But Saudi Arabia is the clear kingmaker behind the kingmaker.
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Haley could be the kingmaker if she wanted to be.
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Do you want to become sort of a political kingmaker?
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PAS now fancies itself a "kingmaker" in the coming election.
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Bryce Covert Leslie Moonves is a rainmaker and a kingmaker.
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But in a close race, he could become a kingmaker.
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I believe we called you the kingmaker for startups. Yeah.
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Now, Harris could potentially step into the role of kingmaker.
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ByteDance's success has attracted big investors, including tech kingmaker SoftBank (SFTBY).
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Rather, the carrier ended up acting like a sort of kingmaker.
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Meanwhile, Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) and Klaus are investigating Lucien's company Kingmaker.
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A smaller party, the liberal Free Democrats, was usually the kingmaker.
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"The Kingmaker" gradually complicates and contradicts Mrs Marcos's version of events.
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Bloomberg wouldn't be king… but kingmaker might be an acceptable consolation.
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"I am a kingmaker," she replies upon being asked her occupation.
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Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield talks to Hyperallergic about her documentary The Kingmaker.
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Liberman may want to play the role of kingmaker for weeks.
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Venezuela's military has long been a kingmaker at defining democratic moments.
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This could make Jens Spahn, or better his supporters, the kingmaker(s).
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His annual reading list rivals Oprah's Book Club as a publishing kingmaker.
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Harvey Weinstein was no longer the Hollywood kingmaker — he was a rapist.
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She might like a lot of her scenes, and the "kingmaker" title.
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Among her professors was Louise Wilson, then the kingmaker of British fashion.
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Mr Lieberman, formerly Mr Netanyahu's chief of staff, has become Israel's kingmaker.
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For years, Fox had been a kingmaker for Republicans—an outlet politicians courted.
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In the event of a hung parliament, Mr Misick could become a kingmaker.
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In a tight race, the newly-established Vidreisn (Reform Party) could become kingmaker.
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Meanwhile, Russia's intervention in Syria has blocked Turkish ambitions to play regional kingmaker.
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"The Kingmaker" shows the family's gradual return to public life and political influence.
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President Iván Duque is the protégé of former president, now kingmaker, Álvaro Uribe.
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But in a chaotic political season in Brazil, Lula could be the kingmaker.
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The results position Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First, as the kingmaker.
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The only kingmaker willing to crown candidates so far has been Oprah Winfrey.
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Their hidden agenda is to play kingmaker in a post-Mugabe civilian government.
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Its leader, Avigdor Liberman, appears to hold the power to be a kingmaker.
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But he could well be in a position to play kingmaker come Sunday.
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He is heavily quoted by GOP politicians, seen as something of a kingmaker.
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We try very carefully to not be in a position where we're playing kingmaker.
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"Personally, I prefer it this way," Meen said of his solitary role as kingmaker.
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In a tight race, the newly established Vidreisn, or Reform Party, could become kingmaker.
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In 2016, they can essentially play the part of kingmaker in the Democratic primaries.
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Mr Rohani enjoys the support of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the veteran kingmaker.
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Republican presidential candidates genuflected toward him as a kingmaker before the critical Iowa caucuses.
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The clash between truth and the public persona also drives Lauren Greenfield's The Kingmaker.
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He does not want to be seen as an establishment 'kingmaker,' anointing any candidate.
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Lieberman, whose party won eight seats, would remain the kingmaker if unity efforts fail.
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In a tight race, the newly-established Vidreisn, or Reform Party, could become kingmaker.
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The odds are zero that she is playing community organizer just to be a kingmaker.
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And the truth is Iowa has never been the kingmaker it is believed to be.
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Despite being a substantially smaller market than Asia, Europe will become the kingmaker in LNG.
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Allied with UTJ and with similar demands, it has served as kingmaker in successive governments.
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In 2017 Mr Mabuza used his power to be the kingmaker at the ANC election.
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Silvio Berlusconi, an 81-year-old former prime minister, may well emerge as a kingmaker.
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Ask any chef, and they will tell you that the Michelin Man is a kingmaker.
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Sanders would have the opportunity to cement his status as a kingmaker within the party.
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True, Bannon himself would clearly become a kingmaker and enhance his influence within the party.
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The result in 2020 may well be that they can effectively play the role of kingmaker.
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Buttigieg also has the support of Walter Clyburn Reed, the grandson of South Carolina kingmaker Rep.
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They'd be nothing compared to what Oprah could get as a stadium-filling, issue-pushing kingmaker.
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To be fair, this is a terrible moment, he's about to go meet the kingmaker himself.
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However, by 2628, a demographic realignment had solidified the GOP's standing as the state's political kingmaker.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The far right Freedom Party (FPO), set to become kingmaker after elections on Oct.
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His conviction bars him from holding office, but he could play kingmaker in contentious coalition negotiations.
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Allied with UTJ and with similar demands, it has also served as kingmaker in successive governments.
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One option is for Trump to play kingmaker and to throw his support to someone else.
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One potential kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, declined to back either Netanyahu or Gantz as the deadline neared.
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One potential kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, declined to back either Netanyahu or Gantz as the deadline neared.
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The Kingmaker opened in limited theaters on November 8 and will premiere on Showtime in 2020.
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Cashman played kingmaker that season, helping send the Indians and the Cubs to the World Series.
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"X-Men" director Bryan Singer is the latest Hollywood kingmaker to be accused of sexual assault.
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That effort failed, leaving Vox as a potential kingmaker in any coalition-building after the vote.
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Ms. McSally's shifting requests illustrate Mr. Trump's ability to play kingmaker and effectively decide competitive primaries.
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The Greens have also made big gains in both states and may end up coalition kingmaker.
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His campaign is riding high in South Carolina, where he was endorsed by local kingmaker Rep.
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Kurz has not yet named his preferred coalition partner, but the FPO could well emerge as kingmaker.
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As Recode reported 18 months ago, the service was "playing the role of kingmaker" in Silicon Valley.
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Ailes, sometimes referred to as a "kingmaker," also helped install three Republican presidents, including President Donald Trump.
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The group holds "coercive power" over several opposition groups, serving as a sort of "kingmaker," Heras said.
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Mark Dayton, when asked if he was uneasy about being a "kingmaker" by naming his Lt. Gov.
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The PPP could emerge as a coalition kingmaker if no party wins a majority, as many expect.
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New Hampshire Public Radio reported last year that D'Allesandro considers himself a political "kingmaker" in the state.
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Sadr sees the militias as a threat to his role as a kingmaker in Iraq's turbulent politics.
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If Mr Khama gets supporters to ditch the ruling party, he could be kingmaker in a coalition.
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It has raised the possibility of one of Canada's smaller parties playing kingmaker immediately after election day.
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Ferdinand died in 1989, although when "The Kingmaker" opens, Imelda's husband, curiously, has yet to be buried.
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Its leader, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, is widely described as a "kingmaker" in the Israeli press.
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Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister and leader of the second-biggest faction, may fancy himself a kingmaker.
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"Kevin's the kingmaker of California Republican politics," Mark Martinez, a Cal State Bakersfield politics professor, told the newspaper.
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Weinstein's gone from kingmaker to pariah as artists have scrambled to distance themselves from him and his associates.
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But if it doesn't come, Son could become more than a kingmaker -- he may become Silicon Valley's king.
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Now the Kremlin would benefit from partisan fratricide with debates about whether Putin was the 2016 election's kingmaker.
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Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's chief executive, was hailed as a kingmaker in 2016 when he unveiled the Vision Fund.
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Yet Allawi's Wataniyah nationalist coalition is still in contention, with Abadi's status unknown, making him a potential kingmaker.
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In short, what we really know about Oprah Winfrey and politics is that she is a powerful kingmaker.
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All eyes are on Avigdor Liberman, a former ally of Mr. Netanyahu who is now a potential kingmaker.
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Still, Vox won enough votes on Sunday to play a kingmaker role in some municipal and regional parliaments.
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That could make Vox a kingmaker in the formation of a right-wing coalition government in the region.
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That left her with no path forward to even play spoiler, or kingmaker, in a potential contested convention.
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Jim Clyburn, a prominent black Democrat and South Carolina kingmaker, in the final days of the primary race.
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Mr. Liberman could play the kingmaker, exacting a high price from Mr. Netanyahu to throw him his support.
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By writing such large checks to companies with such short track records, Softbank created an aura of kingmaker.
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Mr. Liberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party won eight seats, has refrained from taking sides, hoping to play kingmaker.
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The fund has pumped money into around 30 companies, turning Son into the new kingmaker of Silicon Valley.
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He can then live knowing that he caused the king to be king, that he's the ... The kingmaker.
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Today he is the comeback grandpa: a potential kingmaker in Parliament and the undisputed leader of the Labour Party.
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Uribe has remained a polarizing kingmaker as his party has sought to stymie a peace accord with Marxist rebels.
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" Rolling Stone called Arnold a "young right-wing kingmaker with clear designs on becoming the next generation's Koch brothers.
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Facebook is no longer playing kingmaker by favoring one campaign or another and rewarding their use of extreme content.
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He was a successful marshall in the army of France's then almost omnipotent kingmaker, the self-styled Emperor Napoleon.
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Roger Ailes, who created Fox News and led it until last year, was a longtime Republican strategist and kingmaker.
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With a file on nearly everyone, Mr Mediène was a political kingmaker (and a brutal foe of Islamist rebels).
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And because there were exactly 60 Democratic senators at the time, every single senator was a kingmaker—a newsmaker.
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This week, with the Republican Party nominating another candidate he helped to create, the kingmaker himself is being dethroned.
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With "The Kingmaker", a new documentary, Mrs Greenfield hoped to explore the life of this colourful and controversial figure.
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The Vision Fund has pumped money into around 30 companies, turning Son into the new kingmaker of Silicon Valley.
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As chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party, Mr. Crowley, 56, was a kingmaker in New York City politics.
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James Clyburn, one of Congress's most powerful black Democrats — and a man seen as a kingmaker in the state.
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James Clyburn, a powerful Democrat in Congress who is seen as a kingmaker in South Carolina, officially endorsed Biden.
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Once a political kingmaker and a former president, Mr. Rafanjani was gradually sidelined as Mr. Khamenei strengthened his control.
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New elections would be a test of Vox's viability, and potential role as a kingmaker, at the national level.
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The day Detroit rumbled to life and did Henry Ford's bidding was the day our role as kingmaker was cemented.
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Maybe. On the other hand, the odds are zero that she is playing community organizer just to be a kingmaker.
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He rose to prominence in the city as the combative, litigious owner of the Sands Casino, and a political kingmaker.
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The first is that Mr Di Maio wants not to be kingmaker but king, though that may be tactical bluster.
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The anti-immigration Vox unexpectedly won 12 seats in a regional election in Andalusia in December, becoming a kingmaker there.
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Given its mainstream appeal and extreme ease of use relative to other exchanges, Coinbase is something of a cryptocurrency kingmaker.
