Sentences with phrase «winning over voters»

Corbyn also sought to downplay the claim that he is not capable of winning over voters who do not already agree with him — by pointing to his successive victories and growing support base in Islington North and the Labour leadership election result.

Paterson has done well at winning over voters in the Empire State.

So while the new self - effacing Ed is a likeable sort of chap, capable of winning over voters on the streets, the «erk» approach is never going to be enough to get him into Downing Street.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

For his own part, Trump offered what he thought was a winning combination for winning over voters.

They would stand a better chance of winning over voters who are excessively sensitive about the budget.

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

Can you still win over voters by tying your social platform to religion?

Instead of institution building, conservatives keep pinning their hopes on magic candidates who will give magic speeches to win over the voters we need.

The problem is that Huckabee's support of a national sales tax (the FairTax) and his habit of engaging in identity politics gestures makes it difficult for him to win over voters outside his evangelical base.

With just three games to go in the regular season, and back - to - back games against Ball State and Toledo, the Huskies will need to win over voters and pull off some style wins that will carry more weight than a 44 - point victory over UMass.

This, it turns out, may just be enough for former world - class strikers to win over voters.

If Mr Murphy is to achieve his ambition of successfully defending all of his party's citadels, Labour will have to win over voters who at present could not seriously contemplate voting for the party at all.

Communication: The Labour leader has been told he needs to use more «direct language» to win over voters

Ed Miliband needs to use more «direct language» to win over voters, one of his closest frontbench allies has said.

Polls taken immediately after the Tories returned from Blackpool appeared to show the combination of George Osborne's tax promises and David Cameron's keynote speech had won over voters.

Better to buy - in less experienced talent, who will owe you some allegiance for their promotion and will necessarily need and want to work harder to control the airwaves and win over voters.

Jeremy Corbyn batted off questions about Trident, his reshuffle and whether he can win over voters...

Labour desperately needs to develop its stars of tomorrow — the people who will get great media coverage and win over voters not just in advance of the next election, but in the run up to 2020.

Jeremy Corbyn batted off questions about Trident, his reshuffle and whether he can win over voters in a lengthy interview on the Today programme.

Vince Cable has signalled he will examine radical new taxes on wealth to ease inequality in Britain, as he vowed to win over voters from the «cult» of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Tony Blair flagged up to Labour why they're failing to win over voters recently, but he could advise Corbynistas living on a fault line to be mindful of earthquakes and they'd write it off as centrist meddling

He tries to win over every voter, no matter their political persuasion.

Mr. Sanders's Michigan triumph also offered much - needed proof that he could win over voters in the populous, racially diverse swing states where the eventual Democratic nominee will need victories in November.

Mychajliw, meanwhile, believes his work and accomplishment as an opposing - party watchdog to Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz, will win over voters who see him as a champion for taxpayers.

Ripon did not just extend to Cruz's campaign, however — it was a platform that Cambridge Analytic intended for Republican candidates so they could use psychological profiling to win over voters.

Not exact matches

«The SNS has won over a huge number of Seselj's Radical Party voters.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

Donald Trump is facing backlash after his attempt to win over black voters during a campaign rally Friday near Lansing, Michigan.

But the no - nonsense, affable Klobuchar could also plausibly appeal to Rust Belt voters whom her party needs to win over.

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

Two years on from Tony Abbott's decisive win over Labor, voters are puzzled.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

The Grit seat advantage over the Progressives was 52, and, coincidentally, the King government did not face voters for another 47 months following their minority win.

This is both awesomely hubristic and «very reckless,» Murphy argues, for a man trying to win over millions of undecided voters.

Luigi Di Maio's cool appeal contrasts with founder Beppe Grillo's vitriolic style and may win over moderate voters in 2018.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

So the policy issues are just a bunch of BS he needs to say to win over subgroups of chumps, suckas, voters.

Reagan started his political life trying to win over the other party's voters alongside mobilizing his own party's base.

It was the speech of a guy running for President and who is serious about enacting center - right reforms (and that includes being serious about winning over swing - voters to a responsible center - right agenda.)

Baptism and active membership there equipped Obama with an ability to connect with churchgoers he was trying to organize — and, years later, with religious voters he was trying to win over — in a deeper way.

If Romney and Ryan win the election and there is voter suppression in battlegound states, the country will be ungovernable — it will be 1968 all over again.

Jamelle Bouie has a (gleefully) pessimistic take on the ability of Republicans to win over Latino voters.

The other non-Romney Republican presidential candidates either couldn't or wouldn't make a case against Romneycare that could win over the right - of - center voters that populate Republican primaries and caucuses.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

That means that any candidate that wins their support must seem to have a plausible chance to win over enough swing voters to win the presidential election.

The working - class swing voters have to be won over.