Sentences with phrase «last presidential election year»

In the last presidential election year, climate change was almost a bipartisan issue.

In 2008, the last presidential election year, Democrats took the majority by just one seat.

The incumbent received 54 percent of the vote in the last presidential election year.

And both are engaged in rematches against opponents who performed well in the last presidential election year.

Not exact matches

Since her father won last year's presidential election, the First Daughter's company has filed trademark requests with U.S. officials for branded lingerie, lounge wear and athletic apparel, Bloomberg reported this week.

Gillibrand is often deemed a contender for the presidential election in 2020, although she said last year she is ruling out the possibility and focusing on her Senate reelection campaign.

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

Before Trump fired him in early May, Comey oversaw the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to interfere in last year's presidential election.

But last year, The Post reported that Felix Sater, a real estate developer with a checkered past, sent an email to then - Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization Michael Cohen in November 2015 in which he indicated that a plan to construct a Moscow Trump Tower was moving forward, and bragged that they would soon be celebrating not just the completion of the tower, but also Trump's victory in the presidential election.

Inc. exclusively revealed last week that the website, the source of many of the most - shared news hoaxes benefiting Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, is operated by Ovidiu Drobota, a 24 - year - old based in Romania.

Last year during the presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Paul's financial disclosure.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

Wikileaks created turmoil in the U.S. Presidential election last year by leaking emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign Chair, John Podesta, and is regarded by many as a propaganda outlet for the Russian government.

Icahn has been a vocal supporter of Trump and an informal advisor to his presidential campaign, initially landing on Trump's short list for Treasury secretary early in the election cycle last year.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

He emphasized that it's the firm's strong technical capabilities that allow clients trade through turbulent times like Brexit and the US presidential election last year.

Wall Street has been on a bull run since the dust settled on the presidential election late last year.

Macron's campaign was hacked shortly before the presidential election last year, but, thanks to France's election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election in the U.S..

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

Near the end of June, the VIX was around 11 %, which is historically low and about half where it was just days before last year's presidential election.

The most convincing evidence about presidential election years for Evans is that in 18 of the last 22, the S&P 500 indexhas had a positive return for the year and has posted an average return of 11 percent in those years.

And of course, we are seeing a lot of that in the UK at the moment and there's a lot of that going on in the [United] States that we saw last year with the presidential election.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

The steep fall in 2012 - 2013 has many possible causes, including the heated presidential elections and the knockdown, drag - out budget battles that culminated in last year's government shutdown.

The small - cap universe doesn't hold the appeal it did in the wake of last year's presidential election, and large - cap growth names have resumed leadership of the market.

At the end of last week, EUR / USD reached 1.1000 for the first time since November 9th last year — the day of the US presidential election.

There is no evidence that the offer was accepted, but the email containing the offer is one of tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the ongoing investigation into what, if any, collusion with Russia took place during last year's presidential election.

An exit poll published after last year's US Presidential election by the Pew Research Center suggested that 81 - per - cent of people identifying as «white, born - again, evangelical Christians» chose Mr Trump over Hillary Clinton.

After a tenuous relationship on Twitter during the run - up to last year's presidential election, The Vatican confirmed yesterday that President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis on...

The Tehran government seemed to be looking away for a while, but repression for all religious minorities in Iran has worsened since the presidential elections of 2005 and in particular after the disputed polling last year, according to a 2010 report compiled by the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

A few weeks before last year's presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high - profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals.

After winning the presidential election last week, Blatter was expected to serve as president for another four years, but has decided to step down presumably because of the negative reaction to his re-election.

The Republicans, who for the last few years have been leaning heavily to the right, lost the second presidential election in a row, and for their own interests they should rethink this strategy.

The Republican Party believes that its loss in last year's presidential election was primarily a failure of presentation rather than policy.

Rep. Devin Nunes, the embattled California Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee, announced he would step aside from leading his committee's investigation into Russia's efforts to disrupt last year's presidential election.

The Independent Democratic Conference in the Senate has come under increasing pressure since last year's presidential election to form a new alliance with the mainline Democrats in the chamber.

Gun owners» fear of a Clinton presidency may have helped spur a spike in pistol permits issued in the Empire State in 2016, increasing 34 percent from the 2012 presidential election year and rivaling numbers last seen when the SAFE Act passed four years ago.

Over the last 40 years or so, only a little over half of the voting age population participated in presidential elections.

Nevertheless, the relative calm in this country during the last three years should not lead one to believe that the upcoming presidential election is not without high stakes.

Russia «meddled» in last year's presidential election as part of a decades - long effort to «undermine American democracy,» CIA Director Mike Pompeo said.

Put on the back burner last year amid the possibility of Democrats faring well down battle in the presidential election, the fight is back to being a red hot one at the Capitol.

Some analysts are describing this as the most important election in the last 50 years — not including presidential contests.

The far - right leader gained over 100,000 followers during the presidential election campaign last year.

Thus, Turkey remained a parliamentary system with a ceremonial president until the first popular presidential election was held, and Erdoğan was elected last year.

This development has seemed like a foregone conclusion since President Obama announced in advance of last year's presidential election his own personal support for gay marriage and even went so far as to highlight the issue in his inauguration speech in January.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

Black women voters voted in large numbers for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, for former President Barack Obama in 2012 and for now - Alabama Sen. Doug Jones last year.

WASHINGTON — In a feisty statement to be delivered to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime political adviser, denies any collusion with Russia during last year's presidential election and accuses panel members of «cowardice» for insisting that he testify behind closed doors rather than in a public session.

Stone's long - awaited appearance before the committee is shaping up to be a combative confrontation with Democratic committee members who have publicly accused him of being a key player in Russian efforts to meddle in last year's presidential election.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.