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But in the Parliament itself, his party could be the kingmaker because there will be no working majority without it.
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One is that Ailes — conservative bulldog, kingmaker, defender of Christmas — was more complicated than his enemies gave him credit for.
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Mr. Zelensky is now positioned at least as the kingmaker in the two-stage election, and even the possible victor.
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That made Mr. Weaver a kingmaker and, for the first time, gave the Greens real political power in North America.
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Kingmaker Peggy Guggenheim awaited Mondrian's endorsement of Jackson Pollock before including the latter in a show of new American painting.
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Having supported PP and PSOE in different regions, it could become a kingmaker in any foreseeable negotiations after the election.
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Gantz met earlier with Avigdor Lieberman, a political free agent and likely kingmaker thanks to his eight seats in parliament.
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How to watch it: The Kingmaker is currently playing in select theaters and will air on Showtime in early 2020.
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Former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has emerged as potential kingmaker and favors a unity government with Gantz's and Netanyahu's parties.
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That could help it play kingmaker of sorts after election day, depending on how the balance of power shakes out.
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ALBANY — Brian M. Kolb is not a power broker or a kingmaker, a rabble-rouser or a political bomb thrower.
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The big picture: The results so far suggest that Avigdor Lieberman is going to be the kingmaker after the election.
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KINGMAKER Lixil was created in 2011 through a merger of five Japanese building materials and housing firms, including Tostem and Inax.
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But his proximity to Clyburn, a kingmaker on Capitol Hill and in South Carolina politics, could make a difference for Biden.
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Mr Sadr, who cannot become prime minister because he did not run himself, is in a strong position to be kingmaker.
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The kingmaker theory makes policing Google and Facebook's algorithms sound easy because it suggests that everything the companies do is deliberate.
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He played the role of kingmaker in politics and successfully pushed for his wife to become a vice president in 2004.
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Bannon, a self-fashioned kingmaker in conservative politics, has made it clear that he intends to be active during the midterms.
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Secular nationalist party Yisrael Beitenu's leader, Avigdor Liberman, emerged as a kingmaker in the April election, eventually toppling Netanyahu's coalition prospects.
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The Washington Post has been tracking Trump's endorsements and finds that he's been a kingmaker this cycle in GOP primary races.
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Now, out of the Senate and recovering from cancer, Reid could still emerge as Democrats' most important kingmaker, even in retirement.
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By Mr. Presten's estimation, he would send Mr. Winchell, the kingmaker and feared ideologue, some 12 pages of items every week.
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Mr. Barrett, the creator and manager of the Twitter account Manhattan Bird Alert, can be fairly described as the duck's kingmaker.
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Mr. Menendez won perhaps his biggest endorsement on Thursday from Mr. Norcross, an insurance executive and political kingmaker in Camden County.
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It is likely to mean Liberman is awarded kingmaker status, giving him a say over who becomes the country's next leader.
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Clyburn, a close Biden ally who as yet hasn't endorsed a candidate, is a kingmaker of unusual heft in the state.
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Tom Rath, the former attorney general of New Hampshire and a longtime kingmaker in the state's Republican politics, knocked Trump Sunday evening.
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He has remained a polarizing kingmaker in Colombian politics as his party has sought to stymie a peace accord with Marxist rebels.
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Macron hoped to gather enough seats and sway to position his party as the "kingmaker," says Celia Belin of the Brookings Institution.
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The strategy outlined by his former staffers would involve Sanders's giving up his outsider status and becoming a full-blown Democratic kingmaker.
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With a net worth of $55 billion according to Forbes, Bloomberg was a kingmaker for Democrats during the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
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With a net worth of $252 billion according to Forbes, Bloomberg was a kingmaker for Democrats during the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
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The military has been a kingmaker in Algerian politics for decades and is expected to help guide the potentially turbulent interim phase.
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"The Kingmaker" takes care to expose the hypocrisy of Mrs Marcos's appeals to the impoverished while leading a life of ostentatious wealth.
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Mr. Putin has already taken strategic advantage of Mr. Trump's erratic foreign policy to emerge as a kingmaker in the Middle East.
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The Kingmaker, the fourth feature by the director and photographer Lauren Greenfield, is a documentary but it's also a work of horror.
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Seto, in turn, has accused Ushioda of being a "kingmaker" who wields power from the sidelines of companies and ultimately damages them.
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He was a Republican kingmaker, often employing and featuring a procession of candidates, allowing them to build a base through his network.
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The uncertainty means the army is likely to continue playing its role as kingmaker with little resistance, guiding the sensitive transition process.
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But her overnight anointment as the new face of the Democratic Party has created absurdly outsize expectations of her power as kingmaker.
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She was no longer the kingmaker or queenmaker whose endorsement Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders avidly sought during their 2016 primary battle.
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But its 10 percent share of the vote left it in no position to play kingmaker and help form a governing coalition.
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The unlikeliest kingmaker is an iconoclastic politician, Moshe Feiglin, last seen pushing a far-right agenda of annexing the entire West Bank.
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Mr. Halldorsson said that coalition talks might not play out so favorably for Mr. Gunnlaugsson despite his ambitions to become a kingmaker.
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Jumblatt had been a pragmatic kingmaker, capable of brokering deals with Christian politicians, Sunni parties, Shiite Hezbollah, and even Syria's Assad dynasty.
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However, Bloomberg became a kingmaker in those midterm elections, helping at least 22016 Democrats win their races for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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It came less than three weeks before the federal election in which the third-placed party could turn out to be the kingmaker.
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Political strategists have said that the BJD, the fifth largest party in the 545-seat lower house of parliament, could emerge as kingmaker.
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Now that the generals have emptied Bouteflika's inner circle, they are well positioned to play their traditional role of kingmaker in any transition.
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Lewis could be a kingmaker this cycle as well as the massive field of candidates vies for support from the African-American community.
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Most presidents don't get involved in primaries, but Trump — to the horror of some top Republican officials — relishes his role as party kingmaker.
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" It's a bad outcome for Brussels, he said, which had a fallback position "hoping for a center-right coalition with Berlusconi playing kingmaker.
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Run by a local political kingmaker named Craig Callaway, the group paid messengers $30 per trip to deliver mail-in ballots to voters.
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She could become a kingmaker in the coming months as the Conservatives try to tackle Brexit with a razor-thin majority in Parliament.
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Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a possible kingmaker, has been keeping his far-right Yisrael Beitenu party on the fence since the Sept.
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He was first cast as kingmaker in 1996, when he famously put off coalition talks the day after the election to go fishing.
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Being speaker is usually a pretty low-key job, but Bercow elevated himself to become something of a kingmaker in the Brexit debate.
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By 21967, Ky commanded the South Vietnamese Air Force, a role that afforded him kingmaker status over the many coup attempts that followed.
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The country's political deadlock may ease on Friday with the kingmaker NZ First party set to hold a caucus meeting later in the day.
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Bannon's comments in the controversial book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House made the once kingmaker a castaway — at least for now.
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Joanna came to Hollywood as a model with designs on stardom, but the grapevine was loud and clear ... at least one kingmaker was treacherous.
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T-Mobile, the third-largest US wireless carrier, is seen as the potential kingmaker as companies including Sprint, Dish and Comcast weigh their options.
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Both men owed money to William T. Walters, a high-rolling Las Vegas kingmaker, often considered the most successful sports bettor in the country.
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"The Kingmaker" explores the Marcos family's involvement in Rodrigo Duterte's successful campaign for president; he, in turn, has said that Bongbong is leadership material.
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Iran's apparent strategy is to support several groups in the hope that it will be kingmaker in the bargaining over the next Iraqi government.
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The sweetest victory was Alessandra Biaggi's hard-fought defeat of the former I.D.C. kingmaker Jeffrey Klein in a district straddling the Bronx and Westchester.
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Go deeper: Mr. Trump has become an unlikely kingmaker in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, with candidates competing for his favor.
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They represent nearly a fifth of the country's 5.8 million eligible voters, which could give the four Israeli Arab parties a potential kingmaker role.
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He was the original kingmaker in South Korea's fractured, regionally based political system, in which parties were dispersed and realigned at their leaders' whims.
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Liberman has been the kingmaker in the last two elections, holding the handful of seats needed to help Netanyahu or Gantz form a government.
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The fund wants to be a kingmaker, but turbulence at its highest-profile investments — Uber and WeWork — has raised questions about its investment strategy.
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In the last month, two Republican candidates the president supported lost their off-year races for governor, puncturing his self-proclaimed role as kingmaker.
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In China, Alibaba is a kingmaker for hopeful tech start-ups, while an affiliated online mobile payment system is the envy of Silicon Valley.
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The result of the non-binding consultation could ease the way for left-leaning ERC to act as a potential kingmaker after the Nov.
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A kingmaker role would give Macron greater influence over shaping EU policy and the filling of key upcoming jobs, such as the European Commission presidency.
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One of the most important factors is the position of the powerful military, which could act as kingmaker, as it has done in past decades.
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The second-most famous Democratic Socialist in America right now, after kingmaker Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, is New York City congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez .
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Xenophon could emerge as kingmaker in a hung parliament if opinion polls putting Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition neck-and-neck with opposition Labor prove correct.
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A critical factor will be the position of the military, which is likely to act as a kingmaker, as it has done in past decades.
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And while it's in no position to be a kingmaker, the weakness of Merkel's coalition could increase the party's anti-establishment appeal, compounding her troubles.
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The poll still tipped the nationalist New Zealand First as a likely kingmaker, and showed the Green Party would only just make it into parliament.
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The Green party is the kingmaker for the pro-independence Scottish National Party, which is two seats shy of a majority at Scotland's devolved parliament.
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The Liberal Democrats will on Monday afternoon announce the party's new leader — and potentially the all-important kingmaker at the United Kingdom's next general election.
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As Greenfield opens "The Kingmaker" up, the Philippines' past and present move uneasily into alignment, and the movie becomes more interesting and far more disturbing.
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"I think it is better to be a kingmaker in this situation rather than an opportunistic prime minister," Anutin told Reuters in a recent interview.
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The liberal Regeneration Party, which is expected to play the role of kingmaker, has ruled out joining a coalition with the current governing establishment parties.
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That $103 million is a good way to make certain he is not, allowing him to play kingmaker in future initiative fights or political campaigns.
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His party is projected to win just seven seats, but with the polls now suggesting a close finish, he could still play a kingmaker role.
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For now, Vox is enjoying its newfound role of kingmaker in Andalusia, where its support is needed to guarantee a new right-wing coalition government.
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It's not for me to advocate any heir to Balanchine or Mr. Martins; I strongly dislike the notion of critic as kingmaker or power broker.
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He's widely considered a kingmaker in South Carolina, and his quadrennial "World Famous Fish Fry" is an iconic institution on the Democratic presidential campaign trail.
