Sentences with phrase «win election victories»

Not exact matches

Fears that Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton would win the election and limit gun sales led to record purchases last year, but Trump's surprise victory has had a reverse effect, with 2017 sales falling and investors selling gunmaker shares.

-- for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, should she win the election, leaving Whitman to declare victory at HPE and move on.

Additionally, gold stocks would benefit if Trump wins, Golub said, with prices of the precious metal generally climbing in sync with the odds of a Republican victory in a presidential election.

A conventional wisdom is brewing that if Samaras pulls out the victory, then it's only a matter of time before his coalition collapses, and the leftist Tsipras wins another election... perhaps in 4 to 8 months.

Meanwhile, France, Germany, and the Netherlands will hold federal elections in 2017, and some argue that the surprise victory of President - elect Donald Trump in the U.S. could signal a similar win for far - right candidates abroad, including Marine Le Pen of France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.

The Canadian liberal party won an overwhelming victory in yesterday's election.

But analysts said it was a victory for Najib that would allow him to focus on winning the next election in 2018.

A win by Mr. Trump in the U.S. presidential election in November could be a shock for stocks, although such a victory would presumably be predicted by polls.

The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

It is now almost two years since the BJP, led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide victory in India's parliamentary elections.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

President Vladimir Putin's real challenge in Sunday's presidential election is not winning the race, but getting enough turnout to show the world his victory is legitimate.

Trump spoke as his White House tried to pick up the pieces after Democrats» apparent victory in a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

For example, the former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, Anthony Quainton, openly acknowledged in meetings I attended with U.S. delegations, that the Nicaraguan revolution had widespread popular support and he rightly predicted that in fair elections the Sandinistas would win a sizable victory.

Even more sad republicans did not win the election putting them in govt such election win gained came via massive voting fraud / coupled with the corrupt ruling of an supreme court decision / awarding them victory.

While no Republican leader will publicly say the obvious being «God forbid should Romney win the election», we will have to endure until November a «nonelection» resulting in an Obama victory.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

Secretary Clinton claimed victories in the Democratic primary elections in Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Massachusetts and won American...

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

Labour supporters might point to Tony Blair's three election victories in a row, but that ignores the fact that they were won partly due to moving to the centre ground, and partly due to the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

Jeremy Corbyn has proven his election - winning credentials by sweeping to victory in the Parliamentary Beard of the Year contest.

Even Nassau Republican Party Chairman Joseph Mondello has recognized that Todd Kaminsky won Tuesday's special election and that there is no path to victory for Chris McGrath.

Turner, the latest addition to this GOP party, had insisted that his surprise victory in last September's NY - 9 special election, in which he won the Democrat - dominated district long held by former Rep. Anthony Weiner, boosted his name recognition and made him a strong statewide contender.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

They have been led by to victory by three personalities, viz John Jerry Rawlings, who is also the founder with a 100 per cent record in elections, late Professor John Evans Atta Mills, who lost twice before a 2nd round victory in 2008 and John Dramani Mahama, who won in 2012 but lost in 2016.

His victory speech after winning the Clacton by - election last night was a leadership speech in all but name.

The spot, which plays news clips of Turner's election - night victory speech, seems aimed at appealing to the concept that the Brooklyn Republican can repeat his surprise win, this time on a statewide level.

Despite the scandal, both Peter Robinson and the DUP won resounding victories in the subsequent 2011 Assembly elections.

And even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliament.

A smooth MEP Andrzej Duda, age 43, recently won presidential elections in Poland, and now Beata Szydło, age 52, led her party to victory in parliamentary elections.

And, in a more speculative tone, I would not forget the incoming Russian election (18th March) and the convenience of a foreign crisis as a rallying point in favor of the government and an opportunity to show a hard posture (I know Putin is virtually guaranted to win, but I think he wants an overwhelming victory).

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

Even so at the start of a reign a prime minister has an authority he or she will only possess again if they win a big election victory.

On election night, Clinton, buoyant in the hopes of a much - predicted win embellished by the major pollsters, political pundits and social media soothsayers, chose to hold her victory celebrations at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Centre where there is a gigantic, transparent ceiling — a dramatic way to consummate her victory.

When the FIS won a landslide victory in the 1991 parliamentary elections, all its top leadership was in jail; it was also its salafi rivals who unleashed the violence that followed annulment of the results, sucking the radical fringe of the movement in with them.

The NPP won a resounding victory over the NDC in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections, and the party's presidential candidate and now president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has promised to unite Ghana going forward.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

In Massachusetts, all nine elections for the United States House of Representatives were won by margins of victory of 20 percent or greater.

In Washington, five of ten elections for the United States House of Representatives were won by margins of victory of 20 percent or greater.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

Clinton's New York victory, expected to be a foundational bloc for her winning campaign, was instead a cruel coda to the disorienting election night experience of an anticipated presidency suddenly vanishing.

It is argued that the challenge is not just about Labour winning elections again, but that any political victory must be worth having, based on clear differences from a Tory agenda.

The Senate Republican leader said that regardless of who won during the party primaries, what mattered was that they carried their victory into the general election.

More recently, Bill Perkins» victory in a City Council special election created a vacancy in the State Senate, which was filled by Brian Benjamin, who won the Democratic nomination by virtue of a county committee vote.

But perhaps the most natural target — the 26th District, won by Kathy Hochul in a special election last month — might draw objections from both parties: from Democrats because they think she's a rising star after her upset victory, and from Republicans because they expect to have a reasonable chance of reclaiming the seat anyway.

A Republican woman won Arizona's 8th District special election Tuesday night, although Debbie Lesko's 6 - point margin of victory for a solidly GOP seat raised party concerns about the tough election cycle ahead.

In New York, 19 of 27 elections for the United States House of Representatives were won by margins of victory of 20 percent or greater.

If you continue to support Jeremy Corbyn, you therefore have to believe that, should he win the election, he will be able to improve significantly, head the party strongly and effectively, get the 81 % of MP's who voted no confidence back onside, and drive Labour to victory.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.