Sentences with phrase «run for president because»

Cuomo said he could not run for president because he had to figure out the state's budget, a curious explanation he would reiterate in years to come, no matter how bizarre it seemed.

The petition argued that Cruz was ineligible to run for president because he is not a natural born citizen.

The bottom - line of Nwokocha's suit was that Buhari was not qualified to run for president because he did not possess the minimum qualification to run for the office.

The host of Last Week Tonight, Oliver acknowledged that he mocked Trump, a former reality - TV host, when he began openly musing about running for president because Oliver thought it would be an amusing spectacle.

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He believes that, because Trump wasn't happy with his deal on his NBC show «The Celebrity Apprentice,» he floated the idea that he'd run for president in the hopes of strengthening his hand in the negotiations.

It was, of course, a phony image because it was a reality show, but it was an image that just sealed itself onto the American psyche so that when he runs for president they all say, he's going to make the country work.

We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for president, because I still believe in that idea: You're not on your own, we're in this together.

I don't care what religion Romney is because I'm not voting for him anyway... Religion should be only a minimal part of ones vote anyway... Some one wrote in one of these columns that he hadn; t heard any big noise about Kennedy being Catholic when he ran for president!..

Okay, if we're going to mince words, yes an atheist «can» run for president, but they'll lose the election, and all the money they spent on it, because the culture in Washington requires the candidate to be Christian.

But such a press conference has not happened, probably because Republicans hoping to run for president in 2012 don't want to «alienate their base.»

Sorry but MORMONS are nothing even cose to christians.They believe in polygamy, molestation, and the worship of Joesoph Smith the molester, murderer.The Mormons will deny this becauser they do not want to be arrested or persecuted by the public.This is why they are super secret because if people really knew what they were about they would be run out of town and rightfully so.Why on earth would anyone want a president in office who believes his underwear is magical... he belongs locked up in a padded room for being a weirdo cultist... Romney you can take you magical skidmarked underwear some where else but not the whitehouse you weirdo sicko....

Not because I think he is a good Christian, in fact, given his knowledge of Satan's inner thoughts, he is likely to sit on his (Satan's) right hand side (a.k.a. the anti-Christ) but because if he is nominated, President Obama, the only true Christian amongst those running for the office of the Presidency of the United States in 2012, will win in a landslide.

So, President Obama's increase in giving coincident with his running for higher office is to be spun as a crass political move, but Santorum's failure to increase his giving while he runs for higher office is be lauded, because when caught he expresses that he needs to «do better», and thus «takes it seriously».

If I were God's choice for President I would not have to run because God would just make it happen.

God must be screwing around with one of these candidates... because apparently Michelle Bachman was also asked by god to run for President, or did one of them heard it wrong when God quietly whispered in their ears.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

(though he's not a great example because he lost), but when he ran for president he moved to the right so as to secure the victory in the republican primary.

Bradley Tusk, who ran ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign, says he feels «forced» to vote for Clinton, though he doesn't really want to, because he doesn't think Trump would be a good choice for president.

Navalny has been barred from standing in the election due to a conviction on corruption charges, and because of his outstanding criminal record by Russian law this means he can not run for president.

Of course, she was only being asked because everyone KNEW she was planning to run for president.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren opted not to run for president in 2016 in part because her husband warned her the race would be far more grueling than her 2012 Senate bid, she writes in a book scheduled for release Tuesday.

Presidents normally didn't run for a third term as it was deemed that after 8 years, either out of respect for Washington's dedication to the nature of the office, or because they died in office, or they were just so unpopular they wouldn't have been elected.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he decided not to run for president in 2016 because he did not believe he could win, especially on an independent ticket.

«It's really brilliant because it means he can run for re-election or run for president, and he'll have a new bridge,» Mr. Plotch said, «and no one actually has to pay for it yet.»

Last year, Cuomo's immediate endorsement of Clinton's campaign was particularly important to Clinton because some Democratic leaders believed Cuomo might run for president.