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And the Americans struggled to understand the motivations of a man who would be president — and has emerged again this year as his country's kingmaker.
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Among the most promising young bandleaders in jazz, Ross has earned wide acclaim for his debut album, "Kingmaker," released this year on Blue Note Records.
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The political deadlock left former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu party, as a potential kingmaker in the coalition-building.
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Rita Pasarell, Leah Hebert and Tori Burhans Kelly worked for Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn assemblyman, kingmaker and, according to a state ethics report, serial harasser.
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One-time rebel Gustavo Petro got 4.53 percent support, edging out former Medellin mayor Sergio Fajardo, who could end up being kingmaker following a surprise surge.
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Mediene, known as "Toufik", held the role of kingmaker for more than two decades, with power to name presidents, prime ministers, ministers and other senior officials.
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De Blasio's efforts to become a progressive kingmaker also failed following his lackluster endorsement of his former boss, Hillary Clinton, after dragging his feet for months.
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With some of the biggest films in the world steadily coming from its studios, Disney served as somewhat of a kingmaker with its previous Netflix deal.
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Farhana Maute was related to politicians in her hometown of Butig, near Marawi, and was considered somewhat of a kingmaker because of her wealth and influence.
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But the idea of a behind-the-scenes kingmaker manufacturing a pop star — or a reality-twisting pseudo-documentary chronicling that manipulation — is far from new.
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It became kingmaker in Spain's most populous region - a traditional Socialist Party stronghold - after 12 of its candidates unexpectedly won seats in an election in December.
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Standing out as the unusual kingmaker between the two Western giants is Iran, emerging from decades of sanctions to place billions of dollars of new orders.
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The current speculation over Mr Berlusconi centres on the likelihood of his playing the kingmaker—and true arbiter of his country's fortunes—after the next election.
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Julius Malema's three-year-old Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been cast in the role of kingmaker, coming third with 8 percent of the national vote.
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If Bush drops out and moves his support and donors to another Plan C contestant he could become a kingmaker — but not the king — in 2016.
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His bloc in Parliament played a kingmaker role in power struggles — most notably by backing Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's bid to remain prime minister in 2010.
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A potential new kingmaker has emerged as the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN), which, according to the poll, would grab 7.9% of the votes in October.
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It can be difficult to get disinterested comments on Mr. Leiter, a longtime academic kingmaker thanks to Philosophical Gourmet Report, a website that ranks philosophy departments.
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Peters and his New Zealand First party look set to again play kingmaker as the ruling National Party seeks a fourth term in government next year.
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If the Northeast is something of an accidental kingmaker, that may be appropriate for the region in which the Heisman originated and is still handed out.
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Before our eyes, he melts through his kingmaker character's sang-froid to reveal the idealism he still harbors in his heart, misguided though it may be.
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Under Mr. Crowley, the Queens Democratic machine played local kingmaker, holding sway over judicial races, Surrogate's Court, even the speakership of the New York City Council.
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Kingmaker As Mahathir showed this week, however, his age has not dented in the slightest his political wiliness and ability to play all sides at once.
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As well as acting as kingmaker, he wants to establish himself as the champion of secular Israelis, who complain of the rabbis' excessive influence in politics.
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Gold and diamonds commingle with political unrest and poverty in "The Kingmaker," Lauren Greenfield's documentary portrait of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines.
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It's the third time 72-year-old Peters has held the balance of power in an election — a position that's earned him the title of 'kingmaker.
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Earlier Wednesday, political kingmaker Avigdor Liberman refused to back either Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Gantz, leaving both without the seats necessary to form a coalition.
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Somewhat ironically, the incumbent Democratic Party (PD) led by (the now outgoing leader) Matteo Renzi, has become the kingmaker to the formation of the next government.
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Lauren Greenfield's new film The Kingmaker centers on one of the most famously extravagant women in recent history: Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines.
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Even if he will not be prime minister immediately (he is barred until next year following a fraud conviction), he is likely to be the kingmaker.
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But he never reached a level of support to seriously contend for the presidency and instead became a kingmaker by exercising his political leverage in presidential races.
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The group is expected to have around 100 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament, which would make it the third-strongest bloc and potentially a "kingmaker".
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The nationalist New Zealand First Party had 7.1 percent of the vote so far, tipping it as a likely kingmaker in the German-style proportional representation system.
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" Kleiner Perkins kingmaker John Doerr told me through a spokesperson, "It's too early in the process for him to have a sense of who he will support.
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Relishing his position as kingmaker, Erdoğan has directly or indirectly threatened to suspend the agreement and allow 15,000 refugees to make their way to Europe every month.
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SPD leftists say voters are fed up with a party they feel has lost its way after serving 10 of the last 14 years as Merkel's kingmaker.
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One of the major forces behind the bathroom bill, and a big supporter of Dan Patrick, was Steve Hotze, a Houston physician and a longtime ultraconservative kingmaker.
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He started Personal Computing and was a co-founder of PC Magazine, PC World and Macworld, and in doing so became a kingmaker in his own right.
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" Trump remains the Republican kingmaker: "Trump's endorsement moves Republicans, and it seems to have an outsized effect on those from the Northeast, who speak his language best.
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Both blocs have sworn not to make a deal with the Sweden Democrats, the right-wing, anti-immigration party that now controls enough seats to play kingmaker.
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"This could definitely damage his chances in the district — with voters, with people who are trying to play kingmaker," said Brendan Steinhauser, an Austin-based Republican strategist.
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The ballot's wildcard, former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, emerged as a likely kingmaker as head of the secular-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, projected to capture nine seats.
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During the first half of "The Kingmaker," filmmaker Lauren Greenfield's fresh look at Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines first lady appears vulgar and bombastic yet fundamentally harmless.
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He continued to stumble through his self-appointed role of kingmaker, holding off supporting Clinton — whose 2000 U.S. Senate campaign he managed — while declining to back Sanders.
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He said he's either going to partner with a broad range of "Jewish and democratic" parties — including the ultra-nationalist party led by apparent kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman.
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Mr. Adelson is a much-courted Republican kingmaker, but the paper said its editorial board had met with Mr. Rubio two months before Mr. Adelson's purchase was announced.
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It will have to depend on its alliance with the small Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, which with its 49 lawmakers finds itself in the position of kingmaker.
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Malema is the leader of the ultra-left EFF party which emerged as electoral kingmaker in Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria at municipal elections in August last year.
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Before inauguration, Thiel even officially joined Trump's transition team — assuming the sort of kingmaker role that his friend, Hoffman, might have held if the election had resolved differently.
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In the early 2000s, after evolving into the DA, it took power in Cape Town, then became the kingmaker in the Western Cape, which remains its power base.
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When we saw that Adam R. Perlman, who wrote our favorite season 2 episode, "The Kingmaker," was credited for this episode, we prepared for the best of Billions.
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And Trump needs to show early on that he's not being unduly influenced by anyone or allowing any staffer to gain too much attention as a supposed kingmaker.
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Officials who have met him think he may act as a kingmaker, rather than a future Palestinian president, throwing his support behind another senior Fatah figure as leader.
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That said, there are moments when you wish that Greenfield had pushed harder in "The Kingmaker," say, by taking a closer look at American intervention in the Philippines.
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As we wrote in April in our inaugural list of 100 people transforming the world of business, "Masa," as Son is known, emerged as Silicon Valley's new kingmaker.
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His grand design for the region would be no more than a chimera, and his money-powered ambition to be a kingmaker on the world scene would evaporate.Repression
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"Macron thinks he can be the kingmaker ... [with] oversize influence in picking the president of the European Commission," said Celia Belin, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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It regularly stages colorful protests at Ms. Merkel's rallies, but runs the risk of making itself a political gadfly rather than the kingmaker it had hoped to be.
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Instead, "The Kingmaker" chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law.
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Just before Memorial Day, at the suggestion of the longtime Democratic kingmaker Robert S. Strauss, Mr. Rohatyn was summoned from Lazard to the Midtown Manhattan offices of Gov.
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And the group's decision not to back House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy prompted McCarthy to pull out of the race and positioned the Freedom Caucus as a kingmaker.
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After Andalusia's election, Vox helped form a regional right-wing coalition government — a role of kingmaker that it could repeat at a national level in Spain's fractured politics.
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With Sharif or Khan likely unable to form a government on their own, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples Party could play a vital role as kingmaker.
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His main rival is former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, a pro-Iranian politician re-emerging as a possible kingmaker or even for a return to the premiership itself.
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"Macron wants to be seen as the kingmaker and we can accommodate that, because the EU's credibility is at stake," said a senior EU official involved in the reform.
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When asked how long his negotiations might take, he threatened to throw a reporter into the ocean (they lasted two months the previous time he was kingmaker, in 1996).
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Such a role - religious guide and political kingmaker - would fit with the patriarchal status the Sadr religious dynasty has for many Shi'ite Arabs in Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait and Bahrain.
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READ: Hollywood is turning its back on former kingmaker Harvey Weinstein The New Yorker also released an audio recording made during a 2015 New York Police Department sting operation.
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In a May state election in Bremen, they emerged as kingmaker, but joined hands with the SPD and radical left instead of the conservatives, who had won most votes.
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Bannon, the argument goes, had a reputation as a kingmaker, but is now revealed to be a Wizard of Oz who impressed the credulous but possessed no real magic.
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Politico has posted a devastating autopsy of the "Progressive Agenda" campaign that de Blasio launched in 2015 in a failed attempt to become a liberal kingmaker in American politics.
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It would be too much to call Ailes himself a kingmaker in 1996, but his experience in political media and Republican administrations ensured his voice would be listened to.
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So it's fitting that her new film The Kingmaker looks at one of the most famously extravagant women in recent history: Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines.
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The younger Mr. Zardari is not expected to win, but he could potentially play kingmaker if neither Mr. Khan nor Mr. Sharif receives enough votes to form a government.
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"What President Sirisena has done is illegal and undemocratic," said Rishad Bathiudeen, a Muslim lawmaker and leader of a party that has often played kingmaker in Sri Lankan coalitions.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. worried aloud last year that creating a legal standard to identify partisan gerrymanders would turn the court into a sort of electoral kingmaker.
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If Mr. Berlusconi emerges from the wilderness to become an Italian kingmaker, that too could roil Europe, given that he has previously scoffed at European rules limiting deficit spending.
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But a run for speaker could make Mr. Jordan a kingmaker who could use his coalition of hard-liners to set the terms for the next Republican leadership slate.
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Mr. Peters, 72, who is poised to act as kingmaker, did not tip his hand on Saturday, boarding a ferry to go home as reporters peppered him with questions.
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So Carter's victories in Iowa and the general election weren't just great for him — they ended up being great for Iowa, which could now claim to be a kingmaker.
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Max Irons portrays Edward IV, of the House of York, who is crowned king with the help of his mentor and adviser, Lord Warwick (James Frain), called the Kingmaker.
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Just like voters who remain unable to choose a candidate until the last minute, those party leaders who once played kingmaker roles have also been unable to take sides.
