Sentences with phrase «longest election campaign»

Perhaps, in the midst of the longest election campaign since the 1960s, it might be worth finding a bit more time to acknowledge that.

With the world's longest election campaign season finally behind us, people across the country are trying to understand what a Donald Trump presidency means for them.

In what is likely to be the first battle of the long election campaign, Osborne remains confident that he has made the right call and voters are more worried by the deficit than the size of the state.

Not exact matches

An 11 - week election campaign will be the longest in decades, and begins amid mixed economic signals

The longer campaign will be more expensive for Elections Canada, as well.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

After the leak, Ryan disinvited Trump from a Wisconsin campaign event and said he would no longer defend Trump against any further controversies that might emerge before Election Day.

That Sunday morning in Bedminster, Trump publicly aired his frustrations on the Russia probe, tweeting: «Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November?

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

In recent months, as the 2016 election campaigns have gathered momentum, concern about the long - term effects of the buyback craze has crept into public discourse and caught the attention of politicians.

Almost everyone immediately pointed the finger at Russia, who is suspected of being behind a long and sophisticated hacking campaign that has the apparent goal of influencing the upcoming US elections.

Although he had been campaigning for longer than a year, on March 26, 2014, Mr. Cardinal was officially nominated as his party's first candidate for the next general election.

The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

The Katz Group has hired long - time PC - insider Peter Elzinga as a lobbyist and launched a political campaign to «Revitalize Downtown» in advance of the election.

A second option would be to formally include the 2011 election commitments in the 2014 budget as part of a longer - term economic and fiscal strategy, and in doing so begin the 2015 election campaign twelve months earlier.

During the Kennedy - Nixon campaign, which began his long relationship with the Nixon White House, Peale declared, «Faced with the election...

I suspect they have administrators with the brains to make tradeoffs based less on funding an election campaign than on what would benefit the people of their country in the long term.

Meanwhile the cost of campaigns would plummet, as paying for more TV time would no longer provide the only route to winning an election.

Democratic Senate hopeful Barbara Fiala on Friday reported having $ 72,161 in cash on hand for her bid to flip a district long held by Republicans in the Southern Tier, a campaign finance filing with the Board of Elections shows.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

Meanwhile, the Queensland Labor Party looks on, astonished that Rudd, a «native son», could not postpone his long - planned revenge against Gillard until after their state election campaign.

The unexpected prediction from the deputy prime minister comes amid a storm of activity from Conservative eurosceptics, as the long campaigning season ahead of May's European elections begins in earnest.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

But microtargeting has the potential to help with more than just the last - minute turnout frenzy, since campaigns can use consumer information databases to zero - in on and recruit supporters long before the actual election.

The campaign of Alvarado Muñoz has highlighted several dynamics that indicate that something is rotten in the state of Costa Rica, a country long characterized by political moderation and stability, and, also remind of recent elections elsewhere.

His former running mate, ex-NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene (whom Edwards defeated on Sept. 14), Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo (whom Lazio defeated for Row D in the primary before deciding to drop out of the general election), former Rep. Tom Reynolds, Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy (Paladino's earliest and most staunch support), Nancy Naples (former Erie County comptroller and chair of Paladino's campaign), state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, state Conservative Chairman Mike Long (although not today).

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

Though she has some support from state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long (no relation) she is believed to be too far to the right to be able to mount a competitive general election campaign.

or else raise the debt ceiling for a lot longer, until after the 2018 elections (denying Democrats the tool for a long time, eliminating the debt ceiling as an issue during the 2018 campaign, and allowing Congress to deal with it the next time fresh off an election and relatively safe from concerns about the following election in 2020).

In a landmark ruling, the Federal Election Commission approved a request from Liuba Grechen Shirley, a Long Island Democrat running for Congress, to use money collected from campaign donors to pay for child care services while she is campaigning.

In the first of a special week - long assessment of the general election, politics.co.uk looks at what the campaign taught us about the role of the media.

Here's an observation from Joe Trippi and Rod Martin's lunchtime POLC conversation yesterday — yes, the long American election seasons have some drawbacks, but they do give campaigns a chance to build support incrementally over months and even years.

StreetsPAC today announced three additional candidate endorsements for Tuesday's general election, supporting the re-election campaigns of New York State Assemblymembers Dan Quart and Michaelle Solages, and the State Senate race of Adrienne Esposito, who's running for an open seat on Long Island.

The Artvoice comments are the latest example in a long history of Paladino making offensive statements, some of which caught national attention because of his role as a co-chairman in Donald J. Trump's New York State election campaign.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

«If the Democrats are so desperate to motivate their base that they have to resort to the issue of gun control, then they are in for a long 2016 election cycle,» said Chris LaCivita, a GOP strategist and adviser to Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign.

«I look forward to a spirited campaign and to sharing my progressive vision for the district with Long Islanders,» said Shirley, who formed the group New York's 2nd District Democrats after Trump's election.

On Monday Long filed a papers to create a campaign finance committee called «Wendy Long 2016» with the Federal Election Commission.

All the debt incurred by Wendy Long's campaign to Casale's firm was incurred between the primary and general elections, he said.

(CNN)- The Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of a ruling by Montana's highest court that upholds the state's century - long restrictions on independent political spending by outside groups in election campaigns.

But the election campaign is long over, and the fight to make a key piece of the mayor's liberal vision a reality has just begun — a fight that will pit him against some of the very people who put him in office.

Hiplife duo, Praye, who have joined the long list of musicians and actors endorsing the candidature of the New Patriotic Party Flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, for the December elections, have presented to him CD copies of a campaign song they have composed for him.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo will from Thursday begin a month long tour of the country ahead of his commencement of the campaign for the 2016 general elections.

One would allow political candidates to use campaign funds to pay for child care, as the Federal Election Commission recently allowed that a mother of two who's running for Congress on Long Island.

During the 2014 election cycle, the Senate Republican Campaign Committee linked Democratic candidates with de Blasio in upstate New York and throughout Long Island.

But the Campaign Finance Board found CF1NY actually did spend money on non-campaign issues such as the mayor's push for universal pre-K and that spending happened long before Election Day.

In private the Lib Dems are very gloomy about their prospects of winning a referendum - they think wealthy peers would fund an effective no campaign - and Clegg seems to be conceding that as long as he secures the election of 120 peers in 2015, he could accept a referendum that might stop any further peers being elected.