Sentences with phrase «says his campaign tried»

He notes it has been an «exhausting campaign as it was one of the longest in recent history» but says his campaign tried its best to speak to voters.

Not exact matches

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

But this April, when he was trying to play down Bannon's importance, he said «I didn't know Steve» and «he was not involved in my campaign until very late.»

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

In an interview with the Times in May, Thiel said that he funded Hogan's lawsuit and others as part of a multi-year campaign to try and bankrupt the company.

Marketing professor David Soberman says it's also a great campaign because it reinforces the image WestJet has tried to portray without being overly obvious about it.

Meanwhile the bureau's San Francisco office is trying to identify the people who called themselves «Guccifer 2» and posted emails stolen from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's account, the sources said.

Mueller's detailed charges against Russian nationals and companies for election meddling aimed in part at trying to boost Trump's candidacy said they cooperated with «unwitting» campaign staffers and outside advisers.

The CEO clarified the intent of the campaign, saying, «All we are trying to do is potentially do something catalytic to start a conversation.

Last week, he was said to have been in «full arm - twisting mode,» as he tried to leverage his vaunted deal - making ability into the fulfillment of his frequent campaign pledge to «repeal and replace» the ACA.

The Times said that a search warrant executed on Cohen's property on Monday also was seeking evidence about whether he tried to suppress damaging information about Trump during the presidential campaign.

And for the entrepreneurs really trying to cast a wide net, some have even said they'll try using a Google AdWords campaign to attract interest from potential investors.

The hacking campaign disrupted the 2016 U.S. election and cast a shadow over the presidency of Donald Trump, whom U.S. intelligence agencies say the hackers were trying to help.

The scandal is «a case of campaign consultants using some shady tactics to try to get their message out to the most receptive audience in the most effective way they can,» he said.

But those close to Pence say the former Indiana governor relied on his faith in God to carry him through the last trying weeks of the campaign.

Google says it is trying to make it easier to create digital marketing campaigns, but online ad experts say the shake - up also appears to an attempt to harvest more revenue from the rapidly growing usage of smartphones and tablets.

Sabet, whose organization coordinates anti-legalization campaigns nationwide, tried to distance the broader movement from Insys, saying his organization's funding comes from a range of sources.

«We tried to match it up as close as we could to what [Trump] was saying on the campaign trail.»

«There's never been a way historically to go to some group and say, «Hey, you know, you're trying to, you know, campaign for this candidate.

Wilder said he's heard concerns about dark money and foreign money coming into campaigns via cyrptocurrency, but «we're at the point where we have to try to figure it out.»

That said, to me there are three key principles we always try to uphold: 1) You need to be ready with your «what if» situations before you launch a campaign; 2) monitor like crazy both the mainstream and fringe conversations to see if anything is bubbling; 3) act fast and course correct if you have to.

Here he's trying to say that the Daniels payment was different from campaign expenses — but he also admits that Cohen lent the campaign money in the form of expenses that Trump later repaid.

«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Campaign.

As for Westcoast's $ 20,500 donation to Ms. Clark's campaign on March 1, Weilinger stated that's «something we can't really comment on other than to say we try to take a non-partisan view of our contributions and donations and we like to make sure the democratic system is working and effective.»

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon highlighted the risks a Brexit poses to jobs, and exit camp immediately tried to spin that to say that big banks were bankrolling the anti-Brexit campaign.

Again, the Clinton parallel is instructive: «The whole strategy during the first few years of the Jones case, as far as Bill Clinton was concerned, was to try to keep the case stalled until after the reelection campaign,» Marcus said.

@Rachel: Since this campaign is aimed at people who do the things you say you don't, people who wear their religion on their sleeve, poke their noses in where it doesn't belong, try to legislate fundamentalist ideas, and generally want to make the world conform to their ideas no matter how horrible, I have to ask... Why do you care?

Interesting post on the CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) website pertinent to what I was trying to say earlier.

I suggest that Santorum read the entire New Testament of the Bible... And pay particularly close attention to the words in red that Jesus said... After he's finished... I expect him to apologize for the many errors he has made in his Presidential campaign... The biggest one of them all... is of course trying to use Jesus Christ as a political tool... Shame on Santorum!