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An adviser to Abdullah blamed Karzai and his handpicked election commissioners, saying that they wanted power to revert to agreements among élites, with Karzai as kingmaker, if not king.
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Anti-immigrant party Vox won 12 seats in the Andalusian parliament, handing it a regional kingmaker role long unthinkable in a country with bitter memories of military dictatorship still acute.
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He is expected to meet separately tomorrow with Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, who has emerged as a kingmaker because his secular conservative party is allied with neither Gantz nor Netanyahu.
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So it is the PD—not, as widely expected before the vote, Mr Berlusconi—that is the post-electoral kingmaker, though exercising that power could split the already disunited party.
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In local elections in 2016 it captured 12 percent, allowing it to play kingmaker in urban regions where neither of the top two parties managed to get past 50 percent.
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Trump, who like most Republicans backed the establishment candidate Luther Strange in Alabama's primary, is eager to prove that he's still a kingmaker, even with poll numbers in the 30s.
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He's seen as a long shot for the post, but has the support from the House Freedom Caucus, which is setting itself up to be a kingmaker in the selection.
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"The Kingmaker" may be Greenfield's boldest character study yet, as it balances its subject's self-mythologizing with frequent reminders of the damage the Marcos' lavish lifestyle did to their country.
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Facebook's role as a kingmaker among publishers has played a central role in a debate over the responsibilities that social media companies have to police content on their own platforms.
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"Those grades used to be seen as a kingmaker at election time," said Mr. Feinblatt, the Everytown president, who said they were now "a scarlet letter" for many swing voters.
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Now a kingmaker, Lieberman wants a "national unity" government involving both Likud and Blue and White, but excluding Arab parties on the left and ultra-Orthodox parties on the right.
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Warren's candidacy has also garnered praise from former Senate majority leader and Nevada kingmaker Harry Reid, who personally asked her to get into the 2020 race in the first place.
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"Jordan has no shot at getting elected Speaker but he could be a spoiler and he could be a kingmaker," said one GOP lawmaker close to the current leadership team.
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The party could emerge as kingmaker when it comes to forming a state government — a sea change from five years ago when it squeaked into the legislature in each state.
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The party could emerge as kingmaker when it comes to forming a state government — a sea change from five years ago when it squeaked into the legislature in each state.
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This week's episode, titled "The Kingmaker," compares Axe's impetuousness with the patrician calm of Jack Foley (David Strathairn), a man who exemplifies the difference between being wealthy and being rich.
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Instead, it tells us Veidt in this version of Watchmen parlayed his '80s costumed vigilantism into a follow-up career as a "political kingmaker" and industrialist with a corporate empire.
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Even with Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Kemp walking a careful line with the president, Mr. Trump has seemed to relish playing kingmaker after getting a taste of it in 2018.
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But with both Perez and Ellison within striking distance of the majority of the DNC's 447 voting members, Harrison's support could push Perez over the edge -- and make Harrison the kingmaker.
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And he has not received a significant piece of help: an endorsement from Bernie Sanders , a rising kingmaker in the world of progressive Democratic politics, and, perhaps more important, his father.
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Here, the UAE has sought to become a major political actor, maintaining a formidable military presence, handing out lavish economic aid and taking on the role of kingmaker and peace broker.
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Ailes was removed from his kingmaker platform on the very day when Donald Trump — whose candidacy had been bolstered by Fox News throughout his campaign — addressed the 20 Republican National Convention.
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Why it matters: DoorDash is in a battle for market share with rivals like GrubHub and Uber Eats, with some in the space believing that cash will be the ultimate kingmaker.
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Weinstein may never really be excised from Hollywood, but he'll never wield the kingmaker status he once did, a shift that will definitely resonate come this awards season, and many thereafter.
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We're seeing it as the 2020 race heats up, and the traditional voices of the establishment stay silent: The closest thing to a kingmaker for the Democratic field is President Obama.
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Lieutenant General Gaid Salah's comments were the strongest hint yet that the military would play its traditional role as kingmaker following veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika's resignation after 20 years in office.
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It has introduced advanced Sukhoi jets, coordinated missile strikes, and precision-guided artillery, as well as the snipers — the same playbook that made Moscow a kingmaker in the Syrian civil war.
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More accurately, Erdogan could not have won if not for the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which has emerged as the "kingmaker" of Turkish politics with its support of Erdogan.
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Son has turned himself into a kingmaker in the global tech industry after launching the $93 billion Vision Fund last year, with nearly half the cash coming from the Saudi government.
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Jordan then becomes the kingmaker, the man who can make either McCarthy or Scalise speaker -- so long as they are willing to give him (and the Freedom Caucus) what he wants.
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Mr. Nix and his colleagues courted Mr. Mercer, who believed a sophisticated data company could make him a kingmaker in Republican politics, and his daughter Rebekah, who shared his conservative views.
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The unlikeliest kingmaker was Moshe Feiglin, last seen in Israeli politics pushing a far-right agenda of annexation of the entire West Bank, including a Jewish takeover of the Temple Mount.
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At Jazz Standard he will perform music from the new album, "Kingmaker," with Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Jeremy Corren on piano, Kanoa Mendenhall on bass and Jeremy Dutton on drums.
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Still, he could end up as a surprise kingmaker if, as some predict, neither of the main two political parties emerge with a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
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Unless Bannon somehow turns around his clumsy beginning as a midterm election kingmaker, his most likely future role is as yet another Trump critic who gets airtime once in a while.
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It was the religious right's weakness, which meant it couldn't play kingmaker in the primary, that made Mr. Trump's nomination possible, but his victory has given the movement tremendous new power.
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Compounded with the fact since 2008, there has been no single "kingmaker" within the GOP, the party is in a rudderless position which arguably it hasn't experienced since the late 1970s.
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Term limits forced Mr. Vallone from office in 2002, and in the jockeying to replace him, the Bronx-Queens alliance emerged as kingmaker, electing a Manhattanite, A. Gifford Miller, as speaker.
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It's reportedly in talks with tech kingmaker SoftBank (SFTBY) about an investment that would value it around $75 billion, a huge jump from the $20 billion valuation it secured last year.
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The Iowa governor is also a GOP kingmaker as the highest-elected Republican in the crucial first primary state, but he didn't endorse Trump until May, after the GOP field had cleared.
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The ruling National Party won the most seats in Saturday's general election, but failed to secure enough to form a government, leaving the New Zealand First Party in the position of kingmaker.
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Its newest investor, Fidelity, is well known in the startup world as a kingmaker — it has backed the likes of Uber, Snapchat, Airbnb and SpaceX with large rounds and ever-larger valuations.
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As the Socialists would probably need to again seek either a similar alliance or a coalition partner to govern, a potential new kingmaker has emerged as the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN).
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Farage will still run in seats held by the opposition Labour Party, opening up the possibility that he could yet be a kingmaker with just a few seats in a hung parliament.
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With the United States now taking a diplomatic back seat, Russia - whose military intervention turned the tide of Syria's war and helped President Bashar al-Assad recapture Aleppo - is potentially a kingmaker.
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At the White House on Wednesday morning, aides who had kept a watchful eye on Mr. Bannon's efforts to make himself a kingmaker saw an opening to finally rid themselves of him.
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So by the time Harry Reid, the Democratic "kingmaker," announced his support for Biden, the field had been largely cleared for a "comeback" by the two time failed candidate for the presidency.
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Vladimir Putin wants to be able to tell Russians that "Russia is back" as a superpower and that he's the kingmaker in Syria — but he isn't putting any Russian soldiers at risk.
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Bravo's ads often focus on the boat's captain, "stud of the sea" Lee Rosbach, who also gets routinely interviewed on Bravo kingmaker Andy Cohen's late-night talk show Watch What Happens Live.
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He is part scholar and part kingmaker, a conscientious white man in a Billy Reid sport coat who makes his living wrestling with the food legacy of a region built on slavery.
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With weeks to go before the election, the poll showed the CUP, kingmaker for the pro-secessionists in the dismissed 135-seat parliament, would win seven seats, down from a current 10.
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Ted Cruz, a death threat against Hillary Clinton by a Trump campaign adviser, a plagiarism scandal, and even, outside the convention, the resignation of Republican kingmaker Roger Ailes, the boss of Fox News.
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It's been a tough week for de Blasio, who got his comeuppance for trying to establish himself as a Democratic Party kingmaker by being sent on a lonely walk through the Iowan hinterland.
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The lethal roadside bomb killed and wounded hundreds of coalition troops — and was choice for a militia under the control of a man who's now poised to be kingmaker in Iraq's new government.
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Kingmaker Sadr's capacity to reinvent his role in Iraqi politics, and to tap into a strong vein of Shia protest, has helped him survive and outmaneuver many rivals over the past 13 years.
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But Mr. Barghouti is serving five consecutive life terms for murder, so he may be less candidate than kingmaker, operating from behind bars through his influential wife, Fadwa, and a network of supporters.
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His main rival is former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a pro-Iranian politician who started positioning himself last year as a possible kingmaker or even for a return to the premiership itself.
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The new president, Ilir Meta, has twice served briefly as a Socialist prime minister before forming a breakaway party that for the past eight years has alternately played kingmaker to both main parties.
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Being a liberal kingmaker who changes the course of American politics, American government and American history is not the worst consolation prize for progressives who care deeply about the future of the nation.
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Reid can play a kingmaker role in Nevada politics and had a substantial role in helping Catherine Cortez Masto win a bid to fill his seat in 2016 after he announced his retirement.
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But it was still short of a majority in the 151-seat Parliament, even with the support of the center-right Most party, or Bridge, whose 13 seats make it a likely kingmaker.
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The survey's inconclusive split between pro-unity and pro-independence parties would leave the regional offshoot of left-wing party Podemos, which supports unity but wants a referendum on independence, as potential kingmaker.
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President Donald Trump flexed his kingmaker ability in Republican primaries across the country this year, deciding whether to sink or help candidates in a party that has increasingly cast itself in his image.
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This reality clearly shaped Buttigieg's and Klobuchar's decisions to end their campaigns — impressive instances of politicians sublimating their own personal interests (amassing delegates and potentially being a convention kingmaker) to a larger principle.
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The defendant Harvey Weinstein was for years a Hollywood kingmaker, turning out Oscar-winning movies and presenting himself as a champion of liberal causes, even as he was shadowed by sexual misconduct allegations.
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Mr. Liberman is not popular enough to replace Mr. Netanyahu himself but his party is expected to win enough seats to make him a kingmaker, capable of throwing the premiership to someone else.
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Avigdor Liberman, leader of the secular, right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, which won eight seats, is in position to be a kingmaker, but said on Sunday that he would not recommend any candidate.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's one-time kingmaker and intelligence chief went on trial on Monday along with his successor and a brother of the ousted president for "conspiring against the army", state radio reported.
