He was jailed as a teenager for attempting to defect from Cuba.
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It said it had persuaded some lawmakers to defect from the rival bloc.
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Many did so to defect from the former Soviet bloc, or to Cuba.
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But just two Republican senators have said they&aposll defect from their party.
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Hundreds defect from North Korea every year, but they usually go northward into China.
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Inevitably, people have an incentive to defect from the norm established by an institution.
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In a bygone era, we might expect Trump's appointees to defect from the administration.
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Soon the 10 men defect from their initial consorts to partner this other team.
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The Republicans will not defect from Trump in any significant numbers, if at all.
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"Opposition parties are overly dependent on personalities who defect from CCM," he told Reuters.
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Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the only Republicans to defect from their party's quest.
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Thirty-seven electors would have needed to defect from Trump to endanger him from winning.
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So 37 would need to defect from him to put him below that majority threshold.
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Arefaine led the team to defect from Eritrea in 22008, after contemplating escape for years.
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The younger the voter, the more likely they were to defect from the Republican Party.
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This makes it so that users have very little reason to defect from the existing community.
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Or conversely, was there something about Hillary Clinton that caused those voters to defect from Democrats?
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Only two Republican senators can defect from the bill without affecting its chances in the Senate.
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In Colorado, an elector who also attempted to defect from Clinton and select Ohio Republican Gov.
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Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a frequent thorn in leadership's side, was the sole Republican to defect from Ryan.
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The reason legislators don't defect from their party is fear of losing financial support and thus the next election.
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Efforts among the self-proclaimed "Hamilton Electors" to convince Republican electors to defect from Trump have so far fizzled.
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It has already seen customers defect from the 757 to Airbus' solution, the A321XLR from rival plane-maker Airbus.
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This would allow Cuban baseball players to sign directly with U.S. teams, eliminating the need to defect from the country.
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He was the first of several dancers to defect from the Bolshoi during that year's tour in the United States.
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Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Bats Global Markets (BATS) are successfully persuading ETFs to defect from the New York Stock Exchange's Arca Platform.
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Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, the only two Republicans to defect from the Republican conference and vote in favor of witnesses.
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In order for witnesses to be included, four Republican senators would need to defect from their party and vote with Democrats.
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At the end of the movie, we also saw Black Panther and Black Widow switch sides or defect from Iron Man's team.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Foreign carmakers are closing some UK plants as lawmakers defect from both the Labour and ruling Tory parties.
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And how many disgruntled Democrats will defect from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) following her party's disastrous showing at the polls?
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Senate Republicans, at least, might see little reason to defect from Trump when they just gained seats following a campaign he helmed.
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The president said Venezuelan military personnel have two options: either defect from Maduro's government and side with Guaidó or stay with Madaro.
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In fact, if a couple of Republicans defect from Judge Kavanaugh, these Democrats will be in an even tougher spot than before.
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Democrats will need four Republicans to vote in favor of calling in witnesses – that is, if no Democrats defect from the party-line.
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Nasdaq, Bats Global Markets — Nasdaq and Bats are seeing success in convincing ETFs to defect from the New York Stock Exchange's Arca Platform.
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Also Saturday, the opposition-controlled National Assembly drafted an amnesty bill to protect military members who want to defect from the Maduro government.
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One Democratic elector from Colorado, Michael Baca, is also entreating his fellow electors to defect from their pledges and to vote for Clinton.
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Thirty-seven electors would need to defect from Trump's camp to deprive him of the Electoral College majority he needs to become president.
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But it&aposs unclear whether Democrats can convince at least four Republican senators to defect from their party and vote to include witnesses.
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Investors have been closely watching how ESPN navigates the shakeup in television as viewers defect from traditional pay TV services and online services proliferate.
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Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is predicting that some Republicans could defect from President Trump if his poll numbers slip below 30 percent.
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Things could fall apart, however, if enough conservative members defect from the bill that Ryan ends up mostly needing to rely on Democratic votes.
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But that didn't seem to affect the results, with many union members appearing to defect from their leaders, as my colleague Sean Collins writes.
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It remains to be seen whether these comments from Murkowski, Collins, or Romney are signs that they may defect from the party's Senate majority.
