Sentences with phrase «celebrity candidate»

How well do we do with celebrity candidates, as a general rule.

She's one of several celebrity candidates in New York this year.

The problem with some potential celebrity candidates, like Oprah or Mark Zuckerberg, is that they have no clear - cut ideological or policy commitments, so they could resort to selling a vague message of change (as Trump did).

Nixon won't be the only celebrity candidate on the New York ballot.

The WFP had been mulling running a liberal celebrity candidate for governor — perhaps «30 Rock» star Alec Baldwin (he's not interested) or The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Some members suggest the labor - backed party should run a celebrity candidate or perhaps someone of color who could: 1) highlight the lack of diversity on the Democrats» statewide ticket, and 2) run to the left of Cuomo's fiscally conservative agenda.

And residents of Brownsville were happy to see the celebrity candidate when she finally arrived.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) mocked the idea of actress Cynthia Nixon challenging him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on Wednesday, leading local New York anchors to warn him against writing off celebrity candidates.

Her acting and artistic credentials (Vulture points out she's one «O» short of an EGOT) inevitably branded her as a celebrity candidate.

Cuomo initially joked about Nixon's run before she officially declared, seeming to write her off as another celebrity candidate.

Even 1922 Committee chair Graham Brady did not want to shut the door on the idea of a celebrity candidate when TP interviewed him last week.

As I reported in my DN column yesterday, WFP leaders are worried Cuomo won't take their line due to an ongoing US attorney's office investigation and are coming up with a Plan B — perhaps running a celebrity candidate to make sure they hit the magic 50,000 - vote mark and retain their ballot status.

Overall, the reception was positive as voters greeted the celebrity candidate five years after he resigned from office in a prostitution scandal.

«I may not be the celebrity candidate, but I am the candidate that's worked in each of these communities for the past 20 years and I've never embarrassed my constituents,» Stringer said.

While any celebrity candidate runs the risk of being reduced to their roles, the reality is that Sex and the City was a major cultural phenomenon and it's inevitable that Nixon will continue to get asked about Miranda.

Comparisons between Trump and Nixon, in fact, were voiced by a number of progressives on social media who rejected her as a «celebrity candidate.»

But can Democratic voters trust a celebrity candidate in the age of Trump?