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The shortage of seats has left Sanchez and his party courting Catalan separatist party ERC, whose 13 seats offer the party a chance to play the role of potential kingmaker in the government.
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In an interview with "The Jamie Weinstein Show" for the conservative National Review, Cuban says the former top Trump aide revels in being a "kingmaker" who used Trump to pad his own influence.
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The opposition protests, held each Tuesday and Friday since February, seek to bring down the ruling elite, push the military from its decades-old place as kingmaker in national politics and end corruption.
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His brother Álvaro Uribe, Colombia's former president, has long been the country's most influential politician and has just re-emerged as its kingmaker after his handpicked candidate won the presidential election in June.
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"My feeling is he has so much more power as a potential kingmaker outside of the process than a candidate inside the process," said one Democratic activist who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
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But lawmaker Edward Yiu said Saturday there was a rare opportunity next year for the pro-democracy minority on the election committee to play kingmaker in a split vote between two pro-government candidates.
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Neither alliance included the two main Kurdish parties, positioning them to reprise the kingmaker role they have historically played, as their combined 43 seats would give whichever alliance they join a sizable numerical advantage.
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The move, denounced by his supporters as illegal, has made the 153-year-old political philosophy graduate a kingmaker among the city's more radical parties and the figurehead of the Hong Kong independence movement.
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He was ejected from the ANC after being convicted of hate speech and created the EFF in 2013 which grew to be strong enough to be a 'kingmaker' in local government elections in 2016.
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Iowa's Bob Vander Plaats, who has traditionally been seen as a kingmaker for the religious right in the Iowa caucus, didn't just endorse Cruz — he went after Jerry Falwell Jr. after Falwell endorsed Trump.
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He's championed so many filmmakers and been the architect of so many careers, he's been such a kingmaker, that as long as he can bring the money in, they'll be able to forgive him.
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Guaido has called on supporters to continue to take to the streets to put pressure on Maduro and the country's powerful military, which analysts say could serve as a potential kingmaker in the crisis.
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The New York kingmaker Black Jack Foley (portrayed by the glamorously graying actor David Strathairn) has no agenda other than to secretly be in charge of whoever is publicly in charge of the state.
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But one of her supporters, David Mabuza — who had become a kingmaker by diverting government money to finance his political rise — flipped his votes at the last minute, handing Mr. Ramaphosa a slim victory.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's former defense chief Avigdor Lieberman, a possible kingmaker in the parliamentary election held on Tuesday, called for a national unity government after exit polls showed no clear winner at the ballot.
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Massiah wants to play kingmaker in Italy's fragmented banking sector and is expected to explore other merger routes and hire at least one more bank to help him forge another deal, the sources said.
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Based on this strategy, Mr. Liberman almost doubled the number of seats he will have in the next Knesset, and made himself an undisputable kingmaker — no bloc can form a government without his support.
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Roger Ailes, the closest thing in modern U.S. politics to a kingmaker, today stepped down as head of Fox News, the network he founded 20 years ago and turned into a potent political force.
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Mr. Sadr and his fearsome militia were once a primary enemy of the United States, and he played many roles in shaping Iraq after the American invasion: populist cleric, Iranian proxy, Iraqi patriot, political kingmaker.
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Still, now that he's in the tent, Lieberman may try to act more responsibly; he knows that failing as defense minister will ruin any chance of becoming prime rinister or a kingmaker in Israeli politics.
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The race changed perceptions of King — now less a political kingmaker, more a political liability who has never introduced a bill that became a law and had trouble hanging on to a safe Trump seat.
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The biggest fish in all of this is most certainly Weinstein, who made his reputation as a kingmaker in Hollywood who could take an independent film or a talented actress and make Oscars rain down.
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The Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats — the third and fourth largest parties respectively — are expected to improve their seat allocation and may be able to act as a "kingmaker" when final results come in.
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Only three years old, Mr. Malema's party gained 8.2 percent of the vote nationally; today it can play the role of kingmaker in the three Gauteng cities including Johannesburg, where no party won a majority.
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For someone who wanted to play kingmaker, de Blasio transformed his 2016 campaign misadventures into a long and largely pointless show of penance, wandering the cold streets of Iowa to knock on doors for Clinton.
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Ubolratana's chances at winning are considered strong since she represents a group affiliated with Thaksin, a kingmaker whose parties and affiliated factions — such as the opposition Pheu Thai — have won every Thai election since 2001.
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"Kingmaker," his major-label debut, out now on Blue Note, shows that he has what it takes to build something vital on the over-farmed terrain of mainstream jazz, largely by reckoning with conflicting histories.
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If that were to happen, it could make Ms. Sturgeon a kingmaker, and her price for supporting a minority Labour government could be permission from that government to allow Scotland to hold another independence referendum.
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The ruling party results on Tuesday could launch former Netanyahu deputy Avigdor Liberman to become a kingmaker on a path to one day replace Netanyahu, or cast him into political oblivion (The New York Times).
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The potential new kingmaker is Avigdor Lieberman, a far-right immigrant from Moldova who lives in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and who served as an aide to Netanyahu during the 1990s.
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"In the last ten to twelve years, the NAO seems to have become the kingmaker of melting," Michael Bevis, a geophysicist at Ohio State University and lead author on the aforementioned PNAS paper, told Motherboard.
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Bannon is also setting himself up as the conservative kingmaker — both the man who vets the candidates, and the man that can bring together the full force of the MAGA movement behind his preferred pick.
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It saved Mr Assad at relatively small cost to itself, became the kingmaker in Syria and returned as a power-broker in the Middle East for the first time since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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It had been widely expected that Mr Berlusconi would emerge as the post-election kingmaker: able to bless or block an alliance between his own centre-right party and the governing centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
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CNBC looks at the main issues: A day ahead of the vote, polls continue to indicate that the smaller parties and independent candidates could play a crucial "kingmaker" role when it comes to forming a government.
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If Croatia gets another hung parliament, as many expect, opinion polls say the likely kingmaker would once again be the reformist Most party, or Bridge, which now has the support of about 10 percent of voters.
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MARCH 1 The Philippines' former first lady Imelda Marcos tells her own story in "The Kingmaker," a documentary about her and her husband Ferdinand's rise and fall — and about her recent attempts to rehabilitate her image.
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A far-right party, Vox, was set to win its first seats in Parliament, but without enough votes to play the role of kingmaker and help form a governing right-wing coalition, according to preliminary results.
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But Netanyahu's political fate could ultimately end up in the hands of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu headed by former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a potential kingmaker in the coalition-building certain to follow the vote.
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The former vice president's White House bid received a much-needed boost Wednesday when Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress and a kingmaker of sorts in South Carolina Democratic politics, formally endorsed his campaign.
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The contacts also underline how President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, focused on stopping the West encroaching on Russia's sphere of influence, has turned the Kremlin into de facto kingmaker in parts of the former Soviet Union.
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The kingmaker in these elections -- former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and his eight-seat Yisrael Beiteinu Party -- refuses to sit with the Arab parties or the ultra-Orthodox religious parties, meaning Gantz and Netanyahu are stuck.
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Mr. Scholten, who could be a kingmaker in the Iowa caucuses and often appears with 2020 candidates at forums on rural issues, said in an interview that he had expected to make an endorsement this month.
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Iowa became the first state to hold its caucus in 1972, and Jimmy Carter turned the sleepy state into a kingmaker four years later by riding his early victory all the way to the White House.
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Making matters worse for Sweden's more liberal politicians, the election saw the far-right Sweden Democrats party increase its share of the vote, becoming something of a "kingmaker" in the formation of a new coalition government.
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The Social Democrats (SPO) have also opened the door to forming coalitions with the FPO, meaning the far-right party is placed to be kingmaker and play the two parties off each other during coalition talks.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - His political platform might be just a pipe dream - a heady mix of pot legalization and biblical temple reconstruction - but far-right candidate Moshe Feiglin could be a kingmaker in Israel's election on Tuesday.
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So it can be easy to miss something right in front of our faces: We're living in an era when blacks have essentially played kingmaker in the most important elections in the nation (thus also the world).
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That's not simply because, in the face of waning poll numbers, his grassroots activist network had just helped deliver a record turnout for Cruz, solidifying King's status as a kingmaker in the ever-important early-voting state.
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Meanwhile, the right-wing Freedom Party is vying for second place — and the role of kingmaker — with 27 percent of the vote, closely followed by the center-left Social Democrats (SPO) with 23 percent of the vote.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, instead, looks to be the kingmaker in Syria, after signing a deal with Turkey that apportioned influence in northern Syria and could determine the future of the country after years of civil war.
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Former Hollywood kingmaker Harvey Weinstein this week was named in dozens of sexual harassment allegations, abandoned by his former supporters, pushed out of the company that bears his name, and left by his wife of 10 years.
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Infantino made no public pronouncements ahead of the contest, though he had emerged as a potential kingmaker when he attended a function in Zimbabwe last month in what was seen as a sign of support for Ahmad.
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But even if his group's coalition does not get an outright majority, he could still be a kingmaker in a broad government and would be in a position to exercise influence on his rival's assets in Italy.
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Gabriel details Helen Frankenthaler's almost comically determined pursuit, when she was twenty-one, of the infamously brutish forty-one-year-old kingmaker, and the five-year affair that placed her at the center of the art world.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - An election could be a year away in army-ruled Thailand, but Anutin Charnvirakul is already eyeing a role as a potential kingmaker with ties across the traditional political divide and to the politicized generals.
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Avigdor Liberman, the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party — a kingmaker in the previous election who has won a crucial eight seats that could sway either candidate to victory — has so far refused to endorse either party.
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Asked if she's received any advice from the former Senate majority leader and political kingmaker (or queenmaker), she nodded: "Know who you are, stay true to yourself, stay true to your values, and be a straight shooter."
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But the separatist coalition fell short of a parliamentary majority, allowing a small and leaderless far-left party, Popular Unity Candidacy, to step in and play the role of kingmaker in a Catalan Parliament dominated by separatists.
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In exile in Rome, Cardinal Law was permitted to keep the powerful role he had played for years as a kingmaker of American bishops, serving on the Vatican committee charged with advising the pope on bishops' assignments.
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One possible power broker is Miquel Iceta, the Socialist leader in Catalonia, who is known to enjoy dancing during his party rallies but has shed his ebullient approach to convince voters that he can be Catalonia's kingmaker.
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It doesn't matter; journalists, delegates, family of delegates, younger Congress members — they all are attacked by the rampaging cops with many a score to settle, urged on and unleashed by the profane mayor, Boss Daley, kingmaker, Democrat.
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But Mahathir was appointed interim prime minister by the Malaysian king hours after he submitted his resignation — a development that some analysts said has set the veteran politician up to be the kingmaker of Malaysia's political future.
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The most recent election in November left the two parties with a combined 155 seats, short of a majority in Spain's 350-member lower house, and thrusting ERC and its 13 representatives into the role of kingmaker.
