Sentences with phrase «political race for president»

Not so certain how that makes us so bad... it does make your countries political race for president look like a circus act.

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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, a career Republican pollster, has continued as a principal Trump spokesperson even after being accused of violating the Hatch Act for partisan political activities last year in the Senate race in Alabama.

As Stalin said, «quantity has a quality all its own,» and the DSCC is assembling what has to be an unprecedented political operation outside of a race for president.

Similarly, well - known personalities have done the same: the list is long and includes German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and even some of his competitors in the race for the position of European Commission President despite their different political allegiances, notably Alexis Tsipras and Martin Schulz.

The statement, however, did not note that the Curran campaign's primary connection to BerlinRosen is through one of its vice presidents, Isaac Goldberg, a veteran of Nassau political races before he went to work for the Democratic firm, which has more than 100 employees.

As for the top political issue of the day, he described President Barack Obama's stance on gay marriage as not «that relevant» to House races.

He was US Housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, close friend and adviser to Vice President Al Gore, prosecutor, son of and policy adviser to Gov. Mario Cuomo and political operative in two mayoral campaigns and in his father's race for governor.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has created a new political action committee, signaling he may be gearing up to run for president in 2020 after bowing out of the race entirely last timPresident Joe Biden has created a new political action committee, signaling he may be gearing up to run for president in 2020 after bowing out of the race entirely last timpresident in 2020 after bowing out of the race entirely last time around.

He was a Human Rights Campaign board member from 1987 until 2001, and on the political stump he raised funds for Tom Duane's first City Council campaign and advised Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer during his 2001 mayoral race.

The president's decision to break his silence last Friday on the mosque proposed for construction near Ground Zero raised the volume on an already controversial issue, catapulting it into the political stratosphere and becoming an issue in races all over New York and the nation — even after (or maybe because?)

A number of national political figures, including President Barack Obama, are coming to Connecticut this week to help in the state's close race for governor.

Nelson previously served a national political director for President George W. Bush's re-election race in 2004 and has also spent time in senior positions at the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

«If ex President Mahama has political experience, with the in - fighting in the NDC that is going to worsen in the period ahead, it's a taking a horse for racing and after losing, the same horse which is sick is used for another racing contest.

As Liz reported earlier, the death of Osama Bin Laden has the potential to have political benefits (even if in the short term) for the president, which could trickle down to other Democrats such as Kathy Hochul in the race for New York's 26th Congressional District.

Jobs For New York's preferred candidate in the race is Paul Vallone, 46, president of the Clinton Democratic Club and member of an influential Queens political family, for the race and has spent $ 100,000 to independently support hFor New York's preferred candidate in the race is Paul Vallone, 46, president of the Clinton Democratic Club and member of an influential Queens political family, for the race and has spent $ 100,000 to independently support hfor the race and has spent $ 100,000 to independently support him.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

That they continuously backed Obama's reckless, shoddy, bumbling, and counterproductive No Child waiver gambit, which essentially eviscerated the law and paved the way for congressional Republicans and traditionalists to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act, means that the best of the president's political legacy on education policy (including Race to the Top) will probably end up in history's ashbin.