Sentences with phrase «midterm elections because»

(CNN)- President Barack Obama argued Thursday night that Democrats have low turnout and get «clobbered» in midterm elections because of the «toxic» nature of Washington.

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History shows it could get a lot tougher because of the midterm elections scheduled for later in 2018.

«At this point, I don't even know if the adults in power who are funded by the NRA, I don't think we need them anymore, because they are going to be gone by the midterm election,» Gonzalez said on «Face the Nation» on CBS.

The Democrats will lose control of the Senate in January because of heavy losses in midterm elections last month and will go deeper into a House minority than at any time since 1928.

Because midterm elections take place in distinct races, 472 of them this year, rendering a national verdict involves administering a very rough justice.

This is important because Democrats do better in presidential election years than in midterms.

While Republicans have been bracing for months for a punishing election in November, they are increasingly alarmed that their losses may be even worse than feared because the midterm campaign appears destined to turn more on the behavior of the man in the White House than any other in decades.

And, he tells the Marist Poll's John Sparks that's because he believes voter turnout will be low in the upcoming midterm elections.

But because the measure is a constitutional amendment, Florida law required that it get 60 percent of the vote — and that made it all the more challenging in a midterm election year, when turnout among younger voters is lower.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

«There were people there who may have a view about her and 2020, but we hosted the fund - raiser because we have admired Kamala for years, and we applaud her efforts to support House and Senate Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections,» Mr. Johnson said.

The news conference will come at an action - packed time for the President, just days after he helped launch direct Middle East peace talks and gave a prime - time Oval Office address on the end of combat operations in Iraq, as well as falling less than two months before a critical midterm election where Democrats» majorities in the House and Senate are on the ropes largely because of the nation's economic uncertainty.

The 2014 midterms were the Beach Boys election — because when you catch a wave, which is what the Republicans have just done, you're sitting on top of the world...

With the midterm election expected to see record spending — in part because of competitive GOP primaries — top political consultants in the Washington area are already seeing a windfall with two months left to go.

If you really want to turn these policies around, work on the midterm elections, because our members of Congress, including John Faso and Elise Stefanik, are not exercising the right oversight authority over, for instance, the gutting of the EPA.

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The question has urgency because of the upcoming midterm elections, and because of the disgraceful recent conduct of party leaders.

But because of the midterm elections Nov. 2, the next month promises to be particularly intense.