Sentences with phrase «general election contest against»

A strong performance in her home borough, even in losing the general election contest against de Blasio, could position her for a future run for the House seat or for Staten Island borough president.

Just when her rail opposition could pay off politically, Yee has changed her position for her tough general election contest against Republican Ashley Swearengin.

In a general election contest against Republican real estate executive Paul Massey, Mayor de Blasio, 64 %, leads Massey, 22 %, by nearly three to one among registered voters in New York City including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.

Not exact matches

He came third against John Major in the 1992 general election — a better result than his party's fifth - placed position in this contest.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Now that the congressional primaries have passed and the general election battles are set, (for the most part), candidates in contested races across the state and their respective supporters have turned their attention to the opponents against whom they'll be facing off in November.

No 57300 DSP Mohammed Isa Hamman absconded from duty and deserted the Force on the 24th September, 2010 but contested the Bauchi central senatorial election in 2011 general elections under Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and got suspected forged retirement letter dated 5th March, 2014, this means that for four years, he is still a Police Officer which made it a criminal act for him to contest election as a Police Officer in service and this is another fraud the Police is investigating against him.

A passionate contest in Bradford West, which pitted the incumbent Respect party MP George Galloway against the Labour Party's challenger Naz Shah was one of the highlights of Britain's 2015 general election.

However, when matched against Cuomo or Clinton in the general election contest, Christie does not fare as well in this very blue state.

Back in 2008, Barack Obama's success at recruiting an army of online small - dollar donors gave him a tremendous advantage in the long primary battle against Hillary Clinton, and his subsequent general election contests.

If judged against the metric of winning general elections, few could disagree that Labour have made the wrong choice, although equally «the worst of a bad job» is probably an apt description of the contest.

Ahead of the fall midterm elections, Democrats have contested primaries around the country that will help shape their general election matchups against Republicans this fall.

He defeated then - Mayor Bill Finch in a hotly contested Democratic primary and then won again in the general election against Mary Jane Foster and multiple other candidates.