Sentences with phrase «national progressive leader»

«The hope would be that the governor gets in line with some other national progressive leaders,» said Deutsch.

What's clear is that Mayor de Blasio is trying to position himself as a national progressive leader.

In his nearly two years in office, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has sought to become a national progressive leader.

It was the first time Sanders campaigned for a congressional candidate since taking the mantle as a national progressive leader.

De Blasio is attempting to fashion himself as a national progressive leader of sufficient stature to pull his old boss Hillary Clinton to the left as she runs for president.

We are a national progressive leader.

It also upholds the values that make New York a national progressive leader with policies that raise the age of criminal responsibility and provide tuition - free college to middle class New Yorkers.

Maloney, a Democrat elected to a Hudson Valley House district in 2012, reiterated in the statement that Cuomo has been «a national progressive leader and his record of accomplishments has made New York State the progressive capital of the nation once again.»

Rather than make themselves a vessel through which Cuomo can position himself as a national progressive leader, community groups are backing candidates like Nixon, lieutenant governor candidate Jumaane Williams, and a slate of IDC challengers in September's primary in order to help remake the party in their image.

In a separate statement Maloney released broadly, he called Cuomo «a national progressive leader and his record of accomplishment has made New York State the progressive capital of the nation once again.»

But Mayor de Blasio, who claims to be a national progressive leader, has dragged his feet and been slow and timid to embrace this approach.