Sentences with phrase «presidential bid last»

While other donors gave more to support Trump's presidential bid last year, the Mercers are now arguably the most influential financiers of the Trump era.

(CNN)- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who flirted with a presidential bid last year, defended his decision on Friday to pardon 200 criminals, four of whom were charged with murder.

A liberal - led push to overhaul the Electoral College could be moving from the op - ed pages to the courtroom, as Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor who flirted with a dark - horse Democratic presidential bid last year, vows litigation to change the system.

Pataki launched his presidential bid last month in Exeter, New Hampshire, but this week announced a family emergency led him to cancel events on the trail.

Penn resigned as chief strategist of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential bid last April after, in his role as CEO of Burson - Marsteller, he appeared to lobby for a trade agreement Clinton opposed.

Prior to launching his presidential bid last year, Trump himself trafficked in related false claims that Obama was born outside the United States and is thus Constitutionally ineligible to serve as its commander - in - chief.

He ran former Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2000 and endorsed her presidential bid last year.

Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy was at the Rubio fundraiser with his wife, but he also made the trip to Wisconsin when Gov. Scott Walker announced his presidential bid last month.

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Rick Perry, former governor of Texas who also ran in the 2012 presidential race and who suggested last week he would make his own bid, also made it official Thursday.

I think Romney addressed his religion and politics in the speech he gave during his last presidential bid.

Wolf raised more than $ 250,000 for Obama's presidential bid, according to a Post report last year.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whose speech to activists in Iowa last weekend drew strong reviews, formed a committee in preparation for a 2016 presidential bid.

Cuomo unveiled the plan in New York City last month alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, who promoted a free college tuition program during his unsuccessful Democratic presidential primary bid.

No matter the internal strife over Donald Trump's presidential bid, the intensely competitive Republican primary contest is bringing a booming number of voters to the polls — while Democratic turnout plunges, raising questions about whether these trends will last through November.

The atmosphere in Hasbrouck Park last Friday morning was festive, even electric as a crowd of approximately 1,300 people congregated to hear Socialist Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders deliver a ringing endorsement of Zephyr Teachout's bid to reclaim New York's 19th Congressional District seat for the Democrats, after it was held for three terms by retiring Republican Chris Gibson.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand went on Inside City Hall last night to address a range of issues, including her support for a hypothetical second presidential bid by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Bolton, who visited the White House last week, would also be the latest Trump official with ties to GOP megadonor Robert Mercer, a key supporter of Trump's presidential bid and investor in Cambridge Analytica who is also the largest donor to Bolton's super PAC.

Christie, battered by the Bridgegate scandal and a failed presidential bid, came in dead last: Only 25 percent of New Jersey residents approve of the job he's doing as governor.

Trump's campaign paid his companies $ 12.8 million from the time he launched his improbable presidential bid in the lobby of his company's flagship Trump Tower property through the end of last year, according to a POLITICO analysis of FEC data.

Presidential candidate John Kasich, the first Republican hopeful to campaign on Long Island, told a crowd in Huntington last night he was persisting in his underdog bid because «nobody is going to have enough delegates to go to the convention and win on the first ballot.»

New York, though long an incubator for presidential aspirants, had not had a former or sitting New York governor to run for president since Nelson Rockefeller's last bid in 1968 until Pataki's campaign.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said Friday that it raised $ 37 million in the last three months and more than $ 112 million in all of 2015 to support her bid for the Democratic nomination.

Aides say Lupinacci met Kasich last year at a local event during Kasich's presidential bid, which Lupinacci endorsed.

He also worked on H. Carl McCall's 1994 state comptroller bid and the last three Democratic presidential bids before Obama / Biden.

De Blasio last week strongly criticized a Senate Democratic reunification plan put forward by Cuomo allies — and accepted by the mainline and breakaway Dems — and suggested that Cuomo is only now serious about the issue in order to boost a potential presidential bid.

Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake — a 34 - year - old veteran of ex-President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — might have seemed a longshot when he launched his bid late last year for one of the Democratic National Committee's six vice chair slots, but a month after his victory he proclaimed that the «Bronx is here and we're here to stay,» signaling his own return to the national stage.

The last time Sen. Bernie Sanders (D - VT) campaigned in Syracuse, he did so on behalf of his own presidential bid.

Mayor Bill de Blasio may not have endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential bid yet, but her candidacy could be instrumental in accomplishing something he and Governor Andrew Cuomo failed at last year: putting the State Senate in the hands of Democrats.

But though they're the first, they are hardly the last, as Democratic Party operatives, public relations men, and advisors are brought in to save the senator's political career, public image, and his chances of a presidential bid.

Campaigning for support for his 2000 presidential bid, Vice President Al Gore last week proposed dramatically expanding children's access to health insurance.

It's been a while since our last Presidential Politics Roundup, but the primaries still continue as Hillary Clinton presses on in her bid to win the Democrat nomination.