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Increasingly, the costs of building and maintaining the grid will be borne by those without the resources to defect from it, namely lower-income homeowners.
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Faithless electors who defect from their expected vote have been scarce throughout American history, and they have never changed the outcome of a presidential election.
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While he buckled eventually, Trump's waffling is an indication that he might be more inclined to defect from Congressional leaders on budget questions going forward.
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One of the highest-ranking diplomats ever to defect from North Korea is now in South Korea with his family, officials in Seoul revealed on Wednesday.
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The Washington Post's Robert Costa sums up the state of play in this tweet: In calls this morning, many Rs privately want to defect from Trump.
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Daily pressure should be exerted on Venezuela's military to defect from the President Nicolas Maduro regime rather than international military intervention, Colombia's president told CNBC Tuesday.
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Democrats would need to sway 37 electors to abandon Trump, and so far, only one GOP elector has publicly announced his intent to defect from Trump.
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And because Daines is also a Republican, her act allows her to both defect from the party while helping a co-partisan — a rare act indeed.
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In situations of coordination, agreements are self-enforcing, that is, once an agreement has been made, the parties do not have incentives to defect from it.
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But that left a big opening for one company to defect from this arrangement and offer plans that were priced closer to the actual cost of service.
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Freedom Caucus members who are mulling whether to defect from the RSC will have to make up their minds soon, with the chairmanship vote looming this fall.
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One of the largest shifts is among college-educated voters, who are expected to defect from the Republican Party by the millions if Trump is the nominee.
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He loved to pitch before his mother, whom he saved from choppy waters when she fell overboard on their fourth attempt to defect from Cuba, in 2008.
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It does not appear that any House Republicans will defect from their party any time soon, as the political implications of impeachment are still far from conclusive.
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For decades, Cubans have had to play for minuscule wages — now $40 to $200 per month — or defect from their island homeland to pursue baseball careers in America.
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But Cuban players who come to the U.S. risk their lives and often sacrifice seeing their families when they defect from Cuba, having no legal route to return.
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Strong partisans, however, Huddy writes, "are unlikely to defect from the party in 2020 regardless of its issue agenda," and political independents are younger, on average, than partisans.
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American Bridge plans to spend millions on polling and research in swing counties in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida to identify individuals most likely to defect from Trump.
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The president endorsed Van Drew during an Oval Office photo op last month days after it was first reported that the congressman would defect from the Democratic Party.
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Last week, PayPal became the first to defect from the 28-member Libra Association, declining to participate in Facebook's vision for global payments—a vision it helped seed.
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On Sunday, he said any elected officials who defect from the CNRP to his party would be allowed to keep their positions once the opposition party is dissolved.
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The last senior diplomat to defect from the regime was Thae Yong Ho, who was deputy ambassador to the U.K. when he fled to South Korea in 2016.
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Puig, 28, announced the news on social media Wednesday, writing, "Thank you God for this great opportunity ..." Puig made four attempts to defect from Cuba before he was successful.
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Collins&apos revelation was significant; Republicans have a three-seat majority in the Senate, which means only four GOP lawmakers need to defect from McConnell to swing the balance.
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They would have to defect from North Korea, make it to South Korea, acquire a South Korean passport, and then enter the United States (South Korean law allows for this).
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It still remains unclear whether Pelosi and her colleagues will succeed in convincing four Senate Republicans to defect from the majority and force the hand of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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The American president-elect, Donald J. Trump, who predicted this week that more countries would defect from the bloc — undercutting the central bank's raison d'être — will take office on Friday.
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The tendency of voters to defect from the opposition, and even worse, to abstain from politics — so strong in eras of rising populism — does not seem to exist in America.
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That elector was not affiliated with the Democratic group known as the Hamilton Electors, which lobbied Republican electors to defect from Trump and cast their votes for an alternative candidate.
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After the leaked tape featuring Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women surfaced two weeks ago, some of the first elected Republican to publicly defect from their party's nominee were from Utah.
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The bigger issue, however, is that a substantial chorus of right-wing House Republicans will defect from any deal that is moderate enough to gain the votes of eight Senate Democrats.
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In contrast, 58 Senators (56 Democrats, one conservative and one independent) occupied the Senate during the Watergate era, meaning only nine Republicans had to defect from the party to remove Nixon.
