(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who was beaten in a gubernatorial race by the Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe and now runs the Senate Conservatives Fund, disagreed with Chaffetz about the desirability of another Romney run.
(3) It could also help sway pivotal senate and gubernatorial elections in the region, many of which have come down to a few hundred votes over the past decade and may do again as Republicans fight to regain control of the Senate next year.
(4) The plan, according to the indictments, was meant to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, for refusing to endorse Christie during his most recent gubernatorial run.
(5) Meanwhile, Missouri's Democratic governor Jay Nixon looks safe in his gubernatorial re-election bid: Democratic incumbent Jay Nixon leads Republican challenger Dave Spence 53%-45%.
(6) In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee mayor, Tom Barrett, won the Democratic primary in the state's gubernatorial recall election, confirming him to go up against the Republican governor, Scott Walker, in June.
(7) Luzhkov had said he backs the return of direct gubernatorial elections, abolished by Putin in 2004.
(8) Still, only two years ago, Democrats reeled from a major setback when their high-profile gubernatorial candidate, Wendy Davis, was thrashed by Greg Abbott, losing by more than 20 points and setting the state legislature down an even more conservative path.
(9) November will also see elections for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, where Republicans already have a strong majority, as well as 46 elections in state legislatures and 36 state gubernatorial elections.
(10) Aides to both leaders say an election was more democratic than a gubernatorial appointment.
(11) With nearly all votes counted Walker had nearly 53% versus 46% for his Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, widening the lead from when the two faced off in 2010's gubernatorial election.
(12) This is an alternative to gubernatorial proficiency testing.
(13) Democrats had hoped Crist would give the party its first gubernatorial win in Florida in 20 years and put the state in friendly territory for the White House race.
(14) It says nothing of the Senate races that are not closely contested (in West Virginia , Republican Shelley Moore Capito, daughter of former governor Arch Moore, is likely to fill the seat vacated by retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller, whose uncle Nelson was vice-president and New York governor) and the gubernatorial races (Georgia Democrat Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy; New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, son of governor Mario; California Democratic governor Jerry Brown, son of former governor Pat).
(15) Mizeur, a former state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, wrote on her Facebook page : “If the DNC doesn’t reverse its decision to give the Sanders campaign access to its voter file data again, I am ready to resign my post as a Democratic National Committeewoman from Maryland in protest.
(16) Rand Paul appeared to side with Bevin, the Republican nominee for the Kentucky gubernatorial race, and said in a radio interview that Davis’s protest is “part of the American way”.
(17) The insurgency’s impact on the election Nigeria’s presidential, parliamentary and state gubernatorial and assembly elections, scheduled for next month, are likely to be more contentious than usual.
(18) They learned from their mistakes in 2012.” In 30 years of observing North Carolina politics I’ve never seen the Republicans with such a sophisticated ground game But the advances it made in the mechanics of data-driven electioneering is just one part of a GOP success story that saw the party sweep to victory in eight out of nine key Senate races, regain control of the upper chamber, triumph in crucial gubernatorial contests and expand its control over the House of Representatives.
(19) Large-scale teacher protests are in prospect for Philadelphia after the city’s school board canceled a teachers’ union contract , an unprecedented move that could have ramifications for the upcoming gubernatorial election.
(20) The new governor has made it clear that he is watching lenders closely and they will be expected to respond to the raising of the gubernatorial eyebrows.
Presidential
Definition:
(a.) Presiding or watching over.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(3) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(4) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(6) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(7) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(8) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(9) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
(10) Discussions will cover international efforts to strengthen Ukraine's economy and energy security and help with constitutional reforms, including next month's presidential election.
(11) The truth is, some of these attacks would be leveled against any Republican presidential contender.
(12) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Colbert continued: “The point is, just because you act presidential, doesn’t mean you are.
(14) She is among up to 250,000 American-Israelis entitled to vote in Tuesday's US presidential election, the majority of whom are believed to be backing the Republican candidate.
(15) Valls immediately attacked Hamon as an idealist who couldn’t win the presidential election and styled himself as the voice of the serious left in government.
(16) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(17) The dossier claims that Page also met Igor Devyekin, a senior official from the presidential administration, who indicated that the Russians had kompromat on Clinton and Trump, and allegedly added that Trump “should bear this in mind”.
(18) On presidential election day 2010 it offered one group in the US a graphic with a link to find nearby polling stations, along with a button that would let you announce that you'd voted, and the profile photos of six other of your "friends" who had already done so.
(19) April 12, 2016 Gardner, who previously supported Marco Rubio’s presidential bid, has yet to endorse any of the remaining three candidates.
(20) In its statement, it said it was impossible to avoid all sporting events when scheduling debates, and added that presidential debates have never been rescheduled because of conflicts with sporting events.