Sentences with phrase «republican leaders in the party»

So this week we are doing two Lines — one today looking at the ten most influential Republican leaders in the party and then one tomorrow ranking the ten Senate races most likely to switch parties in 2010.

Not exact matches

He also recently passed Charles and David Koch — leaders of Koch Industries and notorious Republican Party donors — to clinch third place on Bloomberg's list of the richest people in the United States, coming in behind Gates and Buffett.

Trump owes Republican leaders in Congress nothing, and those leaders have every reason to remain wary of the threat Trump's misogyny, nativism, and xenophobia represents to the party's future electoral prospects.

The tape, in which Trump boasted about sexually assaulting women, sent the Republican Party into a panic as party leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the tiParty into a panic as party leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the tiparty leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the ticket.

Republican leaders have significant differences on what the party's policy agenda will entail for 2018 after securing a major legislative victory in overhauling the federal tax code with a law that included a blow to the Affordable Care Act.

When asked whether House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans in Congress would consider his trillion - dollar infrastructure plan, Trump boasted he was popular with the party's leaders on Capitol Hill.

Trump got entangled in days of dispute with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in the Iraq war, and sparred with Republican Party leaders.

He used his Washington visit to nurture contacts across party lines, meeting with both Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders in Congress.

Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

It also stands as a remarkable breach in relations between Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, and a business community that historically has had an ally in the GOP.

Trump plans to to further outline his economic and tax policies in a speech in Detroit on Monday, following a bruising week in which he publicly sparred with the Muslim family of a fallen U.S. soldier and initially refused to endorse leaders of the Republican Party in their re-election bids.

While neither Mr. Ryan nor Mr. McConnell immediately withdrew formal support for Mr. Trump, Republican leaders in Washington held anguished discussions throughout the evening about how the party should proceed with a badly wounded and potentially toxic nominee.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Before his meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump visited with the House GOP conference in what leaders billed as a chance for rank - and - file members to get to know the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

Boehner, Catholic by faith and Republican by party, was able to garner enough votes in the House for the passage of HR 1, the House budget proposal that has drawn the ire of many religious leaders.

He began serving with the University of Georgia College Republicans and rose up to serve as a party leader at the state level before his involvement in the Bush - Cheney campaigns.

And BO is the leader of the Immoral Majority, the largest voting bloc the US i.e. in 2012, the ~ 78 million voting «mothers and fathers» of aborted womb babies and that is the reason BO will win in 2012 unless the Republicans somehow nominate a «pro-abortion» candidate something very unlikely considering the conservative «pro-life» voting bloc within said party.

The councilman said Ragusa's defense of Queens GOP First Vice Chair Stephen Graves is a «slap in the face» to rank - and - file party members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for Apriparty members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for ApriParty dinner, which is scheduled for April 18.

Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran sent a statement slamming the Republicans for being the «party of Joe Bruno» and «led by the son - in - law of President Nixon and the «Dean of dysfunction», which I think is a reference to Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos.

«If Trump doesn't run and Astorino still doesn't denounce the Republican leaders in the state Legislature, I might as well try to drag the party to the right side of the equation,» Paladino added.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

Every Republican Party leader, operative, and activist who looks at the trajectory of the primary will have to consider whether the drawn - out contest is undermining the party's prospects in the Party leader, operative, and activist who looks at the trajectory of the primary will have to consider whether the drawn - out contest is undermining the party's prospects in the party's prospects in the fall.

In the Senate, Democrat Todd Kaminsky appears poised to replaced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, makign the GOP technically a minority party when it comes to enrollment.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

I intend to change the Republican Party as we have known it with the voluntary or forced resignation of previously identified RINO County Chairs like Vinny Reda, in Rockland County, as well as Dean Skelos as Majority Leader of the Senate and Brian Kolb as the Minority Leader of the Assembly.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, a supporter of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio, weighed in to express «reservations» with state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox's plan to establish an independent party, which has added to the perception that the idea is all - but Party Chairman Ed Cox's plan to establish an independent party, which has added to the perception that the idea is all - but party, which has added to the perception that the idea is all - but dead.

Republican Party leaders have decided that Bo Dietl, the bombastic former NYPD detective and Fox News contributor, should not be allowed to run on their party line in his bid to become mayor of New York Party leaders have decided that Bo Dietl, the bombastic former NYPD detective and Fox News contributor, should not be allowed to run on their party line in his bid to become mayor of New York party line in his bid to become mayor of New York City.

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

What's more, Paladino now commands up to 7 percent of the weighted convention vote, thanks to the loyalty of the Erie County GOP, which puts him and local party leaders in the potential position of being kingmakers when Republicans gather in Manhattan on June 1.

Is determined to push Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos right of center, in order to make the Republican Party as irrelevant as the Conservative Party; or at the very least unable to support Cuomo's Progressive legislation agenda.

Republican Party leaders picked Julie Killian to run in a state Senate special election for an open seat that could shift New York's power structure, selecting the former Rye city councilwoman over former Yonkers inspector general Dan Schorr.

«Today's bills are just further proof that the Republican party is so terrified of dealing with this country's gun problem that they are willing to bury their heads in the sand,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Assemblywoman and Republican Congressional candidate Jane Corwin has reached out to Conservative party leaders in New York asking for their backing in the race for the 26th district.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato, who crossed party lines and backed Cuomo for governor four years ago, is endorsing state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in the Republican primary (if there is one) for governor.

The rumor (or conspiracy theory) in Nassau County is that Republican Party Leaders, including Al D'Amato have more or less conceded the Senate race.

Although Walsh is the leader of a minor party dwarfed in size by the Republican and Democratic parties, he is able to exert influence that goes far beyond the 22,401 voters enrolled as Conservatives in Suffolk.

Now, despite the skepticism many Republicans expressed as the election results came in Tuesday night — one Republican official told CNN the Republican party would be slow to give any money to O'Donnnell — she is enjoying an influx of support from prominent Republican leaders.

Pro-fusion forces on the right like Mike Long and the Conservative Party will no doubt push the Republicans to withstand the governor's call, but in the end it will come down to progressive - minded leaders and legislators inside the Democratic Party voting yea or nay.

In 2014, they bucked the tide to support Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference that has aligned itself with the Republican Party.

Washington (CNN)-- Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, kicked off the 2010 campaign season Wednesday morning in Pennsylvania, lambasting the Republican Party and Minority Leader John Boehner in a highly partisan speech.

He'll need permission from the Republican Party leaders in what's called a «Wilson - Pakula».

Colety's endorsement pushed Molinaro over the 75 percent threshold of the weighted nominating vote, assuming Republican committee members vote with their county leaders at the party's convention in May.

«As an at - large delegate and leader of the Republican Party in New York, Senator Flanagan will be attending the convention next week,» said Scott Reif, a Senate GOP conference spokesman, in a statement.

Another GOP event worth noting is coming up next month: The Manhattan Republicans will be hosting Donald Trump, who is apparently very much in demand among NYC party leaders, at their dinner on June 14.