Sentences with phrase «former junior senator»

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The Democrats face a rapidly filling Republican slate of candidates that currently includes Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, and Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, and Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett - Packard.

Although none have announced, they are likely to include former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, former Virginia senator Jim Webb, and Bernard Sanders, the junior senator from Vermont.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch won't back Rep. Bob Turner in his bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, he told BuzzFeed, saying he's firmly in the corner of New York's junior senator despite backing Turner in his special election last year.

Ademola Adeleke, the junior brother of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke who won Osun West Senatorial bye - election in July 2017 disclosed his decision at a brief meeting with the Party Chairman, Honourable Soji Adagunodo, Deputy Chairman, Elder Sunday Akanfe Atidade and the Secretary, Hon Prince Bola Ajao, the Former Special Adviser to Governor Oyinlola and Akogun Taofeek Olayiwola.

But the junior senator from New York, who holds Clinton's former seat and is often overshadowed by the state's better - known political figures, is quietly building a résumé that would allow her to be taken seriously should she ever decide to run for president.

But Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, immediately parachuted into New York and suddenly Mr. Schumer was the most junior senior senator around.

Durbin said he told Burris that he was «disappointed» to read a federal wiretap transcript, released on Tuesday, which showed that the junior senator had offered former Gov. Rod Blagojevich campaign cash while trying to win a Senate appointment.

Sanders, the junior United States Senator and former Congressman from Vermont, announced his candidacy during a formal event on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont.