Sentences with phrase «first election battle»

Pendry eventually put in a call to an ex-girlfriend who was a big wheel in the Beaconsfield constituency Labour party, easing Blair into his first election battle.

Not exact matches

In 2004, mayor Bill White won his first election on a platform almost exclusively focused on battling gridlock.

Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

Sean Patrick Maloney, one of five Democrats battling for the right to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in the November election, is out with his first mailer, which focuses on his time at the Clinton White House.

A special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County is the «first battle» toward a Democratic Party takeover of the state Senate in Albany and the House of Representatives in Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

It is an account, relying on contemporary vivid emails, of the minute - by - minute battle inside Downing Street in the first week of September 2006 to stop supporters of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, forcing Tony Blair to quit after nine years as prime minister and three election victories.

In what is likely to be the first battle of the long election campaign, Osborne remains confident that he has made the right call and voters are more worried by the deficit than the size of the state.

Despite his primary opponent's desperate assertion to the contrary On Tuesday, Ohioans will head to the polls for their state's primary election, and the results will lay out a roadmap for a crucial election year in which the Republican and Democratic parties battle for control of the swing state — the first major contests since Donald -LSB-...]

Some months ago, I predicted that these euro - elections would be a battle between Labour and UKIP for first place, with the Conservatives trailing third.

Stefanik benefited from a similar air war against Woolf, a first - time candidate who fought an uphill battle in an election year that favored the GOP.

Last fall when I was a first - time candidate in Westmoreland, even though I was running a very uphill battle, he came out to support me the night before the election, and every time I go to support him (like in the St. Patrick's Day parade) he asks about our town.

HARTFORD — Connecticut's largest business advocacy group, galvanized by the last year's battle over higher taxes, is spending money for the first time in election - year legislative races to try to force state government to change course.

In February 2009, when Moya and Ferreras first battled for the 21st Council seat in a special election, Moya was backed by Crowley's County organization.

In his first major general election speech, Jeremy Corbyn has attempted to frame the upcoming contest as a battle between «the people» and «the establishment».

With a tight election on the line, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton will meet in just hours to face off at their first presidential debate, a battle 18 months in the making that is emerging as the most hotly anticipated moment in modern US political history.

Boakai has waged a bitter legal battle over problems with queue control and voter identification in the October 10 first round, and said he would accept the result provided the National Elections Commission (NEC) met «all of the standards».

It would seem that leaders selected by party insiders — or sitting presidents who are renominated without a fight — are better positioned to win general elections than candidates who first have to win difficult intra-party battles.

When Steve first ran for Suffolk County Executive, he was not his party's choice, but won in a tough primary battle and went on to win the general election, appealing to both Republicans and Independents in a famously Republican County.

With the fragmentation of the party system, combined with the First Past the Post electoral system, this election will be less of a national election, and more a complex series of local battles.

Cathy Newman checks it out If truth is the first casualty of war, then you'd expect plenty of spin, evasiveness and downright lies in tonight's chancellors» debate - the opening salvo in the election battle ahead.

The election of Lincoln, Secession, Fort Sumter and the First Battle of Manassas.

As if the battle wasn't uphill enough, we now have witnessed the first round of elections post-Citizens United, in which powerhouses like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised tens of millions of dollars from the corporate titans it serves and funneled the money into attack ads, sending a warning message to politicians who aren't bending over backwards for big business, if not delivering a crippling blow to their election campaigns.

The documentary, The Island President, follows Nasheed from his victory in the Maldives» first democratic election in 2008 to his battle at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009 for a climate treaty that would preserve his homeland.

Following the historic election of Brazil's first working - class president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marina Silva was named the environment minister of South America's largest country, thrusting this former rubber tapper, who was virtually illiterate until her teens, on to the front line of Brazil's battle against deforestation - and of the global fight against climate change.

Trouble is brewing as Hong Kong gears up for the first elections since the protests, and these young people are moving away from frontline street battles to stand in mainstream politics.