Sentences with phrase «state in a presidential year»

The Republican State Leadership Committee targeted the Senate in light of Virginia, as committee president Matt Walter stated,» [becoming] an increasingly important battleground state in presidential years.»

At the beginning of this cycle, the concern was about GOP recruitment in California — namely that Republicans wouldn't have the candidates to go on the offensive in a blue state in a presidential year.

Not exact matches

The strike, one of the largest in recent years in the United States, drew support from Democratic U.S. Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

A key theme in this year's presidential race is competitiveness of American industry, though candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders tend to use more colorful language when describing their belief that the United States has lost its economic edge.

CNBC's Eamon Javers sits down with Rajesh De the Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency; Michele Reagan the Secretary of State of Arizona; and Mark Testoni the President and CEO of SAP National Security Services to talk about the concern of foreign interference in this year's presidential election.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

Russia's 2018 presidential election, the conclusion of the 19th Party Congress in China, and the beginning of President Trump's second year in office are creating new dynamics in the relations between Russia, China, and the United States.

And of course, we are seeing a lot of that in the UK at the moment and there's a lot of that going on in the [United] States that we saw last year with the presidential election.

At least 20 other states in the U.S. allow 17 - year - olds to vote in primaries, but Ohio's election chief had interpreted Ohio's laws in a way that kept 17 - year - old's presidential votes from counting.

This year's presidential election in the United States presents Christian voters with an especially difficult choice.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

He recently retired following a 38 - year career in law enforcement at the local, state and federal levels, culminating in a Presidential appointment as a United States Marshal.

Himself a candidate for governor of California in 1962 (he lost in a primary to Richard Nixon), Shell worked this year as the state's finance chairman for the Goldwater presidential campaign and ran interference for the GOP just as resolutely as he did when he was captain and a valuable blocking back for the undefeated USC team that shut out Tennessee 14 - 0 in the 1940 Rose Bowl game.

Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump was seen as a galvanizing event for many women to run for office in down - ballot races — from local elections, state legislation races and congressional campaigns — this year.

But voters in New York, more than four years away from the next presidential election, prefer former Sen. and soon - to - be-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make another run in 2016 over Cuomo.

Republicans still are sailing into political headwinds this year as they run to keep their last lever of power in state government with Donald Trump at the top of the presidential ticket.

Gun owners» fear of a Clinton presidency may have helped spur a spike in pistol permits issued in the Empire State in 2016, increasing 34 percent from the 2012 presidential election year and rivaling numbers last seen when the SAFE Act passed four years ago.

The fact that this is a presidential election year stacks the deck against Republicans to begin with in this Democrat - dominated state, although whoever wins the GOP primary will have more time than ususal between then and the November general election to focus on the real target: Gillibrand.

There is a remote possibility that this year's presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could end in a virtual tie in a state requiring a recount, reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election.

Why because I mean of course in life you want to over periods of time take up other challenges so ten years on the job, I thought would have been enough for me to take up another challenge... so my first choice would not have been to be Minister for Information and Presidential Spokesperson,» he stated.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

It's going to be a difficult task for whoever the GOP settles on, particularly since it's a presidential election year that will pull those once - every - four - years voters to the polls in this Democrat - dominated state.

Besides the fact that the presidential candidate doesn't seem to be in a state to govern, little major reforms have been enacted these last 20 years in order to diversify an economy which remains highly dependent upon hydrocarbons.

There has been much speculation about what happens in 2016, a presidential year with former New York State Senator Hillary Clinton potentially at the top of the ticket for Democrats.

That's how one of state government's best - known lobbyists described the atmosphere at the Capitol as lawmakers face what is expected to be a series of bitterly contested and highly divisive reelection battles next year in the midst of a bitter and highly divisive presidential campaign.

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

The GOP is gearing up to defend it in a presidential election year that could include former Empire State Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of the ticket.

Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate, will be defending 24 seats next year, including in presidential battleground states where Democrats are mounting strong challenges.

All of the state's primaries, except for the presidential primary, which is scheduled for April, this year used to be held in September.

Elected during the Republican wave in 2010, he is on the ballot this time in a mostly blue state during a presidential year.

Victims of the presidential press corps accident that resulted in the death of one journalist a year today, are yet to be given any form of compensation, 3News can authoritatively state.

Atiku said he was in Akwa Ibom State to seek for support of the governor and entire PDP family in the state ahead party's presidential primary election later in the State to seek for support of the governor and entire PDP family in the state ahead party's presidential primary election later in the state ahead party's presidential primary election later in the year.

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.

This is a lesson Democratic candidates for state Senate have learned the hard way in recent years (including presidential years), especially in their attempts to wrestle control of seats in Long Island.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

It's already been a busy election year in New York State, with four different election dates crowding the calendar, including the unusually meaningful presidential primary on April 19, State primaries on September 13, and of course the real thing on November 8.

Attention around this latest instance in same ways beat the notoriety Paladino gained when he ran for New York State governor in 2010, when social media websites like Facebook and Twitter were still in their infancy and Trump was years away from becoming a presidential candidate.

Still, in a presidential election year, defeating Schumer would be a heavy lift for any Republican seeking to run statewide in a Democratic - heavy state.

It added that the governor reminded Buhari that the people of Kogi State were the first to call on him to seek re-election in next year's Presidential poll at rallies organized in Anyigba, Kabba, Isanlu, Olamaboro and Okene which attracted hundreds of thousands of attendants.

Mahoney currently serving as chair of the state Thruway Authority, a position to which she was nominated by Cuomo in 2015 and is slated to hold through Jan. 1, 2020, (which also just so happens to be the next presidential election year).

A former senator and US scretary of state, Clinton would be the first woman to ever be the presidential candidate of a major political party in the country's 239 - year history.

It was a presidential year in a Democrat - dominated state, after all, which traditionally bumps up turnout and benefits Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.

Plaintiff again states that in order to fully participate in this year's general elections, she must find and deposit with the 1st Defendant an amount of GHC2, 800,000.00 of which fees and or deposit of fees would be confiscated to the State should Plaintiff failed to secure at least 25 % of the presidential votes and 12.5 % votes in each constituency parliamentary votes in the general elections.

Goldfeder noted New York's deadline is actually closer to the first state primary in a presidential election year: Those seeking to change their party affiliation for the September state legislative primary have to make the switch more than 11 months before heading to the polls.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

Bill Samuels — a prominent Democratic fundraiser, founder of good government group EffectiveNY and a frequent Cuomo critic — suspected it might have more to do with the potential for Hillary Clinton to be atop the presidential ticket this year, which could usher in a Democratic State Senate.

Pelosi is also pointing out that if Cuomo indeed has presidential aspirations, presiding over a Democrat - dominated state that loses Democratic House members in a presidential election year because he declined to get engaged in the House redistricting process will not play well with party insiders.

New York is a historically blue state in presidential and gubernatorial election years, though Republicans from predominantly white areas of upstate and Long Island have often controlled the State Sestate in presidential and gubernatorial election years, though Republicans from predominantly white areas of upstate and Long Island have often controlled the State SeState Senate.

ALBANY — Former three - term New York governor George Pataki, who also served two years in the state Senate, eight in the Assembly, and four as Peekskill's mayor, introduced himself at Thursday's «undercard» debate for the Republican presidential nomination as a candidate who is «not a career politician.»