Sentences with phrase «re election efforts»

The new rules would not affect Cuomo's re election efforts in 2014 or any other state races.

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One of the first things Hillary Clinton decided to address in the «What Happened» chapter on why she lost the election was one of the most common critiques of her campaign: That she didn't put forth enough effort in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats.

The former FBI director is investigating Russian's efforts to influence the 2016 election and whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

Luckey had not posted on social media or made any public statements since September, when it was revealed that he had anonymously funded a group, Nimble America, aimed at supporting then - candidate Trump's election efforts.

Targeted Facebook ads were an important tool in Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election.

And yet over a year since the election meddling took place, little has been done to counter efforts by Russia to intervene in future elections that are already underway.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Mueller is also expected to indict some of those responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee before the election and publicly leaking stolen material in an effort to hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump on Friday seized on what was wasn't in special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Russians as evidence that his campaign didn't collude in Moscow's effort to influence the 2016 election.

The Obama administration, in particular, has come under fire recently for what some lawmakers say was an inadequate response to Russia's election interference efforts during the 2016 presidential race.

The lawyer also claimed in the letter that the timing of the Times article, coming less than a month before Election Day, is evidence that the report «is nothing more than a politically - motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy.»

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

It's more reliable, faster and helps them avoid duplicating efforts during the rush of election campaigns.

Current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Times anonymously said they found no evidence that the Trump campaign was working with the Russians on hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

The president suggested Saturday that the indictments proved he or his campaign couldn't have been involved in a Russian effort to meddle in an election because the effort began in 2014, which was at least six months before he would announce his bid for the presidency in June 2015.

The Facebook founder told senators the company's delay in identifying Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election is «one of [his] biggest regrets in running the company.»

During the campaign, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, and many of its emails leaked via WikiLeaks — an act that some elements within the CIA believe was part of a Russian effort to help Donald Trump win the election.

In response, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. notes that this frivolous lawsuit is a last - ditch effort to substantiate the baseless Russian collusion allegations by a nearly - bankrupt Democratic Party still trying to counter the will of the people in the 2016 presidential election.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been relentless in pressuring Sessions to take a fresh look at Obama - era dealings, in an effort that Democrats contend is aimed at steering attention away from investigations into Trump campaign ties to Russian election meddling.

«The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts,» Comey said.

Obama said the actions were «not the sum total of our response» and that his administration would provide a report to Congress in the coming days related to Russia's «efforts to interfere in our election, as well as malicious cyber activity related to our election cycle in previous elections.»

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

When the CIA determined in late 2016 that Russia put its thumb on the scale during the election in a specific effort to aid the Trump campaign, his transition team released the following statement: «These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Johnson and his team called this a «profound misunderstanding» and ended up dropping their efforts to establish a designation because they thought it would have been «counterproductive» during the election season.

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

Nowhere does the indictment say that Russian social media efforts were irrelevant to the election.

The most prominent example of this is Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's possible role in that effort.

Instead, he told conservative activists that voters should be «frightened» of any future Democrat election victories, and accused Democrats of exploiting the deaths in an effort to destroy the Second Amendment.

Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government.

Concerns are also high that Brazil's presidential election could hinder efforts to reform the country's pension system and make other fiscal changes.

Facebook has taken steps before the U.S. election to root out bad actors and will take even more steps now — since those initial efforts weren't enough.

Its efforts were solely directed towards increasing the number of voters in the election.»

«Protecting the sanctity of our elections is paramount and any violations must be rooted out and punished to curb future efforts to undermine our elections,» state Democratic Party Chair Wayne Goodwin said in a news release.

In the last election, the Liberals and the Greens were the only parties that had the intellectual integrity to accept this fact, and they made an effort to deal with it.

Trump — who previously said he was not aware of the $ 130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels before the 2016 election in an effort to keep her quiet about an alleged affair between her and the President — denied on Thursday that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.

James Clapper, and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made a statement saying that the hacks «are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process» and that «based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.»

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's election.

Politico: «U.S. investigators are focusing on an enduring mystery of the 2016 election: whether Trump campaign officials made the Republican Party platform more friendly to Russia as part of some broader effort to collude with the Kremlin, according to congressional records and people familiar with the probes.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

Daniels is suing Trump and Cohen in an effort to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement she signed just before the 2016 presidential election.

Some of that is due to the U.S. election — the company reported record daily audiences when it streamed the presidential debates, for example — but Twitter is chalking up the bulk of the growth to product and marketing efforts, not politics.

He's been heavily involved in Facebook's efforts to understand what happened on the service during the 2016 election.

In order to understand the context in which the FBI sought a FISA warrant for Carter Page, it is necessary to understand how the investigation began, what other information the FBI had about Russia's efforts to interfere with our election, and what the FBI knew about Carter Page prior to making application to the court — including Carter Page's previous interactions with Russian intelligence operatives.

The timing and circumstances of the $ 130,000 payment to Daniels make it appear that the hush money was paid to Daniels in an effort to influence the election.

The survey was launched last month as part of The Vancouver Board of Trade's efforts to inform and engage local businesses in the lead - up to the Nov. 15 election.

Paying someone to be quiet so they do not damage a political effort is an in - kind contribution to that campaign, covering a cost meant to aid efforts to win the election.