«We know that shoppers enjoy trying new flavours and we expect Pulled Pork to do particularly well, as it was voted as the favourite flavour in a previous Walkers «Do Us A Flavour» promotional campaign beating five other strong contenders,» said Hüseyin Tulpar, UK vice president for impulse sales at PepsiCo.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

He says the school tried to pin a series of NCAA violations on him while mounting a misleading PR campaign to protect Freeze.

In November, his agent, Jacques Lichtenstei, tried to push Praet towards Arsenal when he said: «What could he learn from another season in Belgium after several campaigns at European level and having contributed to three consecutive league titles?

Instead the Padres basically shut fans down and said don't bother interacting with the Padres or try to start a grass roots marketing campaign on behalf of the team.

«I try to stay focused about our last game now,» said the Frenchman, whose side finish their campaign at home to Stoke City on Sunday.

I will refrain from writing my own due to the length of the discussion board as it is, but I do want to express a few thoughts: - Because of the «breast is best» campaign, I firmly believe that even if doctors, pediatricians, midwives et cetera know about the real trouble that many women have BF, they will not say anything so that moms still try.

Maybe on the high school level, you could put together an ad campaign of photographs of ridiculously sexy people saying their biggest turn - off is a picky eater, in order to kick start the process of obtaining that adult realization that you want to be seen as the kind of person who tries new things.

If this campaign helps the next friend or family member trying to stumble through the murky waters of saying the right thing / not saying the wrong thing, then it's done a brilliant job and will help so many people.

ICYMI: Rep. Bob Turner, who is on an upstate campaign swing and headed today to Binghamton — the heart of New York's hydrofracking debate — shrugged off environmental concerns about the controversial natural gas drilling process during a CapTon interview last night, saying the state should «at least start trying it.»

Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy's campaign is pressuring his GOP challenger, Chris Gibson, to take a position on the finance industry regulatory reform bill passed by the House last week, accusing him of trying to have it both ways by refusing to say how he would have voted on the measure.

The League of Women Voters said his abuse of his campaign finances was «a flagrant misuse of campaign dollars,» while The New York Times said they were «concerned» that he had tried to cover - up a scandal.

My source observed that would be a pretty crummy quarter for your average House candidate — to say nothing of someone who's trying to run a statewide campaign against an incumbent well known to be a prodigious fundraiser.

eu campaign who have today tried to put a spin on quotes made 20 years ago about keeping or losing the pound, I have to say strongly my comments were not about this referendum and should not be misused in this way!

Republican Harry Wilson is hitting the man he's trying to unseat, Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, for his ties to his political mentor, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying it's a conflict of interest for DiNapoli to use the powerful Manhattan Democrat to help him raise campaign cash.

The last is especially useful if you are a multi-issue organization, since someone who is active on social media talking about the environment may not be useful if you are trying to see what people are saying about the Fight for 15 campaign.

Throwing his weight behind the campaign, he said: «It's my firm view that we will never have the full truth about Hillsborough until we also have the truth about what happened five years earlier when the same police force used the same tactics to try and put the minors in a bad light in the same they later tried to and discredit Liverpool supporters.»

«No one wants to be a sacrificial lamb, but [Republicans] don't even appear to be trying in some of these states,» Shripal Shah, a Democratic Senate campaign veteran who is now a vice president at the Democratic super PAC American Bridge, said of the lack of viable GOP candidates.

Albany insiders said Senate Republicans want to slow down approval in order to teach a lesson to de Blasio, who campaigned last year for Dems trying to regain control of the legislative body.

Conservatives say Cuomo was just trying to win a headline for a potential 2020 presidential campaign by convincing the state Legislature to enact a plan to offer free tuition to middle - class students attending public colleges and universities.

He said: «I think there are Remain camp supporters out there who are using this tragic death to try and give the impression that this isolated horrific incident is somehow linked to arguments that have been made by myself or Michael Gove and anyone else involved in this campaign and frankly that is wrong.»