Sentences with phrase «running last election»

Cuomo's support for the IDC Coalition also undermined his support for Democratic Senators running last election, a few of which he totally ignored and in fact gave tacit support to like Sen. Patty Ritchie in 48 District in NNY.

Not exact matches

«PM Modi engaged in social media heavily in the run - up to last year's election,» says Richard Rossow, chair in U.S. India policy studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.

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

Wall Street has been on a bull run since the dust settled on the presidential election late last year.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

Even the Australian government (which ran on the last election of cancelling the carbon tax imposed by the previous socialist government; and they won) have just cancelled all government funding of solar and wind power generation.

The NDP ran in last year's election saying it would use «every tool in the toolbox» to stop the pipeline.

After losing the Wildrose Party nomination in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre last weekend, some political watchers have speculated that he might join the Alberta Party, others believe he could run as an Independent candidate in the next election.

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.»

After a tenuous relationship on Twitter during the run - up to last year's presidential election, The Vatican confirmed yesterday that President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis on...

Judge Martin ran unopposed in the last election for his spot on the bench.

The last time a guy from Texas said that God told him to run for President, we had kind of a bumpy ride as a country when he won the election with support from Christians...

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

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.

Among the party stalwarts who were there to pay their last respect were the Flagbearer for the 2016 Elections, Nana Akuffo Addo, his running mate, Dr Mahamoudou Bawumia, the Acting Party Chairman, Freddie Blay and the National Youth Organiser, Sammy Awuku.

The real reason is that Queens County Democratic Leader Joe Crowley has settled on Francisco Moya as his candidate, and Moya can't run in a special election because he only moved into the district last September.

Haruna Iddrisu since last month appeared to have come under some pressure from persons within the party to run as flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general elections or make his stance on who he will support public.

Addressing the Muslim faithful, the Vice-President said he undertook a similar exercise with the Muslim faithful last year during his campaign tour as the running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and asked for their prayers and support to win the elections.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

Giving extra power to the people that finish last seems a peculiar way to run any election.

According to him, the party is not unified, not in touch with the grassroots and did not inspire confidence in the electorate during the run - up to the last elections, and called on the party to re-embrace its core values of truth, integrity, probity and accountability.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

The Kogi State governorship election tribunal has struck the petition of James Faleke, running mate to late Audu Abubakarwho died shortly after the state governorship election exercise last year November.

The Politicker's Colin Campbell notes that the Queens Conservative vs. Republican dynamic in this race is now playing out similarly to what happened in the lead up to the NY - 9 special election last year, in which the GOP pushed for Reyes, a former attorney in the Giuliani administration, to get the nod to run for ex-Rep.

«That's why when Labour walked away after the last election, we couldn't let the Tories run the country on their own.

Bohen, a Democrat, ran in last week's special election with the local Republican committee's support after failing to gain his party's endorsement for the special election.

Fidler is running in the March 20 special election for the seat vacated by former Sen. Carl Kruger, who was forced to resign when he pleaded guilty last month to felony federal corruption charges.

Hochul has said she will run in NY - 27 and won't primary Higgins (although there are some who believe she might reconsider this after Higgins failed to elect his top aide, Chris Fahey, to the 145th AD in last week's special election).

Considered a highly capable member of the Ukip team, he has served as the party's migration spokesman since 2014, and shared the economics brief with Patrick O'Flynn in the run up to last year's election.

Democratic state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, who running for state Senate in a critical special election in Westchester County Tuesday, has the backing of former Vice President Joe Biden, who has cut a last minute automated phone call on her behalf.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Edwards is currently the Chautauqua County Executive but gained statewide notoriety when voters chose him to run as Carl Paladino's running mate during the last gubernatorial election.

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

Dadey said the pay - to - play culture is one of the reasons one - third of incumbents ran unopposed in last fall's elections and only three out of 199 incumbents were defeated.

Lord Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: «Lord Rennard was absolutely very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the run - up to last week's local and European elections.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

In yesterday's Scottish local elections, both Labour and the SNP were up and the Tories and Lib Dems were down relative to when they were last run in 2007.

In the run up to the last general election, the media was full of reports and investigations into the impact of welfare reform.

The former senator endorsed both Brown and Hoffman and made an in - person appearance with Hoffman during the run - up to last year's special election.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

When I wrote for Total Politics in the aftermath of the last General Election, my main criticism of the Conservative Party's campaign was its failure to hire an experienced, seasoned campaigner to run it.

Saladino was appointed supervisor on Jan. 31 following the resignation of John Venditto, who was among those indicted and was also indicted last year on federal corruption charges, and is running for the seat in the November election.

This is coming barely twenty - four hours after James Faleke, running mate to late Audu Abubakar who died shortly after the state governorship election exercise last year November equally had his petition struck out by the court.

Malliotakis has run on the Conservative line in all of her elections, she's steadily engaged with the party and her Staten Island party screening last week has been described as having gone well.

His Democratic opponent, Lew Simon, is running a low - funded, underdog campaign that was hampered last month by news that the candidate had an angioplasty a month before the general election.

Mr. Storobin and Mr. Fidler are currently running in a spirited special election to replace former State Senator Carl Kruger, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges and resigned last December.

«The likelihood that Edward Leigh might run as an ultra-traditionalist, way - off - the - radar candidate - a «barking horse», so to speak - shows that, amazingly, there are still some MPs who think the Tories have lost the last three elections because they are not sufficiently Right - wing.»