Sentences with phrase «general election campaign on»

The Times reports today that «the Liberal Democrats are to focus their general election campaign on Labour seats in an historic shift that could help David Cameron.»

The MP charged with running Labour's general election campaign on the challenges facing the party.

They will not only be fighting their most difficult general election campaign on a national front in two decades but they will also have really tricky contests in their own constituencies.»

During the 2017 general election campaign on 2 May 2017, Labour's pledge to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers was overshadowed by Abbott's inability to give accurate funding figures.

It is not a sound hope to base a general election campaign on, nor an appealing one.

The leaders of the two main opposition parties are set to launch the key themes of their general election campaigns on Monday.

The announcement provoked fierce criticism from parents, and the school even became the focus of the Green Party's general election campaigning on the island.

Not exact matches

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.)

Hillary Clinton continued her move into the general election Friday by framing Donald Trump's campaign as one of a war on women.

On Wednesday, Trump told The New York Times that he wouldn't have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the investigation into Russia's election interference and whether his campaign team collaborated at all.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the attack in a statement outside Downing Street early Sunday, and vowed that the country's general election would take place as scheduled on June 8, although both of the main political parties would suspend campaigning for the day.

Today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee and faced tough questions from both sides about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia's attack on our 2016 election.

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 Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality drew attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

(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.

Mr Farron faced repeated questioning during the 2017 General Election campaign over his views on homosexuality.

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality distracted attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

Part of this general failure has been the direct result of overly monetization of politics, mass illiteracy, ethnocentrism, organized crime, voter and election fraud (election malpractice), campaigns of lies which Lucky Dube sang about on «political games, «Bob Marley on «Ambush in the Night» and «Burnin» and Lootin»», Steele Pulse's David Hines on «Bodyguard,» Mutabaruka on «The People's Court»...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told his MPs to keep campaigning and carry on the momentum the party built up in the general election campaign.

Just as in 2008, Obama will be able to go back to his small donors again and again throughout the primary and general election process, while his chief opponents (in this case, Romney and Perry) are relying (overwhelmingly so far) on a relatively small group of geographically or professionally restricted donors who'll hit their legal maximum on campaign giving quickly.

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

The Obama campaign seems to have shifted at least some of its online ad buying towards a general election strategy, at least judging from the display ad below, which I saw on an article on Space.com:

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.

Touching on the NDC campaign, Mr. Adams expressed satisfaction that the 15 - man team constituted will coordinate things to deliver a resounding victory in November general elections He asked all party faithfuls to rally together and deliver the maximum votes for President Mahama.

President John Mahama as part of his efforts to seek re-election in the upcoming December 7 General elections, is on a campaign tour in the Ashanti Region where his ubiquitous presence, by virtue of his humbling persona and his extraordinary achievements in the Ashanti Region is said to have sent down shivers down the spine of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

His former running mate, ex-NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene (whom Edwards defeated on Sept. 14), Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo (whom Lazio defeated for Row D in the primary before deciding to drop out of the general election), former Rep. Tom Reynolds, Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy (Paladino's earliest and most staunch support), Nancy Naples (former Erie County comptroller and chair of Paladino's campaign), state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, state Conservative Chairman Mike Long (although not today).

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.

Richard Becker, one of several Democrats vying to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in the general election, was forced to issue a rather shamefaced explanation after questioned about a campaign contribution he gave to a former Republican congresswoman whose district (well, the re-drawn version of it, anyway) he's now running to represent.

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.

Other campaigns are likely to get a much later start, taking these steps between a few months and a year of the primary or the general election, depending on which will be contested.

As he begins to re-tool for the general election (while still dealing with Santorum et al at the same time), his campaign will need to expand its presence on the ground and build a network of active supporters in all the potential battleground states.

Mr. Jinapor on the other hand became a Campaign Aide to Nana Akufo - Addo in the 2007 NPP Presidential Primaries and held this position for both the 2008 and 2012 General Elections.

the chancellor and PM continue to work together, text each other most days and, between them, have embarked on the 2015 general election campaign.

For federal elections, data - driven campaigns get two data points on voting behavior every two years: whether someone voted in a primary (and which one) and whether they voted in the general election.

Underwhelming local results cast doubt on the Labour leader's prospects, but he performs more strongly in general election campaigns.

The campaign was launched as a result of genuine concerns that sufficient parliamentary time would not be made available to debate and vote on the reforms prior to the 2015 General Election.

Our current Prime Minister could hardly have been clearer on the final Sunday of the General Election campaign, speaking to Andrew Marr to make his final week pitch to the British public.

And Mayor Byron W. Brown, running for re-election with only nominal competition in the general election, was suddenly back on television, spending a total of $ 106,500 in little more than two weeks on ads, campaign literature and a get - out - the - vote effort for himself and his fellow Democrats running for countywide office.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

StreetsPAC today announced three additional candidate endorsements for Tuesday's general election, supporting the re-election campaigns of New York State Assemblymembers Dan Quart and Michaelle Solages, and the State Senate race of Adrienne Esposito, who's running for an open seat on Long Island.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

Koch, who swept past Brooklyn assemblyman Frank J. Barbaro and 36 - year - old Melvin Kerensky — an associate of Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr. — to win the Democratic primary and trounced state lawmaker John A. Esposito by a two - to - one margin to capture the Republican nomination, said that he would campaign evenings and weekends while relying heavily on television advertising in the general election.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

It would be dangerous for Labour to rely on this impression: this kind of fantasy rarely survives a general election campaign.

The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.

The source added that the attorney general's effort concentrates not so much on the whereabouts of approximately $ 151,000 in missing campaign funds, but how campaign finance reports were submitted to the state Board of Elections.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.