Sentences with phrase «about a rival candidate»

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis professed to be unconcerned about rival candidate Bo Dietl, trying to instead focus on Bill de Blasio in a brief discussion today.

Ms Abrahams first entered Parliament in 2010, winning the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election after the election of Labour MP Phil Woolas was ruled void over false statements he made about a rival candidate.

Not exact matches

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

This raises serious concerns about the role and responsibility of companies working for political campaigns in Kenya's volatile political climate, particularly considering The Real Raila's incendiary claims include that rival opposition candidate Raila Odinga's administration would «remove whole tribes», for example.

Now we are hearing that Vardy will stay with Claudio Ranieri and so the search goes on for Arsene Wenger, although one candidate spoken about seemed to be already set to sign for our Premier League rivals Manchester United.

Some part of this surely is about political journalists and rival candidates with a vested interest in keeping the «chatter» alive, but a larger part of it is arguably about the demonstrable and enduring unease with which many Republicans regard Romney.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

Positing that she would only address «on - topic» questions, Malliotakis had little to say when asked about allegations by rival candidate Bo Dietl that her campaign submitted improper petitioning documents to the Board of Elections.

In a post-meet & greet Q&A I asked Massey about two topics; the realities of his campaign call for greater mayoral action on the MTA and whether ratcheting up criticism of rival candidate Nicole Malliotakis reflects concern that she's had some successes recently.

Zac Goldsmith's campaign has persistently tried to link Sadiq Khan to extremists but in a strange twist our fifth placed item revealed that the Tory candidate for mayor of London himself lobbied MPs about the very same person being used to attack his Labour rival.

Barron made only one comment about his no - show rival saying that the candidates needed to «respect constituents by showing up and letting them know who you are.»

While onetime mayoral front - runner Christine Quinn has opted to mostly avoid talking about the late entry of Anthony Weiner into the race, the candidate for comptroller who is not Eliot Spitzer is coming at his last - minute rival straight on.

That was about all Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey had to say about Lhota endorsing rival candidate Nicole Malliotakis over Massey.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

Are there clues as to a new leader's prospects for success with the wider electorate to be found in the way their party goes about choosing between rival candidates?

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey punted when I asked him about those Republican party efforts and whether he would continue his candidacy if a rival candidate receives unified party support, replying «I wouldn't speculate on that.»

(CNN)- New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's got a sky high approval rating, and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate's far ahead of his Republican rivals in general election matchups, but according to a new poll voters want Cuomo to speak out about how he will fix the Empire state's budget woes.

Spitzer is leaving himself less than a week to collect the nearly 4,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot; candidates typically collect at least double what's required, to ward off challenges from rival candidates about the validity of signatures.

The most recent campaign filings showed Quinn far outraising her likeliest rivals for the mayoralty, with $ 4.5 million on hand, compared to about $ 2.7 million for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, $ 1.5 million for Liu, $ 1 million for de Blasio, and $ 250,000 for former comptroller and one - time mayoral candidate Bill Thompson.

A Manhattan judge has ordered CBS to turn over emails by Friday morning in an attempt to establish who has editorial control over a television series about Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes» office or else possibly face an injunction that would postpone the show's debut episode next week, according a rival candidate.

Here's video of some news I posted about yesterday — GOP Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk's response to radio attack ads from rival candidate Andy Martin floating a «solid rumor» that Kirk is gay.

Lots of people were after my job, he said, in an apparent reference to Lammy (who is being talked about as a rival Labour mayoral candidate in 2012).

In videos covertly recorded by reporters at Britain's Channel 4 News, now - suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasted about bribing and blackmailing his clients» political opponents, at one point suggesting he could «send some girls around» (read: sex workers) to a rival candidate to generate damaging material against them.

Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used by the company to help clients, which included entrapping rival candidates in fake bribery stings and hiring prostitutes to seduce them.