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How to use the word elected in a Sentence? Page #8

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Nobody elected [ Biden ] to be President Biden, they elected President Biden to be normal and to stop the chaos.

Abigail Spanberger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Think of all the glass ceilings that Republicans broke in this last election [on Tuesday]. It wasn't just the election of the governor, the first woman minority woman elected to lieutenant governor, [but] you look at the race in Texas. This [seat] is 73 percent Hispanic.

John Lujan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Parents don’t like condescending attitudes from their elected officials, especiallyconcerningtheir children’s education, that was the Democrats’strategy in 2021: InsistCriticalRaceTheory wasn’t realand attack parents for believing it was, but layacross therailroad tracks to protect it. Voters are smarter than that.

Ryan Girdusky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wanna offer a big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she is the first woman, the first person of color, and as an Asian American, the first to be elected mayor of Boston. I know this is no small feat. You know this is no small feat.

Essaibi George

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we have a lot of cowardly elected officials who won't let go of the' Big Lie' because they are scared of their constituents, if they could have stood up, they could have put an end to this a long time ago.

Richard Barron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The same ‘ White nationalists ’ who elected Republican Glenn Youngkin governorof Virginia voted for Former Republican Delegate Winsome Sears, a Black woman, as lieutenant governor, how racist ! They alsoelected Republican Jason Miyares, Jason Miyares, as their next attorney general. What bigots !

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The stakes are dire and extreme if she was to get elected, she would take our city horribly back. She would compromise our public safety. She would raise our taxes. She would attack other elected officials up and down the ballot. It would be a nightmare for every person in our community.

Byron Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to offer a great big congratulations to Michelle Wu, she's the first woman and first Asian American elected to be mayor of Boston.

Essaibi George

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The stakes are dire and extreme if she was to get elected, she would take New York City horribly back. She would compromise our public safety. She would raise our taxes. She would attack other elected officials up and down the ballot. It would be a nightmare for every person in our community.

Byron Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unfortunately, Matt Krause is following a trend of elected officials weaponizing censorship and antagonizing educators and librarians for political gain. It goes without saying that this discriminatory witch hunt should be dropped.

Jonathan Friedman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even with someone who was furiously trying to go in the opposite direction, the United States stayed the course because people of good will in local office and in governor's mansions around the country stepped up, and they kept us on track, that's a different story than,' Oh you can't trust the United States because they elected Biden White.' You hear that a lot. And this is the other way of thinking about it.

John Podesta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Elected officials throughout the Commonwealth have repeatedly insisted that critical race theory is not being implemented in the state of Virginia, unfortunately, significant evidence exists to the contrary.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Harassing and intimidating elected officials isn’t a constructive way to try and get them to change their mind on a position, but, frankly, going after others, students of Sen. Sinema's who have nothing to do with her policy positions, I think was a misstep.

Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I say : Do your job, you got elected to Congress. We in the states are desperate for this infrastructure money. ... We need help out here in the states, and people elected you to do your job.

Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is time for all our elected officials who used their advocacy duringthe ‘ Me Too ’ movementto change our laws in New York to ensure sexual predators in our jails face serious criminal charges and are held fully accountable for their crimes.

Benny Boscio Jr.

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As San Francisco’s district attorney, I’ve worked tirelessly since day one to follow through on the campaign promises that I made to all of you and to the people of San Francisco that got me elected, it’s following up on those kinds of promises we made, holding corporations accountable, holding police accountable, reducing our reliance on incarceration and instead prioritizing diversion, mental health treatment and keeping families together that I’ve been able to follow through on my commitments to those that elected me.

Kathy Boudin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have just elected from among us a woman who is uniquely and passionately Barbadian, does not pretend to be anything else( and) reflects the values of who we are.

Mia Mottley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Stepping forward and being a candidate and putting myself out there for an elected position is not something I ever thought I would do, but I had a lot of encouragement from friends, I did a lot of prayer, it just felt like something that if I didn't step forward, then who would, who would represent me up on the board if it's not me?

Kaylee Winegar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He answered the questions. Whether or not it was satisfactory, I think we will leave up to a jury in this matter, he put his right hand in the air and he took an oath to tell the truth and that is the first time that that has happened since, well, before he was elected president. And that is a really meaningful thing.

Benjamin Dictor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We just saw what happened in California. You can't tell me that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom won by a greater margin, now, than Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom did when Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom was first elected. That's an impossibility considering what's happened in California.

Kari Lake

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happens when you don't have leadership that has the support of management and the elected body is that it undermines their ability to manage a police force, when you've got a chief whose primary objective is reform, transparency and accountability, you need them to have the backing of those they work with. So, it's very important that we're a cohesive body.

Ken Russell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Parents are the first educators of any child, and we do elect these local elected officials to represent us and our children, and what he said is that parents are not allowed to have a say on what our children learn, and that’s just wrong.

Patti Hidalgo Menders

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're mad at them because they're not progressive enough -- forgetting that they only got elected because they're not progressives! They're moderates, here's my question: Does spending more money make you a better person? Or a bigger moderate?

Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're bullying our school board. They're bullying our elected officials, they're causing real harm in our communities.

Jennifer Cortez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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