Sentence examples for garner electoral from inspiring English sources

He accuses the government of setting up the scheme as a political ploy to garner electoral support.

After a solid third place finish in the 1984 Iowa Caucuses, McGovern failed to garner electoral traction, regressing from the race shortly thereafter.

AKP's motives for the talks are intuitive; domestic peace benefits their regional aspirations, concessions made to Kurds will help garner electoral votes and undermine BDP popular support, and being the party to finally solve the "Kurdish Problem" would be a momentous political achievement with implications both in Turkey and abroad.

It infuriated the political classes, but it appeared just reasonable enough to garner widespread electoral support.

Before that, the last Democrat to garner more electoral votes was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who claimed 486 in 1964.

If Obama confounds The Post's pundits by, again, taking North Carolina and this time wins Missouri, he'd garner 23 electoral votes and be re-elected.

Even in long-established democracies like Germany, Spain and Italy, false news reports and hate speech on social media have whipped up grass-roots populist movements, which have often targeted the recent influx of Middle Eastern refugees, to garner wider electoral support.

The Bush campaign also used what officials said were the latest public polls in individual states to draw a map that showed Mr. Bush in a position to garner 266 electoral votes, Mr. Gore in line to get 136 and another 136 up for grabs.

Thus, even with all of the money in campaigns, candidates must still allocate resources wisely to garner 270 electoral votes.

The model projects that she'll garner 323 electoral votes to Trump's 215. .

The model projects that she'll garner 323 electoral votes to Trump's 215.