Sentences with phrase «winning election record»

In his announcement, the Republican touted his familiarity with the district, his winning election record and his status as a regular guy with a working - class background.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday at a record high of 19,756.85 — the index's 14th record close since Trump won the election exactly a month ago.

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.

The report, which The Washington Post has not independently confirmed, relied on surreptitious video recordings of Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, claiming to have used «a web of shadowy front companies» in pursuit of winning elections.

Cambridge Analytica suspended Nix on Tuesday after a British television sting showed him on secret recordings talking about employing unethical tactics to win elections, including bribery and using sex workers for «honey pots.»

Four years later, he won the election again, this time with almost 64 percent of the vote — a state record.

The party won control of 11 town halls and a large district in the port city of Marseille in municipal elections on Sunday, more than double its record from the 1990s.

The group solely exists to serve as a voluntary vigilante assemblage of hard core and die - hard members of the New Patriotic Party to help the party win elections through constant advocacy, research and defence of the traditions and records of the party in the Ghanaian and international media or any other appropriate forum.

«However, it is not only for economic reasons that I am delighted to welcome president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to London next week... since 1998 he has won ten elections in eight years - an unprecedented record of electoral success in any country.»

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.

Being face to face with the Lib Dems» campaigning and local government record does not make for a friendly disposition to their party, and we all know that - as with, say, elections in London or Scotland - will force us to seek out Lib Dem support if we're to win elections.

The event set the venue active with supporters very confident of winning this year's election because of what they considered as good track record and project delivery.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Tributes fully paid, Adebanwi proceeded, reading from his book, the media recording of critical junctures of Nigeria's political evolution: the 1953 media excitement after Anthony Enahoro, on 22 July 1953, in the House of Representatives, had raised the self - government motion by 1956; the June 12, 1993 presidential election annulment, and the follow - up media crisis of infidelity to truth and principle, and, of course, the 1999 transition to civil rule election, which presidency Olusegun Obasanjo won.

What we don't have are plenty of battle - tested candidates who have been thoroughly vetted and who have a proven track record of winning elections.

Such was the pomp and pageantry in the country, that the only ones that were left out of the Merry of Christmas were NDC faithfuls, like myself, who were grieving, and struggling to come to terms with our painful loss in an election we were ever - so confident of winning, given our impressive record of governance under John Dramani Mahama.

There has been much debate over the waning power of newspaper endorsements, and the Times has a mixed track record when it comes to picking candidates who actually win on Election Day.

«We will hope and believe that between now and the next election, we can win the case with the British electorate that will give us the same level or the same sort of level of support as last time on our record.»

So now, being the grand pubas of winning elections, based on their record of having won one election in a row, they feel it necessary to give you advice.

In a poor community like this one, with a record of low turn - out — that was enough to win the election — the question is will his tactics work if he's running against someone who's well organized and not under indictment?

There are no examples on record of a British party winning a general election despite being less trusted on the economy than its main rival and with a leader not seen as the strongest candidate to become prime minister.

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.

In a series of tweets posted on his verified Twitter handle, the President not only congratulated Fayemi for «winning the APC ticket to contest the July 14, 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti State;» he also expressed confidence that the party candidate's «track record as a reformist — with a passion for education, health and welfare — will stand him in good stead in the elections.»

His manifold political successes — from beating David Davis for the Tory leadership to becoming Prime Minister in 2010, turning back Scottish independence in 2014 and winning an unprecedented majority at the 2015 election — will be wiped from the historical record.

Prior to 2008 general elections most of us were of the view that looking at these record achievements by the New Patriotic Party, The Flag bearer of the Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo was going to win the election hands down but Ghanaians voted otherwise.

Maragos, along with GOP county executive candidate Edward Mangano, scored an upset win, and after Election Day Maragos» campaign repaid him nearly $ 73,000, records show.

Cambridge Analytica suspended Nix on Tuesday after a British television sting showed him on secret recordings talking about employing unethical tactics to win elections, including bribery and using sex workers for «honey pots.»

Grimm, who had represented New York's 11th congressional district — the only New York City borough that Donald Trump won in the 2016 president election — before he was convicted, gave a sprawling speech at the rally, slamming Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's policies and records, and calling on Staten Islanders to stand up against them.

A stronger defence of its record probably wouldn't have won them the election, but it should have reached out more to the middle.

President John Dramani Mahama has declared that the track record of his government will enable the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to win the elections in 2016.

His son's record of using three months to campaign and win a major election in Ghana will forever remain a tough record, first Gonjaman to have risen to the highest office of the land is another enviable record.Taking over the Presidency after the unfortunate death of Mills, another record.The first head of state to have been born after Ghana's independence on 6th March 1957 is another record noteworthy.The first President in the fourth republic to have come from the legislature is another record worth celebrating.If you read books on philosophy one would understand some these things though we take them as normal life situations.

While Clinton won out over Trump in Onondaga County in the primary elections, upstate and central New York had a more mixed voting record, according to Politico, with the rural areas providing much of the Republican support.

These records show the rare occasions when the Government won a seat they had not won at the previous General election.

Optimism has a good track record as an election - winning strategy.

Democratic Congressional Congressional Committee: One of the most remarkable records in politics is the six special election winning streak that the House Democratic campaign arm has reeled off over the last two plus years.

Richardson — who initially won a four - way, 2015 special election on the Working Families Party line — scored a one - year conditional discharge of the charges against her in July, court records show.

It is a back door political attack on an organization that has a proven record of successfully running campaigns and winning elections.

Israel said the haul is just $ 300,000 shy of the committee's record for January, which was set last year, and it sets a new record for an off - year — topping even the amount it raised two years ago, following an election in which the Democrats held their House majority and won the presidency.

The New Patriotic Party says considering the abysmal record of President John Mahama and his NDC government over the last 7 years, it comes as no surprise to them that President Mahama is resorting to the politics of division, as the only likely means by which he can win the 2016 election.

The subsequent Labour defeat was significant for several reasons: the party polled almost a quarter of a million votes more than the Conservatives and their National Liberal allies combined, won the most votes that Labour has ever won (as of 2017) and won the most votes of any political party in any election in British political history, a record not surpassed until the Conservative Party's victory in 1992.

Third, it should design strategies for winning elections in view of the changes the nation has recorded so far in electoral technologies.

Maj. Gyan, a former ally of ex-president Rawlings during Ghana's revolution, graded Mahama higher than all since 1992 with a good record to win an election.

The Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by - election because of their «superb record of delivery» claimed Mike Thornton who topped the poll.

The Scottish National Party has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Watson, who urged Corbyn to resign over the summer, received an ovation in the conference hall for his speech on Tuesday, urging his party to stop «trashing the record» of the Blair and Brown governments if it wants to win elections.

That includes $ 25,000 contributed four weeks before the company was notified it won the 2014 contract in Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project, according to state Board of Elections records.

The SNP has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

The Communications Workers of America donated $ 109,600 to the Nassau Democratic Committee to help Todd Kaminsky win the Long Island state Senate seat vacated by convicted crook Dean Skelos — just days before the April 19 special election, Board of Elections records show.

Thank God Lagos council polls recorded free and fair election in four areas where PDP won.