Sentences with phrase «over black voters»

Mr. Sharpton, in introducing Mr. Cuomo, also seemed to hint at the scramble between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon to win over black voters — and seemed to take a swipe at Ms. Nixon for merely «talking about» being progressive, although he did not mention her by name.

Donald Trump is facing backlash after his attempt to win over black voters during a campaign rally Friday near Lansing, Michigan.

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Voters in a southeast Texas county elected a black, Democratic woman as sheriff while choosing Republican Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, an unusual result in a year of partisan acrimony.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

Since then black voters have provided the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates over the years — Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

A nonpartisan group called the Voter Participation Center is reaching over 300,000 black voters here with direct mail and text messages.

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

A March 2008 Quinnipiac poll even had black voters favoring Markowitz over Thompson, who, unlike Markowitz, eventually ran for mayor before losing to Bloomberg in 2009.

Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the Black Democratic voters also favored de Blasio over all other candidates, including Thompson, the only black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the black candidate in the primary, whom only 25 percent of those surveyed said they backed, according to the poll.

Minority lawmakers in both chambers have been speaking out about the Senate's plan, which they say disenfranchises black and Latino voters all over the state, but particularly in NYC, on Long Island and in the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

That number is even lower — just 13 % - among black voters, who back Spitzer by an enormous 68 - 21 margin over Stringer.

Stringer himself, described by insiders as «in near panic» over his poor showing with black voters, belatedly responded last week by hiring two well - regarded African - American political operatives: Patrick Jenkins, a longtime confidant of US Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens; and Kevin Wardally, an associate of the late Bill Lynch and an official at the Cuomo - controlled state Department of Labor.

Democrats, women, liberals, moderates, New York City, black, and Jewish voters and voters over the age of 55 said the incident should lead to stronger gun control laws, while Republicans, men, conservatives, and upstaters said some acts of violence simply can't be prevented.

he said, apparently alluding to indignation from the Sanders camp that black voters have favored Ms. Clinton over himself in presidential primaries so far.

A Quinnipiac University poll found that Clinton leads Sanders among likely New York Democrat voters by 53 percent to 40 percent, largely due to Clinton's massive lead over Sanders among black voters.

«Weiner leads the mayoral primary 25 to 22 [percent] over Christine Quinn, black voters making the difference,» Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Director Maurice Carroll told WCBS 880's Rich Lamb on Monday.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

Obama's message to voters — intended to specifically reach black voters whose turnout is critical for Democratic candidate Jones — comes on the eve of a special election that has drawn extraordinary national attention and divided the Republican Party over whether sexual allegations against Moore make him unfit for office.

(Washington, DC, February 22, 2018) The satirical tale of one man's encounter to meet his girlfriend's family captured the imagination of filmgoers having the identical effect on voters as Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, towered over the competition garnering seven awards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards tonight.

If the Oscars need an excuse to get over their squeamishness about the film's genre, all voters need to do is look at Black Panther's scores on Rotten Tomatoes (97 percent) and Metacritic (88) to have those tastes validated.