Sentences with phrase «in general election campaigns»

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

While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

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.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has admitted that party leader Natalie Bennett could have performed better in the general election campaign - and has left the door ajar to returning as party leader.

«I thought we had won that argument, but I learned in the general election campaign that we have not,» he said in his Manson House speech.

The media are making it impossible for politicians in this general election campaign.

Not only that, but plans are already being drawn up for him to play a significant cheer - leading role in the general election campaign.

There is a certain pointlessness to any assessment of party fortunes in the general election campaign, simply because what has happened since May 6th has changed the rules of the game so completely.

The grassroots activist group Momentum has been holding high - profile campaign days in the target councils of Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to recapture some of the energy that led to Jeremy Corbyn's surge late in the general election campaign.

Most sensible Conservatives know that the Lib Dems are still gifted, hard working and canny campaigners and will do better than their current opinion poll ratings suggest and certainly when those ratings rise in a General Election campaign, as they inevitably will.

The poll is the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign.

It remains to be seen how UKIP will fare in a general election campaign, which will bring much closer political, press and public attention to their broader policy platform.

Meanwhile, NY - 21 Democratic candidate Aaron Woolf is fundraising, concerned about outside spending in the general election campaign — especially after seeing the SuperPAC influence in the GOP primary.

Theresa May's former chief adviser has responded to claims that he screwed up in the general election campaign — by pointing the finger at political strategist Lynton Crosby.

That changed this week when Baroness Jenkin quoted the abuse one Conservative Party candidate received in the general election campaign last year.

The row over supposed BBC bias in the general election campaign has taken a new twist with a lively...

Labour has launched the next stage in its general election campaign by publishing four new posters on its website.

«Now we are in the general election campaign, and the media are forced to give some balance, the televised broadcast media, I think what you are seeing is that we are picking up support, and as Jeremy gets more media time, people are seeing the real character of the man, this decent, honest, strong leader, in terms of principles and how to go forward.»

Following David Miliband's departure, we should reflect on what this might mean for figures like Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson in the general election campaign.

The poll, the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.

He opposed torture and promoted campaign finance reform, a cause that Mr. Obama injured when he broke his promise to accept public financing in the general election campaign.

Douglas Alexander, Labour's general election coordinator, also told delegates that all was not lost in the general election campaign.

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

If she wins the Democratic nomination, she risks facing these questions again in the general election campaign, especially if there is something damning in those speeches.

Whether it's true or not, his PR people need to nip this in the bud now or Labour could lose its newfound momentum in the general election campaign.

Ed Balls says he only spoke to Ed M twice in the general election campaign.

The poll is the second independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has apologised again to the women involved in the Lord Rennard allegations and said the peer «will not be playing any role» in his General Election campaign.

He's not going to play a role in my General Election campaign next year, I have made that very clear.

Neither Ministers, nor any other Parliamentary candidates, should involve Government establishments or offices (such as Jobcentres) in the General Election campaign by visiting them for electioneering purposes.

David Cameron hasn't led in a General Election campaign yet, the numbers turning out to vote Labour went up quite significantly while Neil Kinnock was leader - numbers voting Conservative went up a lot too, the percentage difference between the two main parties went down.

A coalition of eight organisations is calling on all political parties to put justice centre stage in the General Election campaign.

Not exact matches

In a congratulatory phone call the night of Paul's primary victory, McConnell pledged his support to the newcomer for the general election campaign.

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.)

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.

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.

Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in mid-May as special counsel overseeing the the investigation into whether the President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, noted that under the special counsel regulations, only the attorney general has the authority to fire such an appointee.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's campaign finance chair, said the candidate won't be self - funding in the general election.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Democratic front - runner Hillary Clinton has maintained generally comfortable leads over the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in a potential general - election matchup.

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.

With less than four months until the general election, Ontario's Progressive Conservative party is leaderless, and would - be-leaders have already abandoned at least some of the commitments in the party's election campaign platform.

«I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,» Trump said, a statement which ignores the fact that Bannon was the campaign C.E.O. for most of the general election.

This settlement should have been considered a campaign expense «because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosegeneral election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. RoseGeneral Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. RoseGeneral Rod J. Rosenstein.

Campaign contribution limits in effect during the 2016 election capped direct donations to candidates at $ 2,700 for a primary or general election.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.

Attorney General Jeff Session's decision to recuse himself from a federal investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election already has caused a deep rift in his relationship with Trump.

Then he runs another incompetent campaign in the general election and gets trounced.

Reagan ran a more disciplined campaign than his more liberal rivals (both in the GOP primary and the general election), and while he kept faith with his conservative base, he never seemed to be speaking only to his pre-existing conservative supporters.