Sentence examples for election needle from inspiring English sources

With Cruz more popular in evangelical circles than Trump, this could end up being the swing group which moves the election needle towards Ted Cruz should he somehow overcome the Trump juggernaut.

Cohn posted, on Twitter, the updated version of the ingenious innovation of the 2016 election, the wavering needle that moved incrementally toward either a Republican victory or a Democratic one as each precinct reported.

Gregor Aisch, one of the Times designers behind the election dashboard, justified the needle's quiver on his blog the following week.

— KATE TAYLOR Mr. Castello, in asking Mr. Bloomberg about the 2005 election, took an opportunity to needle him about his support at the time for term limits, and his later reversal.

Trump excoriated China's trade policies during his election campaign and succeeded in needling Beijing into threats of retaliation after pledging to whack a 45% tariff on Chinese imports.

Campaigning before the June election Demirtaş had been full of mischief, needling Erdoğan, making fun of the AKP's gaffes.

One good journalist can move the needle in the context of an election.

But just because Romney – a very rich man who had only won one previous election in his entire career – could not thread this needle does not mean it cannot be threaded.

But if the Hungarian conservative leader, Viktor Orban, wins the election that is likely next year, Slovakia may find its needling meets a more vigorous response.

Delivering the traditionally comic remarks at the annual White House Correspondents Associationn dinner, the president seemed to enjoy needling Mr. Romney just days after the general election contest effectively got underway.

As the election season continues, though, their camps are engaging in the tit-for-tat needling that they promised to eschew.