Sentences with phrase «into election defeats»

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But the Conservatives unmistakably feel the danger receding of an early election and total defeat since she shook the magic money tree for a juicy # 1 - billion bribe to fall into the laps of Northern Ireland's 10 Democratic Unionist votes.

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

Odinga's claims of rigging after defeat in the 2007 elections prompted rioting and retaliation by security forces, which tipped the country into its worst crisis for decades.

According to FEC records, Becker, a cardiologist, gave $ 800 to then - GOP Rep. Sue Kelly in November 2005 when she was headed into what turned out to be a disastrous (from her perspective) election cycle in which she was defeated in a narrow race by Democrat John Hall.

Taking the responsibility for the NDC's defeat in the 2016 elections, Mahama said: «Of course as the general who led us into battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our losing the election and so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.»

When the leader of the country's largest union tells Labour's leader he's being dragged into a swamp, heading for certain defeat at the next election and presiding over the destruction of his party, then something's up.

Their defeats in the election call into question their strategies and as is usually the case these days, when that happens, the person at the top pays the price.

Overall turnover, including defeated incumbents and retirements, and the total number of open seats heading into the general election.

After losing to Mr Kufuor and taking his party into opposition, the late Mills marshaled forces to win the regions he lost to the NPP and eventually succeeding in winning eight out of the 10 regions in the 2008 elections to defeat Nana Akufo - Addo.

As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), struggles to recover from its defeat in the 2016 elections, grassroots members of the party in the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, have waded into the blame game by accusing Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, as being the major cause of their defeat.

We can't walk into a third consecutive election defeat.»

In a separate email Mr Johnson said Labour would «walk into a third consecutive election defeat» with Mr Corbyn at its helm.

The Tories won the general election because of their stance on austerity, according to the first report from an independent inquiry into Labour's defeat.

Not about headline - grabbing policy defeats at the hands of the party grassroots — carefully constructed compromises had been hammered out in advance — or about any last - minute tilt at unseating Nick Clegg; even those unhappiest with his leadership have come to accept he'll lead the party into the May 2015 general election.

As Labour MPs gather for the first time since the election defeat, interim leader Harriet Harman says she has commissioned a report looking into why the party performed so badly.

It plunged the shellshocked Labour party into a leadership contest before it had time to absorb its general election defeat or to draw wise conclusions.

The defeat also calls into question Labour's entire election strategy, as the party made the NHS, and in particular the threat to maternity and A&E services at West Cumberland Hospital, the central theme of its campaign.

Former President John Agyekum in chronicling his journey into politics and subsequently the presidency; has stated that it took him a great deal of determination to win the election of 2000, after his defeat to the NDC's Jerry John Rawlings in 1996, a man he describes as a «superman» at the time.

after the July 14 election, he will not only suffer embarrassing defeat, he will go into political oblivion afterwards

In the first place, the All Progressives Congress, except for some defections into it immediately after the 2015 presidential elections, is to all intents and purposes, an incarnate or clone of the ACN which has always suffered defeats in our hands through the little known Labour Party.

Well, if you're going into the election with your main man telling you you're going to be defeated then you might as well pack up and go home.

«As somebody who came into politics with the sole motivation of making life better for my city, my region and, by extension the country as a whole, I recognised that our election defeats in both 2010 and 2015 required a genuine and profound response from the Labour party,» the Newcastle North MP writes.

More than 100 insider sources helped journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes lift the veil on Hillary Clinton's campaign and the many avoidable missteps that turned a winnable election into a stunning defeat.

So, having defeated Al Gore in what the Democrats still insist was a stolen election, we have come full circle to George W. introducing legislation to lock into place the bogus theory of global warming, insuring that, as the Earth gives every sign of entering a cooling cycle, we shall continue to destroy the economy by reducing «greenhouse gas» emissions.

Richard Milhous Nixon bounced back from election defeats by parlaying his legal career in New York City into a platform for the 1968 election, which he won as the Republican candidate.