Sentences with phrase «left wing candidate»

This is the highest vote for a genuine left wing candidate in New York since 1920.

Likewise, no left wing candidate can win the general election.

The surge in support for the left wing candidate is causing increasing angst in the Labour party and prompting private discussions about what can be done to stop Corbyn in his tracks.

The truth is that there has been no credible left wing candidate in this campaign.

Studies of media coverage find equal criticism of right and left wing candidates across the entire media (though individual sources will obviously tend to have political preferences).

i.e. short list left wing candidates in a constituency where the public want and would support a left wing MP.

Not exact matches

During his speech, Melenchon mentioned the Socialist party's presidential candidate Benoit Hamon, who has called on left - wing forces to unite.

I personally think that Obama's election was more about his left wing ideology than his «skin color» because if it had only been about «skin color» then the POTUS candidates on the right who were black, would have had just as good a chance to become the POTUS, as Obama did.

Don't think he necessarily has enough cachet, especially within the more progressive wings of the party (he can be hit from the left on things like abortion and race), but I could see him ending up as a running mate option for a more progressive candidate.

With Alvaro Morata suspended, Willian and Pedro are probable candidates to start on the left and right wing respectively with Eden Hazard playing centrally in a false number nine role.

Ahead of them, Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso can be fancied to feature in their regular right wing - back and left wing - back positions respectively, whilst Cesc Fabregas and N'Golo Kante are more or less the suited candidates to form the central midfield partnership.

Alexis Sanchez is a strong candidate to slot into his regular left - wing role with Martial on the right, whilst Jesse Lingard could reclaim the number 10 role, where he has excelled over the course of the campaign.

Meanwhile, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is also a candidate to feature in the wing - back position, but he may be deployed on the left flank with Kieran Gibbs likely to start on the bench with a minor thigh problem.

One interesting thing that caught my eye: with the exception of Diane Abbott's supporters, every candidate's supporters think their candidate is more left - wing than non-supporters think.

OTOH, if he acted weak on Assad, he would give basis to the Democrats and left wing to attack him as «Russia's lapdog», since that would play right into left wing narrative of him being Russia's Manchurian candidate.

The Liberal Democrats came sixth with just 474 votes, after left - wing party Solidarity, who had former MSP Tommy Sheridan as their candidate.

We on the Left hope that Bernie Sanders challenges the corporate - controlled Republican - Democrat two - party system and Right - wing neo-liberal Hillary Clinton and whomever is the GOP candidate.

Tentative conclusion: everyone wants to think of themselves as left - wing and therefore convinces themselves that the candidate they support is more left - wing than perhaps they really are.

If even the nominating presidents can't determine if the candidate is left or right wing, then how do you expect someone else to do so?

The leadership campaign was fought out amongst Oxbridge graduates, two of the candidates were sons of a left - wing historian with connections deep into North London Labour intellectual circles.

There are 6 candidates running against Kirchner, from my understanding each mainly center - to - far left wing, including a socialist, a Radical party candidate, a left - wing workers front, and two candidates representing splinter movements within Kirchner's own Peronist movement.

Owen Smith has tried to stress his left wing credentials after the path was cleared for him to stand as the sole candidate against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election.

Left - wing blogs can raise a storm about some offense of a right wing candidate, but the latter's supporters, or more importantly, undecided independents, probably don't read left - wing blogs anyway, so they still wouldn't know (for the opposite direction, see John Edwards adultery scandLeft - wing blogs can raise a storm about some offense of a right wing candidate, but the latter's supporters, or more importantly, undecided independents, probably don't read left - wing blogs anyway, so they still wouldn't know (for the opposite direction, see John Edwards adultery scandleft - wing blogs anyway, so they still wouldn't know (for the opposite direction, see John Edwards adultery scandal).

In his second intervention on the threat posed by the left - wing candidate, the former prime minister said his party is «walking eyes shut, arms outstretched, over the cliff's edge to the jagged rocks below».

The other candidates were left - wing backbencher Diane Abbott, Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Miliband's elder brother, Shadow Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

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He has been swept along on a left - wing tide that no - one saw coming — least of all the candidate himself.

From now on I will fight the Tories and fight for left wing democratic socialist policies and left wing democratic socialist candidates at all levels.

Out of the four candidates (the other three are Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall) he is the one with the most «traditional» left - wing track record and has been consistently targeted.

Indivisible are a bunch of left wing liars, they'll say or do anything to get their candidates elected.

Though the business and financial sectors had always been less than enthusiastic in supporting the left - wing Workers» Party (PT) administrations, Lula, who in 2002 became the first PT candidate to be elected president, was able to establish a rather positive relationship with these groups.

«Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats, including a Democratic candidate for Attorney General, have taken the principled position of rejecting the WFP because of its extreme left - wing ideology — and because it is under investigation by the United States Attorney.»

The controversial WFP, which is under investigation for possible violations of the New York City campaign - finance law, was founded nearly a decade ago by left - wing labor unions and political activists, and has emerged as a potent force in helping Democratic candidates.

Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate, is participating in Occupy Inauguration, a mass rally and protest along with the left - wing Progressive Independent Party.

Had some Republicans not voted for their candidate, the centrist Democrat — for whom most Republicans cast their second preferences — would have made it to the second round and beat the left - wing Progressive, who went on to win despite coming second in the first round.

The left - wing positions of Central Scotland's SNP and Labour candidates within their own parties highlight that the political culture of the region's voters may be more stable than dramatic vote swings suggest.

As the 2015 leadership election commenced, the most left - wing mainstream candidate, Andy Burnham, launched his campaign from the offices of Ernst & Young (the global accountancy firm) to demonstrate his «pro-business» credentials.

Two polls from Siena College and Quinnipiac University have shown Cuomo's margin of victory diminished by a generic candidate running to his left — surveys that have emboldened the activist wing of the party upset with his stances on tax cuts and charter schools.

A «soft left» candidate such as Lisa Nandy could pull in enough support from left - wing MPs to kill off a Corbynite challenge.

MPs like Chris Huhne in Eastleigh will be defeated as left - wing voters who supported him in order to «keep the Tory out» drift back to the Labour candidate.

To avoid splitting the left - wing vote, they announced only the candidate with the most support would seek MPs» backing to make it on to the ballot.

On Wednesday he will answer Conservative claims that he is the «left - wing candidate» by unveiling plans for Labour to «revive the dream of home ownership.»

Liz Kendall, the shadow Care Minister who is seen as the Blairite candidate, came second on 25 per cent, with Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, on 20 per cent and Jeremy Corbyn, a left - wing backbencher, on 18 per cent.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

The Senate candidate is the vice chair of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization formerly headed by left - wing activist David Brock and an approved funding group of the progressive Democracy Alliance.

A new poll has Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labour leadership contest, he is the most left - wing of the four candidates.

Centrist activists in Lewisham had feared the NEC, on which Corbyn's backers now have a majority, would only allow them to choose between candidates from the left wing of the party.

In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his plan to provide free tuition to the state's public colleges and universities with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the insurgent left - wing presidential candidate.

But the left - wing bent of the Labour candidate was not the cause of the majority of the controversy.