Sentences with phrase «election choice between»

He's never had to run on a record, and he's desperate to make the election a choice between him and someone he can demonize.

John Faso's decisive victory in the Republican primary gives voters in New York's 19th Congressional district a clear general election choice between Faso and far - left New York City professor Zephyr Teachout.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump says the November elections are «a choice» for the country between Republicans who want to protect their signature tax cut law and Democrats he says «want to end them and raise your taxes substantially.»

• First, the Nicaraguan people made a logical choice in an election that the U.S. government, its UNO backed coalition, and its contra army all framed as a choice between ongoing war and «peace.»

A society that expects its elections to provide choices between policies and directions, as well as between candidates, must generate those options in other places.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

An article I wrote in March attempted to forecast how Hillary Clinton's campaign would seek to «win the narrative game» by defining the election as a choice between unity and division, love versus hate, hope over fear, and the like.

If Barack Obama is the Democrat nominee in the general election, the American people will have a clear choice between two different visions — Senator Obama's liberal, elitist philosophy and John McCain's faith in the small town values that continue to make America great.

Democratic leaders are trying to frame the November midterm elections not as a national referendum on the party in power but as local choices between two candidates.

British Election Study data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to vote for UKIP in the May European Parliament elections (23 % when counting only people giving a party choice, excluding «don't know» responses).

Khan claimed the election was a choice «between someone who has the experience and somebody who has been sloppy and lazy,» to which Goldsmith replied that: «It's a choice between somebody who is willing to tell the truth and somebody who is misleading voters».

And by repeatedly trying to paint Khan as slippery and evasive, the Tories hope to paint the the election as a choice between Goldsmith's «plain - speaking» and Khan's untrustworthiness.

The Obama / Democratic team not only crafted and threw a ton of money into making the election into a clearer choice between two very different people, but they had tons of people out knocking on doors, getting out the vote.

In an election when you are trying to make the choice appear to be between two individuals, Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn, it makes obvious sense to push the name of the person on your «team», particular as May polls so well personally.

This election is about choosing the government of our country for the next five years, and the choice could not be starker between a Conservative government led by me, continuing with a plan that's working, and putting it all at risk.»

[92] Publicly speaking about the 2017 Scottish council elections, Sturgeon has said that the elections were a clear choice between voting for herself and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, citing the stark fall in support of the Scottish Labour Party and their leader Kezia Dugdale over the past several years.

Your article on elections (TP, September) seems to suggest that the choice lies between «allout» elections which is better for good local government or annual elections which leads to stronger political parties.

In the 2010 Labour leadership election, Labour faced a choice between two Miliband brothers, with David offering polished Blairism and Ed offering a soft - Left alternative.

It's quite obvious, the right want to an engineer a situation where the people have a choice between two Tory parties come election time.

I would still expect their support to be squeezed as we get closer to the election, as the race focuses more upon the binary choice between a Conservative and Labour led government but events, such as further defections now a by - election is no longer unavoidable, could easily push that off course.

Still, voters overwhelmingly preferred Cuomo to the unknown Woodstock in the poll, with roughly 56 percent of respondents saying they'd vote for Cuomo in the general election, given the choice between him, Woodstock and Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate.

Following the ballot delivery, Obama for America New York State Director Robert Diamond said, «The election in November represents a clear choice for the American people, between continuing the progress the Obama Administration has begun creating jobs and restoring economic security for hard working Americans or the Republican candidates who continue to fight to protect tax breaks for only the wealthiest corporations and individuals, and propose returning to the same failed policies that created the current economic recession in the first place.

James Purnell resigned from the cabinet in part because of his frustration that Brown was attempting to frame the next election as a choice between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

Addressing Lib Dem members in York, Mr Clegg portrayed the elections as a straight choice between his party and critics of the EU, such as UKIP's Nigel Farage.

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

His campaign attracted criticism when he joked that the election was «a simple choice between good and evil», [302] and when he was accused of anti-semitism by Jewish Labour supporters for suggesting that being largely wealthy, the Jewish community would not vote for him.

Assuming that May is not planning an autumn election (and I would work on that assumption), the people of Batley & Spen should be given not the token vote that is currently their likely fate but a meaningful choice between the options that any other by - election would offer up.

And yet again, this is London's fifth election for mayor and for the fifth time we are being told this is a choice between two men, neither of whom are really putting women's needs anywhere near the centre of their manifestos.

A leaflet produced by the Liberal party towards the end of the campaign branded the election a «straight choice» between Labour and the Liberals.

Even if the judge is incorruptible, the nature of elections means that the choice between two incorruptible judges is corrupted by money and votes.

Speaking in Somerset yesterday, David Cameron said: «It's a simple and straight choice, at your county council and at the next election, between the blue team who want to keep getting the deficit down, who want to keep reforming immigration and welfare to make it fair, or you have the red team who put the deficit up and who don't care if our immigration and welfare system works at all.»

Health Secretary John Reid has said that voters at the next election have a real choice to make between Labour and Conservative health plans.

The 2004 presidential election in Ukraine was a highly competitive contest, which offered voters a genuine choice between a plurality of candidates.

This situation puts the NDC in some kind of dilemma considering the fact they would have to make a choice between continuity and a fresh start as to whom to select as their presidential candidate in the next election.

But the peer said the choice for British voters at a general election was between David Cameron and Ed Miliband as prime minister.

In the last few months he attempted to claim that the choice at the election was between Tory cuts and Labour investment.

The candidates for the Tory target seats in Scotland emphasise that the election will be a choice between Brown and Cameron

I'm saying that, given a choice between Clinton and Trump, and knowing their choice would actually decide the election, a minority would choose Clinton as the lesser evil.

It assumes elections are straight choices between truth on one side and lies on the other, when they are nothing of the kind.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

To paraphrase Enoch Powell, I want the electorate to be offered more than a choice between a man with a smile, and a man with a frown, at the next election.

The choice at the next election would be between a Labour Government committed to stability and growth and a Tory party locked into the economics of 1992 - when David Cameron stood alongside Norman Lamont on Black Wednesday.

The voters of Westchester and Rockland will have a clear choice in this election between a political outsider, who is laser - focused on addressing the considerable economic and fiscal challenges facing our nation, versus someone who continues to kick the can down the road.»

The Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said it was rare for a governing party to capture a seat, but insisted that «come a general election voters will make a choice between whether they wanted David Cameron or Ed Miliband walking up Downing Street».

They may have an issue with one aspect or another of Labour government policy, but when push comes to shove they see the potential election more as a choice [between Labour and the Tories], not a referendum [on the government] and want to lend their support.

Asked about an election between Boris and an unspecified Labour candidate Boris's lead was even larger, but that really was an articifical choice in an election that is largely about the individual mayoral candidates.

The Labour Party, its members and affiliates are committed to making sure that we get through this recession fairly, that we secure the recovery and we as a party go on to present the choice at the next election between our plans for an age of aspiration or the Tories» plans for an age of austerity, a choice between securing growth or choking off the recovery.

If ideological positions mirror the primaries in the November election, then voters will have a choice between a committed progressive Democrat and a hard - right Republican.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the 2015 election was a «clear choice between a destructive Tory party and a better future with Labour».

With the Republican and Democratic parties having nominated presidential candidates with record - high unfavorability ratings, this election cycle is turning out to be a choice between a rock and a hard place for many voters.