Sentences with phrase «during presidential campaign year»

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Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump criticized Ford's announcement last year that it would move Focus production to Mexico.

The charity watchdog's view stands in contrast to the way the foundation was characterized during the presidential campaign, but it's consistent with the views of some who have been close to the Clintons over the years and have observed how the foundation operates.

Macron's campaign was hacked shortly before the presidential election last year, but, thanks to France's election - silence law, it didn't have anywhere near the impact of the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election in the U.S..

The backdrop: Cohen was drawn into Mueller's Russia investigation last year for his contacts with Russians during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama announced a goal of of ending childhood hunger in America by the year 2015.

The far - right leader gained over 100,000 followers during the presidential election campaign last year.

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Financial records filed in the secretive tax haven of Cyprus, where Paul Manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch, indicate he was in debt to pro-Russia interests by as much as $ 17 million before he joined Trump's presidential campaign in March 2016.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

Conservative activists have long been critical of the group, accusing it of voter registration fraud during last year's presidential campaign and questioning its role assisting the Census Bureau.

During last year's presidential campaign, Miner aligned herself closely with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, of whom she and her husband are longtime supporters.

Malliotakis, who chaired Sen. Marco Rubio's New York campaign efforts during last year's Republican presidential primary and has been opposed to President Donald Trump, is joining a crowded field of hopefuls seeking the Republican line in this year's mayoral race.

During a year of vicious, divisive presidential politics, few other than the candidates seemed passionately interested in congressional campaigns.

Jealous was the president of the NAACP for five years and was initially a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Aides on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.

As the presidential race unfolded, one of the things I recognized during the campaign: My position on same - sex marriage resembles President Obama's over the years.

But Moorhead is no novice when it comes to presidential politics: She sat down with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, during the 2004 campaign, and this year she's met with Romney and his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, who hails from neighboring Wisconsin.

During a celebration for a group of women known as the Boiler Room Girls (who worked on his brother Bobby's ill - fated presidential campaign the year before), he went off for a night drive with one of the female campaign workers, 28 - year - old Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

The Purge: Election Year (R for profanity and disturbing, graphic violence) Third episode in the horror franchise finds a U.S. presidential candidate (Elizabeth Mitchell) and her bodyguard (Frank Grillo) on the run from government operatives during The Purge because of her campaign promise to discontinue the gruesome annual ritual.

The social disaster couldn't be waved off casually, as Sarah Palin — a strong advocate of abstinence - only sex education — did during her vice presidential campaign when her 16 - year - old daughter's pregnancy was revealed.

When looking at the presidential election, supporters of Hillary Clinton must admit that her defeat at the hands of Trump resulted in part from being ineffective campaigner who could not reach either hardcore progressives who had flocked to Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential nomination campaign, or inspire the six million Americans who had previously returned incumbent Barack Obama to the White House four years ago.

Single mother Penny Sandoval is doing all she can to stay cool and collected during her father's hectic presidential campaign, but things take a dark turn when Penny, her 5 - year - old son, Cruz, and their bodyguard, Owen Jackson are abducted at a political event.

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Although the fund owns companies across the health care sector, including insurers and equipment makers, a pharmaceutical - heavy portfolio — about 60 % of Health Care's assets are invested in pharmaceutical and biotech firms — held the fund back over the past year as those stocks came under fire during the recent U.S. presidential campaign.

On Friday, March 16, the company announced it was suspending Cambridge Analytica, the data company hired by the Trump campaign during the 2016 US presidential election, for mishandling data it acquired years before.