Sentences with phrase «was the election campaign»

and was the Minnesota State Director for President Barack Obama «s election campaign in 2008.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

He was election campaign manager for the Tories and, like Cameron, could yet face a backlash over the party's failure to secure a majority.

President Obama visited during his 2012 re election campaign.

My first question to all of them was to ask «what was the election campaign's key theme?».

State Senator and GOP candidate for Governor John DeFrancisco says testimony and evidence in the trial showed that when Percoco was off the state payroll for most of 2014, and managing Cuomo's re election campaign, continued to use his state offices and privileges, making 837 phone calls and meeting with other Cuomo aides.

Not exact matches

Clinton said her campaign was on track to win the election until Comey sent the letter to Congress on Oct. 28.

At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

One of the first things Hillary Clinton decided to address in the «What Happened» chapter on why she lost the election was one of the most common critiques of her campaign: That she didn't put forth enough effort in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

Attracting small donors through digital channels resembles the presidential campaign fundraising strategy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (D), but Harris insists she's just focusing on this year's midterm elections.

WASHINGTON — As news broke Monday morning that a grand jury indicted three people who were involved in President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, tension heightened among senators worried that Trump may retaliate and attempt to oust Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Cambridge Analytica is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential election, after executives with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

The meeting came as the intelligence community was assessing Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign had colluded with Moscow.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

All three officials were pursuing separate but related inquiries into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, and whether the Trump campaign had anything to do with it.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as well as the FBI are conducting simultaneous investigations into the prospect of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and collusion with associates of Donald Trump's campaign.

The former FBI director is investigating Russian's efforts to influence the 2016 election and whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

If you've grown resentful of the never - ending 2015 election campaign, and you feel like punishing the next candidate you see, here's a suggestion: Ask him or her whether he or she thinks the Bank of Canada should continue using the core inflation rate as its North Star.

But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall....

An 11 - week election campaign will be the longest in decades, and begins amid mixed economic signals

(While Election Act law requires campaigns to be a minimum of 37 days, it specifies no maximum.)

She participated in an online campaign to support regime change during the 2015 Israeli election and said she was dismayed at Netanyahu's re-election.

The longer campaign will be more expensive for Elections Canada, as well.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and that his company may have received subpoenas as part of the investigation into any ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian election interference.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

Gillibrand is often deemed a contender for the presidential election in 2020, although she said last year she is ruling out the possibility and focusing on her Senate reelection campaign.

The far - right candidate in the French presidential election has been embroiled in two investigations, but that hasn't and will not impact her campaign, the Front National's project coordinator told CNBC on Friday.

The social network, with its two billion users, was the primary vehicle for Russia's covert campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and destabilize American society.

Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

A central force behind this year's midterm election campaign is neither a political party nor a candidate.

Michigan's elections board deadlocked Friday on a Trump campaign request to deny Stein's recount request and on how a recount would be conducted.

Now it's up to the governing Liberals to decide whether they want to raise taxes and, if the minority government falls, whether they'll campaign on such a politically toxic proposal in an election.

The meeting — which had not previously been disclosed and came on the heels of Kushner's meeting with Kislyak at Trump Tower — caught the eye of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether any members of Trump's campaign were complicit.

He is also looking into whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor, and his decision to file charges likely indicates that the probe is moving from a political fight to a legal one.

President Trump has alienated most of the Republican mainstream, including the powerful GOP leaders on the Hill who collectively have a lot of experience with campaigns and elections and, in most cases, are more popular in their districts than is Trump himself.

«Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation's discourse,» Tim Schneider, the state party chairman, said in a statement, adding that the party would put «real campaign dollars» into an independent candidate to challenge Jones in the general election.

Nevertheless, Petersen thinks his unique style and grassroots campaign are an advantage in an upcoming election cycle that has already seen incumbents ousted, such Roy Moore's upset over Luther Strange in the primary for Alabama's special Senate election.

Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

The conflict: On the campaign trail for Austria's upcoming election, 80 - year - old Frank Stronach doffed his shirt for a photo op, declaring that he needn't be ashamed of his body.

Facebook said it will make sure political ads on its platform will be vetted and transparent in time for England and Northern Ireland's 2019 local elections, that only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for political ads, and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a campaign — not just those targeted to them based on their demographic or «likes.»

With Trump's Nov. 8 election victory and his campaign promise to tear up international trade deals threatening to shatter a fragile global recovery, Singapore «s open economy remains among some of the most vulnerable markets to U.S. protectionism.

About 87 million is an oft - cited figure in connection with the number of users whose data was mishandled by Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign before the 2016 election.

Trump, in fits and starts, has indicated his support for the broad federal investigation of Russian meddling, but he has more often bristled at the notion that Kremlin operatives were working on his behalf or that his campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.

One of the major problems with Australian politics at both the state and federal level is taxpayer funding of election campaigns.

The campaign gifts now listed in the FEC database for the 2016 election may seem small when the salaries and assets of these tech CEOs are taken into account.

Peters, a former Russia analyst, warned that the network's hosts are advancing Russian President Vladimir Putin's agenda «by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign.»

When he was fired, Comey was overseeing the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.