Sentence examples for elect the Republican from inspiring English sources

They didn't elect the Republican congress.

In recent weeks, Mr. Nader has come under fierce attack from liberals who contend his campaign could help elect the Republican candidate, Gov. George W. Bush.

Not all of the victims of that particular soap opera were Democrats: Mr. DeLay's efforts to elect the Republican state legislators who drew those Congressional maps turned out to be criminal; he was convicted on money-laundering charges and earlier this year was sentenced to three years in prison.

Hillary Clinton's campaign fired back on Tuesday as WikiLeaks released a new tranche of hacked emails from the account of its chairman, John Podesta, dubbing the website a "propaganda arm of the Russian government" seeking to help elect the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

They argue that, for example, in an Assembly race with three Democrats and one Republican, the Democrats could split the vote among them and voters would inadvertently elect the Republican even though they didn't mean to.

But one Democrat with a safe seat, Representative James A. Traficant Jr. of Ohio, has said he would bolt his party to vote to re-elect the Republican speaker, J. Dennis Hastert.

Mr. Finkelstein's combative campaigns helped elect or re-elect the Republican Senators James L. Buckley and Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York, Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Connie Mack III of Florida, Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

The American people re-elected the Republican majority.

On the same ballot, Floridians elected the Republican Rick Scott as their governor.

But, Mr. Kasich added, "There is going to be a part of the electorate that is a lot more interested in beating Obama than electing the Republican".

His daughter, Lisa, 45, a former district attorney in Anchorage, has served two terms in the Alaska House and was recently elected the Republican majority leader.