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Putnam toiled for years after leaving Congress in 2010 to lay the groundwork for this gubernatorial run and saw his best laid plans upended by an endorsement from Trump, the undisputed GOP kingmaker in this primary season.
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The position of the defeated Democratic Party (PD), which led the outgoing government, could yet prove pivotal because it will have numbers in the new parliament to become prospective kingmaker for either the right or 5-Star.
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It was a striking setback for a president who proclaimed himself his party's kingmaker in last year's midterms, but has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to pushing his chosen candidates to victory in general elections.
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Though Mr. Jack smartly declined to run against Mr. Powell, he agreed to recruit and campaign for another black challenger, whom Mr. Powell proceeded to trounce, with the help of the Harlem Democratic kingmaker J. Raymond Jones.
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Through that experience, he became lifelong friends with the late Cuban exile and political kingmaker Jorge Mas Canosa, a reported benefactor and with whom he graduated from the U.S. Army&aposs officer training school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Regional party Janata Dal (Secular), together with smaller ally the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is likely to win 40 seats and emerge as the kingmaker in an assembly that needs 113 seats for a majority, the poll showed.
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Washington (CNN)Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's coalition election victory in Iraq raises the prospect that the man many US military officials hold responsible for the deaths of US troops could become a kingmaker in Iraqi politics.
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Austria's FPO is poised to become kingmaker as a junior coalition party, with conservative front-runner Sebastian Kurz expected to gain around a third of the vote with his tough rhetoric on fighting immigration and Islamic "parallel societies".
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Lonesome Rhodes, a charismatic Southern singing jailbird (Andy Griffith, surpassing his television roles), is groomed into a TV star by a reporter (Patricia Neal), eventually becoming a political kingmaker felled by his libido, raging hypocrisy and hollow populism.
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Propelled by the coveted endorsement of the Palmetto State's Jim Clyburn -- a kingmaker and the highest-ranking black American in Congress -- as well as by the state's majority-black Democratic electorate, Biden trounced Sanders by nearly 30 points.
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Some fret that if Iowa loses its role as kingmaker, the nominating process will wind up dominated by megastates, like California, Florida and Texas, which would benefit candidates with massive bank accounts or near-universal name recognition. Poppycock.
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The Liberals and Conservatives have been in a statistical tie nationally in the polls in recent weeks, while the NDP and Greens are battling for third place and possible kingmaker status in the event of a minority government.
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TOPOLCANY, Slovakia (Reuters) - Slovakia's far right leader began the year on trial on charges of spreading hate but could end up as kingmaker in a tight parliamentary election next week, adding to nationalist challenges confronting the European Union.
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Neither had enough support, at first glance, for a governing coalition of 61 legislators, and Netanyahu's ally-turned-rival, former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, emerged as a likely kingmaker as head of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu party.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the New Zealand First Party, which emerged as the kingmaker after an inconclusive weekend election, said on Wednesday he would not make a decision on who should form government until after the Oct.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) hopes to reclaim its traditional role as kingmaker after September's national election, but its leader proved coy on Tuesday over which of the two main parties it might join in coalition.
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Even before his re-election, Bouteflika moved steadily to erase the influence of the powerful DRS military intelligence service that had often played the role of kingmaker after independence in 1962 and extended its sway during the 1990s war.
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At the top of the playlist game is Spotify, which has become a kingmaker with hand-curated playlists such as RapCaviar and Rock This, helping it build out what it deems is the clearest representation of the sonic landscape.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A party of South African radical leftists has emerged as electoral kingmaker in major cities Pretoria and Johannesburg, giving a first taste of power to an ANC renegade who was once an acolyte of President Jacob Zuma.
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Nonetheless, he has been touring the country, addressing huge crowds in the company of local barons such as Newin Chidchob, from the populous north-east, who used to act as a political kingmaker before the military coup of 22.5.
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"You may like him or not, but there's no doubt he will be the leader of the coming months in Europe, with a crucial role of kingmaker," Italy's former prime minister Matteo Renzi told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
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Mediene, one of whose nicknames was the "King of Algeria", had long played the role of political kingmaker, analysts said, influencing leadership choices in backroom tussles between civilian and military factions even while trying to maintain stability among them.
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Another potential kingmaker is the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN), which has recently won a seat in the European Parliament after garnering 5% of the vote in May on a wave of concern about climate change and the environment.
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Renew Europe will be the third-biggest grouping in the 751-seat parliament and with neither the mainstream conservative nor social democrat parties holding a majority, the new liberal grouping says it can be a kingmaker in EU policymaking.
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Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Koch network has spent on politics in recent years, Mr. Koch has always been unnerved at seeing portrayals of himself as a Republican kingmaker, people close to him have said.
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Mr. Lieberman, whose five seats made him a kingmaker, said he supported Mr. Netanyahu but had refused to compromise with religious parties on a law that would end the wholesale exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from the military draft.
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Since the last election, a potential new kingmaker has emerged, the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN), which recently won a seat in the European Parliament and, according to some polls, could take 4% of the vote in the Oct.
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Though the D.J. has released several mixtapes of his own, including this spring's "Kolorblind," the main draw of this Fourth of July party is to hear whatever up-and-coming artists the trap kingmaker is planning to anoint next.
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Roger Ailes, the ousted chief of Fox News who built the network into a conservative empire and became a kingmaker for the Republican party before being pushed out last summer, died today, according to a statement from his wife.
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But with early results showing the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) party winning between three and five Senate seats, it became clear the restaurant's charcoal grill was the only reason for Australia's next political kingmaker to break into a sweat.
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Breaking from the government's landlord-friendly policies, the party proposed freezing rents and building 100,000 homes, plans that dovetailed with housing protests of recent years and that have turned the party into a kingmaker in Ireland's splintered political scene.
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While the Democratic Party performed badly in the election, it nonetheless could have a decisive factor in the formation of a government, playing something of the role of "kingmaker," either choosing to support or oppose a proposed coalition government.
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's failed election gamble has cast a party in Northern Ireland in the role of kingmaker, giving the province an unexpected chance to have a big say in Britain's divorce from the European Union.
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With neither of the mainstream conservative and social democrat parties holding a majority, the new liberal grouping says it can be a kingmaker in EU policymaking and deciding top jobs such as the new head of the European Commission.
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Under Tillerson's direction, Exxon has been an influential kingmaker in geopolitics, often pursuing an agenda, from Russia to Iraq, that, according to reporting by Steve Coll and others, has prioritized shareholders but directly conflicted with the best interests of America.
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The nationalist New Zealand First Party, which could be a kingmaker after the vote, has also said it would renegotiate the TPP but would unlikely have enough leverage to make this a bottom-line in a coalition government, analysts say.
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WELLINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The kingmaker in New Zealand's general election said on Sunday that he has begun talking with members of his right-wing party about who they will support, but declined to put a timeframe on a decision.
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Lieutenant General Gaid Salah's comments were the strongest hint yet that the military would play its traditional role as kingmaker after the ailing 82-year-old Bouteflika bowed to popular pressure and quit on April 2 after 20 years in power.
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WELLINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - New Zealand Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday evening she did not expect any immediate talks with populist politician Winston Peters, whose party was poised to play kingmaker after the hotly contested national elections.
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"Even if he finished second behind Le Pen, Macron's party has more chances of being in a pivotal role - even one of kingmaker - than Marine Le Pen's party," Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of the ECFR think-tank's Paris office, told Reuters.
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Once the DUP had kingmaker power over May's government, it made sure to block any Irish border solutions that treated Northern Ireland differently from the rest of the U.K., which had become May's central dilemma in getting a deal through Parliament.
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Mr. Bernard may have a reputation as a kingmaker, or "spiritual power broker," as Bill Cunningham, the political consultant and former communications director for Mr. Bloomberg, described him recently, following a storied tradition of influential black pastors in New York City.
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LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain is likely to enter arduous talks on its exit from the European Union without a deal to keep Prime Minister Theresa May in power as negotiations with a Northern Irish "kingmaker" party grind into a second week.
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Such a coalition, in which Macron's potential 20-24 MEPs would likely be the biggest contingent, could put the French leader in the position of kingmaker, since polls show the EPP and the Socialists are both unlikely to win a majority.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The New Zealand First Party, which emerged as a kingmaker after New Zealand's election in September, will begin preliminary talks with both the ruling National Party and separately with the Labour Party this week, according to a media release.
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At a minimum, the United States, perceived widely as the kingmaker in Afghanistan, can use its influence to shape the Afghan political scene by holding Afghan warlords and other undesirables accountable for their nefarious actions within and outside the Afghan government.
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Although some, including the literary kingmaker H.L. Mencken, lavished "Winesburg" with praise — "Here, indeed, is a piece of work that stands out from the common run of fiction like the Alps from the Piedmont plain," he wrote — many reviewers were savage.
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But to seal his new post, Mr. Ramaphosa first had to secure the backing of Mr. Mabuza, 2190, who built such a formidable political machine that he became kingmaker in the back-room negotiations to choose South Africa's new president.
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He is now one of Israel's most prominent politicians and opinion polls suggest he could emerge as a kingmaker after an election on Tuesday, putting him in a position where he could possibly end the prime minister's decade in power.
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Since the last election, a potential new kingmaker has emerged, the People-Animals-Nature party (PAN), which recently won a seat in the European Parliament and, according to some polls, could take more than 4% of the vote in the Oct.
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A businessman with a thirst for politics Trump's champion in agriculture circles has fashioned a persona not dissimilar to the candidate's: a big-time businessman who recently developed an insatiable thirst for politics and an interest in becoming a political kingmaker.
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The biggest winner in Iraq's last election was the party backed by Moqtada al-Sadr, a nationalist cleric who opposes both American and Iranian involvement in Iraq, but the kingmaker was a bloc representing Iraqi militia groups with links to Iran.
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"The Bloc Quebecois might be interesting to mention … They could quite easily gain seats (because they had few in 2015 compared to previous performance) and potentially become a 'kingmaker,' that is, obtaining the balance of the power," McGill University's Daoust said.
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Altman, a Silicon Valley "kingmaker " and President of Y Combinator, an elite Silicon Valley startup incubator, is an icon in Silicon Valley; many startup founders might be reluctant to cold-call him lest they start out on the wrong foot.
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Analysts say the Democrats could be the second largest winning party on Sunday, and if that's the case, party leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, could play kingmaker, but he has ruled out forming a coalition with Thaksin's Pheu Thai.
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The surprise result of Britain's snap election that backfired on Prime Minister Theresa May and weakened her Conservative Party may have stunned no one more than the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which now holds the unlikely role of kingmaker.
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His only hope, if one assumes he's running to win and not to play a kingmaker role, is that the delegates at the convention might choose him if no one else has established the necessary majority on the first ballot.
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After documenting one of Florida's most opulent homeowners in The Queen of Versailles and rich people across the world in Generation Wealth, Lauren Greenfield's newest film, The Kingmaker, looks at a different kind of power, one that money alone can't buy.
