ask him or her whether he or she thinks the Bank of Canada should continue using the core inflation rate as its North Star.

The longer campaign will be more expensive for Elections Canada, as well.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and that his company may have received subpoenas as part of the investigation into any ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian election interference.

Former Trump campaign advisor Michael Caputo said he expects to pay about $ 25,000 per hearing as part of the congressional inquiries into Russian election meddling.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

The faux - election campaign continued this week as the Prime Minister allocated an extra $ 714 million to drought - affected farmers and $ 65 million for cancer scanners.

However, the Justice Department's appointment of ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged ties between Russia and Trump's election campaign team appeared to soothe investor concerns and supported Wall Street in Thursday's session.

Hillary Clinton continued her move into the general election Friday by framing Donald Trump's campaign as one of a war on women.

Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.

The internal campaign emails from August 2015 reveal the difficulty Clinton had in appeasing both unions and environmentalists as she fought for her party's nomination ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

«Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election,» Trump tweeted.

Trump has been vocal in his praise of Carrier and has reportedly offered the company $ 7 million in tax breaks as part of the agreement, which Trump brokered after his election win last month after promising on the campaign trail that he would save the jobs in question.

As Trump's campaign careens from crisis to crisis, he's broadened his unfounded allegations that Clinton, her backers and the media are conspiring to steal the election.

Trump showed no concern that the request might be viewed as interference in an active FBI probe into his 2016 campaign's possible ties to Russia's election meddling.

One thing, however, is very different about this season's presidential campaign: an explosion of election spending by groups known as super PACs.

In March, Sessions recused himself from the ongoing investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, due to his role as an advisor on the Trump campaign.

Starting a movement from scratch, as an unknown candidate, without any experience of how to campaign for a municipal election let alone for the presidency, is a fairly unconventional move in French politics.

The practice was commonplace at the time, and was awesomely referred to as «swilling the planters with bumbo,» according to the 1989 book Robert Dinkin's «Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices» (originally seen via an article in Smithsonian Magazine).

As such, the document marked both the belated return of Parliament and the unofficial start to a federal election campaign that is still two years away.

As the U.S. election approaches — after one of the most divisive campaigns in recent memory — everyone has their own version of who is to blame for Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump on Friday seized on what was wasn't in special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Russians as evidence that his campaign didn't collude in Moscow's effort to influence the 2016 election.

Wikileaks created turmoil in the U.S. Presidential election last year by leaking emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign Chair, John Podesta, and is regarded by many as a propaganda outlet for the Russian government.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.