Sentences with phrase «election campaign talk»

We need immediate measures put in place, not more empty election campaign talk.

Lamb says the party needs to present a clear vision of what liberalism means in the modern age, arguing that during the election campaign it talked too much about what it was not as opposed to what it was.

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While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

During the 2016 election campaign Trump talked a lot about lowering taxes.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

That's why the collective attention of the federal political parties is increasingly turning to setting the stage for the October 2019 campaign — including talk of updating Canada's election laws.

And so Romney, with the confused and self - destructive cynicism that has defined his general election campaign, thought he could get benefit our of repeating the frustrated talk radio caller.

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

In the same survey, Pew found that, as in the past few elections, campaign talk mostly stayed out of churches.

Consisting of 25 images, one for each day of the election campaign plus one taken during the height of the coalition talks, Roberts focused on the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voting public.

I wanted to talk about that Conservative campaign before the election, which slammed Labour's «death tax» and published that poster with the image of a grave inscribed with RIP OFF.

Cuomo has made just one public appearance since his election last Tuesday, and that was in Puerto Rico where he warned Somos conference attendees that he has no plans to back off his tough talk of the campaign now that he's poised to take office.

The president noted that just as it is the case in the United States, the health of the candidates is something that the electorates will talk about, but then that will not form part of his campaign «I noticed in the US elections too there were issues about candidates» health so it's something that people will talk about but I don't take advantage of a person's health... I believe that I have enough to talk about without running on somebody's health».

Even though he talks highly of Amidu's legal credentials, he says, in the 2016 elections he campaigned in the corner of the NPP and can not be trusted to be fair in carrying out his job.

President Trump declined to commit to being interviewed by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, backing off his statement last year that he would be willing to talk to Mueller under oath.

As we've talked about before, grassroots field organizing hasn't been in the Republican establishment's blood in the past couple of election cycles (the Tea Party folks have had a monopoly on that aspect of campaigning on the Right).

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.

One of the most painful experiences in the 2015 election campaign was talking to people on the doorstep who didn't really know what we stood for.

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I believe that with today's technology you can get the word out about these elections online and by old fashioned door - to - door campaigning and talking to voters.

The implication is that the Astorino campaign came up with some phony car crash and fed it to Talk of the Sound to damage Latimer's reputation in the weeks before the election.

Much has changed in the 65 years since Clement Attlee declined the opportunity to talk to an obsequious television reporter, but Cowley is not sure that everybody yet appreciates how the television debates have changed utterly the nature of election campaigns.

Again he doesn't name names, but when talking of those who thought small rather than big, the indications are that he is referring to election campaign chief Douglas Alexander.

Talking to politics.co.uk, the Labour leadership candidate insisted he was running «the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics».

With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.

The street campaign organization, dubbed «V15» — «Victory 2015» — became a talking point this week for the Likud Party, as its Knesset members charged that the nonprofit's activities violate election laws by collecting foreign donations from American Jewish peaceniks — billionaire Danny Abraham and healthy snacks entrepreneur Daniel Lubetzky — on behalf of left - wing parties, and engaging in illegal campaign propaganda.

Michael Bloomberg's former campaign manager Bradley Tusk talks to FOXBusiness.com's Jade Scipioni about this year's election and why he's investing in startups.

Although Romney spent much of his grueling primary campaign convincing the right that he was one of them, he's avoided almost all talk of marriage during the general election campaign save for a question at the Univision forum in September.

Then initially all the talk was that Labour couldn't win, that the Conservatives were the permanent government and Labour the permanent Official Opposition, then shortly after the Conservatives were written off and Labour was supposedly virtually assurred of being able to form a government, even during the election campaign itself, but it didn't work out that way.

In a phone interview Monday, Rhodes said he plans on driving across the district during the campaign to visit constituents and «talk about why this election is so important.»

Talking on whether the election will be credible based on the reordering of the timetable, my response is that political victory is based on how well parties are able to campaign and convince the electorate and not based on the order of the election timetable.

There wasn't much talk of next year's local and European elections, though Tim Farron, who has been handed the short straw of heading up campaigning for both, admitted that «European elections aren't usually our forte.»

New York conservatives should review the election results from this year, and talk to Rob Astorino — and other Trumpettes — who were actually more qualified than Wilson and ran the same Mercer - funded campaigns.

Liz Kendall talked about supporting business in her election campaign and also the need for austerity.

2014: Sitting side by side on CNN's «State of the Union» - a rarity these days on political shows, where members of opposing parties often appear during different segments to talk about the same topics - Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, addressed the challenges they both face in the upcoming midterm elections.

Nick said he would hold to his Election campaign commitment to talk first to the party with the largest number of seats - the Conservatives.

Speaker of the House - elect Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., left, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Rahm Emanuel, D - Ill., talk to the news media after the Democratic Caucus elections on Capitol Hill on Nov. 16, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

And so the Tories will spend the final week of their election campaign on Brexit - trying to talk it up, making it out to be the great national project of the next five years rather than the enormous looming omnishambles it actually is.

He's talking about the possibility of campaign finance reform, election reform, even possible changes to state lobbying laws.

That's a shot across the bows of David Cameron, who talked during the election campaign of squeezing down the public sector in the north of England.

The Associated Press called the race for Cuomo before 10:30, and he claimed victory in a statement at 10:45 p.m., thanking supporters for the progress they've made, talking about general election contrast and even nodding to Teachout and Wu for «running a spirited campaign, engaging in the democratic process and having the courage to make their voices heard.»

Indeed, he spent a lot of time in his campaign talking about participatory budgeting, an innovation introduced by Council newcomers from recent election cycles who invite constituents to help plan the allocation of member item dollars each district receives.

Addressing a mini rally at Bulenga, a community in the Wa East constituency of the Upper West Region as part of a campaign visit, Mr. Amissah - Arthur said, «When we are talking to our NDC members, we know that as the elections are getting close, the people who are going to lose are going to get desperate.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 1, Episode 21: Mark McKinnon talks with NBC News correspondent Katy Tur to discuss her coverage of the Trump campaign throughout the entire election.

Even during the 2016 campaign, many teachers were afraid of talking about anything related to the election, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center survey, «The Trump Effect, The impact of the presidential campaign on our nation's schools.»

For those who remember the expensive Ed in»08 project that was unable to promote education as a major election topic during the Obama / McCain campaign, it will be interesting to see whether the times have changed enough to make education a more talked about topic in 2012.

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Much because of Bernie Sanders, there has been so much talking about climate change in the Democratic primary, and commentators now believe that climate action — unlike in 2008 and 2012 — will become a central part of the election campaign.

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