Sentences with phrase «fight election campaigns»

And we can not fight election campaigns pretending that we are not in government.

«He fought an election campaign himself promising cuts of about # 44bn, so I think you do have to question whether the Labour Party, if it was in power now, could honour many of these old commitments.»

If the watchdog ordered the Conservatives to repay the cash it would deprive the party of vital funds to fight the election campaign, which is widely expected in May.

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

Raajneeti (Unrated) Political potboiler, set in Bhopal, India, about a fiercely fought election campaign where influence - peddling and corruption are the norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used as weapons.

Fighting an election campaign is not cheap.

«Our job is to get, is to drop the bucket further down the well than anybody else, to understand what are those really deep - seated underlying fears, concerns... It's no good fighting an election campaign on the facts because actually it's all about emotion,» Turnbull said.

There is no good fighting an election campaign on the facts because actually it's all about emotion.»

It's no good fighting an election campaign on the facts because actually it's all about emotion.»

Not exact matches

He is also looking into whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor, and his decision to file charges likely indicates that the probe is moving from a political fight to a legal one.

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump has a campaign - style rally scheduled March 10 in Pennsylvania, which is the historic heart of the American steel industry and which is now the site of an unexpectedly hard - fought special congressional election.

The issue looked definitive, of course, way back when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives beat John Turner's Liberals in the epic 1988 election — the campaign so bitterly fought over the trade deal with the U.S. that Mulroney secured at great political risk.

Labour has much to recover before the general election, yet whether it can fight a united campaign in 2015 is far from assured, and in socialist - minded Scotland the nationalists are seen as having surpassed Labour in their socialist rhetoric.

Even though we ended up losing the election we fought a very virile, strong, visible, historic and aggressive campaign and the Nigerian people can attest to this.

It speaks volumes about the double - think that pervades western coverage of international relations that he was often referred to as a dictator in stories about the election campaign he was fighting.

Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead of a difficult time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European election campaign.

«Through my first hard fought campaigns and since my election to the State Senate in 2002, we have worked together on advancing a common - sense progressive agenda,» the Manhattan Democrat writes.

Viloria - Fisher spoke about property tax relief — an issue Cuomo has made part of his campaign platform and one that is crucial to voters in the suburbs, which are expected to be a battleground in the upcoming general election — particularly in the fight for control of the state Senate.

In the days following the end of the DNC, Trump has picked a fight with that aforementioned «Gold Star» Muslim - American family; he has called on the state of Russia to «hack» into the Clinton campaign's email server; he has put into question America's resolve to affirm its treaty obligations to its NATO allies; he has first refused, and then under pressure accepted, to endorse the highest - ranking official of his own party, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; and he has even begun to state that the election results this November may «be rigged.»

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

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.

And when you're aiming to fight an election attacking the Opposition's economic policies, it makes no sense to lock the chancellor in a cupboard — «not quite in a cupboard», Hammond said later — for the campaign.

And then there's the economy — the issue on which the Tories fought and ultimately won this election campaign.

And, yes, the governor must resume the fight on the remaining critical issues in the battle to reform Albany — overhaul of New York's campaign - finance laws and nonpartisan redistricting for the 2012 elections.

Former president Bill Clinton was slated to join his wife and performer Sting at a high - dollar fundraiser Thursday in New York to raise money both for her campaign and Democratic Party committees that will help her in a general - election fight.

Secondly we also need to recognise that whoever wins the leadership campaign needs to be someone able to draw the party back from bankruptcy, raise enough money to cover the party's existing debts, be able to hopefully convert the loans to donations, and to raise enough money to fight Lord Ashcroft's millions come the next election.

International development minister Lynne Featherstone, campaign manager for Chris Huhne when he fought Clegg for the leadership and whose London seat would likely be lost if these election results were repeated, praised him to the hilt: «He is brave and capable, and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress.»

If Romney becomes the candidate, a closer look at his current campaign can help us understand how he will fight the general election.

Combined with other popular policies, including withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, such a shift in orientation would place Labour in the best position to fight the forthcoming election campaign.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

Ed Miliband fought a decent campaign, but, as with Neil Kinnock in 1992, something went badly wrong at the end — and unlike that election, it wasn't the exit poll.

25th October 2016, Huffington Post: Jeremy Corbyn's campaign director Sam Tarry warns Labour not «fit» to fight General Election

Liberal Democrat candidate Susan Leslie said: «I think it has been a victory for women in politics in Scotland that four women stood in this by - election and fought positive campaigns on the issues for Dunfermline.»

At today's launch event, Corbyn praised the Sanders campaign, saying: «The presidential platform which Hillary Clinton is fighting the election will be radically different compared to what it would have been had she not faced the challenge of Bernie Sanders.»

Nationalism appeared undamaged - indeed new powers were promised for the Scottish parliament and the SNP appeared poised to fight a robust campaign in the forthcoming Westminster election.

The Labour leader has said that if he gets re-elected then the party will use digital technology to fight «the most visible general election campaign ever».

Otherwise, he said, he would be «watching cricket» rather than campaigning in the «most important» election he had ever fought.

But when the time comes, Gordon Brown will need to fight a very different Labour campaign from those of the last three elections.

«While Republicans are already fighting a bitter and divisive primary, I have no doubt that another commonsense Democrat will fill his shoes in this competitive district that Democrats have held for the past three elections,» said Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

But the election campaign is long over, and the fight to make a key piece of the mayor's liberal vision a reality has just begun — a fight that will pit him against some of the very people who put him in office.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

But when Mr. Donovan fought for the turf against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election last May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC — which share a mission of of turning red districts blue — refused to get involved.

The pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum has insisted it it ready to fight any fresh leadership election.

We've been reporting on candidate selections over the last few months, and now 40 are in place there is an opportunity to give an overview of the PPCs who will be fighting in some of the key battlegrounds of the general election campaign.

Labour's Elections and National Campaign Coordinator Andrew Gwynne says the two by - elections tomorrow will be «competitive and close contests» but that Labour will be «fighting for every vote until polls closElections and National Campaign Coordinator Andrew Gwynne says the two by - elections tomorrow will be «competitive and close contests» but that Labour will be «fighting for every vote until polls closelections tomorrow will be «competitive and close contests» but that Labour will be «fighting for every vote until polls close».

It was a bitterly contested election, fought in difficult circumstances and the revelation of her domestic circumstances in the course of the campaign was an added and unwelcome distraction.

During the campaign, she highlighted the national fight, telling CNN before the election, «Corwin has 100 % embraced the Paul Ryan budget.

Reacting to the result of the general election today (Friday 9 June), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «Theresa May fought an underhand, depressing campaign and has been well and truly humbled.

Cuomo was originally elected in 2010 on a promise to fight corruption, and in 2013 he created the Moreland Commission «to address weaknesses in the State's public corruption, election and campaign finance laws, generate transparency and accountability, and restore the public trust.»