In 1999 Rivera was offered executive clemency, along with 15 of his FALN colleagues, by President Clinton in preparation for Hillary Clinton's US Senate run, but he refused the offer because it was conditioned on renouncing the use of terror.

The lower margin of victory for the governor could hurt Cuomo should he decide to run for President in the future, because Democratic presidential primary voters include a high percentage of left - leaning voters.

We'll go vote and pull the Democratic lever and re-elect him Governor, but we've made it impossible for him to run for President in 2016, because we'll flat out back Hillary Clinton, so in effect we've exacted a price on the Governor for his lack of Democratic zeal in supporting other Democrats candidates.

And it's curious, because they will be superdelegates in a scenario in which he's running for president.

«Once you start with this presidential question, whatever you do, you can interpret as he's doing that because he wants to run for President,» he said.

As though the NEC had apportioned the personal and character attacks between the Deputy General Secretary and the National Organizer, the latter, Kofi Adams, the next day 9th August 2017 took over the baton from the former to publish to the whole world that: «' The incessant attacks by Citizen Vigilante is borne out of envy, jealousy and hatred for Former President John Dramani Mahatma because he was not given another opportunity as running mate of the party, National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),» Mr Kofi Adams has said.»

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Sani said while the citizens genuinely want the president to seek re-election, the political elite are putting pressure on him to run for office a second time, because they consider him as a «meal and mill».

Mr. Koomson, in the run - up to the 2008 general election, warned he won't be comfortable in the unlikely event that his friend, Nana Addo, is voted as President of Ghana because, «it is not safe» for a great country like Ghana.

Everybody is assuming it's going to be very tough for Republicans in two years because Obama is running for president.

An emissary for the former mayor tried to enlist a top Texas election lawyer for a potential Bloomberg run for president, but the attorney declined because he doesn't believe Bloomberg can win.

Jessie Hamilton is an attorney, former school board President, and community board member who is running because he believes Camara to be an instrument for the discredited Norman organization to retain power.

City Council, District 4: The race to represent Midtown East, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Town and The Upper East Side in the seat that Eva Moskowitz is leaving because she is running for Manhattan Borough President (although she could serve until 2009) has several candidates, two of whom appeared before 504 seeking an endorsement.

Christie didn't run for vice president because he didn't want to resign as governor of New Jersey, according to «insiders».

«I'm gonna run for governor again in 2018 because Trump's going to be the president.

Trump laced into U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican whose support the president will need on tax reform and the future of the Iran nuclear deal, saying on Twitter that the senator had decided not to run for re-election next year because he «didn't have the guts.»

Formerly running as a Democrat for President, Roque De La Fuente joined the Reform Party because the Democratic Establishment stacked the nomination against him in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Brewer, who can not run for reelection for her current council seat because of term limits, has yet to formally announce a borough president run.

«Once you start with this presidential question, whatever you do, you can interpret as «he's doing that because he wants to run for president,»» Cuomo said.

Why is it because he wasn't the choice of the party to run for the position of Senate President?

Moskowitz answered about a dozen questions, with topics including whether there is any potential mayoral candidate who embodies what she wants in a candidate, whether she plans on being involved in the 2017 election, why she is «such a lightning rod» for criticism, obstacles ahead, the City's pre-K program, whether she'll run for office at another time, whether she reflexively criticizes all education - related actions of Mayor de Blasio, whether she's concerned that her influence on state government will diminish because of her decision, discipline and suspension polices at Success Academy schools, her plans for other projects and her view on potential mayoral candidacies of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

One of the main reasons Hillary Clinton did not run for president in 2004 was because her daughter Chelsea was against it.

While political insiders almost universally expect Cuomo to run for President, few are excited about it, in part because of his reluctance to embrace the Democratic Party or Democratic priorities.

The city council seat is becoming available because Brewer, who is running for Manhattan borough president, is term limited after 12 years.

«If President Buhari declares to run for the office again in 2019, I will support him, because the man has a character to develop Nigeria.