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"He is the highest ranking official to defect from the regime, and one of the oldest public officials in the judiciary system who dates back to the 80s," Mr. Chamorro said.
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Meanwhile, three electors in other states Clinton won attempted to defect from her, but two were replaced with Clinton-supporting alternates and the other one changed his mind after a revote.
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He is among the highest-ranking diplomats ever to defect from the Hermit Kingdom, and he likely has valuable information to share about the reclusive nation with South Korea's intelligence agencies.
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Hundreds of North Koreans defect From January to July 814 North Koreans have defected to the South, according to South Korea's Unification Ministry, compared to 705 over the same period in 2015.
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The changes in executive ranks at ESPN come as the sports channel is struggling with subscriber declines as more viewers defect from traditional pay TV services to watch their favorite shows online.
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Why it matters: The event amounts to a violation of the armistice, since he was shot five times in his successful effort to defect from the North Korean regime, South Korea says.
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People say if you don't accept that, you'll be in schism — and I maintain that I would not be in schism because the document contains elements that defect from the apostolic tradition.
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Hours after losing to Chris Evert in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, Martina Navratilova sat in a secret meeting with F.B.I. agents, where she declared her intention to defect from Czechoslovakia.
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In order for the motion to call witnesses to pass, four Republican senators need to defect from their party and join Democrats and two independent senators to reach a 51-vote threshold.
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Why it matters: Manchin, a moderate representing West Virginia, is widely regarded as among the most likely senators to defect from fellow Democrats in a potential vote to remove Trump from office.
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U.S. scientists last year succeeded in altering the genes of a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation, making it possible to prevent the defect from being passed on to future generations.
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According to Spanish court documents, members of Free Joseon in February beat and handcuffed embassy employees before taking a senior official to a basement room and urging him to defect from North Korea.
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Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, has evidently decided that the time to defect from mainstream Republicanism—of which, just a couple of weeks ago, he was considered a standard-bearer—has arrived.
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The notion that 18 senators would defect from the Republican Party to provide the two-thirds supermajority required for removal of the president from office is dubious at best, especially in today's political climate.
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Why it matters: Pecker, who has been working with Trump since the late 1990s, and his chief content officer, Dylan Howard, are the latest to defect from Trump's close circle of confidants and advisors.
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Whether members of the rival parties can work together long enough — and whether enough Tories will defect from their prime minister — to succeed in stopping a no-deal Brexit remains to be seen, however.
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The idea, which we saw in the Nixon situation, that some senators said publicly that they were going to defect from their party, that they thought that what Nixon's actions were- HB: Right there.
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The deal, reached in December, would have allowed Cuban citizens to play Major League Baseball without being forced to defect from the communist-run island and risk being banned from returning to the island.
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Mr. Hilliard walked the jury of five men and seven women through the history of the defect, from 2001 when G.M. first began to learn about the problem, to the first recalls in early 2014.
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According to Spanish court documents, Hong and other members of Cheollima Civil Defense beat and handcuffed embassy employees before taking a senior official to a basement room and urging him to defect from North Korea.
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I still think it is at least theoretically possible that Sanders, if he wins the nomination, could then recruit foreign policy staffers and advisers who would, at that point, feel freer to defect from Clinton.
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Since the birth of the "Southern strategy" — appealing to racist white voters in the South to defect from the Democratic Party — the Republican Party has appealed much more to white voters than to nonwhite voters.
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While some actors may fall in line with a formal negotiated agreement, many powerful actors will defect from it, maintaining sovereignty and immunity within their own fiefdoms through a combination of economic incentives and violence.
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Wednesday's briefing, he said, inspired him to again defect from his party and support a war powers resolution led by Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, that would limit Mr. Trump's war powers on Iran.
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Thought to be the highest-ranking official ever to defect from the secretive country, Thae has given a series of interviews in recent days where he talks about sanctions, reunification, and the future of the country.
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To see the power of these norms and social sanctions, we conducted a number of experiments that randomly assigned black participants to incentives to defect from a well-known norm of black politics: supporting Barack Obama.
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So now that has Trump has been found out, there is a large opportunity and great excuse for Republicans who have never been sold on him to essentially defect from his coalition and vote third-party.
