Black officeholders and black voters were threatened, beaten and lynched.
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Their numbers vary, dependent on the number of Democratic officeholders.
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The Framers wanted officeholders to be accountable to the voters.
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We're at the lowest level of elected officeholders since Hoover.
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Under all previous presidents, both officeholders attended all NSC meetings.
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But female Republican candidates and officeholders face an existential threat.
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It makes it harder for officeholders and candidates to leave him.
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And military veterans who are now Democratic officeholders -- including Illinois Sen.
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Only a handful of significant Republican officeholders, led by Nebraska Sen.
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Previous officeholders have tried to avoid even the perception of undue influence.
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I think the bigger message, though, is to Republican officeholders and candidates.
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The Supreme Court agreed, striking down the amendment's restrictions on federal officeholders.
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He has included the same figure in his paintings of Democrat officeholders.
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Or have they behaved as voters and officeholders pretty much like men?
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There were prayers and readings of formal condolences from officeholders and congregations.
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Together, these two trends have decimated the ranks of Republican women officeholders.
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Add in that young Mexicans are concerned with impunity of criminal officeholders.
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Republican officeholders initially expressed horror in Donald Trump's boasts of sexual assault.
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New Hampshire's special status turns local officeholders and community leaders into political kingmakers.
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The nine current and former federal officeholders we fact-checked were largely factual.
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The criticisms may also not be playing well with some officeholders in Utah.
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What's scaring Republican officeholders isn't that Trump is making allegations of voter fraud.
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So real power still remained in the hands of party officials and officeholders.
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Effectiveness is lessened with temporary officeholders, regardless of how proficient they may be.
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The investigation has also drawn calls for investigation from federal officeholders, including Reps.
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Most Republican voters and officeholders, in turn, implicitly condone Trump's treatment of women.
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A lot of Democratic strategists and officeholders are eager to clear the field.
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The Constitution's emoluments clause is about payments from foreign governments to current officeholders.
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BuzzFeed News reached out to more than a dozen GOP officeholders, operatives, and activists.
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A Mooch campaign would be contingent on the current officeholders, according to the correspondence.
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Clinton dismissed the reports by praising current New York officeholders and denouncing President Trump.
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The president and vice president are the only officeholders elected by the entire country.
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That's why we don't have as many officeholders who are black in statewide office.
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There are no beloved statewide officeholders or popular party elders to rally the troops.
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Service itself, not any sweeping agenda, was the aim of this class of officeholders.
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"I think it's incumbent on officeholders to do what's right, period," Mr. Cook said.
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To address these barriers, we need better data on the experiences of female officeholders.
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What accounts for the massive party gap in women's representation as candidates and officeholders?
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That means other politicians—including current officeholders—will have to make these sorts of statements.
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He backed off later in the campaign, saying only that he would hold officeholders accountable.
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Over the past decade, older voters have consistently moved to empower the Republican Party's officeholders.
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Natural disasters can hurt officeholders too, if their leadership is seen as inadequate or insensitive.
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It doesn't matter that being rude to officeholders is an inalienable right—hell, a responsibility!
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No major Democratic officeholders appear to be backing the social media calls for an audit.
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But a lot of elected officeholders are nervous about him because he's so unpopular here.
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In addition, gaps in financial disclosure requirements for federal candidates and officeholders must be closed.
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It is filled out by a handful of operatives from second-tier Ohio Republican officeholders.
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Releasing basic facts about one's health should also be a yearly requirement for these officeholders.
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They will be harder for the public, for courts, and for public officeholders to evaluate.
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You are present and future voters, future elected officeholders, and you will make a difference.
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Some Republican officeholders have been hostile to Uber, while many Democratic ones have been supportive.
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The clause bars federal officeholders from from receiving gifts or benefits from foreign governments. Sen.
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Historically, presidential candidates and officeholders have voluntarily released their tax returns and divested their holdings.
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These stories have been met by a flood of demands for the resignations of the officeholders.
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This has led to a pipeline of Democratic officeholders that can mature into more senior candidates.
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A new type of racist cartoon emerged in the 1870s, depicting black officeholders in gaudy jewelry.
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Because it's so widespread ... from people who are Republicans but who are not currently Republican officeholders.
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That figure includes super delegates, party officials and officeholders who have said they will back her.
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Many fringe conservatives, including current and former officeholders, were equally convinced that Trump represented real change.
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Ryan, McConnell, and most other Republican officeholders have responded to these norm violations with a shrug.
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Many are Republican officeholders, workers or donors, devoted to their party rather than its current candidate.
