Sentences with phrase «general election campaign against»

Diane Abbott has predicted that the Conservatives will run a «very unpleasant» general election campaign against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.

Not exact matches

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Shifting swiftly to the general election, Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to «five or six» people and doesn't want to accept public money to finance a fall campaign against Clinton.

José María Maravall, who holds an Oxford DPhil and sat on the PSOE governing body, campaigned against Spain's NATO membership in the 1982 general election campaign, as did Javier Solana, who later went on to become NATO secretary - general between 1995 and 1999.

Mr Bercow's vulnerability against a Tory plot to remove him can be traced back to a controversial interview he gave to my Sky News colleague Lewis Goodall during last year's general election campaign.

The methods of humbling this rival have included the Christie-esque maneuver of publicly investigating him when Cuomo was attorney general and declining to clear him until well into his re-election campaign — and conspicuously opting not to endorse DiNapoli in a general election against a well - financed Republican opponent.

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While the hyper - liberal approach the Schneiderman campaign has adopted might be a risky strategy — particularly when it comes to winning the support of Cuomo, who is clearly concerned the senator's left - of - center ideology will hurt him in the general election against Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — it is one that is being expertly executed.

The endorsements, announced during a press conference at Perez Williams» campaign headquarters, come just four days before the Democrat goes up against independent Ben Walsh, Republican Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins in the general election.

Martins now argues that the general election should also be moved to allow adequate time for the winner to campaign against Democratic candidate Thomas Suozzi and to comply with a federal law that requires 45 days for ballots to be able to reach military and overseas voters.

Despite the high level of spending already recorded this cycle, Cuomo reportedly still has $ 26 million on hand for the general election against Rob Astorino, which is more than the total he spent during his entire 2010 campaign.

Labour point to the dog - whistle campaign against Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral race and the emphasis placed on Diane Abbott during the general election campaign.

Whichever candidate ultimately takes on Astorino in the general election will be shorthanded in a financial race against the county executive, who reported a $ 2.5 million campaign fund balance in January.

He believes his campaign will be successful, not only in the GOP primary, but in the general election against Valesky.

Christopher Marte, who lost to Chin by 222 votes in the Democratic primary, says he'll campaign aggressively against the incumbent pol in November's general election.

[9] The Eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party did not field a candidate against Hollobone in the 2010 general election and subsequently campaigned for his re-election as a result of his Eurosceptic views.

Clinton is launching her general election campaign in earnest this week with a speech tomorrow in the battleground state of Ohio and a new TV ad that casts her as a leader who can bring the nation together, while Trump pits people against one another.

Ed Miliband has pledged to campaign against Nick Clegg in the 2015 general election — a move unlikely to help him in the event of a hung parliament.

Gillibrand and Schumer offered late - in - the game endorsements for Warren after she defeated incumbent Mayor Tom Richards in the September Democratic primary, but then found herself running against him again in the general election, thanks to a grassroots campaign mounted on his behalf by Independence Party members and others.

«A former Conservative general election candidate has pleaded guilty to a campaign of harassment against his Liberal Democrat rivals.

Nana Akuffo Addo has a very strong history of violence against his working colleagues, his workers and it is believed that he attempted to slapped his own campaign manager after he lost the General elections in 2008.

I felt, however, that the «whispering campaign» from those bearing personal grudges against me meant that my role in the 2010 General Election was limited (at some cost to the party) and I did not help the AV referendum campaign in any significant way.

Since Trump was on the receiving end of this bias for most of his campaign and as it mostly backfired then (I argue one of the factors that allowed him to win was the mentioned general bias of mass media against him) it is expected to work now (that is: after elections).

Against all expectations, Brexit barely featured in the general election campaign.

«I now intend to run a vigorous general election campaign for Comptroller against Scott Stringer.»

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

Cuomo's struggles against the unknown Fordham professor for the WFP nomination turned out to characterize the difficulties he'd have right through the primary — difficulties which seemed to take him and his campaign by surprise, and which forced them to expend political capital they wanted to save for the general election against Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Her support for the controversial invasion was used against her in the electoral campaign of Respect's George Galloway, who defeated her at the 2005 general election.

During the April general election campaign the Liberal Democrats campaigned against «a hidden Tory tax» and launched a poster campaign dubbed the «Tory tax bombshell».

In 2009, Clement won a primary campaign against Democratic committeeman Mark Halwick Jr. and went on to best Republican Deborah Brown on the general election.

The former chancellor George Osborne has accused Theresa May of failing to defend the Conservatives» economic record and of presenting her party as «against the future» in June's general election campaign.

As the general - election campaign against Sen. John McCain has gotten underway, Obama's aides have made the smears a top target.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

The Democrats have ran campaigns against Malliotakis in the last three general elections, while she has ran unopposed in the Republican Primaries.

He joined the Green campaign in 2001, and some observers believe the Ferrer - flyers contretemps cost Mr. Green the general election against Michael Bloomberg.

Last month, the campaign said it might not have much cash to defend itself against negative ads in the general election and would have to rely on the Republican National Committee for funds.

Rayner also praised parents and unions involved in the campaign against real - terms school funding cuts, which brought the issue to the fore during last year's general election.

The general election pits Douglas, a social conservative and a former school board member in the Phoenix area whose campaign focuses on her opposition to the Common Core, against David Garcia, a former state department of education official and current faculty member at Arizona State University who supports the Common Core.

Other prominent examples include Theaster Gates, who repurposes Chicago's derelict buildings as arts and community venues, and Jeremy Deller, who co-ordinated a street - art campaign against the Conservative party's «strong and stable» slogan repeated throughout the UK general election by Theresa May.

Again I'm not saying this would eliminate the execution of factually innocent people, but it would make that much less likely, and campaigning against executing innocent people would play well in the general election against Rubio.