Sentences with phrase «running against president»

Presidential hopeful, Prof Kingsley Muoghalu has said that he is running against President Muhammadu Buhari, using his own (Buhari's) records, and that he was sure of...

No, the catalyst is the rethuglican who runs against President Obama.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

Think about the fact that your candidates have spent millions of dollars for the right to run against President Barack Obama.

In the book, he says Clinton referred to Obama as an «amateur» and urged his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to resign and run against the president in a primary.

Maybe he will show up in four years to run against President Obama...

Donovan campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud said Cuomo was seeking to «appeal to national Democrats so he can run against President Trump.»

Republicans called it Obamacare, and used that name as a slur to run against President Obama in 2012.

Not exact matches

Bloomberg considered running for president as a third - party candidate earlier this year, but ultimately decided against it.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

At the time, Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for president in the 2016 election and was running against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

Asked if he wants to run for president in 2024, Khodorkovsky said, «I am against anyone running to replace Putin.

The post suggests he would not run against Trump if he decides to pursue re-election, instead, he may opt to run in eight years, perhaps as the country nears the conclusion of what could possibly be Trump's second term as president.

In the agency's first report to Congress since Mick Mulvaney took the helm in November, the CFPB said it is dropping sanctions against NDG Financial Corp, a group of 21 businesses that the agency, under President Obama, had accused of running «a cross-border online payday lending scheme» in Canada and the United States.

But I do know the President will be running against someone.

Hunt also cautioned against investors being too optimistic in the long run about equity indexes» continued rally since Donald Trump was elected U.S. President.

The President is standing behind Ronny Jackson's nomination to run the department of veterans affairs as misconduct allegations continue to mount against the White House physician.

House Republicans and conservative media cast it as proof of Trump's long - running narrative of FBI bias against him; Democrats say it's deeply misleading, twisting and cherry - picking classified intelligence to make the president seem right.

The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President of the United States and change our laws to suit their ridiculous biblical ideas.

A born again Christian that has a felony past of attempted robbery, 2nd degree murder, incest and terrorism is running for president against a known atheist that has no criminal past.

We were running against an incumbent president who very openly and aggressively supported legal abortion.

That argument worked for Kennedy in 1960 when he was running for president against anti-Catholic prejudice.

And a Jew was running for president, and some disaffected Jewish people hacked past Jewish computer systems against Jewish teachings and entered names in order to increase hatred for Jews and make a «public stink.»

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

I saw the same poll numbers (except against Catholics) in the»60s when John Kennedy ran for president and the again (except for Muslims) in the»08 election when Keith Ellison ran for US Representative from Minnesota.

The president, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, retaliated against protesters with violent attacks, leading to an armed conflict that currently has Gadhafi on the run and the rebels in a tenuous control of Libya.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

With no - one planning to run against him in the upcoming FIA election, Jean Todt is basically guaranteed to stick around as FIA president

The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.

Village President Michael Schroeder is running for re-election April 20 against Trustees Arlene Mulder and Julia Walsh and resident Rick Gellert.

«I think it was intended to be a sexist smear, intended to silence me on something I care very deeply about and the truth is, the president's not going to silence me or the women who have stood up against him or the millions of women who have been marching since inauguration and showing up at town halls and running for office to be heard on the things that they care most deeply about,» she said.

Since then, however, Gounardes has accepted a job with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (a former Senate Democrat), and he would have to give up the job if he wanted to pursue a re-match run against the GOP senator.

After the almost 20 presidential aspirants run against him — as a sitting Vice President — in the NPP primaries for the 2008 Elections, Alhaji Aliu Mahama with much humility, conceded to Nana Akufo - Addo who emerged winner, sort of...

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

G. H. W. Bush, when running against Reagan for the Republican nomination for President in 1980, called Reagan's trickle - down economics (or Reaganomics) «voodoo economics».

Any ex officio member of the Executive Committee (District Leaders, past president) who runs against a VID slate or endorsed candidate will forfeit his / her seat on the Executive Committee until the next annual vote for Executive Committee members.

Five candidates have declared an intention to run against Ms. Stefanik, who, like several other Republicans, will most likely have to balance between pleasing conservatives who adore Mr. Trump and appealing to independents who may be put off by the president's first year in office.

Along with James, there are four other officials who are rumored to be thinking about running against de Blasio in 2017: US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D - New York), City Comptroller Scott Stringer (D), Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (D), and Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr. (D).

In 2000, President Obama ran for Congress against incumbent Democrat Bobby Rush.

Then, it instals itself as the decadent alternative to the President's war against corruption, with its running battles with EFCC's Ibrahim Magu and Nigeria Customs» Hameed Ali, two citizens, like Buhari, virtually killing themselves to deliver a better Nigeria.

Spitzer is running in the Democratic primary against Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who has establishment support from party leaders and city unions.

Straniere in 2001 ran against Molinaro for borough president, and is somewhat of an outcast among Island Republicans.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's foremost Democratic critics, told the Observer today that he was not willing to foreclose on the possibility of running against the liberal incumbent in this September's primary — saying that he doesn't know «right now what may or may not happen.»

Grimm is currently weighing a decision to run in the GOP primary against incumbent Borough President James Oddo, according to insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Randall Terry, well - known activist against legal abortion, ran for president this year as an independent candidate, and he also ran as an independent candidate for U.S. House in Florida's 20th district.

In the latest advertisement called «Run,» the Faso campaign is highlighting opponent Andrew Heaney's support of President Barack Obama — using Heaney's own words — and his continued false attacks against Faso and his record.

Remember that then President Bill Clinton built his 1996 re-election strategy on triangulation — the idea of running against his own party to cast himself as a centrist problem solver.

Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. may be running for reelection unopposed, but that doesn't mean he's off the hook for declining to prosecute cases against Harvey Weinstein and President Donald Trump's eldest children and accepting campaign cash from lawyers linked to those would - be defendants in the process.

This likely sends Republicans back to the drawing board for a candidate to run against Schneiderman, who has in the last year challenged policies backed by President Donald Trump's administration.