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Republican senators that Democrats hoped would join them in their push to include witness testimony in President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial have signaled they have no plans to defect from their party on the issue.
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And while it's perfectly normal for a handful of vulnerable lawmakers to defect from a party's stance, there's remarkably little sympathy in the Democratic caucus for Van Drew, a moderate from New Jersey's Second Congressional District.
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In fact, Republican senators up for reelection will need to decide whether it's riskier to defect from their party or obstruct the president; either choice seem likely to bring either primary or general election costs, respectively.
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Clinton in the pledged delegate count, the senator and his team would lobby superdelegates from the states he won to reflect the will of their voters, defect from her and give him a margin to win the nomination.
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Three of the intruders took an embassy official into the basement during the raid and tried to encourage him to defect from North Korea, according to a detailed document made public on March 26 by the Spanish court.
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The Princeton historian Kevin M. Kruse recently took to Twitter to debunk one of the movie's central arguments: that anti-black Southern Democrats did not defect from the party once it began supporting civil rights for African-Americans.
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LAHORE, Pakistan — The phone calls started last month, said Rana Iqbal Siraj: intimidating, anonymous demands that he defect from the party that governed Pakistan for the past five years and tried to curb the power of the military.
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We all agree that we are going to pay at the end of the meal, even though we have already eaten, because when too many people defect from that norm the experience of dining out becomes dramatically worse for everyone.
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American conservatives have slammed Mr Obama's wet foot, dry foot reversal, and his simultaneous decision to stop giving Cuban doctors who defect from a third country fast-track entry to the United States, as his final betrayal of the Cuban people.
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Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the emails on Saturday and Sunday, saying that they proved the Democratic primary had been rigged against Mr. Sanders and that the senator's supporters should defect from Hillary Clinton to support Mr. Trump.
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He knows that even a Cybertruck with Porsche-like performance and F-150-beating towing capacity isn&apost going to get pickup customers to defect from the Detroit Big Three or even think twice about the second-tier (Toyota and Nissan).
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If no Republicans defect from Kavanaugh, it would be nice if the Democrats denied them the fig leaf of "bipartisanship" and mounted a unanimous dissent, something to make their grandchildren, their party and maybe one day even their country proud.
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Still, while it is surely possible that Trump will regain some ground, it's also possible that his standing could collapse even further, particularly if leading Republicans continue to defect from his cause, or if more damaging revelations about his past emerge.
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Related: How a 19-Year-Old North Korean Escaped and Became a Sushi Chef in America One of the highest-ranking diplomats ever to defect from North Korea is now in South Korea with his family, officials in Seoul revealed on Wednesday.
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In the latest sign that Republicans are unlikely to defect from their party leadership's opposition, Johnson is arguing that Obama's pick is so far out of the mainstream, including on the Second Amendment, that he doesn't deserve a hearing, much less a vote.
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RELATED: Defiant Grassley faces pressure from all sides in Supreme Court standoff Moran's reversal shows how unlikely it is that Republicans will defect from their base, which is furiously opposed to Obama replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.
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The Democrats have an opening here to increase this energy and potentially flip seats in Texas but doing so will require a strategy designed to attract new voters to the party — not just galvanize liberals who are unlikely to defect from Democrats regardless.
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If Senate Democrats dare to filibuster the Supreme Court appointment of Neil Gorsuch, it's safe to bet that no Senate Republicans will defect from the President and the GOP will do whatever it takes to get enough Democrats from swing states to back the nominee.
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A rival grouping led by militia commander Hadi al-Ameri and former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki responded by saying it had formed its own alliance that would be the largest bloc in parliament after it got some lawmakers to defect from the other group.
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Hours later, a rival grouping led by militia commander Hadi al-Amiri and former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki responded by saying it had formed its own alliance that would be the largest bloc, after it persuaded some lawmakers to defect from the rival group.
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Her plea — along with the pleas of three other church members on Friday — comes little more than a year after two teenage brothers were savagely beaten over a dozen hours for what prosecutors said was their plan to defect from the upstate New York congregation.
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To start, this particular batch of electors is highly unlikely to defect from Trump because of who they are — generally, they're Republican Party stalwarts or activists chosen during state party deliberations, as the excellent Politico feature "The People Who Pick the President" makes clear.
