Sentences with phrase «about her nomination in»

DeVos» strong support for taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and parochial schools has intensified trepidation about her nomination in New York.

DeVos» strong support for taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and parochial schools has intensified trepidation about her nomination in New York.

Not exact matches

The release of the Trump campaign's May FEC report showed the presumptive GOP nominee raised just about $ 3 million in his first month since sealing up the Republican nomination.

Some of the most respected news sources turned out to be way off the mark about Donald J. Trump's chances of securing the Republican nomination, or even remaining in the race for as long as he has.

It's not as if he and Trump have a chummy public relationship — Trump has fired tweets at Bezos, whose holding company owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for a story the Post published in December about preventing Trump from securing the presidential nomination.

Because of the way Tillerson's compensation is being dispensed, he will give up about $ 7 million compared with what he would have been paid if he retired in March as planned before Trump announced his cabinet nomination.

In a July 2015 email, Podesta frets to other campaign staffers about Sanders, who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way through to the end of the primary process.

«While Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination,» Rubio said in a statement.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.

I'm simply reading what she wrote about what the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be a federal court judge meant and what it would mean in history for her.»

Now its 2016 and Hillary Clinton can't say anything about what really happened in 2008 for fear of being accused of being a back stabber, so instead she takes the attacks that she is for Wall Street and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall street.

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.

Both Harris and Booker, who had together received about $ 15,000 from Pishevar, are seen as contenders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020.

Fort McMurray - Athabasca Following the resignation of Conservative MP Brian Jean, rumours continue to swirl about who could seek the party nominations in an upcoming by - election.

Pruitt told Fox News in April that «Mr. Hart has no clients that had business before this agency,» but a spokesman for Hart subsequently acknowledged that Hart actually met with Pruitt in his office in July 2017, about one month before Hart's proposed nominations to discuss efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

Also surprising: a best actor nomination for Ansel Elgort in Baby Driver, because when you walked out of that movie you were definitely thinking about the acting.

Whether I speak in terms of what is considered to be important in terms of sexuality (or pretentiously called eros), or whether I present it in terms of a Brian De Palma movie about fate, apparently I must present it terms of the Republicans seeking the nomination in order to be take seriously.

It's not about honesty or how nominations can be tied up in the House.

Much of the retrospective commentary about Buchanan's 1996 run for president (when he finished second in the race for the Republican nomination) focuses on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

It's a contrast to the way the other Mormon candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, has talked about his religious faith.

*** Also, maybe you saw my post about this last month (and my nomination badge in my sidebar), but I've been nominated for a Good Housekeeping award for best food blog.

Kadeena and her incredible story about transitioning from an able - bodied athlete to a para-athlete in two sports also featured on the front cover of MS Matters magazine, and earned her a nomination for the UK Sport Inspirational Performance of the Year.

«Our petition centres on the fact that as at the time the 2015 Senatorial election was conducted by INEC, Mr. Shehu Sani was not qualified to vie for the position given that he lied on oath to the commission about his academic qualification and falsified documents in bid to sustain the lies and false claims in the nomination form and affidavit he submitted to INEC,» the group noted.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

With concern setting in among downstate Republican leaders that the three declared candidates vying for the nomination to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the fall will be crushed, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox called Rep. Bob Turner this weekend about possibly jumping into the race, a source familiar with the conversation said.

While I continue to believe that an opportunity was missed in her address to more directly confront and acknowledge the mistakes she has made in her long political career, Mrs Clinton did something in her acceptance of the nomination that Mr Trump did not do in his: she did not make her candidacy about her personal greatness, but about her policies and what she will do to help those Americans most in need.

«This shameless act by this dissident group has exposed their level of desperation and extent they are willing to go to mislead the public about the true picture of events leading to the ward congress.For the avoidance of doubt, all eligible members of the APC obtained the nomination form before it closed and actively participated in the election as attested to by the congress committee chairman.

For a great example, see Mark Bowden's story in the current Atlantic showing how the work of a pair of essentially unknown conservative bloggers shaped the public debate about Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, and in the process injected the «Wise Latina» meme into the public mindspace to the undoubted delight of pundits for years to come.

Gina Haspel's nomination to be CIA director received a crucial boost Saturday when Sen. Joe Donnelly became the second Democrat to support Trump's choice despite questions about her role in the previous decade's controversial interrogation program.

With only one declared candidate standing between him and the Republican nomination for New York governor, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco is feeling good about his chances, saying: «The momentum is definitely going in my favor.»

His nomination is one of the few things that might have fired up Virginia Democrats unenthusiastic about their own apparent «choice,» Terry McAuliffe, to run to against Ken Cuccinelli for governor (for a rundown of why Dems aren't so excited about McAuliffe, see Jonathan Chait's «McAuliffe - Cuccinelli Not Quite the Grimmest Rooting Choice in History «-RRB-.

Nixon, who appeared as Miranda in «Sex and the City,» has been in talks with campaign operatives about challenging Cuomo for the Democratic nomination in September, multiple news outlets have reported.

After announcing Sunday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination to take on President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, Pawlenty is trailing in national polls which put him in about fifth or sixth place among Republican challengers.

When Blair stood down in 2007, Gordon Brown went about collecting as many nominations as he could to forestall a competitive contest.

As for his previous suggestion that the Democratic nomination fight could go all the way until the convention in July, Reid said: «I don't know about that, you know I had some meetings today and I think the race is moving along very quickly so we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens next month.»

In order to understand the circumstances under which a Republican Senate would approve an Obama Supreme Court nomination, we need to characterize the game we are about to see play out.

I asked Donovan about the the Lynch nomination following an 11th Congressional District candidate debate in Bay Ridge.

Two of the Democratic candidates for the party's nomination to take on incumbent Republican John Faso for the 19th New York Congressional District's seat have set upcoming forums in Kingston about healthcare.

«This is a complaint that was made by the Scottish National Party (SNP) against me personally, in effect,» Mr Blair said, referring to the complaint made last year about four of his nominations, which prompted the whole inquiry.

She leaves office in January because of term limits, and she has spoken openly about a possible challenge to Cuomo for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, retiring after this year from Congress and who was thinking about seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2018, has instead decided to return to teaching.

Three days before testifying privately before the House Intelligence Committee about the campaign, Caputo said he recalled speaking with Trump Jr. around the time his father clinched the Republican presidential nomination in the spring of 2016.

On Dec. 1, the state Commission on Judicial Nomination will present the governor with a list of up to seven candidates to fill Pigott's spot — a process that invariably sparks a round of speculation in the state's legal and political circles about who may be named.

But progressive voters seem to care less today about the strength of their party, or even about a particular checklist of issues, than about their confidence in a candidate's sincerity — as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a career independent, proved with his electrifying and magnetic charge at the Democratic nomination last year.

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

(CNN)-- After Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is one of the most talked - about potential candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

This week on the Campbell Conversations two local political analysts engage in a lively exchange with host Grant Reeher about the Iowa caucuses, the upcoming New Hampshire primary, and the remainder of the nomination process.

The Senate has confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female director of the CIA following a rocky nomination process that reopened debate about one of the darkest chapters in the spy agency's history.

De Blasio said he is keeping an open mind about Dr. Ben Carson's nomination to lead HUD, despite the fact that the famous surgeon and former Republican presidential candidate has no experience in housing policy.