Sentences with phrase «of campaign aides»

While he was a congressional candidate in 2010, one of his campaign aides sent a tweet linking to an article that labelled his Indian - American Democratic opponent Raj Goyle a «turban topper».

With an army of campaign aides, Perez countermanded a request by California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton that statewide candidates not seek the party's endorsement.

He's reached down to the bottom of the barrel,» Paladino said of Cuomo, whose LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, issued a press release questioning his selection of campaign aides.

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Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

Since then, Trump has characterized his position as a «hardening,» while aides have maintained that he has been entirely consistent over the course of his campaign.

He has interviewed more than four dozen White House and campaign aides and requested more than 1.4 million pages of documents, according to Trump's lawyers.

Among the documents posted online was an internal review of the speeches conducted by campaign aides to survey the political damage her remarks could cause if they ever became public.

Many of the emails came from accounts belonging to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, who was also Clinton's longtime aide and a senior adviser to her campaign, The Journal reported.

Democrats have accused Trump of firing Comey to upend the FBI's Russia probe, which focused in large part on whether campaign aides coordinated with Moscow to hack Democratic groups during the election.

And so far, I don't see a lot of fight,» said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign aide.

Earlier this week, at a Harvard University forum, Zucker heard pretty much all of it again — out loud — as campaign aides who worked for several different presidential candidates heckled the network exec, peppering him with accusations that CNN aided the rise of President - elect Donald Trump.

In a new book, «Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,» veteran campaign and White House aide David Axelrod described in detail a number of interactions between the two then - senators during the 2008 Democratic primary.

Kellyanne Conway is one of few remaining prominent aides from Donald Trump's presidential campaign that remains in the White House.

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

We now know the Trump - Russia investigation began because a former Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, told Australia's ambassador to the UK that Russia had «dirt» on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of hacked emails.

Trump campaign aide Rick Gates to plead guilty in Mueller inquiry and co-operate, New York Times Enterprise to end discounts for NRA members on three of its brands, Reuters

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

He repeats «no collusion» again and again, despite well - reported episodes such as the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, outreach to Russians by campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and his own efforts to egg on more hacking of Hillary Clinton and to trumpet memos released by pro-Russia WikiLeaks.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

Rick Gates, a former Manafort business partner and Trump campaign aide, is cooperating with Mueller's team as part of a plea deal.

As confirmed by the memo, the FBI began a counterterrorism investigation of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in late July 2016 — about three months before federal investigators first sought the warrant on Page.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

Andrew Cuomo's hand - picked LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, has embraced the traditional attack - dog role of a No. 2, blasing the Paladino campaign for employing four top aides with checkered pasts.

The average online donation was $ 80, and the average Obama donor gave more than once... Obama also raised millions from traditional campaign bundlers — rich, well - connected fundraisers — but the bulk of the more than $ 600 million that Obama raised throughout the campaign was through the Internet, aides said.

A number of those aides received campaign bonuses that represent considerably more money than the 5 percent haircut they took on the public payroll.

A former aide who had spoken to Spitzer during the campaign said the former governor was surprised by the ferocity of the editorials that urged voters to not give him another shot, but had also acknowledged he faced an uphill fight given the more tangible institutional opposition.

Several Sanders surrogates and campaign aides — including state Sen. Bill Perkins, of Harlem, who is one of the few New York Democratic elected officials to break ranks and endorse Sanders over Clinton — held a conference call with reporters today, calling Clinton out for waffling on the license issue, while also attacking Sanders» own record on immigration reform.

Under pressure from Trump, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee plan to redact a memo defending the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide to resolve the president's complaint that the document disclosed highly sensitive information, a Democrat on the committee said Saturday.

Fresh off a series of tumultuous TV interviews, ex-Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg revealed that he is contemplating seeking treatment for alcohol abuse.

The federal corruption conviction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former fixer and longtime top aide, Joe Percoco, further yoked the two - term governor to a broken culture in Albany that he has long tried to campaign against, marking a nadir in Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.

Maria Comella, a former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who has ample experience working on GOP presidential campaigns, is crossing party lines and the Hudson River to become Cuomo's new chief of staff.

The AP reported yesterday that the campaign of former Tennessee governor and Democrat Phil Bredesen, now running to replace Bob Corker in the Senate, may have been hit by a cyber-attack: In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, campaign lawyer Robert E. Cooper Jr. wrote that Bredesen's aides...

It stands to reason that Malpass would adopt a page from Pataki's playbook, since Capitol Public Strategies, a consulting firm based in Albany and founded by a number of former Pataki aides, is working on Malpass» campaign.

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, spent much of the day yesterday promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to «arrest me,» then backed off his defiance by saying he would probably cooperate in the end.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

As the Democratic primary heats up, Cuomo has hired Lis Smith, a former campaign aide to frequent foe Mayor NYC de Blasio and one - time advisor to the Senate IDC, as his director of rapid response.

Between stops on former VP Joe Biden's book tour and in the ramp - up for what will be a heavy midterms campaign schedule, a tight circle of his aides has been brainstorming a range of tear - up - the - playbook ideas for a White House run in 2020.

In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.

Also, that means some of the staunchest charter opponents, including Sen. Bill Perkins, who is facing a primary challenge from pro-charter Democrat (and former Bloomberg campaign aide) Basil Smikle; and Shirley Huntley, who also has a pro-charter primary opponent, voted «yes.»

The Blackstone Group, a hedge fund that is among opponents of closing the carried interest loophole at the state level, is home — once again — to ex-top Cuomo administration aide Bill Mulrow, who is chairing the governor's 2018 campaign.

But Brown aides also used Google spreadsheets and forms to collect information from volunteers and supporters, essentially using the search engine's products to create their own version of what Obama's campaign team built for themselves during the 2008 election cycle.

The head of the state Republican Party, Chairman Ed Cox, has filed a complaint alleging that Cuomo and his former closest aide, Percoco, broke laws meant to prevent government offices from being used to run political campaigns.

Halpin said Curran must be prepared to say no to some aides who were part of her campaign and leaders of the Nassau Democratic Party who may come seeking jobs.

He's hired key staff from President Barack Obama's administration, as well as new chief of staff Maria Comella, who has worked on Republican presidential campaigns and was a top aide for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

A trio of former aides to former Rep. Rand Paul, R - Texas, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul are not out of the woods yet on criminal charges related to Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign.

Justice Zweibel ordered Mr. Haggerty to pay restitution of $ 750,000, the amount he was convicted of stealing from Mr. Bloomberg by tricking his campaign aides into donating to the state's Independence Party in 2009.

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«Meetings were quite discursive, because there were a large number of views in the room,» one senior campaign aide recalled.

He and Kaminsky's aides answered criticism by pointing out Republicans» own transfers, including $ 125,000 from the campaign account of retiring state Sen. Charles Fuschillo in 2014 to the Nassau GOP Committee.