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One of the best goal scorers of his generation, Mogilny was the first Russian to defect from the former USSR to play in the NHL, and the first non-North American (along with Teemu Selanne) to ever lead the NHL in goals in a single season.
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NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - General Motors Co should pay for concealing an ignition switch defect from its customers that has been linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths, a lawyer for an Oklahoma man injured in a car crash told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday.
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Jones could not have won without overwhelming support from Alabama's black community, and his victory suggests that Democratic coalitions in Southern states where the nonwhite share of the population is rising can be tenable, if enough white voters can be persuaded to defect from the Republicans.
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While the researchers emphasized that they could not definitively say that fake news "caused" Obama voters to defect from Clinton in 2023, they nevertheless concluded that these stories had a "substantial impact" on voters that may have been sufficient enough to swing the election to Donald Trump.
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Last week a survey from Washington-based Mercury Analytics surfaced with a most curious finding: Roughly 20 percent of Democrats said they would defect from their party to vote for Donald Trump, with a surprising number of them declaring with 100 percent certainty they would be comfortable doing so.
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"If the U.S. carries through with its threats not to heed WTO rulings, it will encourage other countries to defect from the international free-trade regime and increase the risks of beggar-thy-neighbor policies," said Marc Chandler, global currency strategy head at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.
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Sitting under a Kurdish flag and fidgeting with his hands, the first known American fighter to purportedly defect from the Islamic State explained on Kurdish TV that joining the terror group was "a bad decision" and that he quickly became dissatisfied with life under the militant group's rule.
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In a separate blow to Machar, a senior commander allied to the rebel leader's SPLM-IO group said on Friday he had left to join up with a separate rebel faction, led by General Thomas Cirillo, the most senior officer to defect from President Salva Kiir's army in the last year.
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But unlike Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her like-minded colleagues, the moderates have taken a tactical page from the roughly 40 Republicans who make up the Freedom Caucus, whose sway in the Republican majority came from their willingness to defect from the party line on crucial votes unless they received concessions.
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It is likely to go spectacularly wrong — wrong in ways that will force far more Republicans to defect from Trump, wrong in ways that will appall the female voters Republicans need to hold to keep their House majority, wrong in ways that could drive Trump's vote share from the 40s to the 30s.
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Three other electors attempted to defect from Clinton in other states, but two were replaced by alternates, with the other changing his mind on a revote: Theoretically, legal challenges could be launched related to some of these electoral votes, since the constitutionality of state laws binding electors has never truly been tested in the courts.
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" Even more critically, the company believes that such a move would also have safety implications: "Sourcing a new supplier increases the risk of poor part quality leading to possible quality issues that would impact the safety of our vehicles and the final product… We cannot risk our customers' lives due to a defect from a supplier.
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After all, a quarter of moderates did defect from Mr. Trump in 2016, and they might be ready to vote for candidates who respect women, who are angry about the N.R.A. and school shootings, who believe climate change is real and who want a government that works for the middle class at least as hard as it does for the privileged.
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In contrast, 57 percent of Trump supporters said the same about President Cruz, which is still a More striking is the poll's finding that Wisconsin voters for both Trump and Cruz in Wisconsin would defect from the party if the other candidate won the nomination: In a race between Hillary Clinton and Trump, for instance, 66 percent of Cruz voters said they would pick a third-party candidate.
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It remains possible this week that the new revelation from former Trump national security adviser John Bolton -- alleging that the President directly told him he would not release military aid to Ukraine unless that country opened an investigation into his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden -- might prompt just enough Senate Republicans to defect from Trump and support calling Bolton and others as witnesses in the trial.
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Op-Ed Contributor AS the fraught Syria peace talks inch forward in Geneva, the United States finds itself with little leverage to help negotiate an end to a conflict that has left almost a quarter of a million people dead and helped fuel the worst refugee crisis since World War II. But there's an efficient way for Washington to put pressure on Damascus: Offer money and asylum to officers and officials who defect from the criminal regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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While the researchers emphasized that they could not definitively say that fake news "caused" Obama voters to defect from Clinton in 2016, they nevertheless concluded that these stories had a "substantial impact" on voters that may have been sufficient enough to swing the election to Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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