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Modesty is not a quality in demand in modern American politics, either from voters or officeholders.
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From the White House to the Senate to the House, all officeholders get there this way.
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Republicans have created a network of county officeholders who can help their local candidates win campaigns.
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The actual policy positions, and number of leftist officeholders, will remain limited — at least for now.
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Meanwhile, state and local officeholders have to worry more about the practical aspects of regulating Uber.
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The two-term senator is one of only a few remaining statewide Democratic officeholders in Missouri.
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Of the eight current Democratic federal officeholders running for president, seven transferred money from their federal accounts.
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"What's just as bad, though, is the virtual silence from Republican leaders and officeholders," George Conway said.
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The only opponents who have a chance are those who are even more conservative than current officeholders.
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It includes prominent officeholders and donors, but also movement conservatives and leading economic and national security advisers.
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Other political candidates and officeholders, including Hillary and Bill Clinton, have also had relatives attract unflattering attention.
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The president and vice president are the only officeholders in the U.S. elected by the whole country.
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"Dancing With the Stars" has great potential as a kind of high-ratings hostel for failed officeholders.
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Trump has struggled to win over many Republican officeholders, and he got into an altercation with Sen.
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Eight years ago, did Republican officeholders shut down the nonsense that Mr. Obama was a secret Muslim?
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Past officeholders have generally placed their assets in a blind trust to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
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"The corruption in the U.S. does not stem from officeholders putting money in their pocket," he said.
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But after a rapid increase in the number of female officeholders during the 220006s, growth has stagnated.
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Ms. Jones, a first-year at Ohio State, said listening to the officeholders had piqued her interest.
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S. state-level candidates and officeholders, ballot measures, and ads that mention federal or state political parties.
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Federal law allows these temporary officeholders to stay in the open jobs for, at most, 300 days.
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Will the diverse slate of women running alter voters' expectations of what candidates and officeholders look like?
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Obama pressed that message, arguing that voters should see that Republican officeholders are responsible for creating Trump.
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That clause, contained in Article 1 of the Constitution, bars government officeholders from accepting gifts from foreign officials.
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Factions, or individual officeholders, steadily tweak the design of governing institutions in ways that insulate them from challenge.
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The report also examines the email practices of current Secretary of State John Kerry and three earlier officeholders.
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Far too many people are hurting because elected officeholders refuse to pay attention and come up with remedies.
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But Mr. Trump's roster is notably lacking when it comes to the party's most prominent, nonwhite officeholders. Gov.
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The company said the ad policy would include any candidates or officeholders of state or federal elected office.
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Multiple female Republican officeholders have been floated in recent days as potential vice presidential nominees, including Oklahoma Gov.
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When longtime officeholders are defeated, it shows that voters cared enough to break the habit of incumbent-voting.
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There were few women consultants, there were few women candidates, there were certainly few women congressmen and officeholders.
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So perhaps it would have needed to be someone out of politics, because Republican officeholders are so timorous.
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Some candidates said that the next public advocate could add more diversity to the field of citywide officeholders.
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All three citywide officeholders, the borough presidents and the majority of City Council members, are serving their final terms.
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The state is drifting right — Trump won by 8 points, and all of the top statewide officeholders are Republicans.
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Wasserman Schultz is fighting hard to keep her job, however, and has received public support from numerous Democratic officeholders.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Brownback's office sought to frame the vote as part of a broader disenchantment with current officeholders.
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But Conway argued that the "virtual silence from Republican leaders and officeholders" is just as bad as Trump's comments.
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Suffice to say, a carbon tax does not have, and has never had, support from any actual Republican officeholders.
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The new requirements will apply to ads featuring candidates for federal office or current officeholders in the United States.
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On the plus side, the campaign's recent unpleasantness has provided a wonderful opportunity to randomly torture irritating Republican officeholders.
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It was not clear whether the comments were made by obscure rank-and-file Labour members or elected officeholders.
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Across the country, younger Democratic officeholders are chafing at being held in place by a blockade of older leaders.
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Voter-approved limits that confine city officeholders to two four-year terms might also have had an unfortunate effect.
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It also would create a lifetime ban on presidents, members of Congress and other officeholders from working as lobbyists.
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Critics of the system have said it "dilutes" the African American vote in favor of white districts and officeholders.
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If women choose to be chief executives and officeholders and columnists and doctors and partners in law firms, great!
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Imagine how stolen information could be (or already has been) used to influence or corrupt officeholders, or voters themselves.
