Sentences with phrase «into election week»

«In New Jersey, if you take a look at the third party candidate in that race, that candidate had polling numbers going into the election week, that had they met on election day, would have assured a re-election of the incumbent liberal Democrat,» he said.

(CNN)-- President Barack Obama's campaign touted an intensely focused ground game going into election week on Saturday, citing their robust voter contact efforts as a reason the president will prevail against his rival Mitt Romney.

Not exact matches

It was a relatively slow week in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but some key revelations helped move the investigation forward.

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.

In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Democrats Say «Bye» to Populist Option In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked the former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.»

Before The Bell - Wall Street sprinted into the latest week hoping to extend the powerful rally in place since the November election, an upsurge that intensified mightily last week, when the major large - cap indexes all surged to all - time highs in a buying frenzy unleashed by expectations that the President - elect and his incoming Administration would push hard for a massive infrastructure spending program, reduced regulations, and popular tax cuts.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

In addition to election uncertainty, mutterings late last week suggesting that the tax regime may be headed for further adverse changes are likely to further shrink potential buyers» enthusiasm to jump into the market in coming weeks.

With the Presidential election just two weeks away, prominent Hollywood Democrat Barbra Streisand has sent an «emergency» email to the entire Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) mailing list, urging all recipients to dig deep into their pockets for last minute Obama campaign donations, according to The Hollywood Reporter

«Some friendly advice — don't ride into DC a week before Election Day and chase Congress out of session with a whip....»

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions...

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.

On Friday, he told Emma Barnett on 5 Live Daily: «I made the decision about two weeks into the election campaign.

A mom reports that as she tucks her six - year old biracial child into bed a week after the election, he says, with tears in his eyes, «I wish I was white.»

Kenyan authorities last week denied Mr. Mac Manu entry into the country to lead a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) ahead of Tuesday's polls.

Speculation about which of the two main parties could attract Nick Clegg into a coalition has dominated the last week of the general election campaign, since his TV debate performance sent Lib Dem support through the roof.

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.

Bharara, constrained from endorsements and opining as a federal prosecutor, has let his hair down on Twitter in recent weeks since he was fired President Donald Trump, posting pointed thoughts on issues ranging from the investigation into Russian meddling in the election to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the MTA.

The practice, part of a broader inquiry into the fundraising practices of Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies, was recommended for criminal prosecution by the chief enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections in a memorandum made public last week.

We can assume that most of the paid staff are field organizers and data analysts, many of whom will parachute into battleground states to work the final weeks before Election Day.

This week, insiders began a whisper campaign that Alice Cancel had the most votes from the committee going into tomorrow's (S) election process in which new votes are taken over and over again until a candidate reaches 50 %.

At the same time, Clinton pointed the finger at both the alleged hacking by Russian - backed agents of emails at the Democratic National Committee as well as the re-opening of the FBI investigation into his wife's use of a private email server weeks before Election Day.

A couple of observations: first, note how early these guys are being hired — the election was only a week ago, and the new media team is already being put into place.

With just two weeks to go until Election Day, more personal information about Democratic state senator, and county executive candidate, George Latimer continues to spill into the headlines.

Boko Haram attacks escalated in 2014 and into 2015, forcing the Nigerian government to postpone presidential elections for six weeks until March 28, 2015.

With five weeks to go before Election Day, Democrats are still waiting for Donald Trump to create the nationwide swell that would be necessary to put the Republicans» House majority into play.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week announced he was launching an investigation into the removal of the voters from the rolls, which was city Board of Elections officials now say was done through a clerical error.

This time, leaving aside the row over whether or when TV debates will happen, all the broadcasters - not least Sky News, naturally - are putting a colossal and unprecedented effort into planning not only the election campaign and election night, but also the potential wrangling in the days and weeks after May 7.

«As we continue to bring the clear choice of this election into focus for the American people over the final weeks, our supporters and volunteers across the country are responding with action in their neighborhoods to make sure the president has four more years to keep moving America forward,» said Obama campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher.

Next week we will see the dissolution of Parliament, at which point the election campaign will go into overdrive.

The election into the wards which took place last week saw the candidates for the wards only campaining and mobilising for support in their wards.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.

A spurned candidate, cross-endorsements, appointment speculation... We're five weeks away from the election and things are finally coming into focus in the races for town supervisor and town board.

This is just the latest step in our renaissance, over the last few weeks with the Legislature's partnership we have passed and signed bond resolutions to fund the relocation and upgrading of our Medical Examiner's Office; funding for the new Sheriff's Police Academy; money to turn more of Building «A» into useable office space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West Haverstraw.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

Earlier in the week we found that Cameron remained the strong favourite of Tory members to lead the party into the next election.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo exited the legislative session last week with a relative dearth of major victories, but not necessarily to his long - term political detriment as he heads into an election year.

A group called «Concerned Citizens United» was one of the state's top spenders in the run - up to Election Day, putting more than $ 400,000 into an effort to oppose the convention and support Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins in the first three weeks of October.

City Board of Elections (BOE) commissioners last week ruled, 7 - 2, that Tabacco did not have enough valid signatures to get into an Independence primary against McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), who is backed by the party.

Having resigned on two occasions during Tony Blair's first term of office, his third resignation only weeks before the April 2010 general election plunged the Labour Party into two decades of infighting, from which it only recently recovered fifteen years later with the election of teenage glamour model Princess Tiaamii Andre - Price as leader.

The legitimacy of this week's crucial Afghanistan elections has been called into question, after the full price Britain's soldiers are paying to provide security for the poll was revealed yesterday.

Labour lost hundreds of councillors in last week's local elections - but look deep into the voting figures and things look even worse

Last week saw the start of campaigning for the general election in May, with a series of carefully choreographed events and launches rapidly descending into free - form mud - slinging.

Specifically, the two former officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, got into trouble for allegedly collecting the said sum in the weeks preceding the 2015 Presidential election as a bribe.

President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between two White House lawyers and that could shape the course of the investigation.

Attorney General Jeff Session was interviewed last week by Mueller's team as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The final act of the Democrat's convention leads into the state Conservative Party convention tomorrow, followed by the Republican convention next week, putting the unusually packed slate of elections this fall into higher gear.