Sentence examples for election on issues from inspiring English sources

"Can I thank all of my opponents - with the exception of one - who all conducted themselves with dignity and fought the election on issues in the spirit of friendly rivalry.

Throughout the election, on issues of major cultural significance, Trump has tacked further and further to the right.

"Mr. Abe had been hoping to focus the election on issues like constitutional reform," said Yasunori Sone, a politics professor at Keio University in Tokyo.

He reminded the crowd that McCain had only a day or two earlier been fighting the election on issues of character.

"In this case, you can't pin the entire election on one issue".

Groups like Americans for Prosperity and Concerned Veterans for America spent millions in the lead-up to the 2014 election on issue ads attacking the most vulnerable Democratic senators.

"I've never seen a Nigerian election run on issues," the senator said.

"This won't be an election fought on issues but a relentlessly negative campaign in which each party will try to smear its rivals as irresponsible fanatics," Anshell Pfeffer writes in Haaretz.

But the $33 million it spent in the 2010 elections on issue ads was almost entirely in support of Republicans and against Democrats, as will be the estimated $50 million it may spend this year.

"We know our audience isn't interested in the traditional horse race style coverage, so we're covering the election on an issues standpoint.

Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said the party had tried to fight the election on local issues and the record of its councillors.