Sentences with phrase «first ran for president»

He hosted a fundraiser in 2007 for Clinton when she first ran for president, he noted.

The Washington Post: Mormons, African Americans face substantial prejudice, poll finds Substantial prejudice still exists for both Mormons and African Americans, despite shifting views on both groups since Barack Obama and Mitt Romney first ran for president four years ago.

Graham had never met Romney before DeMoss arranged for 15 conservative Christian leaders to visit Romney's Massachusetts home in 2007, when he was preparing to make his first run for president.

However, when he was first running for President back in 2007, Obama warned the San Francisco Chronicle that under his energy plan «electricity costs would necessarily skyrocket.»

Not exact matches

Perry, who also ran for president in the 2012, making much of his five years in the U.S. Air Force, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat 1984, but he switched party affiliations in 1990.

The book, which the first daughter and White House adviser wrote while her father was running for president, reads like a mashup of countless essays and articles written in the past decade aimed at female entrepreneurs.

«Absolutely I would vote for her, and she knows, and I would be able to call her a friend, we've known each other a very long time, long before President Clinton ran for the first time,» Norman told Tania Bryer, host of «CNBC Meets» in an interview held before Hilary Clinton announced her bid.

SADIQ Khan has reignited his long - running feud with Donald Trump by slamming the President for sharing «vile, hate - fuelled» tweets from Britain First.

P.S. «Fake book»... Trump tweets as he leaves Camp David: «I've had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President.

When he first announced that he was running for president in August 2015, Trump was a 25:1 underdog.

In China, state - run newspaper Global Times is reporting that President Trump can expect a «State visit - plus experience» when he arrives in Beijing for his first official visit to China on November 8.

Donald Trump, who says he will announce next month whether he will run for president, called the Family Research Council's Perkins last week to chat for the first time, even though the thrice - married Trump isn't exactly known as a «family values» Republican.

And in synthesizing her view of Methodism's social gospel, Clinton's remarks seemed to come close to describing her presidential thought process, where the former first lady has acknowledged she is thinking about running for president in 2016.

It reminds me a bit of my days as a student at Bryan College, when I first bumped into the concept of «biblical womanhood» after some students questioned whether women should be allowed to run for president of the student body.

Gallup first asked Americans about support for a Mormon presidential candidate in 1967 when Romney's father, George Romney, was running for president.

President Obama has seen people who politicize faith attack him since he first ran for election.

Scandal also features former First Lady Mellie Grant, who divorces her husband and runs for president herself after exposing his affair.

«But now he's running for president,» Shackelford says, «and all of a sudden there are these Christian leaders meeting him for the first time, and they want to know: How did you come to know the Lord?

Romney isn't the first priesthood holding mormon to run for president of the United States and he won't be the last.

when rommey first came out to run for President, all the christian stations said we do not want a cult in the white house, now the Christian are supporting him, the Bible must fulfill, in the last days we wil call evil good and good evil, I feel sorry for these so - call christian, you need to get down on your knees and ask God for direction regarding voting for a cult.

Once properly vetted, your money usually buys you first or secondhand access to information most fans (or journalists) would kill for: player run - ins with the law that go unreported, what certain coaches are really like, what kind of power an A.D. or president really has, and most importantly, who really is in charge of your football program.

Blake, a Bronx lawmaker and former aide to President Barack Obama, is running for the post for the first time.

First up: the vast array of Republicans running for President is good for comedians, but will it also spark major innovations on the Right?

The first President to buck this trend was Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) who successfully ran for a third term... followed by a fourth term, which he died during the course of.

The five latest additions, obtained first by Roll Call, include two candidates running in districts that President Donald Trump carried by double digits, both of whom have said they wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi for Democratic leader if elected.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket and a congresswoman who championed Queens in the House for six years, died Saturday in Boston after a 12 - year battle with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.

Andrew Cuomo might be looking forward to running for President in 2020 but it's looking increasingly likely that he'll have to brave a challenging re-election campaign first.

Buffalo State College President Katherine Conway - Turner celebrated the event reading by reading a statement by Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president in 1872, when women generally couldPresident Katherine Conway - Turner celebrated the event reading by reading a statement by Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president in 1872, when women generally couldpresident in 1872, when women generally couldn't vote.

The first thing you should do when you run for office is to make a list of every school in your district and get to know every current, past, and future PTA president.

In 1984, Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major partPresident and Democratic nominee for president Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major partpresident Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman and first Italian American to run on a major party ticket.

Geraldine Ferraro gathers with her family at a hotel in New York as they await returns of the presidential election in 1984, when she became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

Cuomo's successful first session as governor has fueled speculation he would run for president in 2016, when either Obama is term limited out of office or a Republican incumbent is running for a second term.

Duffy will be joining RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, who is a big Cuomo supporter and was the first labor leader to call on Gov. David Paterson to step aside to let the AG run unopposed for governor this fall.

This is all well and good for Cuomo, who, if he runs for president, will have to perform that classic two - step: winning over a liberal base first, a general electorate second.

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

The running mate of President Mahama therefore, emphasised the need for continuity in government as it has been demonstrated since the fourth Republican constitution was promulgated and operationalised that the first four year term is not enough for a government to complete its policies and programmes.

Should he decide to contest, he be the first ex-president to run for president in the nation's history.

When he ran for president the first time, he chose one of your sons, Chuba Okadigbo as his running mate, when he ran the second time, he chose your son too; Edwin Umezuoke as his running mate.

Becoming the first New York governor to run for president since Nelson Rockefeller, former three - term Republican Governor George Pataki jumped into the race this morning in a YouTube campaign video before appearing in New Hampshire.

Conspiracy theories about the president's supposed secret Islamic faith have circulated since he first ran for the White House in 2008.

President Barack Obama will appear for the first time at a fundraiser on Long Island on Oct. 16 to help raise money for the midterm elections, but two top Democrats running for Congress said they won't be able to make the event.

Borelli was the first elected official in the city to endorse Trump's run for president.

Davis criticized CNN for giving Spitzer a platform to give others advice: «In the first 10 seconds, he tells Obama to fire Tim Geithner — who is he to tell the president how to run the country when he couldn't get through four years as governor?»

It's worth noting that RWDSU President Stu Appelbaum was one of the first labor leaders to call for Gov. David Paterson not to run this fall (and this back in January, in other words: Pre-David Johnson) and for AG Andrew Cuomo to get into the race.

It's safe to assume at this time that Trump does, in fact, intend on running for a second term, like almost every other first - term President has.

While it will be his first time dipping his toe in politics since he was class president for his Bronx high school, Franco has already had some run - ins with Trump.

In his continuing non-campaign campaign for president, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg made his first trip to the city he purports not to want to run: Washington.

The probe by Bharara's office comes as first - term PEF President Susan Kent, who faced criticism for her handling of Lee's case, is running for re-election to the top post in the state's second - largest public labor union.

It will be his first run for elected office and could become a showdown between party leaders and Rodney Wiltshire, the City Council president who has clashed with Wade and other leaders of the local party.

Davis, a former hedge fund senior vice president, first filed with the city campaign finance board in September of 2012 to run for city - wide office.