Sentences with phrase «democrats running for president»

The Democrats running for president would keep it in place.

The Florida Democrat faces calls for her resignation from her perch atop the DNC from party activists who worry the relatively skimpy debate schedule could be seen tilting the scales for front - runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and for her potential apostasy when it comes to supporting President Barack Obama's Iran deal — what amounts to his signature foreign policy achievement and one backed by all of the Democrats running for president save for Jim Webb.

Four Republican contenders have email lists that are greater than either of the Democrats running for president.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Voters here say it's tough to distinguish between the platforms of the Democrats running for president.

Not exact matches

Bloomberg had given serious thought to running for president himself, and was viewed by many as a moderate alternative in the event of a Bernie Sanders nomination by the Democrats.

Perry, who also ran for president in the 2012, making much of his five years in the U.S. Air Force, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat 1984, but he switched party affiliations in 1990.

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.

Franken, a prominent Democrat that some in the party believed could run for president in 2020, is under intense scrutiny after a Los Angeles broadcaster, Leeann Tweeden, alleged that he committed sexual misconduct during a 2006 United Service Organizations tour in Iraq.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti made a decision not to run for governor in 2018 — but the Democrat might be running for president in 2020.

But by the time she ran for president in 2008, a number of Jewish Democrats said her record with the community was unprecedented.

The most obvious are that: 1) William Jennings Bryan was a democrat, 2) Bryan ran for president three times and lost, and 3) Bryan's defense of the Christian faith during Dayton's famous Scopes Trial was, by all objective accounts, less than eloquent.

Stricherz does not underscore this point, but I will: The Democrats who ran for president in 2004 and who are running in 2008 have almost all voted to keep even partial - birth abortion legal.

According to Queens and Albany sources, the Senate Democrats had been working on Avella's behalf to smooth feathers he ruffled with local Democrats thanks to his handling last year of a local NYC Council race and his short - lived run for borough president.

Avella recently said he's mulling a run for Queens borough president in 2013, although perhaps he'll reconsider if the Democrats manage to win back control of the majority.

The mayor, running for a second term, for now faces a relatively easy path to the Democratic nod amid speculation he would be challenged from rival Democrats, including Comptroller Scott Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Adam McFadden, a Democrat who currently serves as the vice president for the Rochester City Council, has announced his plans to run for the NY - 25 seat formerly occupied by the late Rep. Louise Slaughter.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand does not plan to run for president in 2020, but did talk up the candidacy of another New York Democrat: Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Seventy - one percent of New Yorkers polled said Pataki shouldn't run for president — including 80 percent of Democrats, 60 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of so - called blanks.

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

Since Sanders's surge is mostly about Democrats liking a really liberal candidate, you could argue that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren should run for president.

In 2000, President Obama ran for Congress against incumbent Democrat Bobby Rush.

«I think the president's focus on gun control will help to stop the violence, and I think that stopping gun violence is something that all Democrats running for Senate would like to see happen,» Barasky said.

«Democrat Jack Davis also endorsed Barack Obama for President and took $ 6,000 from him during one of Davis» runs as a Democrat.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

But there will also be a president who ran as a Republican, generally an advantage for Democrats.

«I'm not running for president,» the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's «Sunday Morning.»

Mario Cuomo, a son of Italian immigrants who became an eloquent spokesman for a generation of liberal Democrats during his three terms as governor of New York but couldn't quite bring himself to run for president, has died.

«Also, the more Cuomo needs to attack Nixon during the primary, the more he will have to pivot later to appeal to progressive Democrats nationally if he wants to run for president in 2020.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sent the strongest signal yet that he's ready to run for president if a Democrat fails to win in November, even as top Democrats confide that Cuomo's presidential campaign is already under way.

David Plouffe, now an outside adviser to the president, tossed a quick answer over his shoulder when CNN asked him outside of NBC's Washington studios about the tough climate for Democrats running in the midterms elections.

Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife ahead of the June 7 California primary, urged Democrats to «relax» about her general election prospects, even though polls show her running even with, or even slightly behind, Donald Trump.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday deflected questions as to whether he'd run for president in 2020, a week after Republican Donald Trump's upset win over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Now, left - wing Democrats and the New York Working Families Party are among those hoping she runs for president, which she has said she will not do.

Anderson, who ran unsuccessfully for Albany mayor in 2013, could be pitted against Common Councilman Frank Commisso Jr., Council President Carolyn McLaughlin and Mayor Kathy Sheehan in a four - way Democratic primary should his petition as a Democrat go through.

Smith is a public relations professional, has helped run campaigns for local Democrats and is a former president of Rockland County Young Democrats.

West Virginia (D): Beyond the recent spats over «hicky» ads, pink marble driveways and Second - Amendment remedies to cap - and - trade legislation, this race remains close for one main reason: Gov. Joe Manchin (D), while popular among voters, is running in a state where President Obama and national Democrats remain deeply unpopular.

To no one's surprise, Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president and Erie County Democrats are rushing to push her candidacy.

When Democrat John Edwards ran for president in 2004, he gained traction in the primaries by talking about «two Americas» — one wealthy and powerful, the other poor and weak.

We'll go vote and pull the Democratic lever and re-elect him Governor, but we've made it impossible for him to run for President in 2016, because we'll flat out back Hillary Clinton, so in effect we've exacted a price on the Governor for his lack of Democratic zeal in supporting other Democrats candidates.

Following Senate President Joe Negron «s announcement he will resign effective in November, Republican state Rep. Gayle Harrell announced she is filing to run for his seat this year, as did Democrat Dr. Rob Levy.

With current Albany Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin running for mayor in tomorrow's pivotal primary, three Democrats are vying to replace her.

While New York has nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans, that may not hold this year since both major political parties are running New Yorkers for president.

The Republican takeover of the Senate from the Democrats could help force Cuomo's hand if he is thinking about running for president, said Tom West, an Albany attorney who has represented gas drillers against towns that have banned fracking.

President Barack Obama will appear for the first time at a fundraiser on Long Island on Oct. 16 to help raise money for the midterm elections, but two top Democrats running for Congress said they won't be able to make the event.

The consensus is that not only is Cuomo returning to his liberal roots after two years of austerity proposals, but he's positioning himself as a true - blue Democrat should he run for president in 2016.

The idea is that if he only wins one party's nomination he would run for President as a member of that one party, but if he wins both party's nomination he would run as a coalition candidate representing both Democrats and Independents.

Liberals would no doubt once again seek to oust Klein and his members in party primaries — especially given the stakes of the coalition potentially continuing through the next election cycle — even as Democrats eye Hillary Clinton's likely run for president delivering down - ballot gains for them.

Fred Dicker: «(Gov. Andrew) Cuomo's radical shift to the political left over the past few years has been a «cynical and calculated» strategy to position himself to run for president in 2020 if, as he hopes, Hillary Clinton or another Democrat loses the November election.»

President Obama is running uncontested for the Democrat Party nomination.