Sentences with phrase «candidates campaigning on»

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

The only candidate campaigning on a platform of deficit reduction is Gary Johnson.

Indeed, many NDP candidates campaigned on the cancellation of the project and are now writing to their constituents about how awful the decision was and how sorry they are.

Not exact matches

Befitting a campaign in which the leading candidate is known for a TV show that blurred the lines between reality and scripted TV drama, there are any number of sub-texts and counter-narratives in Trump's attack on Kelly.

The Republican candidate repeatedly said during his long presidential campaign that if elected he would not allow Ford to open a new plant in Mexico and would slap hefty tariffs on any Ford vehicles made in Mexico.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

And, despite Meyers» insistence that Trump would not have appeared on his show anyway, the GOP candidate is a frequent media presence who made a number of late - night TV visits in the early months of his campaign, including with Meyers» NBC colleagues like Jimmy Fallon, on The Tonight Show, as well as a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.

President Donald Trump has been outspoken in his criticism of Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, particularly as a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

«I don't care much about Warren Buffett,» Trump said on the FOX Business television network Tuesday morning, a day after Buffett lashed out at Trump in a speech at a campaign rally for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

The far - right candidate in the French presidential election has been embroiled in two investigations, but that hasn't and will not impact her campaign, the Front National's project coordinator told CNBC on Friday.

Our opponents have significant operations on the ground in key battleground states, full - time candidates without day jobs, and a lot of media attention to fuel their campaigns.

Even though Kasich fared well on questions about his ability to follow through on campaign promises and only 0.67 percent of survey respondents thought he was the worst choice for president, he came in last as top choice for president among the then Republican primary candidates — a tepid showing for an honest and proven executive.

Approaches to border enforcement and deportation have caused candidates to rise and fall in primary races, and John McCain's relatively moderate position on those matters posed a threat to his nomination fight in the last presidential campaign.

Of the entrepreneurs surveyed, 87.20 percent felt that the presidential candidates had not focused enough on small business in their campaigns.

That information should have remained with Kogan, but he instead gave it to Cambridge Analytica, an analytics firm best known for its work on the Donald Trump campaign, which used it to build profiles on potential voters for GOP candidates.

These issues were often discussed on the 2016 campaign trail, with a few candidates — Trump, Clinton and Sanders — offering their own solutions.

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in Warren, Mich., on March 4, 2016.

Bollore fell 6 percent after French police questioned billionaire Vincent Bollore over allegations his group worked on the election campaigns of presidential candidates in two African countries in return for lucrative port contracts.

The Federal Election Commission has previously ruled that candidates and federal office holders may spend campaign funds on legal fees that are part of legal actions that would not have been necessary if they were not a candidate.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a «massive» computer hack that dumped its campaign mails online 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far - right rival Marine Le Pen.

Candidate Trump's campaign - trail calls for a «total and complete shutdown» on Muslim immigration were at the core of the two - hour argument.

«I think what she's tried in the campaign is, let's focus on the future and who do you think is the best candidate for premier going forward.»

PARIS, April 24 (Reuters)- French police questioned billionaire Vincent Bollore on Tuesday over allegations his Groupe Bollore worked on the election campaigns of presidential candidates in Africa in return for lucrative port contracts.

The presidential candidates visit local restaurants and campaign in the lead up to the The New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, February 9.

A similar phenomenon occurred during the presidential campaign, when the Mexican peso swooned as Trump gained strength in the polls and other stocks fluctuated depending on which candidate was pulling ahead.

The Presidential candidates have been stumping for tax reform on the campaign trail, laying out two different approaches.

North Carolina Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper campaigning on November 6, 2016.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally in Fredericksburg, Va. on Aug. 20, 2016.

«In recent campaigns around the world — from India and Indonesia across Europe to the United States — we've seen the candidate with the largest and most engaged following on Facebook usually wins,» Zuckerberg himself wrote earlier this year, starkly underscoring his company's electoral clout.

Throughout the homestretch of the presidential campaign, Inc.com will post a series of articles that focus on three questions that leading entrepreneurs would like to pose to the Democratic and Republican candidates.

Presidential candidates are often accused of flip - flopping in their policy commitments while on the campaign trail, but Trump's contradictory rhetoric is a different story.

The Times and other outlets noted that the campaign aides in attendance at the forum continued to grumble that their candidates rarely got the call from CNN for interviews, or that their time on the network was often comparatively short.

The dossier also said that former Russian security official Igor Diveykin informed Page that the Kremlin had a dossier of dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that it wanted to give the Trump campaign.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a possible presidential candidate in 2016 who campaigned for fellow Republicans around the country, said the Senate results put the onus on Obama.

In the 2016 election, for example, these and other internet giants donated about $ 1.8 million to Republican campaigns, compared to $ 1.5 million on Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Schultz, who will officially step down as Starbucks» CEO on April 3, has been known for his progressive politics, supporting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

«The candidates on both sides of the aisle are talking about this more, and you can bet it'll be a campaign issue later on,» he says.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

For both Clinton and Trump, the divisive race came to an end on Tuesday night at rallies less than two miles apart in New York City, the same place where both candidates launched their campaigns within days of one another in June 2015.

Those working on Romney's presidential bid who tried to take a cab or check out of their hotel post-election found that their campaign credit cards had been cancelled immediately following the candidate's concession speech, leaving them to pay their own way in the cold, dark world that is Obama's America.

But in the heat of the moment, the four remaining GOP candidates often made inaccurate or overblown claims (some of which repeated statements they've made previously on the campaign trail).

Levine, a former member of President Obama's economic policy team, notes that almost all political candidates are on her service these days and using it in interesting ways to campaign and connect with potential voters.

Trump, to be sure, is the most outspoken candidate on many topics, but his campaign also raises a basic question about the American CEO as an electable persona.

THE FACTS: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has gotten endless grief through the campaign for the headline put on his November 2008 opinion essay that he wrote for The New York Times.

President Trump himself made a campaign appearance with Saccone on Saturday, and Donald Trump, Jr., is due to campaign with the Republican candidate on Monday.

«We weren't having any of it,» says Michael, who praises and defends Alison with the fervor of a vice presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

«The candidate who understands that [social media] is not just for promotion but also for organization and encouraging people to move to action, that will be the campaign that wins,» says David Bullock, Leary's co-author on Barack 2.0.

On the campaign trail, President Trump became known as «a different kind of Republican,» staking out a more protectionist stand on trade, and a more interventionist stance on antitrust policy than the typical Republican candidatOn the campaign trail, President Trump became known as «a different kind of Republican,» staking out a more protectionist stand on trade, and a more interventionist stance on antitrust policy than the typical Republican candidaton trade, and a more interventionist stance on antitrust policy than the typical Republican candidaton antitrust policy than the typical Republican candidate.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.