Sentences with phrase «election primary of»

The Peoples Democratic Party has vowed to resist any attempt to disrupt or cause crises at the governorship election primary of the party, coming up on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

In a congratulatory phone call the night of Paul's primary victory, McConnell pledged his support to the newcomer for the general election campaign.

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.)

Over the course of the primaries and general election campaign, my role continued to evolve.

Not only did President Trump defeat sixteen skilled and experienced primary opponents and win the presidency; he did so spending a fraction of what his opponent spent in the general election.

In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

Fox on Monday announced the new debate, its latest in the primary season as the party chooses its candidate ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Trump also lives in a world of vision, but in my experience that vision has always been about the man himself, a phenomenon that was on vivid display during the primaries and the election.

After last week's Iowa caucuses, Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will have a hard act to follow after the excitement and controversy that came out of the first voting event of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri is stumping for his party's candidates ahead of August 13 primary elections, which precede October 22 legislative elections.

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.

The issue arose in the Republican primary debates, and reportedly resentment of the abuse was a major contributor to Hillary Clinton's loss of Florida in the general election in the 2016 US presidential race.

The Republican also noted the political risks of going after entitlements during a contentious election, as is expected in 2018, while House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested it could be a primary GOP agenda item.

«The group knows that it can do some candidate election work, but that such work can't be its primary activity — i.e., it has to spend more than half of its budget on non-candidate-election work,» Ryan told The Daily Beast when provided documentation about the organization.

«By contrast, federal tax law permits 501 (c)(4) organizations to spend money advocating the election or defeat of candidates, so long as such activity isn't the 501 (c)(4) organization's «primary» activity.

Martin Schulz, the center - left candidate for German chancellor and Merkel's primary rival ahead of the September federal elections, said that the U.S. withdrawal from Paris must be met with a refusal by the EU to re-initiate transatlantic trade talks.

Zimbabwe's ruling party saw some major upsets and raucous bickering during its primaries this week ahead of general elections due by August.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

«The Honest Ads Act would extend the McCain - Feingold law «electioneering communication» provisions — i.e., TV / radio ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election but do not expressly advocate the candidate's election or defeat — to certain online ads,» Ryan said.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

Indiana Republican Senate candidates clash in final debate before May 8 primary election Dan Carden, The Times of Northwest Indiana

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Primary election votes, and whether they mobilized young voters, will be a better gauge of the movement's effects, she said.

Fox News set a record earlier in the month with 24 million people tuning in to the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 election cycle, making it the most - watched cable telecast of all time, excluding sports programming.

These teams included PhD - caliber data scientists, seasoned strategists with experience of presidential primary, congressional, gubernatorial, and international election campaigns, expert researchers, digital marketing strategists, and content creators.

Akin, who won a tough primary battle this month, has apologized for his comments but also defied pressure to get out of the election.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The Kingdom of Judah no doubt continued to acknowledge the event of the exodus, but the David - Zion event was celebrated more prominently, and sometimes exclusively, as the primary, creative event by which God indicated his purposive choice and election of his people and in which he established an indestructible covenant.

Regrettably, they fell just short of cannibalizing each other in this election's primaries.

Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.

(CNN)- A top evangelical leader who is close to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says the candidate's Mormon faith will be even more of an issue in the general election than it has been in the primary, predicting that the focus on Romney's faith will present a challenge to Romney.

so the religious nuts have to deal with the fact that none of their candidates could win the GOP primary, let alone the election.

Second, the primary traditionalist groups fighting the U.S. Episcopal Church over the election of an openly gay bishop and use of same - sex blessings have embraced charismatic worship and a charismatic worldview.

10 percent of voters who supported Ted Cruz in the GOP primary now support Clinton in the general election.

9 percent of voters who supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary now support Trump in the general election.

20 percent of voters who supported John Kasich in the GOP primary now support Clinton in the general election.

And indeed, the new letter does seem to be a version of this letter that is still on Moore's website, with a few incriminating dates and references to the upcoming primary election removed.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

In addition, as you might guess, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints who did not vote for Romney in the primary elections in 2008.

The presidential election cycle comes with benchmarks and road signs, from the beginning of the intra-party debates to the Iowa primaries to Super Tuesday to the conventions.

I believe her election represents a real turn at SNA toward its historic role as a primary supporter of healthier, better, and more sustainable food for our school children.

The Orland Park Village Board this week unanimously approved a request from the Orland Park Library Board of Trustees to place the question on the March 19 primary election ballot.

Trustee Marc Avelar said the situation is likely to become one of the defining issues during February's primary election.

Forty - four of the 57 county boards of elections outside NYC reported voting machine problems on primary day.

Yepsen lost out on the chance to run in the 2008 Senate election when she came up 32 signatures short of the required 1,000 to make it on the primary ballot.

Former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, one of Weiner's potential Democratic primary rivals, demanded that the ex-congressman pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated House seat two years ago.

They accused the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, of compromise stating that majority of the members of the NWC had upheld the decision of the party's Appeal Committee to nullify the primary election and conduct a fresh one.

The irony was that whereas the PDP claimed the primaries where shifted to Abuja because the capitals of Taraba, Borno and Adamawa States where not safe for primary elections, the PDP held Presidential campaigns in the same capitals of the affected states (Jalingo, Taraba State, Maiduguri, Borno State and Yola, Adamawa State).