Sentence examples for hurt candidates from inspiring English sources

A century ago, state voters passed an initiative that banned corporate spending to help or hurt candidates for public office.

There is also a concern that support for reparations could hurt candidates with white, working-class voters.

Scandals and gaffes have hurt candidates before, but whether the same holds true for this election is anyone's guess.

On the other hand, he said, the briefer window between the Iowa and New Hampshire contests could hurt candidates who lose a tight race in Iowa.

In his comments on Monday, Mr. Chirac went on to suggest that opposing France and Germany could hurt candidates for European Union membership.

As my former colleague Lauren Leatherby has pointed out, they have hurt candidates in the polls (see Barack Obama in 2012 and George Bush in 2004).

The N.R.A. and Greg Ball, a Republican state senator, denounced the New York law as a product of the governor's 2016 ambition, although it could hurt Candidate Cuomo in places like Nevada, Colorado and Florida.

In another development that indicates rising opposition among Democrats, Sam Stein reports that DCCC chair Steve Israel told members at a private meeting that entitlements cuts would be damaging politically to the party, and could even hurt candidate recruitment.

Sixteen years ago, in "The America We Deserve," he wrote: "I'm a conservative on most issues, but a liberal on this one," an appeal that didn't hurt candidate Trump.

Last fall, even though the issue was plainly hurting candidates like Senator Max Cleland, who lost his race in Georgia, Senate Democrats filibustered against the bill to create a Homeland Security Department, insisting it was a matter of principle to defend labor rights that President Bush wanted to curb.

Furthermore, for the love of GAWD, what did reporters mean when they wrote commentary such as the "Rahm effect" was hurting candidates?