Sentences with phrase «swirled around the candidate»

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Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

At a candidate forum in Brooklyn last night, Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey repeatedly hit de Blasio for the several investigations swirling around the mayor's fundraising, while offering few policy positions of his own.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for Mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him,» said Citizens Union Chairman Randy Mastro.

Not everyone was so keen about this special election, and there was controversy swirling around Cancel as the pick for the Democratic candidate.

There are also a slew of investigations swirling around de Blasio — including into his contributions to State Senate candidates (there's Albany again) and his fundraising through non-profit groups, an issue the Campaign Finance Board will take under discussion later today.

In New York State and elsewhere, candidates and political operatives are trying to gauge the effect that the constant swirl of controversy around Mr. Trump will have on close races like Ms. Tenney's — an even more intense exercise since the release of Mr. Trump's recorded boasts of groping women and accusations from several women that he touched them inappropriately.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis is riding high on a last - minute infusion of campaign cash and renewed voter outrage over the pay - to - play scandal swirling around City Hall.

At a candidate forum in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, Massey repeatedly hit de Blasio for the several investigations swirling around the mayor's fundraising, while offering few policy positions of his own.