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BERLIN, April 21 (Reuters) - Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party, a potential kingmaker after September's national election, ruled out joining any coalition that would provide a financial bail-out to another euro zone country without the participation of the International Monetary Fund.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The flagbearer of President Emmanuel Macron's European election challenge on Sunday foresaw building a centrist alliance of more than 100 lawmakers, enough she said to thrust the French leader and his grouping into the position of kingmaker in the chamber.
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With 43 percent of votes counted, the HDZ had 61 seats, pushing the Social Democrats into second place with 54, but were still short of a majority in the 151-seat parliament even with the support of Most ("Bridge"), the likely kingmaker party.
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Vox secured one in 10 votes and 24 seats, the first far-right party to get a sizeable presence in parliament since the country's return to democracy in the late 1970s, but it did not get the kingmaker role it was looking for.
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Far-right Vox, which for the first time got lawmakers into parliament with 10% of last month's vote, wants to be a kingmaker in regions, replicating the deal it struck last year with right-wing parties in Andalusia, Spain's most populous region.
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A tie with the Congress Party — which suffered its worst ever defeat in 2014 — could pose a stiff challenge to Modi and even lead to a deadlocked outcome in which Mayawati has the role of kingmaker in choosing the next prime minister.
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Because the company's backers include some of the nation's largest real estate and construction firms, Fifth Wall has deep insights into which types of technologies will be most interesting to the industry and can play the role of kingmaker, according to Wallace.
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The European Council is the power behind this throne, feeding in whatever policy priorities can be agreed by a roomful of heads of government/state of the EU's (currently) 28 members — in addition to playing kingmaker by nominating their choice for Commission president.
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In 2013, Ahmad was lauded as the "kingmaker" who engineered Thomas Bach's ascension to the presidency of the International Olympic Committee; helped Tokyo secure the hosting rights for the 2020 Olympics; and delivered the vital vote that kept wrestling in the Summer Games.
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In late 2014, Joseph Percoco, a well-known and feared fixture in Albany and one of the governor's closest confidantes, was alternately a kingmaker and a roadblock, a gatekeeper for those entering state employment and a barricade against those seeking to leave it.
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"In the case where the party that gets the most votes can't work with the smaller kingmaker party, sometimes you also have a coalition between the two major parties," said Sudha David-Wilp, a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
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Polls before the May 219 vote in the northern trading city, home to Beck's beer, reflects the disillusionment among supporters fed up with a party they feel has lost its way after serving 215 of the last 20153 years as Merkel's kingmaker.
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A political drama in Germany last week — in which the far-right Alternative for Germany party played kingmaker for a center-right candidate on the state level — set off spontaneous protests in a country that is still deeply conscious of its Nazi past.
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The Atlantic: Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidNevada journalist: Harry Reid will play 'significant role' in Democratic primary The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - A crucial week on impeachment The Hill's Morning Report — Pelosi makes it official: Trump will be impeached MORE: The Kingmaker.
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Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu party and a possible kingmaker, said on Monday he believed the only obstacle to such a government was the unresolved question of whether Netanyahu or Gantz would serve first in a rotating premiership.
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The PSOE's 120 seats, combined with the 35 won by left-wing Podemos, leave them short of a majority in the 350-seat parliament, giving the 13 elected lawmakers of ERC a potential kingmaker role in unblocking the political stalemate in Madrid.
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The election's seeming political kingmaker, Avigdor Lieberman, said he'll insist upon a secular unity government between Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties, who based on partial results are currently tied at 32 seats each out of the 120 in parliament.
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Though there is novelty in casting a contemporary artist like DJ Khaled in the movie's kingmaker role, his presence is a reminder that the demands of real-world pop are very different from the demands of this franchise's fantasy version of a cappella.
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Plus, he is no longer the kingmaker of the Italian center-right: Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing Lega* (formerly known as Northern League), scored big with 17 percent of the vote, and he's now the true leader of that coalition.
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WELLINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The leader of the New Zealand First Party, which emerged as the kingmaker after an inconclusive weekend election, said on Wednesday no decisions would be made on coalition partners until after the final tally of votes is released on Oct. 7.
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Spain's far-right Vox party won 12 seats in an election in Andalusia on Sunday and could end up as a kingmaker in the region, in the first electoral success for the far-right since the country's return to democracy in the late 1970s.
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Farage, a bombastic anti-establishment campaigner, whose Brexit Party swept to victory in Britain's European Parliament election this week, has demanded a seat at negotiations over Britain's exit from the EU and has cast himself as a kingmaker in the race to succeed May.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nuri al-Maliki is once again positioning himself as Iraq's most powerful man, poised to return as kingmaker in a fight for influence that could decide Iraq's fate as a unified country after the coming battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State.
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New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh has emerged as a potential kingmaker after a deft response to Trudeau's blackface scandal and strong debate performances, saying Canadians did "not need to choose between Mr. Delay and Mr. Deny" in reference to the Trudeau and Scheer climate policies.
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New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh has emerged as a potential kingmaker after a deft response to Trudeau's blackface scandal and strong debate performances, saying Canadians did "not need to choose between Mr. Delay and Mr. Deny" in reference to the Trudeau and Scheer climate policies.
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VOX could even win one or more seats in Spain's national assembly in a general election due by mid-22014, becoming the first far-right party to enter the Spanish parliament since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 22017 - and a potential kingmaker.
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Turnbull flew to northern Queensland state to win reluctant support from Bob Katter, a maverick former member of the ruling conservative coalition who is now a potential kingmaker if Turnbull is unable to win the 76 lower house seats needed to form government outright.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of New Zealand's main parties prepared on Sunday to start talks with Winston Peters, the leader of a nationalist party who emerged as kingmaker after an inconclusive general election, but Peters indicated he was in no rush to pick a side.
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The EFF, whose lawmakers often dress in red overalls and plastic hard hats to show their allegiance to the working class, emerged as a kingmaker in 2016 elections in metropolitan areas like the administrative capital Pretoria and commercial capital Johannesburg, where it backed DA candidates.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - The army has thrust itself into the kingmaker role in Algeria's crisis, but as it works backstage to remove an ailing president and broker calls from the street for democracy, it will be careful to shore up its own immense political clout.
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While three TV channels predicted 80 to 114 seats for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, short of the half-way mark in the 224-member house, polls also forecast 22-43 seats for a regional group, Janata Dal (S), which could emerge as a kingmaker.
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But his 120 seats, combined with the 35 won by Podemos, leave them short of a majority in the 350-seat parliament, giving the 13 elected lawmakers of the left-wing separatist ERC party a potential kingmaker role in unblocking the political stalemate in Madrid.
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From the instant that Marcos appears in "The Kingmaker" — gliding through the streets of Manila in a van as if in a mobile throne — it's obvious that she remains ravenous for attention, whether from the camera or from the indigent people clamoring outside her window.
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In a role utterly unlike those he would become known for, Andy Griffith nearly throws out his voice as a country drunk who, after being discovered by an Arkansas radio host (Patricia Neal), quickly rises to become a national celebrity and aspiring presidential kingmaker.
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New Zealand shares ended at a record high for a seventh consecutive day, as the leader of the kingmaker New Zealand First party said "huge" progress had been made in coalition talks and mentioned a self-imposed deadline of Thursday to announce a new government.
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The 41-year-old former senator and one-time Washington policy wonk managed a meteoric rise after forming a tight-knit relationship with Álvaro Uribe, the popular former president (2002-2010) who looks poised to maintain his status as political kingmaker from his Senate perch.
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HEINZ-CHRISTIAN STRACHE, FREEDOM PARTY (FPO) The trained dental technician who has headed the far-right Freedom Party for more than a decade has cut an unusually relaxed figure this election, perhaps because he and his party have a good chance of being kingmaker.
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Like most major awards shows, the Grammys in recent years has attempted a precarious balancing act: maintaining its status as the music establishment's kingmaker — and live CBS concert event — while also trying to confront the reality of its staid, overwhelmingly white and male history.
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And Mr. Hallinan, the crusading progressive incumbent, was going low: Ms. Harris could not be trusted to prosecute city corruption, he suggested, because of her relationship with Willie Brown — the outgoing mayor, peerless local kingmaker and Harris supporter whom she had dated years earlier.
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One year on, she is front and center in a midterm election that she isn't even running in, playing kingmaker for candidates allied with her father in what's being widely seen as a not-so-subtle trial balloon for her own presidential run in 2022.
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So some deals have to be struck between the country's political parties to form a government, and the big fear is that the Sweden Democrats -- a party with roots in the neo-Nazi movement -- made enough gains to be a kingmaker in the process. 5.
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Its roots can be traced back to a potent cocktail of vision, fortuitous timing, relentlessness, and a knack for exploiting loopholes — from state tax laws to a dearth of regulation that could have prevented it from acting simultaneously as retailer, retail platform, and consumer brand kingmaker.
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"His leadership of the Trump 85033 campaign showed us not only that he is a true movement conservative, but that he knows how to cut through the establishment 'kingmaker' clutter and message directly to the American people," Martin said in a news release, according to the report.
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He became Trump's kingmaker by donating large amounts to Trump's campaign when nobody else would, loaning personnel (Bannon and Kellyanne Conway), and facilitating Trump's voter suppression efforts with unique, high-level digital profiling know-how (which was reportedly also used by the leavers in the Brexit campaign).
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It may all come down to the performance of a potential kingmaker, the Green Party, which is promising to double the province's tax on foreign buyers of Canadian property to 30 percent, cancel an oil pipeline to the coast that China desperately wants, and broaden environmental regulations.
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But despite being in the shadow of Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party firebrand, the new leader of the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats, announced on Monday as Jo Swinson, a 39-year-old Scottish lawmaker, could nevertheless soon become a kingmaker in Britain's topsy-turvy political scene.
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SEVILLE/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's far-right Vox party won 12 seats in an election in Andalusia on Sunday and could end up as a kingmaker in the region, in the first electoral success for the far-right since the country's return to democracy in the late 1970s.
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But in recent months TikTok has been recognized as the "new music kingmaker" after it led to a Fitz and the Tantrum song climbing the charts in South Korea, and made Lil Nas X's "Old Country Road" a viral hit that landed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
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The New York City mayor, who sees himself as a progressive champion, started this primary season with dreams of becoming a Democratic kingmaker, very publicly withholding his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for six months in a bid to move her left on a number of issues important to progressives.
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The Republican kingmaker who was expected to be Trump's single biggest backer, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, has scaled back his initial pledge of $100 million, made in a private meeting with Trump in May, to just $5 million, according to two associates close to Adelson familiar with the matter.
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Like many powerful figures in the former Soviet Union, Mr. Plahotniuc has drawn a tight veil over the sources of his wealth and power, cultivating an aura of mystery that has only enhanced his image as a shadowy kingmaker who can destroy foes with a flick of his finger.
