Sentences with phrase «re election chances»

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By the time the 2010 elections rolled around, House control was regained by Republicans, effectively killing any chance of passing the bill.

«As the race stands now, with Republicans in charge of both Houses, there is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump,» he explained in a Bloomberg View post.

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

He added that the choices are «consistent with President Emmanuel Macron's strategy to maximize his chances of forming a parliamentary majority after the mid-June legislative elections.

The Senate and House intelligence committees are two of the main congressional panels probing allegations that Russia sought to interfere in the U.S. election to boost Republican President Donald Trump's chances at winning the White House, and possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia.

President Trump's perpetual election campaign is offering donors the chance to have their names flashed on the screen during the livestream — on Trump's website — of his State of the Union address.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

That's important for any election, but especially for this one, in which a strong turnout among people of color — especially African - Americans and Hispanics — is expected to be vital to Democrat Hillary Clinton's chances of winning.

«Having been hammered by political punters backing Jeremy Corbyn at 200/1 to be Labour leader, Donald Trump at 150/1 to be US President, Brexit and a Tory General Election victory both at 6/1, we're taking no chances this time round,» William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

Closer to home, there's a reasonable chance that our current president will implode because of his historically low popularity, a fight with his own party and a looming investigation of Russia's interference in our last election.

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

Still, though, the majority of votes have not been cast so there is a chance that the election will proceed and if it does, it's going to be a tight race.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

This year's presidential election is a real chance for Americans to create change and build solidarity.

The pitch is an attempt to revive the SPD's chances against Chancellor Merkel in September's election.

Any government formed as a result of this election is likely to be fragile and the chances of it serving a full term are slim.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio recently estimated there's a 70 % chance of a recession before the November 2020 presidential election.

Giuliani compounded Trump's problem early this morning by confessing that the payment was made because the story of the affair with Daniels would have hurt Trump's chances in the election.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

Giuliani said on «Fox & Friends» Thursday morning that Cohen attempted to make the Daniels controversy «go away» with the payment — a suggestion that the agreement was intended to help Trump's election chances.

«I don't think there is any chance in the world this was a free and fair election,» Stewart said about the voting in Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

That document was drafted at a time when no one, including most New Democrat insiders, thought there was much chance of winning the election, let alone with a comfortable majority.

The nutty social conservatives proved to be the Wildrose's greatest weakness in the 2012 election, costing the party a chance at forming government.

As Stephen Carter penned on his Calgary Herald blog, Ms. Kennedy - Glans, a) wants a spot in Mr. Prentice's cabinet, and b) does not want to chance being challenged by a «star» PC candidate in the next election.

The tone of Geithner's message was that the U.S. has woken up to the huge threat the EU debt crisis poses for the American economy, and, of course, President Obama's election chances.

In April 2018, elections will take place and there is a slight chance that the opposition will win this time.

«Meddling in elections within the U.S., or any other nation for that matter, by another country is the new norm and will continue for as long as there is a chance of success,» Lee Munson, security researcher at Comparitech, told Newsweek.

In fact, the only people who have displayed any ability to run the country better are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich — neither of whom have a snowball's chance of even being the candidate, much less winning a rigged election.

The candidate of the conservative party has a chance only if this election is waged as a campaign to enact Republican measures — measures he did not shape and can not explain.

I personally think that Obama's election was more about his left wing ideology than his «skin color» because if it had only been about «skin color» then the POTUS candidates on the right who were black, would have had just as good a chance to become the POTUS, as Obama did.

In last fall's presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life....

You are Mormon, a Muslim, Catholic, you have no chance winning the election because the conservative evangelicals only want to vote one of their own kind as president.

I agree, the Christian movement really died with this election and it was their last chance.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

he is a far right whacko and has no chance in the general election, romney is a moderate rational person, and is our only chance to beat obama

This election was more like a shot of Epinephrine, increasing the chances of short - term survival while not resolving the underlying problems.

He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.

He will revise this, why take a chance of alienating the Hispanic community who are very religious and Catholic during an election year.

Santorum has zero chance in this election, unless evangelicals are the only ones who turn out to vote.

Indeed, on assessment of the chances created Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight (the analyitical group which predicted the 2012 presidential election spot on) gave Liverpool an 83pc chance of winning, on the chances that were created:

A lot of the vocal public is not happy with Carlos Cordeiro's election, but let's give him a chance.

This is the perfect chance for you to talk with your children about the election and history, as well as responsibility.

The verdict of the voters was swallowed and the NPP thought it wise to give Kufuor a chance to attempt biting the cake at future elections.

The aggregate of the polling data before the election suggested that DT had a 30 % chance of winning: The fundamental problem is not with the polls but with the pundits.

According to the respected Professor, Ghana stands a chance to make enormous gains if President John Mahama is reelected for a second term in the November 7 elections.

Jarvis is clear that unless Labour changes tack, any chance of victory at the next general election will be extinguished.

One Labour candidate who didn't even make it through the general election campaign was Cambridgeshire South East's John Cowan, a 35 - year - old whose «offensive remarks» cost him the chance of becoming an MP.

Democrats are fools if we ignore the chance to build a case for change long before elections loom and party lines harden.