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We started having conversations, just like we were doing with other candidates and officeholders, on how to use Facebook.
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But the liberal push to abolish ICE is increasingly being embraced by officeholders in Democratic Party, including New York Sen.
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Rather than denounce or rein in these dangerous impulses, leading Democratic officeholders and candidates are openly encouraging the outrageous behavior.
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Despite his endorsement from that venerated mouthpiece of conservatism, the New York Times, Kasich lags in endorsements from Republican officeholders.
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Under a separate provision of the Presidential Records Act, the records of former presidents are available to those former officeholders.
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They saw it as an element of aristocratic and monarchical rule, which confused public functions (officeholders) with private personages (nobility).
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This idea suggests that officeholders and the various interest groups that constitute parties — labor, environmentalists, the National Rifle Association, etc.
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Competence: Increasingly, Republican officeholders' complaints about Trump seem less about ideology than about his total inability to do his job.
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But when Democrats are in power, we're told we get GOP-heavy guest lists to provide a counterpoint to officeholders.
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Washington (CNN)Republican officeholders have given varied responses to the sexual abuse allegations against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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But they cannot succeed unless party officials and officeholders have the predominant role in selecting the party's next presidential nominee.
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This would eliminate another of the checks and balances that define our republic — that states run elections for federal officeholders.
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By contrast, scores of Republican officeholders say they are horrified at the prospect of Donald J. Trump's winning the presidency.
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"AFP leverages Republican candidates and officeholders and pulls them to the far right on political and economic issues," Skocpol says.
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The answer — silence — will shame the descendants of all those officeholders until the memories of these craven politicians are forgotten.
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Mr. Shumate insisted that previous officeholders had engaged in the same type of behavior without a whiff of public controversy.
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Since the late 1960s, officeholders have sought to gain an advantage for their side by stoking the fires of conflict.
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That month, at the Democratic Party's annual state fund-raiser, called the Blue Gala, no national Latino officeholders gave speeches.
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McCaskill is one of the few statewide Democratic officeholders left in Missouri, which Trump won by 22012 points in November.
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The handful his campaign has publicly highlighted include only state and local elected officials and a number of former officeholders.
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Because they are convinced that he would lose the election and bring a lot of Democratic officeholders down with him.
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But most state governments set up relatively weak governor's offices, with multiple separately elected statewide officeholders and strong legislative control.
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But if Arizona becomes a microcosm of the nation, GOP officeholders may need to start looking for second careers soon.
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In just the last three years, 108 Confederate monuments have come down via officeholders' decisions, according to The Washington Post.
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Viewing officeholders as unpopular and, in President Trump's case, possibly elected illegitimately produces cognitive dissonance, more than most can comfortably maintain.
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Like the GOP, the Democrats have shown clearly in this primary that their base is divided -- and so are their officeholders.
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What we've known about party organizations has long indicated that they are weak, with little to hold over candidates or officeholders.
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They tend to feel more negative about incumbents and officeholders, because they feel like, 'Why aren't they doing something about this?
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"In fact it's gotten worse from the Democrats' perspective," he said, pointing out that there are currently no statewide Democratic officeholders.
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"Drawing fire away from our candidates and officeholders is the chairman's job, which is something I'm sure Bob (Paduchik) doesn't understand."
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To make matters worse, the party's political bench has been starved of state officeholders who might later move up the chain.
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The Constitution's "foreign emoluments" clause bars U.S. officeholders from accepting payments and various other gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval.
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The four legislative caucus leaders each would get two appointments, but none could be current or recent officeholders or party officials.
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Again and again, often for short-term political gain, conservatives have stoked unreasonable passions and directed them at individual Democratic officeholders.
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With individual officeholders responsible for their own political fates, consultants help candidates cope with an electoral landscape they cannot fully control.
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To be as inclusive as possible, it should admit any current or former national officeholders, governors or mayors of big cities.
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And Republican officeholders have taken numerous actions that would tend to weaken those protections — in Congress, in states and in courts.
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By Degrees Not long ago, many Republican officeholders had a simple answer when asked about the changing climate: What changing climate?
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She has advised governors, attorneys general and other statewide constitutional officeholders, and has participated in six Republican Party presidential nominating conventions.
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President Trump won the district by 20 points in 23, and this close race could spur other Republican officeholders to retire.
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CUOMO COVERS HIS LEFT: Another week, another reason ambitious Democratic officeholders should be keeping a close eye on New York: Gov.
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The recent political histories of the 2018 gubernatorial class, and how they've been embraced by leading Democratic officeholders, tells the story.
