Sentences with phrase «midterm elections saw»

The 2014 midterm elections saw only 36 % voter turnout.

The run - up to last week's midterm election saw some of the most negative campaigning in recent memory, generating countless defamation lawsuits against politicians for attack ads.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

With midterm elections coming up, Republicans might not want to be seen to be opposing net neutrality, he said.

For Trump and the Republican Party, that could be a devastating development in a midterm election year, when the party is largely pinning its hopes of keeping control of Congress on economic success and Americans seeing a benefit from the tax overhaul the president signed in December.

(Please also see last week's Market Commentary report titled «Midterm Election Year: What is Normal?»

Even some Democrats who opposed the law faced opposition by conservatives who saw the midterm election as a golden opportunity to put a more conservative Republican in office.

In the chart above, you can see Republicans being much stronger in the Senate after the 2010 midterm elections, but never before (in recent history).

Trump attendance at the private fundraiser for Handel is his first such endeavor for a congressional hopeful since he took office and confirmation that the GOP sees Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff as a barometer of the 2018 midterm elections.

In the lead up to the 2018 midterm elections, many Democrats are focused on embracing the #MeToo movement and therefore see former President Bill Clinton as «too toxic» to campaign for Democratic candidates.

Reno, Nevada (CNN)- Some two weeks before the midterm elections, Tea Party activists are set to fire up their army of supporters to forge ahead in, what they see as, a political war.

«We know that normally there are midterm blues and one sees governments tend to do better as they get closer to an election.

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.

The exchange drew considerable attention in the media and Democrats — who see Grimm's New York House seat as a possible win for them in the 2014 midterm election — seized upon the threat.

ALBANY — Charging that Rep. John Faso and other House Republicans from New York have violated their oaths of office and defrauded voters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a fiery promise on Tuesday to work at seeing them ejected from office in next year's midterm elections.

«It's clear that there's more energy at the grass - roots level than I've seen in my lifetime, any election cycle — midterm or presidential,» said strategist Joe Trippi, who managed the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign that's widely seen as the first such bid to begin harnessing online fundraising tools.

Some lawmakers have made it known that they would rather not face a war authorization vote shortly before midterm elections, saying they'd rather sit on the fence for a while to see whether an expanded military campaign starts looking like a success story or a debacle.

The high - stakes race is on to see who will control the U.S. House of Representatives after midterm elections.

The kerfuffle around the latest Cambridge Analytica disclosures feeds into broader worries about how social media platforms have been used - and will be used - to influence political campaigns (see Russia Will Meddle in US Midterm Elections, Spy Chief Warns).