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Fox News can be a virtual kingmaker leading up to the primaries, providing candidates with a platform, firepower for their arguments — including Mr. Trump's long-held assertion, which he rejected only on Friday, that President Obama was not born in the United States — and a large, receptive audience.
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Throughout this year's Republican primaries, Mr. Trump has trumpeted his role as a kingmaker — "5 for 215!" he wrote on Twitter after candidates who he endorsed won last week — and on Monday, he tested his influence in New York, where he said he once considered running for governor.
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It may have lost its dominant position in Ethiopian politics since the advent of Mr. Abiy, yet it still is something of a kingmaker, or at least a spoiler — and precisely on the issues that the Nobel committee singled out: peace with Eritrea and democratic reform in Ethiopia.
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Bannon did celebrate the Moore victory over Strange as the launch of a "revolution" within the Republican Party — a revolution he hopes to both lead and control — but as National Review's Jonah Goldberg pointed out on Friday, Bannon's reputation as a political kingmaker might be more sound than fury.
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Admission to the event was free.) By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A boyish 1.63-year-old who looks like Justin Trudeau and sounds like Barack Obama has emerged as a potential kingmaker in Dutch politics, riding a rare message of tolerance ahead of an election dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Goldman's Cohen is still on the board, and Tom Hill, the legendary kingmaker in the hedge fund industry who built up Blackstone's hedge-fund investing arm, joined the board in April of last year — right after it was announced that he would be working as a consultant with Two Sigma.
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Weinstein — a former kingmaker, a Hollywood mega-producer known for his ability to deliver an Oscar winner — quickly announced that he'd be taking a leave of absence from his namesake company, and he was fired from the Weinstein Company within three days of the first New York Times article about him.
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So when Drudge, who was also referred to as a "kingmaker" by Bernstein because of the site's unwavering support of Donald Trump's candidacy, links to a story along with a photo of Paul near the top of its coveted homepage, many believe it shows where Drudge stands on a particular issue.
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Macron made climate politics a central plank of his party's EU election campaign and has reached out to Green parties across the bloc as he seeks to construct a centrist alliance that he hopes will play a "kingmaker" role in the assembly, where no single group will have a majority.
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To the degree Bannon is a political king or kingmaker, he presides over a small and shrinking kingdom, composed of some 35 percent of the nation, surrounded by a majority of the nation that is hostile to his vision, alarmed by his plans and determined to vote in humongous numbers.
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In the decade-plus since it's launch, Y Combinator has shifted from a scrappy startup incubator to a kingmaker, research center, and massive instigator of change A new breed of tech association is supplanting the incubator with an older model: the social club Hackathons aren't the great change-maker we'd envisioned.
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Mr. Stapleton, the big-bearded veteran songwriter who had a career-making night at the C.M.A.'s last year, won two awards, for music video of the year and male vocalist of the year, cementing his place among the top-tier performers even as country radio, ever the kingmaker, remains wary.
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In the kingmaker position was New Zealand First's leader, Winston Peters, an eccentric veteran politician who has long campaigned on cuts to immigration, curtailing foreign ownership of New Zealand land, and securing pensions and other benefits for retirees, who make up a large percentage of the party's base of support.
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Mr. Gantz, 60, of the centrist Blue and White party, Mr. Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud party, and a third actor, Avigdor Liberman of the secular but right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, which is smaller but holds enough seats to be a kingmaker, are all facing down one another.
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The exact shape of the next Parliament will take days to emerge, thanks to Ireland's painstaking system of proportional representation, but it now seems likely that the contest for the premiership will be between Mr. Varadkar and Fianna Fail's leader, Micheal Martin, with Ms. McDonald possibly playing the kingmaker role.
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In a matter of days, parliament named a new interim leader who was part of the ruling elite, the army expressed support for a transition and a date was set for a presidential election - providing what analysts say is political cover for the army, a long-time kingmaker in Algeria.
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Ru Group is the fund that ended up buying Durov's last company VK. Durov's idea is to launch an entirely new blockchain, using the Telegram's 2000 million users as rocket fuel to power forward into mainstream adoption off cryptocurrency and making Telegram, effectively, a kingmaker of other cryptocurrencies, because of its existing scale.
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A guide to the growing Harvey Weinstein scandal A guide to the growing Harvey Weinstein scandal Former Hollywood kingmaker Harvey Weinstein this week was named in dozens of sexual harassment allegations, abandoned by his former supporters, pushed out of the company that bears his name, and left by his wife of 2012 years.
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The rise of the AfD and a nascent comeback by the Free Democrats (FDP), a business-friendly, socially liberal party that was the kingmaker of German politics for decades before imploding in the last federal vote, means that there are now three legitimate right-of-center parties in Germany, including Merkel's conservative bloc.
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New Hampshire would further stamp itself kingmaker if Republican front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is beaten or if Ohio Gov.
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"Depending on the final tallies and political jockeying, Sadr may find himself in a position to play kingmaker, which could see Abadi reappointed prime minister," Turner said, referring to the current prime minister, who was widely praised for leading the fight against ISIS and for balancing relationships across sects and external powers.
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While the candidate, Moshe Feiglin, the leader of the Zehut party, remains on the fringes in the election, his message is attracting enough young and disaffected voters that he could emerge as kingmaker in a close race between the two main contenders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, a former army chief.
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If the first words that come to mind when you think of a disgraced former film producer accused of sexually assaulting more than 80 women are not "thank you, Harvey Weinstein," it will probably come as a shock to learn that that's exactly what the erstwhile Hollywood kingmaker thinks he deserves to hear.
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First and foremost, it's important to note that in brass-tacks political terms, King's pre-2019 political fortunes rested on his perceived position as a potential political kingmaker for up-and-coming conservatives — including presidential candidates — and as a reliable GOP vote in Congress representing a heavily conservative district in a very important state.
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THE KINGMAKER Lauren Greenfield, no stranger to portraits of cocooned wealth ("The Queen of Versailles"), directed this look at Imelda Marcos, the noted shoe collector and former first lady of the Philippines, as she works to polish the reputation of her husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and to usher her family back into power.
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With 12 of 160 parliamentary seats, the Green Party likely to be a kingmaker when it comes to forming a government and is expected to join two of the three big parties - centre-right Fine Gael and Fianna Fail or left-wing nationalist Sinn Fein - which each have just under a quarter of the seats.
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With 12 of 160 parliamentary seats, the Green Party likely to be a kingmaker when it comes to forming a government and is expected to join two of the three big parties - centre-right Fine Gael and Fianna Fail or left-wing nationalist Sinn Fein - which each have just under a quarter of the seats.
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While both Fianna Fail and Mr. Varadkar's party have vowed not to partner with Sinn Fein given its past support for violence, the center-left party could still emerge as a kingmaker and its ascension signals an appetite for a greater emphasis on social welfare after decades of dominance by the pro-market center-right.
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O'Malley, a chipper long-shot who has been driving his own car when his volunteers get too groggy, is rejecting his role as an Iowa caucus kingmaker— telling his supporters here they don't have to vote for either Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders if he's excluded from the final round of voting Monday night.
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"I think she was implicitly acknowledging that while it might be impossible (to get permission) out of the current (UK) parliament, it might be a lot easier if we get a general election between now and the end of the year, and the SNP may well find itself in the kingmaker role," Curtice told Reuters.
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Was this race a sign of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's waning ability to be a kingmaker?
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The grants, rents and business he brought in to SUNY Polytechnic "all benefited him personally through his compensation package, and also added to his status as a kingmaker and an important person in state government," said the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who charged Dr. Kaloyeros with three felony counts of bid-rigging at a news conference.
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The tax on fracked oil was slashed, and when it was nudged back up—it remains the lowest in the nation—the energy billionaire and political kingmaker Harold Hamm, whose estimated net worth is quadruple the budget that the legislature allocates to the state, stood in the gallery of the capitol, letting the lawmakers know that he was watching.
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But if Rubio drops back into the pack and Kasich emerges as the clear New Hampshire winner on the moderate/establishment flank, setting up a Trump-Cruz battle for South Carolina, then we might be starting to approach a universe with only two genuinely plausible scenarios: Either a contested convention with Trump as some kind of kingmaker, or yes, Republican nominee Ted Cruz.
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"The thing that the SNP have above all to hope for is that this government falls, we get a general election, and out of that general election we get a minority government in which they hold the power that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) currently have (as kingmaker)," said John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
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There, he is known as not only the N.R.A.'s chief lobbyist, but also its kingmaker: He leads its political action committee, which took in $31.3 million in the last three years for gun rights candidates and causes, and he is the ultimate arbiter of the coveted "grades" the group gives political candidates, which can make or break a campaign.
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The two SNL alums appeared in the show's cold open Saturday evening that also added Leslie Jones as Oprah Winfrey in a skit that captured some of the silliness of the current moment — a gossipy, factually questionable book taking down a figure who was often cast as a Republican kingmaker, and a debate about whether Oprah should run for president.
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As such, Vox is now in a position of kingmaker in negotiations over a possible right-wing coalition made up of PP, the center-right Ciudadanos party, which gained 21 seats, and Vox, a party that was formed in 2013 by former members of the PP. PP national leader Pablo Casado said his party planned to hold talks in Andalusia with these other parties, Reuters said.
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Rather, Thursday's big news was exactly the opposite: Davis, along with casino developer and would-be Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson, was looking to stick Clark County and the state of Nevada with as much as all of the costs of a $1.4 billion stadium—making it potentially the largest stadium subsidy in United States sports history—while not committing to a move in the slightest.
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But here are some of the key trends we see shaping the global, mostly business-focused software market this year: (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) SoftBank: Not just for consumer companies anymore SoftBank's new, $100 billion Vision Fund has had a huge impact on the technology industry already, given the Japanese firm's ability to essentially play kingmaker in a given technology market by making a huge investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in one company.
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If the national party does not figure out how to put forth an effective campaign that generates high turnout and excites the passions of their electorate, and if they don't engage in the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation fight in a way that slows down the process and uses the President's pick to awaken voters to the stakes of this struggle, President Trump could be looking at two more years of united government, with a GOP that will see him as an influential kingmaker, and the Congress will be more willing to start handing him legislative victories on the path to 2020.
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"1917," written by Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns "Booksmart," Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins, and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman "Knives Out," Rian Johnson "Marriage Story," Noah Baumbach "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, inspired by the article "Can You Say… Hero?" by Tom Junod "The Irishman," Steven Zaillian, based on the book "I Heard You Paint Houses" by Charles Brandt "Jojo Rabbit," Taika Waititi, based on the book "Caging Skies" by Christine Leunens "Joker," Todd Phillips & Scott Silver, based on DC Comics characters "Little Women," Greta Gerwig, based on the Louisa May Alcott novel "Citizen K," written by Alex Gibney "Foster," Mark Jonathan Harris "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley," Alex Gibney "Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People," Robert Seidman & Oren Rudavsky "The Kingmaker," Lauren Greenfield
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