Sentences with phrase «with voter anger»

The prime minister had promised to bring in «early legislation» to allow voters to force a by - election, in an attempt to deal with voter anger over the expenses scandal.

With voter anger boiling over ahead of the 2016 election, Former president Bill Clinton explained the advice he gave his wife.

Not exact matches

To be fair, he didn't give an actual prediction, simply insinuated voter anger with spending would be on display.

I think voter anger coupled with something high - profile... there's too much happening for it not to have an effect on the system.»

The expenses scandal has had the same effect on them as it had on everyone else, leading many to say they were unprepared to campaign for their party and face voters» anger over something they were not involved with.

Anger over the expenses scandal at Westminster is thought to have prompted many voters to desert the established parties, with Labour by far the worst hit.

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As for the presidential campaign, Cuomo sympathized with the anger voters feel, which he credited with driving them toward Trump.

Skelos's approach to deal making with Cuomo, as well as a five - member bloc of Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference, angered grassroots conservative voters in New York, who were especially upset over the gun control legislation passing the chamber.

The effectiveness of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as surrogates for their longtime ally, Hillary Clinton, with her presidential campaign has diminished in an age of social media and voter anger at the status quo, though the governor appears to have been more useful to her in the final weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

But this year, voters seem much more willing to overlook such eccentricities, in this race and around the country, if they come from a candidate with outsider passion and righteous anger.

Miller, 44, who once operated a political consulting firm with offices in Albany and Washington, D.C., disagreed his election was the result of general voter anger at incumbents and Democrats.

MPs are travelling back to their constituencies today, with voters prepared to express their anger over the expenses scandal.

Books alleged he was prone to a volcanic temper, he was outperformed in the leaders» debates and his anger at an encounter with a moderately feisty but ultimately supportive Labour voter showed him to have lost the ability to persuade on a one - to - one basis.

And voters looking for ways to channel their anger after Trump's win, and to cast votes that matter in New York, have «woke» up from indifferent to indignant about Albany's shady ways and particularly the eight so - called Independent Democrats led by Jeff Klein who, along with Simcha Felder, caucus with the Republicans to keep them in control of the Senate even as the state turns ever more blue.

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.

There is also anger that Miliband focused too much on policy rather than projecting an empathy with voters» sense of alienation from the political class.

He added: «It angers me that they're playing these games with corporate governance, that they could both represent working class voters in this district.»

But the No campaign believes its argument about the cost of the referendum — a sop to the Liberal Democrats as part of the deal to enter coalition with the Conservatives — will anger voters.

The polls found that Clinton often had higher negative ratings with voters than did the more controversial Trump, whose inflammatory pronouncements have often angered and even horrified many of his fellow Republicans.

Based on the level of anger I heard expressed this morning at the hearing, I don't see much chance of immediate change in rural attitudes (nor in voting patterns, as rural voters continue to express their displeasure with the Liberal government).