Sentences with phrase «first election campaign»

Having financed his first election campaign completely out of his deep pockets, Bloomberg was unencumbered by debts owed to the system's entrenched interest groups, including the powerful union representing 80,000 teachers.

In his first election campaign, Katko raised just over $ 1 million — about 37 percent of former congressman Maffei's total.

Our first election campaign website was built for a local candidate in 2003.

His article comes after David Cameron on Friday unveiled the Conservatives» first election campaign poster on a visit to Yorkshire with the slogan «Let's stay on the road to a stronger economy».

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

«Insiders say Kinsella has been personally supportive of Campbell during her first election campaign but that she needs someone strong enough to give her strategic advice she'll accept,» the Toronto Star reported.

Not exact matches

One of the first things Hillary Clinton decided to address in the «What Happened» chapter on why she lost the election was one of the most common critiques of her campaign: That she didn't put forth enough effort in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

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.)

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

The French presidential election campaign is not the first to be overshadowed by accusations of manipulation via computer hacking and cyber-attacks.

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

«The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded, first, that President Putin directed an influence campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process.

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

Both are the first in a series of digital - campaign moves that the group plans to try out in the months leading up to the election.

Stephen Harper has announced two new initiatives in the first two days of the 2015 election campaign.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

This was Mr. Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress, prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested the data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters during the 2016 election.

The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year — about $ 348,000 — went to Jones Day, a law firm representing the campaign in the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and several congressional committees into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Centrify, a proponent of a relatively new approach to enterprise security called Zero Trust, on April 16 at the RSA Security Conference revealed the industry's first IT campaign to Secure the Vote for the 2018 elections.

Unlike his first speech on Monday that was dedicated to his government program, Tsipras dedicated a good part of his second speech to launch a scathing attack on the conservative opposition, which he accused of having buried the consensus strategy that it proclaimed during the election campaign.

Although he had been campaigning for longer than a year, on March 26, 2014, Mr. Cardinal was officially nominated as his party's first candidate for the next general election.

The federal government has delivered on the first of its two major tax promises from the 2011 election campaign.

This election, first - term PC MLA Greg Weadick and second - time Liberal candidate Bal Boora will be joined by NDP candidate Shannon Phillips, who has launched a spirited campaign, and Wildrose candidate Kevin Kinahan.

For the first two years, the fiscal cost of the election promises in the March 2016 Budget corresponds closely to what was outlined in the 2015 election campaign.

The move came as Franklin and Billy Graham met with Mitt Romney, who was campaigning to be the first Mormon president, shortly before Election Day.

The defeat of an incumbent President, the election of the first «baby boomer» by a slim plurality, and the extraordinary campaign of an independent candidate are only the more obvious reasons for the special attention that 1992 is likely to be paid in the history books.

After a first failed attempt at modernisation in 2007, the campaign of Matteo Renzi in the recent primary elections might have indicated a way forward.

The President in the run up to the 2012 elections as a key campaign pledge, promised to build 200 new community Day senior High schools in his first term as President.

(The first came from RWDSU) for an campaign that Gov. David Paterson appears likely to simply let play out according to the standard calendar instead of calling a special election.

This is the first election cycle in which campaigns are depending on such a huge variety of Internet companies for exposure: YouTube, Google, MySpace, Facebook, Meetup, Eventful, etc etc..

De Blasio was able to raise money on three fronts in the same election cycle: first for his campaign, then for a $ 300,000 fine he still owed from a 2009 campaign, and finally for his inauguration and transition costs.

We would like to review and replay your first day on the campaign trail in the general election, and together see how you might be able to improve on that performance.

This is far from an original idea — it's been obvious to a lot of folks — but it still startles me that we're paying so much attention to campaign minutiae almost a year out from the FIRST primary and close to two years from the general election.

Returning to Chicago, where he first declared victory in 2008, Mr Obama delivered a mostly positive message to Americans after a divisive election campaign which saw Mr Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Johnson is a skilled communicator and he is at his best when he rises above party politics as he so successfully did during his first mayoral election campaign.

When I first heard about it, I didn't realize that MySpace was involved, as you can see in my quote on page 2 of the current Campaigns & Elections magazine Campaign Insider, where I'm a bit skeptical about the immediate political effects.

Being the first SONA to be delivered by him, there was huge expectation that he would use the occasion to offer a broad overview of his vision and plan for Ghana especially in the light of the extravagant promises he made on the campaign trail in the 2016 elections and as contained in the NPP's manifesto for the same election.

First, this was a very expensive election and both candidate campaigns were heavily reliant on various forms of outside allies.

But now that so much campaigning activity is done online, will this general election see the first web - based prospective career go down the YouTube or an MP get rumbled through 140 characters?

In the first week of coverage, women as a whole received a modest increase in their relative prominence accounting for 19 per cent of all individuals mentioned in the first week of the campaign, compared to just 14 per cent in both the 2005 and 2010 elections.

First, the campaign emails, which demonstrate an appreciation of the vast array of tricks perfected by Democratic campaigns, party groups and other political organizations over the past few election cycles.

«First, as the brutal campaign manager for Mario Sr.'s governors election where he denigrated the Gay community.

It seems to me that what most people typically mean when they say «Trump colluded with Russia to win the election» is, quite simply, that Trump, or his campaign, knowingly met with some key people from Russia (who either were government officials, or had connections to government officials) and received help from these Russians in order to help Trump's campaign, and this particular «help» from the Russians was illicitly obtained by them in the first place (e.g. through hacking).

«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.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Trump yesterday launched his first campaign ad for re-election — 1,282 days before the next presidential election.

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.»