Sentences with phrase «to abandon the party»

More than half of those who did vote him into third place have now abandoned his party.

How do we shame the Democratic leadership into being progressives (a lost cause), or shame regular Democrats into abandoning the party in tens of millions?

I point out that there are countless former Labour voters, such as my own father, who abandoned the party over Iraq and can never bring themselves to vote for Miliband, no matter how much they might admire his intellect, his eloquence or his domestic policies.

The chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Walid Jibrin, says he would have abandoned the party if the Supreme Court had...

They have watched the haemorrhage, over the past four years, of activists from their constituency associations, people who have abandoned the party over disillusion with its policies and its failure to be more robustly and unapologetically conservative.

But, the symbolic import of a Democrat abandoning the party when it hold all the levers of power in Washington should not be underestimated.

In return the government deal has seen the Lib Dems abandon their party policy to secure a decarbonisation target for 2030.

Anuzis» message is built on the necessity of reaching out to voters — particularly in the suburban Midwest — who have abandoned the party since Ronald Reagan left office; Steele, an African American, talks constantly about the need to find policies that speak to minority groups and, in doing so, grow the party.

In accepting extreme cuts as an economic remedy, Clegg abandoned his party's greatest thinker, Keynes, who would have gone for growth through government investment.

Adebanjo, in another chapter of the book, criticised Tinubu for his alleged role in popularising the trend of abandoning party supremacy.

With public borrowing planned to reach 57 per cent of GDP and David Cameron abandoning his party's link with the government's total spending plans, politics had just got interesting again.

Animated by a wave of polling since the Florida massacre, Democratic governors warned that candidates would pay a political price for opposing new gun regulations, and some of their Republican counterparts conceded that the pleas of voters could no longer be ignored as they increasingly abandon the party.

Clegg is keen to scotch rumours that he will accept a plum job in Brussels and abandon his party before the 2015 election.

Take Back Parliament launched dramatically a few weeks ago, at the height of the coalition negotiations, when several thousand people chanting «fair votes now» and «we want to speak to Nick» gathered outside the LGA building where Nick Clegg was meeting and called the Liberal Democrat leader out to demand he does not abandon the party's historic commitment to PR.

Last week, 15 Senate Republicans abandoned their party's tried - and - true «I'm not a scientist» stance to back amendments affirming that human emissions are at least partly responsible for global warming.

Corbyn's message — against austerity, for public ownership — strikes a chord with many Scots who had abandoned the party in recent years.

The closure of the fully - functional Little Bow Continuing Care Centre in Carmangay made the Tories look vengeful towards voters who abandoned their party and the cancellation of funding for the Fort Macleod police training centre made the Tories look foolish for ever approving the porkbarrel project in the first place.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

This October, wealthy donors in the Koch network described tax reform as a «do or die moment,» in which wealthy donors and activists would abandon the party if they didn't get what they wanted, the Boston Globe reported.

Soon - to - be-retired Member of Parliament Rob Anders said he will not run and Conservative Godfather Preston Manning would likely not be welcomed to join after he admitted to accidentally convincing the MLAs to abandon their party.

Madigan, who had kept the bitter and racially charged Chicago City Council fight out of the capital until last week, suffered a jolt when 14 black Democrats threatened to abandon the party in the November election if the park district bill passed the legislature.

Mr Brake is among those Lib Dems who fear home secretary Theresa May, confronted by the security implications of abandoning the initiative, will abandon her party's pre-election emphasis on civil liberties.

Nixon tried to tap into frustration among some on the left who believe mainstream Democrats have abandoned the party's liberal ideals.

But lefty lib dems who abandoned the party — along with labour supporters and floating lefties — realised their self interest as lefties was no longer aligned with reform.

If there were a contest and Corbyn won, the majority of his MPs might well feel forced to abandon the party.

Former Gov. George Pataki joined the GOP fray against the Senate Democrats today, ripping the majority for the «corruption» exposed in the IG's AEG report and urging Democratic voters to abandon their party and restore the Republicans to the majority.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged GOP officials across the Empire State to abandon their party's nominee — and their state's native son — after a 2005 video surfaced last night in which Queens - born businessman described how his supposed stardom enabled him to sexually assault women with impunity.

Maintaining that he brought PDP to Oyo State, he said that he would not, for any reason, abandon the party for any other political party.

In the second part of our discussion he strongly rejects the idea that the last two mayors, both Republicans, were elected due to a sense of crisis among voters at the time which drove Democratic voters to abandon their party's nominee.

«I wish to put it on record that I was neither consulted by anybody before my name was submitted as running mate to a man who has since the conduct of primaries, abandoned the party, took the party to court, worked for the PDP, thereby causing our party to lose his polling unit 80 votes to his ally party PDP's 116, repeating same feat at the Ward level with APC scoring 1,146 to PDP's 2,058.

Rather, a clear majority of Labour defectors to the Tories (69 %) said Miliband's suitability for prime minister was one of the three biggest reasons to abandon the party.

Ajayi lamented that sincerity of purpose and integrity were not enough to sway votes as many of the delegates turned opportunists and abandoned party's interest in electing the candidate.

A senior Conservative minister appealed to ethnic minority voters not to abandon the party in this week's local elections over the Windrush scandal.

Why are so many people apparently ready to abandon a party that has been part of the fabric of their community for generations?

He quickly agreed, and then assisted the mayor in convincing the less - than eager GOP county chairs to back the mayor, who had abandoned their party to become a so - called «blank», for yet another run.

Mr Cameron has pledged to abandon his party's traditional centre - right allies in the European Parliament and align himself with fringe cranks and nationalists.

While there is some evidence that Ukip was successful in closing the gender gap by appealing to more women at the European elections, it is women who are now the most likely to abandon the party.

Ukip will certainly lose some support; 36 % of those who voted Ukip in the European elections are already planning to abandon the party in 2015.

A recent poll showed 50 % of voters that voted Labour in 2015 and voted for Brexit have abandoned the party.

The answer, of course, as Mrs. Goodhue acknowledged when pressed, is that Mr. Pataki is part of a new class of New York Republican challengers breaking party protocol and trying to put entrenched Republicans on the run across the state as «tax and spend» politicians who have abandoned the party's true path.

ALBANY — Fresh off an announcement that jolted the New York political world, Steve Levy, the Long Island Democrat who abandoned his party to run for governor as a Republican, is working to secure endorsements as he tries to gain an edge in the contest for the nomination.

But the key fear of the Labour leadership is the Scottish scenario: if discontented Labour voters see their leaders parading with business tycoons and Tory cabinet ministers in a campaign of fear, they will abandon their party.

Benn, whatever his faults, would never, under any circumstances, abandon the party.

She abandons the party without openong to know his name or meeting him.

But for the reward of charter schools, certain Democrats have abandoned their party's principles and muzzled their opposition to Republican policies in education and beyond.