Sentences with phrase «running candidates like»

The Reform Party, known for running candidates like Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan, had some success getting candidates on the ballot in New Jersey.

Not exact matches

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

But if you're looking for more hints that The Rock is beginning to seriously consider a presidential run, his comments to Fallon about why people were looking to him as a possible candidate certainly sound like those of a politician.

Like Trump, Daniels knows that the range of acceptable public and private behavior is ever - widening in this country, and like him she was once a surprise candidate on the Republican ticket, exploring a run for U.S. senator from Louisiana in 2Like Trump, Daniels knows that the range of acceptable public and private behavior is ever - widening in this country, and like him she was once a surprise candidate on the Republican ticket, exploring a run for U.S. senator from Louisiana in 2like him she was once a surprise candidate on the Republican ticket, exploring a run for U.S. senator from Louisiana in 2009.

Now that Clinton is no longer running for office, she said she sees unfair media criticism of other female poltiicians and candidates like Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

Moderate Tories have tried for 17 years to grab the nomination from Mr. Anders, sending high - profile candidates like Alison Redford, Jocelyn Burgener and Donna Kennedy - Glans to run against him, to no avail.

Now we have a group of Democratic presidential candidates who are less talented than Obama (at running for office) and who are trying to seem like leftists rather than moderates.

Obama also prayed for a weak unappealing candidate to run against, preferably something weird like a Mormon, and ta - da!!!

Where a candidate goes to church on Sunday (or Saturday for that matter) should have NO bearing on their ability to run things, but when they wear it on their sleeve like a badge of honor it smacks of pandering and favoritism.

Because before it was guy The Shrub, who sorta kinda ran the deficit way up and started two pointless wars and wrecked the economy and little stuff like that, which people seem to think means that we Republicans can't select a decent candidate for the life of us.

On the other hand, here was Bunning, trying to convince people he was a serious candidate, while newspapers ran headlines like GOP GETS IN BALLGAME and EX-MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHER GOES AFTER BIG WIN.

Tommy West seemed like the perfect candidate to run the program.

Don't think he necessarily has enough cachet, especially within the more progressive wings of the party (he can be hit from the left on things like abortion and race), but I could see him ending up as a running mate option for a more progressive candidate.

``...» So, the class of 2010 is interesting across the board for this year's election, but 2010 may go down in political history as the year in which a guy like this isn't the perennial kook candidate who runs in at least one election every election cycle.

Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have worked hard to woo Latino voters in recent years, and some worry that a single negative ad run against Long featuring comments like these would tank her — and fellow GOP candidates — in the general election.

«Two very strong candidates, both of whom look like they are going to run for the designation of our party, I think is a very positive sign,» said Cox.

Long's small business focus is interesting, considering the fact that Ulrich is one of just two GOP Senate candidates (the other being Bob Cohen, who is running for retiring Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat, is also facing a primary challenge and, like Ulrich, is repped by Bill O'Reilly) to proclaim support for raising the state's hourly minimum wage.

Grimm campaigned for Romney in New Hampshire and Florida and appeared on national TV shows (and Capital Tonight) during the run - up to the Granite State primary to defend the candidate after his «I like be able to fire people» gaffe.

«With his departure from the NY - 21 Congressional race, the choice for voters becomes much more clear and much more stark: Do we want to send Stefanik back to her DC cocktail circuit, send some candidates running on the Democratic side who are auditioning for the DC cocktail circuit, or someone who is going to stop talking like a cable news wannabe and just get to work.»

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.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

Since Sanders's surge is mostly about Democrats liking a really liberal candidate, you could argue that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren should run for president.

Tony will have to get enough boots on the ground and run the ultimate pull operation to have a fighting chance against a strong County - backed candidate like John Liu.

On Capital Tonight last week, he told us he wouldn't drop out of the race if someone who is percieved to be a stronger candidate, like 2010 Comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, decided to run.

Most candidates who run down - ballot have no idea about the wealth of tools, training, and programs available to them — including cheap - to - free services like DemocraticAds, Ruck.us, and Action Network.

He would like you to think he's some sort of activist, but in reality if you strike that from his resume, you have another unqualified candidate running in a district where he doesn't even live and has never been seen.

Attention around this latest instance in same ways beat the notoriety Paladino gained when he ran for New York State governor in 2010, when social media websites like Facebook and Twitter were still in their infancy and Trump was years away from becoming a presidential candidate.

Ms. Hochul noted that most candidates running this year are seeking local seats like county legislature and county executive, but asserted that 2015 would represent both a milestone for the party and for women's issues.

Ms. Moskowitz, a Democrat like Mr. de Blasio, could be a formidable candidate if she chose to run.

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

In an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clout.

They also discussed what it is like to be a third party candidate running a statewide campaign.

AMY GOODMAN: What is it like to run for statewide office as a Green Party candidate, for people who are watching this around the country, and for people outside this country, where more parties are involved in electoral politics in other countries?

Last fall when I was a first - time candidate in Westmoreland, even though I was running a very uphill battle, he came out to support me the night before the election, and every time I go to support him (like in the St. Patrick's Day parade) he asks about our town.

Jacobs was referring to statements Mangelli made when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2012 as a Common Sense Party candidate that now sound much like Donald Trump's positions.

Senator Brad Hoylman, a mainstream Democrat, said the governor, considered a potential Presidential candidate in 2020, sounded like he could be running, and Hoylman said he's OK with that.

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

The truth is that Gov. Cuomo has played a slight of hand game with both parties since becoming Governor and now with the election season drawing nearer his base will show they have a longer memory than he might have counted on when he failed to back Democratic Senate candidates and let if not openly encouraged the IDC Coalition to come into being by acting like Party didn't count at all in his game plain to win re-election and then possibly run for President in 2016.

Other GOP Senate candidates that year, like Josh Mandel in Ohio and Tom Smith of Pennsylvania, ran just a few points behind the former Massachusetts governor.

«They ran Aaron Woolf in 2014, a tourist from New York City who was a nice guy and I liked quite a bit, but he was a terrible candidate.

all candidates deserve equal respect in the running, but it is essential that there is a consensus on merits not on simple profiles we like.

But grassroots candidates on the «wrong» side of the political spectrum like Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher, who's running to unseat Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's Ninth District, need not apply.

If you're a candidate running with County's endorsement, the petition process is a cake walk unless a mutiny occurs like it did in South Queens.

«No other candidate running knows what that's like.»

The script for the spot, in which the candidate insists he «can not be bought» and lambastes both major parties for their support of «trade deals like NAFTA» --(remember: He tried to run on both of their ballot lines, and only went the independent route after he was turned down)-- appears after the jump.

Candidates essentially get round the rules by using super-pacs to run ads like this, which would be forbidden in other countries.

A potential pay increase for state lawmakers is going over like a lead balloon for candidates running in key legislative races this fall.

After making a great show of refusing to even entertain the idea of running for president, he has begun to staff up, raise money, and talk like a presidential candidate.

Like the other candidates considering the race, he would step aside if Ms. Lappin decided to run for reelection.

Wagner, who like most Democratic candidates running for state Senate failed to file the necessary signatures to run on the Women's Equality Party ballot line, faces Republican Terrence Murphy.