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How to use the word elected in a Sentence? Page #14

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We determined soon after Donald Trump was elected that this was a horrible mistake the American people had made -- and that we had made, damn it. We voted for Donald Trump.

– Rody Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In New Zealand, New Zealand's possible for a woman to get elected to parliament because you don't have to be wealthy, i think New Zealand has got easier, simply because there's a critical mass.

– Jenny Shipley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We certainly appreciated the phone call from him, weve been Trump surrogates now ... We spent four days riding on the team Trump bus in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago and been doing everything we can to support the president and help him get re-elected.

– Mark McCloskey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people.

– Amy Coney Barrett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But what the State of Virginia has done, to falsely attack my treatment of animals, to attempt to slander my reputation and my life's work, solely to appease animal rights activists that have influence over the elected officials that have brought these charges is far different and it's very personal to me.

– Tiger King

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The opaque and secretive handling of information related to these events constitutes an obvious threat to public health and is unacceptable in a free nation whose elected leaders must be transparent with and accountable to the American people.

– Senate Health

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In the last midterm election before Justice Scalias death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck presidents second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidents Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year, by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Preident Trump and support Preident Trump agenda, particularly Preident Trump outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise. President Trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've got to make sure we get every House Republican elected -- she's fighting hard and House GOP's an important seat for us to keep.

– Liz Cheney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She's been elected by the 14th District and she's on her way to Congress, i look forward to working with her as a member of Democratic Party and the delegation.

– Jody Hice

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's going against our efforts. It just makes it very hard. I think all our elected officials, our representatives, congressmen, everybody should be doing something to reverse that decision, because we are going to be hurt very badly.

– Martha Maffei

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Officials who are elected and answer press questions while they're in office, even if those questions relate to their personal activity, and could bear upon their personal fitness, is in fact in the course of federal employment, and can be therefore certified under the Westfall Act, president Trump knows that I told the truth when I said that President Trump had sexually assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman. President Trump also knows that President Trump was lying when Bill Barr said that President Trump had never met me before and that I' wasn't President Trump type,'.

– Bill Barr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Last month, in a bid to prevent informing the American people and its elected representatives about Russian efforts to help President President Trump and hurt Joe Biden, the Trump Administration announced that it would cease briefing Congress in person, and rely on written products alone. But if written products are being altered for political reasons, or worse withheld entirely, how can the American people trust that this Administration will inform voters on how foreign powers are trying to influence them, or where the threats really come from, and protect National Security — particularly when it contradicts the President's preferred narrative or personal political interests ? In short, they can't, and that's dangerous.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Donald Trump's desperate and trying anything to get suburban women to vote for Donald Trump, we have grown our group from three people to 600 -- these are suburban women who are against Donald Trump. A lot of these women were not involved in politics prior to Donald Trump being elected, so it's put a fire under them to get involved.

– Stephanie Pyser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Lots of elected officials as well as public health officers were telling people to wear masks as part of their civic duty, they were trying to tap into this idea that if you couldn't be over there fighting alongside our boys overseas, you could be doing your part here on the home front.

– Alexander Navarro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are a lot of barriers being put up from the administration -- whether that's trying to force Americans to risk their very lives to cast a ballot, to meddling with the Post Office, sabotaging the way we deliver mail, to falsehoods and lies about vote by mail, so, I just think it's so important that every elected official, every elections official and every American citizen start sounding the alarm. The rhetoric coming out of the White House is something that you hear under dictatorships, not in the United States. We have to act. We can not allow him to tilt this election.

– Jena Griswold

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think that we can celebrate the fact that a daughter of two immigrants has had such a celebrated political career, to be elected statewide and now be the nominee for the Democratic Party, i think what's more concerning is some of the socialist ideas she seems to have imported from overseas as well.

– Marc Short

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given the heighten( sic) sensitivity to racism in our country today, they are particularly concerning and divisive when made by elected officials, we are, and should be, held to higher standards in our thinking and actions. I can assure the citizens of Luray this type of thinking is not indicative of the Town Council Members or Staff.

– Councilman Jerry Schiro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our number one job as elected officials is to make sure that everyone gets to be part of the democratic process, we have proven in the primary that this is a successful way to do it.

– Sandra Jauregui

Found on CNN
3 years ago

GOP major donors are redirecting money to the The Senate races, the Senate is The Senate. We have got to make sure that we hold The Senate no matter who is elected president.

– Fred Zeidman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They are being elected to represent a state, so they ought to have the freedom to represent the people who are voting for them, and if that means taking positions that are not totally approved of or consistent with the White House, that's what a democracy is about.

– Fred Zeidman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They must be held, the people of Hong Kong deserve to have their voice represented by the elected officials that they choose in those elections.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When we were organizing voter-registration drives, going on the Freedom Rides, sitting in, coming here to Washington for the first time, getting arrested, going to jail, being beaten, I never thought -- I never dreamed -- of the possibility that an African American would one day be elected president of the United States.

– John Lewis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

From the time the President was elected, I was urging Leading Freedom Caucus members to remain independent and to be willing to push back against the President where Leading Freedom Caucus members thought he was wrong, leading Freedom Caucus members've decided to stick with the President time and again, even where Leading Freedom Caucus members disagree with him privately.

– Justin Amash

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Ensuring the safety and well-being of everyone involved with the 2020 Democratic National Convention drives every decision we make, and this communication reiterates our guidance from several weeks ago that all members of state delegations — including elected leaders — should plan to conduct their official business remotely. Last week, we sent delegates guidance on how they will vote and we look forward to sharing more details on other opportunities for delegates in the coming weeks.

– Katie Peters

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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