Sentences with phrase «possible presidential run»

Former Gov. Mario Cuomo wasn't talking up his son's possible presidential run in 2016, but said the mere talk of it was evidence the current governor was doing a good job leading the seat.

In April, when asked by ABC's Christiane Amanpour about a possible presidential run by Donald Trump, he said, «The more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, you know, maybe the guy's right.»

In her relentless positioning for a possible presidential run in 2020, was U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand too quick on the trigger when she hit fellow Democrat Al Franken with a blast of buckshot and drove him to resign his Senate seat?

Both of those just so happen to be issues of national significance — a fact that is not lost on observers who believe Cuomo is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2016.

Progressive policies like this one have drawn national attention for Cuomo, stirring talk of a possible presidential run.

He's up for reelection next year and laying the markers for a possible presidential run in 2020.

But another reason is Cuomo himself, who is content to govern at a leisurely pace because it both affirms his political identity and serves his own interests, very much including a possible presidential run in 2020.

Missing from the normal back - and - forth that crescendoed in the final weeks of the session was Cuomo, a Democrat in his second term who is devoting more and more attention to laying down markers for a possible presidential run.

The biggest target of the protesters» ire is Cuomo, a Democrat who has talked up his progressive credentials as he positions himself for a possible presidential run in 2020.

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

As Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont just said announcing a possible presidential run: «I think anybody who speaks to the needs of the working class and middle class of this country and shows the courage to take on the billionaire class, I think that candidate will do pretty well.»

Washington (CNN)-- As former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush considers a possible presidential run, he met Friday with one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders - Russell Moore, head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the policy branch of the Southern Baptist Convention, CNN has learned.

But that loss has also opened the door for talk of a possible presidential run for Mr. Cuomo, talk that the governor dismisses, although his actions seem geared to inspire it.

The GOP failed in recent days to recruit Donald Trump — aides said he's focused on a possible presidential run — and two other possible candidates, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin of Rensselaer, are given no chance of winning.

Both Republican Chairman Ed Cox and Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long are staying silent on a possible presidential run by former Gov. George Pataki.

Rep. Paul Ryan, a former 2012 vice presidential candidate and fiscally conservative budget hawk, says he's keeping his «options open» for a possible presidential run but is not focused on it.

Progressives also accused Gov. Cuomo of enabling the alliance in order to suit his own policy goals and political ambitions, including a possible presidential run in 2020.

The mention of national campaigning has led some to speculate that the governor is setting himself for a possible presidential run in 2020, should a Democratic candidate not win in November.

At the time, Kennedy was a Massachusetts legislator mulling a possible presidential run.