Sentences with phrase «time for the election campaign»

There might even be a move to oust him altogether — this would have to take place at the party conference if a new leader is to be in place in time for the election campaign.

Not exact matches

Facebook said it will make sure political ads on its platform will be vetted and transparent in time for England and Northern Ireland's 2019 local elections, that only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for political ads, and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a campaign — not just those targeted to them based on their demographic or «likes.»

Democrats and some Republicans have questioned the White House's motive and timing for the move since Comey was also investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

At the time of his firing, Comey was handling the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election, creating a firestorm of controversy for the Trump administration.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

Many countries have election silence laws, which limit or prohibit political campaigning for varying periods of time ranging from election day alone to as early as three days before the election.

This would still allow fake news to flourish for most of the campaign, of course, but the candidates have enough time to respond to fake news that spreads weeks or months before an election.

You might think that 30 days is a short time to reasonably campaign for election, and you would be right, but there were many candidates who came out of the woodwork to launch their campaign today.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the president's longtime personal attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election was intended to silence allegations of an affair at a sensitive time for the Trump campaign.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

While Pranesh Prakash, policy director at the Centre For Internet and Society, doesn't believe the government would actually summon Zuckerberg to India, he says, «One new concern that's valid across the world, where there are limitations put on freedom of expression during times of campaigning and elections, how do they translate online?

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Meanwhile the cost of campaigns would plummet, as paying for more TV time would no longer provide the only route to winning an election.

Park Board President Steve Randich said commissioners believed there was not enough time to organize an effective campaign, especially because it would compete for attention with the presidential election.

It was good this election when the Watertown Daily Times, became a cheerleader for his campaign.

Along with Dennis Johnson, Karen Jagoda and Morra Aarons - Mele, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation this morning on congressional and local online campaigns for the assembled journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center's symposium, Election» 08: Unleashing the Cyber-watchdogs (i.e., after a week of luxuriating in the California sun, it was time to sing for my supper and justify the trip).

Ah, sweet spin... you got ta love phrases like «controlled excitement,» particularly the day BEFORE the primary election, when there's still time for a campaign to hope to get late - deciding voters to jump on the bandwagon.

Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead of a difficult time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European election campaign.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

It's time to make a change, if it is this bad the last few months what will the general election campaign strategy be for the GOP with Ed at the helm.

A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.

For Theresa May, still reeling from the disastrous general election campaign and result, leading the nation at this time is an enormous challenge in its own right.

As he begins to re-tool for the general election (while still dealing with Santorum et al at the same time), his campaign will need to expand its presence on the ground and build a network of active supporters in all the potential battleground states.

or else raise the debt ceiling for a lot longer, until after the 2018 elections (denying Democrats the tool for a long time, eliminating the debt ceiling as an issue during the 2018 campaign, and allowing Congress to deal with it the next time fresh off an election and relatively safe from concerns about the following election in 2020).

Some reluctant Repubs might even vote for the ultimate deal just to keep it out of oppo campaign literature when election time rolls around 7 months from now.

As we enter the crunch time for 2006 primary elections and as the 2006 generals start to heat up, there are probably a lot of campaigns that are really only now getting started with focused email campaigns.

With another election year on the way, it's time for a «Winning in 2012» follow - on to the 2010 book, for a start, along with plenty of drive - by potshots at candidates, campaigns and advocacy groups in the blog pages.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

Molinaro opened a campaign account with the state Board of Elections in November for a potential gubernatorial bid but said at the time that he had not made a decision about running.

The meeting, on the tarmac at Albany International Airport, was the first time the two men crossed paths since the news broke that Mr. Obama had told Mr. Paterson that the White House had lost confidence in the governor's ability to win election next year and that he should abandon his campaign for the good of the Democratic Party.

But the biggest problem for the theory that stolen Facebook data was the key to Trump's election is this: according to a March 2017 Times story, «Cambridge executives now concede that the company never used psychographics in the Trump campaign.»

At a time when nationalism in Scotland is hitting a high and the Labour Party Campaign Manager for the by - election in Glenrothes has quit saying the effort is a lost cause and the Nationalists will win by a margin of thousands, it seems a strange oversight.

That'll have to wait for some later election, however, as I'm bound in Europe working on other stuff... Till then, I'll stalk the campaigns via coverage from the usual sources, I've grown particularly fond of the Financial Times «Richard McGregor, who reports a lot from the ground and pays attention to campaign mechanics like few other journalists, and of course continue to follow Sasha Issenberg's great work at Slate.com and various stuff from TechPresident to keep up on the technology side of things.

Martins now argues that the general election should also be moved to allow adequate time for the winner to campaign against Democratic candidate Thomas Suozzi and to comply with a federal law that requires 45 days for ballots to be able to reach military and overseas voters.

In a Facebook post, Wilson said he realizes that a campaign for governor «would be a 24/7 endeavor through Election Day,» and he says «This is a level of family time and commitment that would not be possible at any point during the campaign, in my first year in office and perhaps not at all throughout my time as governor.»

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

In it, he followed the typical State of the State game - plan for incumbent governors: he delivered his priorities for the 2014 legislative session, spending much of the time describing past accomplishments and bolstering an image for the election campaign.

Crusaders for campaign reform say it's galling that state election law allows even a convicted politician to use campaign cash to try to beat prison time.

That fact, coupled with the AG's forward - thinking strategy of reserving $ 3 million worth of air time for the final weeks of the campaign, will enable him to blitz the airwaves and raise his name recognition just in time for Election Day in a way Cahill can not.

Regardless of any other advantages he possessed in the 2008 election season, Obama's ability to raise as much money as his campaign could reasonably absorb, in part by returning to the small donors who stuck with him again and again through the worst, was decisive — it elevated him to the first tier of candidates in 2007, it saw him through rough times in the Democratic primaries and it provided the means for him to absolutely overwhelm John McCain in the general election.

With inclement weather and Christmas holiday season, it was not the ideal time for a by - election campaign - although those were clearly equal handicaps for all parties.

DANE, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin's divisive governor officially hit the campaign trail for the first time Tuesday, kicking off a statewide tour by speaking at a farm in front of a tractor, as Democrats filed signatures needed to take him on in a recall election.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

Don Boyajian, a municipal and environmental attorney in Saratoga County, raised $ 208,000 ahead of the Federal Elections Commission's third quarter deadline on Sept. 30, a haul the first - time candidate's campaign says makes him the frontrunner for the nomination.

The data shows for the first time that Hamilton spent around # 11,000 on transport during the European elections, while Farage spent # 350 on transport during the same campaign.

The advertising time, purchased for the last few weeks of the campaign prior to the Nov. 4 election, is for markets including New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.

However, throughout the past several election cycles Republicans have unsuccessfully pumped significant financing into campaigns hoping to win control of the seat, including a race between Latimer and GOP candidate Bob Cohen during a 2012 election that broke a record for most money spent — $ 4.5 million in total — during a New York political race at the time.