Sentences with phrase «running in this election against»

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At the time, Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for president in the 2016 election and was running against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The NRCC ran ads against Lamb telling voters he would be identical to Pelosi if he made it to the House, which other Republican groups piled on in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

Andrew ran against Jack Layton in the last election and will do so again, meaning Lang can no longer interview the NDP leader.

It may have gained against the US dollar in the run - up to Trump's election, but in the two months since it has depreciated.

Earlier this week, I reported on the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, where Republican Rick Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb to fill Republican Tim Murphy's seat.

Calgary - Foothills: Electrical engineer Ali Bin Zahid is seeking the Liberal nomination to run against Premier Jim Prentice in the next election.

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Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.&raquin stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.&raquIn this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

Moore is running in Alabama against Democrat Doug Jones on 12th December in a special election to fill the vacancy left by Jess Sessions who left to become Attorney General.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

I saw the same poll numbers (except against Catholics) in the»60s when John Kennedy ran for president and the again (except for Muslims) in the»08 election when Keith Ellison ran for US Representative from Minnesota.

The Sun Herald reported on December 20 that the Australian Beverages Council had threatened to run attack advertising against the Baird Government during the March election if cabinet voted in favour of a container deposit policy.

With no - one planning to run against him in the upcoming FIA election, Jean Todt is basically guaranteed to stick around as FIA president

Coming in with the third - best odds is legendary player Luis Figo, who ran against Blatter in the last election before dropping out, saying that the process was not actually democratic.

Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, a fiscally conservative, socially liberal lawmaker from Queens, is taking the first step toward running against de Blasio in 2017, filing paperwork with the Board of Elections to form an exploratory committee.

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

Stocker ran a strong challenge against Democratic Assemblyman Robin Schimminger in the 2010 general election.

Killian is running in the 37th Senate district in Westchester County in an April 24 special election against Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer.

Trump calls Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders «crazy Bernie,» but that has not stopped the Republican candidate from borrowing from Clinton's Democratic primary rival, whom he also frequently praises from the stump, on how to run against Clinton — his likely opponent in the general election.

Killian is running against Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer in the April 24 special election to fill the seat vacated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer.

The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.

A struggle within the Danquah - Busia - Dombo tradition in the lead - up to the election led to Paa Willie Ofori - Atta breaking away to form the United National Convention (UNC) to run against the Popular Front Party (PFP), led by Mr Victor Owusu, in the election.

Democrat Jessica Ramos has taken another step in her run against Sen. Jose Peralta, filing a campaign committee with the Board of Elections.

According to Moroney, Maragos is trying to figure out whether he might have any «viability» in a general election against Schumer (amazing that in such a short time the senior senator has gone from having zero potential GOP challengers to two; all efforts by state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox to entice someone to run have so far gone nowhere).

Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have worked hard to woo Latino voters in recent years, and some worry that a single negative ad run against Long featuring comments like these would tank her — and fellow GOP candidates — in the general election.

After the almost 20 presidential aspirants run against him — as a sitting Vice President — in the NPP primaries for the 2008 Elections, Alhaji Aliu Mahama with much humility, conceded to Nana Akufo - Addo who emerged winner, sort of...

The group is actively recruiting a Democratic opponent to run against Collins in next year's mid-term elections, and they insisted the congressman's days in office are numbered.

That sets up a situation where Lazio, who has pledged to remain on the Conservative line through the general election, would be running against a fellow Republican — or maybe party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy — in the general election.

Dinesh D'Souza, pleaded guilty today to contributing $ 15,000 more than permitted to Wendy Long, R - N.Y., a 2012 federal U.S. Senate candidate in New York who ran against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y. Charges of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission were dropped.

And now, one of his biggest potential rivals is thinking about running against him in the next mayoral election.

Saccone, who running in a special election against Democrat Conor Lamb, has backed Trump's decision to impose steel tariffs.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

Brown ran for Congress in 1988 against Democratic incumbent Glenn English, who had not been challenged in the previous election.

The civil lawsuit, filed in Albany County Supreme Court on July 2, pits Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, against the campaign of Shirley Patterson, a little - known candidate who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn state Assembly seat in a May special election.

«You promised the Chinese that if they sponsor your campaign to win the election, you will pave the way for them to engage in galamsey only for Ghanaians to kick against the decision then you run back to beg them claiming you went there for a deal so we should praise you.

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

City Councilwoman and former comptroller candidate Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) backed Councilman David Yassky (D - Brooklyn) in the Sept. 29 run - off election this morning at City Hall, opting against her Queens colleague Councilman John Liu (D - Flushing).

GOP sources told The Post that Marc Cenedella, 41, a Yale and Harvard business - school graduate and native of upstate Fredonia who is believed to be worth about $ 150 million, is «seriously considering» running against Gillibrand — a flip - flopping congresswoman from the Albany area who was initially appointed to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2009 before winning election to a remaining two - year term in 2010.

No Democrats have indicated any plans to run this year against DeFrancisco, a Republican who has not had a close election for Senate since he was first elected in 1992.

The party leaders — including state party chair and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley — wrote that «if the IDC refuses to accept this offer,» then the state party is prepared to run primaries against the senators in the 2018 elections.

The original plan was for her to run against Andrea Leadsom in an election, but the latter pulled out before a vote could take place.

But then, running as a Republican in the general election, Friedrich got 7,300 votes out of a total of almost 25,000, in a district where Democratic registration runs 5 - to - 1 against the GOP.

The Green party is holding leadership elections for the first time in its history, with Euro MEP Caroline Lucas running against former star of The Bill, Ashley Gunstock.

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

Lawyer Richard Luthmann, who once unsuccessfully ran for Staten Island Borough President and claimed in court that the head of the borough's Democratic Party had sicced the mob on him, said he's considering a run against Republican Malliotakis in November's election.

Cuomo also, for the first time in the 2016 election cycle, actively backed Democratic candidates to, in some cases, run against sitting incumbent Republicans for the Senate.

As further evidence of his outspoken nature, he also was a vocal critic of the election of Long Island Republican John Flanagan as Senate majority leader in 2015, so much so that earlier this year he said he was seeking GOPers to run against Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Seneca County, who backed Flanagan during the 2015 leadership battle.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

Erik Dilan will be running against Republican Khorshed A. Chowdhury in the general election, according to the Board of Elections.