Sentences with phrase «presidential candidate of the other party»

The very fact that, in 2012, a presidential candidate from one party can create instant headlines by arguing against a speech made by a presidential candidate of the other party, more than 50 years ago, should be enough to convince any fair - minded American that we still have much work to do as we try to reason with each other about these questions.

Not exact matches

The seven candidates fighting to represent the socialist party in the upcoming presidential election in France are facing each other in the first of four TV debates on Thursday.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

Likewise in the United States, as soon as the Presidential Candidate of the Opposition party is selected (lord forbid it's Donald Trump), he or she is briefed daily on national security and other matters which are deemed to be of national interest.

Thursday's filings lay bare those donations and other jaw - dropping financial details of the first modern presidential campaign in which donors could give unlimited contributions for political ads and in which both major party candidates declined to participate in a Watergate - era public financing system designed to limit fundraising.

Present at the occasion were ministers of state, other government officials, and the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

Clinton never agreed to attend the forum, and neither did any of the other presidential candidates, of either party.

With the PAC supporting Faso having been funded by Mercer and Singer, two major donors who have been outspoken in supporting GOP presidential candidates other than Trump, Heaney's full embrace of the brash developer might make this primary a referendum on whether the party's grassroots have fully coalesced around The Donald.

Competing against 16 others, he won 48 % of the votes in the first round of that election, but was given a unanimous endorsement in the second round, making him the party's presidential candidate.

The invitation was for the NPP Presidential Candidate to attend the Republicans Convention in Ohio, but although Nana Addo, was in the US, after going through visa and other immigration formalities at the American Embassy in Accra on Mr. Trump's invitation, did not show up at the convention, which took place from July 18, and ended on July 21, but only sent an emissary by name, Charles Owiredu, the party's Director of International Affairs.

He became the CPC Presidential candidate for the 16 April 2011 general election, running against incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and Ibrahim Shekarau of ANPP among others.

Of relevance is also the case of Ekwam v. Pianim (No. 2) and Others [1996 — 97] SCGLR 121 the brief facts of which are that Mr. Kwame Pianim, the defendant, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential ElectioOf relevance is also the case of Ekwam v. Pianim (No. 2) and Others [1996 — 97] SCGLR 121 the brief facts of which are that Mr. Kwame Pianim, the defendant, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Electioof Ekwam v. Pianim (No. 2) and Others [1996 — 97] SCGLR 121 the brief facts of which are that Mr. Kwame Pianim, the defendant, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Electioof which are that Mr. Kwame Pianim, the defendant, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Electioof the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential ElecParty (NPP), had been slated to contest the party's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Elecparty's impending election of its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Electioof its candidate for the December, 1996 Presidential Election.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this auParty's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this auparty presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

NDC supporters this paper interviewed rated John Mahama far ahead of other party kingpins jostling to become 2020 Presidential Candidate.

According to the party,» We were never informed by the National Secretariat of our party of the decision to adopt former President Goodluck Jonathan or any other candidate as the party's presidential candidate.

``... If he is able to translate his ability to connect to the people, I think that he might do very well... and if all the presidential candidates of the other smaller parties are able to get collectively, 7 %, we are heading to a runoff,» he stated.

(Among other challenging questions that could serve no other purpose but to embarrass the Party and its candidates in the eyes of any random cable viewer were such pressing, burning 2016 presidential campaign questions so often thrown at Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as: would you have fought World War I?

I hold the view that in Ghana's present circumstances the plurality of political parties fielding candidates at the presidential elections is the only guarantee to effectively policing the process by the presence, and alertness of their supporters, polling assistants and others at the polling stations on the day of elections.

An Accra High Court will today [Tuesday] hear a case filed by the Progressive People's Party (PPP) against the Electoral Commission (EC), seeking among other things, to restrain the EC from proceeding with balloting for positions for presidential candidates ahead of the 2016 polls.

He then went on to cite the NPP presidential race in 2008 in which 16 other candidates contested the then vice-president of the erstwhile President Kuffour administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, for the Presidential candidacy opresidential race in 2008 in which 16 other candidates contested the then vice-president of the erstwhile President Kuffour administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, for the Presidential candidacy oPresidential candidacy of the party.

Consumer activist and four - time presidential candidate Ralph Nader recently visited the state to stump on behalf of Hawkins and other Green Party candidates.

The NPP, found it offensive when the president in faraway Northern Region, said among other things that, Nana Addo, the three times presidential candidate, has divided his party into two, because of his divisive and dictatorial nature.

According to him, when he assumed the position of presidential candidate, he tried to revive the party but had an opposition from people who did not believe in the PNC and people who had one leg in the PNC and one other leg in other political parties.

The letter is signed by world - renowned scholar Noam Chomsky, along with journalist Naomi Klein, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and a host of other prominent scholars and activists, including some of the most established pro-public education voices.

Recent ballot access lawsuits have forced the states of Ohio and Tennessee to include presidential candidates from the Constitution Party and other parties on the ballot for 2012.

Some of them are: the immediate past Chairperson of the party, Samia Yaba Nkrumah, the 2012 Presidential candidate, Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, Lawyer Bright Akwetey, among others.

While other potential 2012 presidential contenders largely stayed quiet on the divisive congressional race that has exposed fault lines in the party, Palin delivered a slap in the face to Republican Party leadership in Washington when she offered a full - throated endorsement of third - party conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP's anointed candidate, Dede Scozzaparty, Palin delivered a slap in the face to Republican Party leadership in Washington when she offered a full - throated endorsement of third - party conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP's anointed candidate, Dede ScozzaParty leadership in Washington when she offered a full - throated endorsement of third - party conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP's anointed candidate, Dede Scozzaparty conservative Doug Hoffman over the GOP's anointed candidate, Dede Scozzafava.

This provided an opportunity for the Libertarian Party to tell the court about the action of the legislature in June 2012, extending the deadline for the Democratic and Republican Parties to certify their presidential and vice-presidential candidates, but not giving similar relief to the other qualified pParties to certify their presidential and vice-presidential candidates, but not giving similar relief to the other qualified partiesparties.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

In the lead up to the Armenian presidential election on February 15th, the incumbent Serzh Sargsyan of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) emerged as the only viable choice on the ballot after four other prospective candidates dropped out of the race, one of whom was shot in an assassination attempt, while another cited electoral fraud and commenced a hunger strike in protest.

I have posted the ideas that could take down the two - party tyranny at We the People Reform Coalition (http://bigbatusa.org) but nobody — least of all the other presidential candidates that I contacted — is interested in actually restoring democracy in the USA.

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But since Trump, with no ties to either camp or its ideology, defeated a raft of other candidates for the presidential nomination last year, the Republicans have been cast into a growing civil war between mainstream conservatives, Tea Party - inspired libertarians, and the xenophobic and misogynistic groundswell that Trump has proven expert at tapping into.