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"Despite Black women's proven commitment to civic engagement and activism, Black women remain underrepresented as both candidates and officeholders," the analysis notes.
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It doesn't help the French President that he's recently spearheaded a drive against other French officeholders employing family members as public staff.
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Trump has begun reaching out to black voters in recent weeks, arguing that they have not been well-served by Democratic officeholders.
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PBI held a weekend conference in Denver in March, bringing together candidates and officeholders, climate and homelessness activists, and even former bankers.
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And she will be elected with the support of many current and former GOP officeholders and longtime Republican business leaders and donors.
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The big picture: The Emoluments Clause "prohibits federal officeholders from receiving gifts and payments from foreign states of their representatives," per CNN.
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By the end of the last decade, the state was a Democratic stronghold, with Democratic officeholders at almost every level of government.
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But if you think about the pressure and the behavior of Democratic officeholders, are they acting like it's not a big deal?
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What is largely missing from this process is the professional judgment of people who actually know the candidates — officeholders and party officials.
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Editorial Politicians often shun the suggestion that they should avoid clichés like the plague, and officeholders in New York are no exception.
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Before entering politics he gave money to officeholders in both parties while variously registering as a Republican, a Democrat and an independent.
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"Women make up just over 20 percent of elected officeholders and men are nearly 100 percent of this problem," Ms. O'Connell said.
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The three highest officeholders in our government are not carrying out their sworn oaths to protect our constitutional system from enemy attacks.
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Black women officeholders, on both a national and local level, are becoming less of a rarity, said Kelly Dittmar, a CAWP researcher.
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This line of thought appears after every single electoral loss — somehow Democratic officeholders, especially the president, didn't pull magic out of hats.
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Ms. Craft, who turns 57 on Sunday, made her name in Kentucky politics as a fund-raiser for Republican candidates and officeholders.
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I am not a Democrat or a Republican; I am a reporter who strives to write honestly and fairly about candidates and officeholders.
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It is the sort of small town in which the same surnames, many of them Cajun, recur among prominent business-owners and officeholders.
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Those obstacles have driven Amazon to spend roughly $6.1 million to lobby federal officeholders so far this year, according to federal ethics filings.
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Many of these voters believe the lesson was not that police are too aggressive, but that state officeholders did not respond aggressively enough.
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Article 72 of the constitution declares that all elected officeholders are subject to recall via referendum after the halfway point of their terms.
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Yet beyond Obama and Hillary Clinton, the party's highest officeholders — in the Senate and in governors' mansions — remain conspicuously white and mostly male.
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They are, on the whole, more liberal-minded than the current, mostly Republican officeholders in their districts—but that doesn't make them radicals.
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That is why we have introduced the "Stop Act," a four page bill that bans federal officeholders from personally asking you for money.
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Reforming our broken campaign finance system is the most important thing officeholders can do to earn back the trust of the American people.
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When pressed for a second or third beat on a subject, Ms. Nixon can be vague (though so, too, can many sitting officeholders).
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I think the president's hold over Washington officeholders who enjoy their perks is probably stronger than his hold over rank-and-file voters.
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"Abolish ICE" has become a rallying cry at protests around the country and for some Democratic officeholders seeking to boost their progressive credentials.
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Incumbent officeholders do tend to run equal to or ahead of their party's presidential candidate even in terrible election years for their party.
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For officeholders, Trump becomes a test of coping and courage, particularly within the family he has chosen as his own, the Republican Party.
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When elected officeholders remain silent or unavailable, they permit horrid sentiments to be sanctioned and give credence, or even acceptance, to those sentiments.
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Financial disclosure forms, which all federal officeholders and candidates for federal office must file, detail their assets, income and debts in broad ranges.
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More insurgent candidates would mean more fresh ideas over time and pressure on all officeholders to focus more sharply on serving their constituents.
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You will see hundreds of GOP officeholders who held their noses and endorsed him feeling and acting vindicated, which will be just a tragedy.
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With fewer women candidates and officeholders on the legislative level, Republicans risk widening a gender gap that has already reached historic levels, Dittmar said.
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For more than seven years, Republican officeholders and candidates have promised that they would take decisive action on President Obama's signature health care law.
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A handful of GOP officeholders, and a number of conservative commentators, have since come forward to condemn Trump for vandalizing the underpinnings of democracy.
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Among those to signal support: The RNC, the Republican Party's powerful arm for recruiting political candidates and raising big bucks to topple Democratic officeholders.
