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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)- A Tennessee Republican congressional candidate says his campaign and business have faced an «almost constant stream» of cyberattacks.

Not exact matches

Critics of Clinton's campaign strategy have said her efforts (or lack thereof) in those three states — traditional Democratic strongholds that were carried by President Donald Trump — highlighted the Democratic presidential nominee's biggest problems as a candidate.

Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»

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.

«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.

«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.

Republican candidates have been looking to tap into Silicon Valley coffers for a while, says Colby College professor of government Anthony Corrado, who specializes in campaign finance.

A key component of Sanders» campaign platform is expanding Medicare to cover all Americans — healthcare is a «right, not a privilege,» the candidate's website says.

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.

The French judges are examining whether Havas supported the electoral campaigns of candidates who once in office granted port concessions to Bollore's group, the magazine said.

But most of the state's African - American residents said they were contacted about voting by only one candidate during the campaign: Democrat Hillary Clinton.

How their top executives feel about the candidates, however, is hard to say: CrowdPAC's data notes only a relatively small number of chief executives have contributed to campaigns so far.

In explaining his decision to disinvite the candidate, Erickson has said he attempted to reach out to the Trump campaign prior to the gathering so they could clarify or apologize, but they refused to do either.

The Hillary campaign did not respond to a request for comment, but it's safe to say that the presidential candidate would support patients» choice.

New allegations of sexual misconduct rocked Donald Trump's campaign Friday as the candidate denounced his accusers, blasted news organizations that have reported the claims and said it all shows «the whole election is being rigged.»

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.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's campaign finance chair, said the candidate won't be self - funding in the general election.

«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.»

And he added a new threat to his repeated criticisms of U.S. media companies, which he says cover his campaign unfairly to help Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

«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.

By that point, the court filing said, the defendants» «operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then - candidate Donald J. Trump... and disparaging Hillary Clinton.»

«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.

Trump's campaign said in a statement that the candidate is «a highly - skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required.»

, social media strategists say the video ushered in a new era of campaign marketing that will likely define the 2012 election: Namely, will Republican candidates be able to «figure out» social media in order to expand their followings, promote their messages, and encourage action?

«We're in a political campaign, and the candidate is Uber and the opponent is an asshole named Taxi,» Kalanick said.

«There's never been a way historically to go to some group and say, «Hey, you know, you're trying to, you know, campaign for this candidate.

«A lot of what he's doing was certainly pretty widely telegraphed during the campaign, so I think it's probably President Trump following through on candidate Trump's initiatives, and I think that we'll see how far this goes,» said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of Cresset Wealth Advisors.

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

Mr. Lamb ran as an anti-Pelosi Democrat with moderate views on abortion, Mr. Coughlin said, «and the candidate out here is not doing any of those things; she's running a more typical Democratic campaign.»

«What we maybe should've realized sooner was that we are running a political campaign and the candidate is Uber,» he says.

Schaffner says that before Obama's election, political scientists believed that «when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them.

Parscale also shared more detail about the campaign's need to raise money, saying that when «Donald Trump became the candidate, we didn't have any money other than Mr. Trump's money and I don't think he wanted to write all that check himself.»

Ultimately, Republicans said, it was the effectiveness of Lamb as a candidate and the struggles of the Saccone campaign that doomed the strategy.

The StarPhoenix - Burton says Liberals need to reach the grassroots Federal Liberal leadership candidate Alex Burton says a grassroots campaign is the key to rebuilding the party and forms a large part of his bid for the post.

«They will offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance,» Nix said.

Travis Kalanick, Uber's co-founder and former CEO, famously said the company was «in a political campaign, and the candidate is Uber and the opponent is an asshole named Taxi.»

O'Malley pointed out that he was not on the ballot and, in an implied criticism of Brown's campaign, said candidates always have to defend their records.

Jansen pulled out of the campaign earlier this week, saying she could no longer take the personal and online abuse she has endured from supporters of another candidate.

Facebook says Kogan obtained the data legitimately, therefore this does not qualify as a data «breach,» which means that the company had no obligation to let users know that their data may have been used in a massive social media campaign helmed by a presidential candidate.

I am saying that the public is smarter and more interested in the candidates showing issue mastery than the campaigns seem to think.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

Cain denies that his plan contains a VAT, claims that his plan is not a middle - class tax increase and says the other candidates do not understand his campaign's analysis.

Lansing, Michigan (CNN)-- A Michigan pastor who introduced Rick Santorum at a Monday campaign event in Lansing claimed that Mitt Romney is not a Christian and said Santorum is the one Republican candidate who can awaken «the sleeping giant» of Christianity.

For what it's worth, LifeWay Research conducted a poll during the 2016 campaign that found 73 percent of evangelical Americans said pastors should abstain from endorsing candidates, and 65 percent said churches should abstain.

Ben Ryan from the religion and society think tank Theos told Premier where it went wrong for the Conservatives, explaining: «If you saw the campaign leaflets that came through my door, they had «Theresa May says «back my candidate»».

(CNN)- A top evangelical leader who is close to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says the candidate's Mormon faith will be even more of an issue in the general election than it has been in the primary, predicting that the focus on Romney's faith will present a challenge to Romney.

(CNN)- Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church - and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.