Sentences with phrase «to seek the presidency»
"To seek the presidency" means to actively pursue and try to become the president of a country. It refers to the act of running a campaign, gaining support, and participating in elections in order to be elected as the leader of the nation. Full definition
So god has told him to seek the presidency huh?
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Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them an ambitious senator seeking the presidency.
The Minnesota senator explicitly said he would not seek the presidency in 2020, the same year as his Senate reelection.
Mary Wright, who also sought the presidency of the board, was re-elected board vice president.
As such, he is filling a gap left by Elizabeth Warren, the junior senator from Massachusetts, who has said she will not seek the presidency.
I find politicians that tout their religion as a reason for seeking the presidency to be rather scary to say the least.
America Rising, a pro-Republican PAC, is preparing to ramp up efforts to oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo — not in expectation of his likely run for a third term next year, but with an eye to his potentially seeking the presidency in 2020.
According to Knopf, who has published all of the LBJ books, this one will «focus on the years 1958 to 1964, from the time Johnson began seeking the presidency, through his years as vice president under John F. Kennedy, to becoming president after JFK's assassination.»
Everyone seeking the presidency professes great love for our nation.
Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, the current governor of Wisconsin, are also likely to make announcements that they are seeking the presidency later this spring.
Sources told the Post that the idea of Cuban seeking the presidency and challenging Trump was the White House's «biggest fear» because Cuban would have similar outsider appeal to Republicans and independents.
Would they treat as a matter of indifference the beliefs of a professed atheist seeking the presidency?
With Romney seeking the presidency, breast - feeding supporters in Massachusetts now find themselves rehashing what transpired in early 2006, when the then - Governor reversed DPH's decision to discontinue the free - formula practice; he replaced three Public Health Council members who expressed displeasure over the ban's reversal.
Woodrow Wilson sought the presidency in 1920 and failed to win the nomination.
Mr. Cruz, who is currently running second in the Republican national delegate total to businessman Donald Trump, has been fighting allegations that he is unfit to seek the presidency because he was born in Canada.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) said Trump is simply «the least - qualified person to ever seek the presidency.»
If Pataki were to go ahead with a presidential campaign, he'll have another thing in common with Rockfeller, who was the last New York governor to actively seek the presidency.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, told the Arizona Republic this past weekend that a number of folks have been urging him to seek the presidency again in 2016.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who's said to have set her sights on seeking the presidency in 2020, even penned a piece for Time lauding Sarsour and other Women's March leaders as heroines.
We won nearly half a million votes, the best showing ever for a Green Party member seeking the presidency.
Thus, speculation that Andrew Cuomo will ultimately seek the presidency in 2016 began even before he took office earlier this year, and it has intensified when Cuomo produced a tough budget without sacrificing his popularity.
Powell faces the daunting challenge of running federal office at the same time as other legacies Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush seek the presidency.
«A man who should be on trial for the most heinous crime in contemporary Iranian history, is instead seeking the presidency,» said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, said in a statement last month.
I offer up a stump speech to all of those individuals currently seeking the presidency of the United States of America.
Hopefully sometime before 2012, someone seeking the presidency will realize this kind of push is as American as Thomas Edison, let alone apple pie.
(CNN)- With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's announcement this weekend that he won't seek the presidency, one of the largest voting blocs in the Republican Party is now officially up for grabs: evangelical Christians.
A national pro-Republican political action committee is preparing to ramp up efforts to oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo — not in expectation of his likely run for a third term next year, but with an eye to his potentially seeking the presidency in 2020.
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) The fourth volume in Caro's epic Lyndon Johnson biography will «focus on the years 1958 to 1964, from the time Johnson began seeking the presidency, through his years as vice president under John F. Kennedy, to becoming president after JFK's assassination.»
Shortly after the Golden Globes host Seth Meyers jokingly encouraged the media mogul to seek the presidency in 2020, NBC's primary Twitter account tweeted a GIF of Winfrey along with the caption «Nothing but respect for OUR future president,» a riff on a popular meme.
The poll, set to be released Friday by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, suggested that if Cuban were to seek the presidency and be Trump's Democratic opponent, he would trail the sitting president by a single percentage point.
The former vice president, 74, last week unveiled a political action committee that stoked fresh speculation he may seek the presidency in 2020.
Here's what Romney told CNN's Piers Morgan Tuesday night when asked whether his Mormon beliefs would be a potential stumbling block with voters should he seek the presidency:
«When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer, and so that's what a calling is,» she told CBS News on Sunday, explaining that she had prayed about her decision to seek the presidency.
For major elections it typically disqualifies most candidates, for example in the 2009 election, 476 men and women applied to the Guardian Council to seek the presidency, and four were approved.
Cuomo has insisted he's running for a third term as governor and has no plans to seek the presidency.
As Democrats nationwide encourage Oprah Winfrey to seek the presidency in 2020, those closest to the media mogul are sending mixed messages about her political intentions.
But Cuomo laughs off any questions that he might want to seek the presidency one day, saying he continues to think that narrative is a «distraction,» for now he's focused on being governor.
«This November, America faces a clear choice between the most qualified nominee ever to seek the presidency and the least qualified nominee ever to seek the presidency.
In a twist, Cuomo's decision not to seek the presidency in 1992 cleared the way for Bill Clinton, who steered the Democratic Party toward the center.
«Despite her solid base for her re-election to the Senate, Senator Gillibrand has convincing to do if she wants to seek the presidency in 2020,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
John Evans Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is seeking the presidency for the third time, having lost elections in 2000 and 2004.
The younger Cuomo has worked to keep his national profile down, perhaps recalling the intense speculation that his father would seek the presidency and the distraction that caused.
National politicians make a point of spending time in the Hawkeye State, which holds a nominating caucus that is an early chance for hopefuls to win Electoral College votes as they seek the presidency.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unleashed a series of blistering attacks on Democrat Hillary Clinton on as he sought to regain his footing in the race, calling her «the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.»
A super PAC encouraging Hillary Clinton to seek the presidency in 2016 raised $ 2.75 million during the last six months of 2013.
Reporters notably dubbed the elder Cuomo «Hamlet on the Hudson» for his vacillations over whether to seek the presidency in 1988 and again in 1992.
Governor Cuomo, speaking for the first time about speculation that he might want to seek the presidency in 2016, says he finds the talk «flattering», but he says overtly political talk can be «distracting» when he's trying to govern and get along with both parties in the legislature.
Cuomo has said he's running for a third term in 2018 and is not seeking the presidency.