caucus
党团,党团组织,党团员,核心小组
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plural cau·cus·es.
- : U.S. Politics. a local meeting of party members to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc.a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy.a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- : any group or meeting organized to further a special interest or cause.
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- : to hold or meet in a caucus.
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- : to bring up or hold for discussion in a caucus: The subject was caucused.
- : to bring together or poll in a caucus: The paper caucused its new editorial board on Friday.The chairman caucused the water pollution committee before making recommendations.
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For the first nine months of 2019, Pelosi also stood firm against liberals’ calls to impeach the president, even after a majority of her caucus demanded his ouster – all in the name of her frontliners.
She reportedly urged her caucus members not to be a “cheap date.”
While she didn’t vote for the nuclear bailout bill at the heart of the Householder bribery scandal, 10 Democrats, more than a quarter of her caucus, did.
Alexander Dobrindt, the deputy caucus leader and a member of the Bavarian branch of Merkel’s bloc, demanded new EU sanctions against Russia.
The virtual caucus had 5,390 page views from 3,050 unique devices, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee told the Blade.
Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.
In 2008 and 2012, Huckabee and Santorum, respectively won the Iowa Caucus, but did not make it to the finish line.
Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids.
Also this week, he keynoted a fundraiser for Progress Iowa, an influential liberal group in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
The House caucus appears to be far more populist, feisty, and ready to push the debate on economic issues than it has in the past.
He represents that vast army of electors whom neither canvasser nor has ever yet cajoled or bullied into a polling-booth.