Sentences with phrase «nomination fight»

The Republican nomination fight may drag on longer, and help drive conservative voters to the polls.
With chances growing that New York's Democratic primary could count after all as part of the wider nomination fight, the chairwoman of the party's national committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D - Fla.)
Since the candidates last met, the GOP nomination fight has been marked first by businessman Cain's rise in national polls and then the firestorm over accusations that he sexually harassed women during his time leading the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
«I think he came to a realization that this would not be an uncontested nomination fight.
Now, several worthy contenders have come forward to take up that challenge and a fierce nomination fight is imminent,» Zaccaria said.
The national Democratic Party's hierarchy acknowledged the «perceived influence» of insiders over voters in picking a presidential nominee, but don't know yet how to settle an issue that bedeviled the bitter nomination fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016.
As for his previous suggestion that the Democratic nomination fight could go all the way until the convention in July, Reid said: «I don't know about that, you know I had some meetings today and I think the race is moving along very quickly so we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens next month.»
Chris Cillizza just said on Hannity and Colmes that Obama's nomination fight with Hillary has prepared him to be the President.
In a string of Democratic primary elections around the country, two of the long - memoried protagonists of the Barack Obama - Hillary Clinton nomination fight keep finding themselves at odds as they rally to support down - ballot candidates who picked the «right» side in 2008.
Yet Democrats acknowledged the lively nomination fights could result in victories for candidates with little experience, scant scrutiny or political views that are out of step with general electorate.
(CNN)- Polls are open in Tennessee, where a Republican gubernatorial battle and some contentious House nomination fights are in the spotlight in Thursday's primary.
In the byzantine realm of Reform Party politics, Mr. Trump and Mr. Ventura are shaping up as allies in a fractious nomination fight that could pit Mr. Trump against Patrick J. Buchanan, who is expected to bolt the Republican party to bid for the Reform nomination.
Illiteracy can't compete with Katrina, 9/11, Iraq, or even a good Supreme Court nomination fight.
And Roll Call has a blog post titled «Republicans FiIibuster Watt, Millett as Nomination Fights Brew.»
With chances growing that New York's Democratic primary could count after all as part of the wider nomination fight, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman, is due to appear in Long Beach less than a month before the balloting.
Approaches to border enforcement and deportation have caused candidates to rise and fall in primary races, and John McCain's relatively moderate position on those matters posed a threat to his nomination fight in the last presidential campaign.
But Molinaro, who re-entered the nomination fight after initially bowing out earlier in the race, has been endorsed by chairmen from large counties that have a large percentage of the weighted vote ahead of the May state convention, including Erie and Suffolk counties.
Obviously, any ratings done more than a year before voters in Iowa kick off the nomination fight are highly speculative and subject to considerable change.
Giambra, who announced last week that he would no longer seek the GOP nomination and would attempt to mount an independent campaign for governor, wasn't a threat in the nomination fight.
Washington (CNN)- Tea Party activists are becoming engaged in the nomination fight over who will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.
After the nomination fight is over, if BHO is the D nominee, I will be wanting to see if he chooses public financing and its limits for the GE.
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