Sentences with phrase «year before the last election»

Two years before the last election the polls pointed to a huge Tory majority — and we know how that turned out.

The disconnect between people and politicians that was so palpable in that angry year before the last election will not be bridged by a new voting system alone.

Not exact matches

Before Trump fired him in early May, Comey oversaw the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to interfere in last year's presidential election.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

«I think if you weren't skeptical of Trump before the election, you might be a little naive, but if you afterward you still remain «Never Trump,» I think you're trying to ignore what happened last year,» he said.

The two that drew the biggest criticism last year: an unprecedented press conference in which he chastised Clinton for using a private server but ultimately cleared her of criminal wrongdoing; and a letter to Congress announcing that he was effectively reopening the case 11 days before the election.

Macron's campaign was hacked shortly before the presidential election last year, but, thanks to France's election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election in the U.S..

Near the end of June, the VIX was around 11 %, which is historically low and about half where it was just days before last year's presidential election.

While at the firm, Bannon began preparing for the 2016 election two years in advance, according to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who testified before House Democrats in a closed - door session last month.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

Hoping to ease the turmoil amid calls for the premier's resignation and the threat of an MLA revolt, senior PC Party officials gathered in Calgary last weekend and imposed an ambiguous «work plan» on Ms. Redford, essentially putting their leader on probation two years before the next election.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate was 3.54 percent just before last November's election.

Before last year's election, the B.C. Liberal government pledged that the B.C. Place project would cost $ 365 million.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

It was November last year, shortly before the election.

Were you this upset when the media reported on Jerimiah Wright before the election last year?

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.

A few days before the US election last year, new figures showed a rise in the number of jobs, though simultaneously the number registered as unemployed...

A few weeks before last year's presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high - profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals.

«If we had this conversation four years ago before the last mayoral election, we would have been talking about nurses, porters and bus drivers not being able to live in London.

A hospital reconfiguration near to my home was put on hold for up to a year before the General Election last year and, on occasion, this was justified due to «purdah».

Former chairman Patrick McLoughlin took much of the heat for the disastrous general election campaign and reportedly wanted to stand down last year, before being persuaded to go out in the January reshuffle.

A review by Sir Eric Pickles into last year's general election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022election called for parliamentary candidates to be in place in «battleground seats» by June 2018 «to ensure they are well - established within the seat before the next scheduled General Election on 5th May 2022Election on 5th May 2022».

Whereas, sixty - nine years later and three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today; and

Last week, the Kentucky Republican hired Shane Noem, a senior political aide, to begin laying the groundwork for his campaign, nearly 2 1/2 years before Election Day, Pure Politics in Kentucky reported.

A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed before the general election.

Yet Liberal Democrat strategists, who had drafted a «confidence and supply» agreement for either Labour or the Tories before last year's election, admit the idea could be revived for the «decoupling phase» ahead of the next one.

Speaking before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in last year's general election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government.

The Chief Imam observed that before the general election last year, Ghanaians, including Muslims, prayed to Allah to make a choice of who to govern the country, adding, «He gave us Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

Stone's long - awaited appearance before the committee is shaping up to be a combative confrontation with Democratic committee members who have publicly accused him of being a key player in Russian efforts to meddle in last year's presidential election.

Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line in a special election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before Electelection last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before ElectionElection Day.

Jeffries answered first, tentatively, specifically targeting State Senator Jesse Hamilton, whose district overlaps with his own and who joined the IDC just before Election Day last year.

Before covering education, she covered the 2013 mayoral election and the last two years of the Bloomberg administration.

Mr Harpham had won the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat at last year's general election and grilled David Cameron over 100 job losses in Sheffield steel at Prime Minister's Questions just two weeks before he died.

He left Labour when he was 18, but rejoined before last year's leadership election.

The clash came a week before the government's pre-Budget report, the last before next year's election.

* Given their current fundraising trajectory — they have outraised the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in each of the last four months and have raised more money than any of the federal campaign operations so far this year — there is a belief that the NRCC can collect $ 12 million more before the election.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.

Before this year, GM's largest donation to Cuomo had been $ 3,500 — back in 2011 — and the only other funding his campaign received from the firm was for $ 3,000 last year, according to state Board of Election filings.

There were about 7,400 votes before absentee ballots were counted, versus 9,500 in the last mayoral election four years ago.

Democrat Susan Guinn is effectively tied with Republican county Assessor / Recorder / Clerk Ernie Dronenburg as his challenge of same - sex marriage last year is heavily influencing voter opinion, according to a poll that also found nearly half of respondents undecided just days before the election.

The New York City Board of Elections reportedly admitted violating election laws by purging 200,000 voters from its rolls before last year's presidential primary.

For some it's fear of what further cuts could do, for example damaging growth in the last two years before an election or leading to costly mistakes like the West Coast rail franchise debacle.

Mr Cameron wants to focus this year's party conference, the last before the general election, on «getting Britain working».

In last year's election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baiting.

Manlius lawyer Irene Aurora Flores knows she waited too long — only six months before election day — to seriously challenge William Fitzpatrick in last year's district attorney's race.

The Guardian has reported that membership jumped from 201,293 on 6 May last year, the day before the general election, to 388,407 on 10 January.

Whomever he picks would serve for two years, before a special election would be held in November 2010 to decide who fills out the last two years of Clinton's term.

He said he believed Labour could succeed in areas such as the south west, which were Liberal Democrat strongholds before the party collapsed at last year's general election.