Sentences with phrase «toughest election challenge»

His People's Democratic Party (PDP) has dominated Nigerian politics since civilian rule was restored in 1999 but now faces its toughest election challenge, from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Senate Republicans, facing tough election challenges to keep control of their house in an increasingly Democratic state, face strong political pressure to go along with the wage hike.

Not exact matches

As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.

Rep. Richard Hanna is among the New York Republicans elected in the 2010 midterm elections who is now facing a potentially tough challenge in a newly - drawn district.

[citation needed] In a March 2015 Newsnight election debate, he was challenged by Jeremy Paxman as to whether or not he was «tough enough» to be Prime Minister, famously responding, «Hell yes, I'm tough enough», in reference to his reluctance to support air strikes against extremist targets in Syria.

It may be that many of us would find it a challenge to name our MEP even if they were elected by first past the post - but it seems likely that the list system we use for European elections has made that challenge even tougher.

Unifying a fractured Democratic base and mobilizing them to the polls in an off - year is a tough challenge, especially considering that Democrats have come up short in recent special elections in Georgia and Kansas.

Rosenthal was thought to be facing a tough challenge from Mel Wymore, and the election was fierce, but Rosenthal won more than 65 % of the vote in the high turnout district.