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Significant gains could help save face for a president who has seen a lot of Democratic officeholders go down to defeat during his presidency.
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Local and federal officeholders in Virginia similarly worked with to secure its investment in a new 970,000-square-foot data center in the state.
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And her roots in the DFL Party, the state's Democratic Party, go deep, even if she's not as well known as other statewide officeholders.
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Should additional Republican officeholders follow Mr. Rigell in backing the third-party ticket, it could help Mr. Johnson gain credibility as an alternative choice.
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David Brooks Up through the convention there were all sorts of Republican officeholders who weren't really for Trump, but they weren't really against him.
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At least four other former officeholders besides Ms. Tuck — who is now vice president for campus services at Mississippi State — took more than $2008,22003.
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In the Philippines, the president and vice president are elected separately, and it is not uncommon for the two officeholders to be political opponents.
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I am comforted by support I have received from Christian pastors and lay leaders and from Republican officeholders horrified by Mr. Charamut's poor judgment.
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Now we need everyone to jump on board — every governor, mayor, senator, Member of Congress, officeholders from the past, political contenders in the present.
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And he couldn't be sure if those other two citywide officeholders would have his back — or have his back marked as a political target.
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If the measures pass, Nancy Kaffer of The Detroit Free Press notes that the major Michigan officeholders who would lose authority are all women.
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Moreover, the protocols that once governed the way American officeholders address one another were based on respect for the office, not its temporary occupant.
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Andy LevinAndrew (Andy) LevinWarren gets endorsements from 2628 Michigan officeholders, activists On The Money: House approves Trump USMCA deal in bipartisan vote | Senate sends .
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Trump can take heart from the fact that not many Republican officeholders have explicitly broken with him on the Ukraine issue so far. Sen.
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"We were not anxious to bring in a lot of national partisan officeholders," said Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, who worked on the Jones campaign.
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It's led to a far more diverse set of officeholders and has helped ensure that several candidates compete for each seat with enough funds.
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We expect this sort of vanity from Trump — it's his brand and he owns it — but not from grown-up Republican officeholders and commentators.
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He is only the latest prominent casualty of a longer clash that previously claimed the political careers of prominent Republican officeholders, including veteran Sens.
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It should be noted that gaps in gender among elected officeholders have been slower to close in some parts of the country than in others.
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Biden's entrance into the race made for a field of 214 announced major candidates, with at least three more current officeholders strongly considering a run.
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Some, like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have been dismissive, urging partisans to "take a chill pill" and proceed with surgical focus on vulnerable GOP officeholders.
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The lawmakers charge the president violated the Constitution's "emoluments" clause, which prevents federal officeholders from accepting payments from foreign governments without the "consent" of Congress.
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Politifact analyzed statements going back to 2007 by this year's candidates and other officeholders, including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and even Bill Clinton.
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Like it or not, the message of this primary season was that Republican voters have a subtly different set of priorities from many Republican officeholders.
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In the past few years, he has founded a Super PAC, a legal fund to sue Republican officeholders, and an institute to support liberal muckrakers.
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Local and federal officeholders in Virginia similarly worked with Facebook to secure its investment in a new 970,000-square-foot data center in the state.
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In the sentencing phase, the feds turned to county registers, the public officeholders who track and manage mortgage documents, to provide horror stories about DocX.
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Unfortunately, our president, and too many of the Republican officeholders who enable him, have failed to learn this, and many other, lessons of our history.
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" The "sheer disarray surrounding this presidency," the report said, has "prompted Republican officeholders to take political steps unheard-of so soon into a new administration.
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Because the Republican Party is defined by its adherence to the symbolic cause of conservatism, Republican officeholders pledge fidelity to a set of abstract values.
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A number of prominent female Democratic officeholders in the state could step in to fill the post, including the lieutenant governor and the attorney general.
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Second, we already have laws, including prohibitions on insider trading, that punish wrongdoing by officeholders -- though those laws address only more extreme types of misconduct.
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Much of the executive branch is the product of Congress's legislation, including nearly all of the offices and the powers and responsibilities of the officeholders.
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"It would have definitely hurt other Republican officeholders and candidates," said Noah Wahl, the chairman of the Republican Party in Limestone County, west of Huntsville.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinWarren gets endorsements from 6900 Michigan officeholders, activists Bottom Line Canada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations MORE (D).
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The designation carries no legal weight, but it has become a way for local officeholders to make clear their discontent over efforts to limit guns.
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The group has spent millions of dollars lobbying and making campaign contributions to state and local officeholders, according to the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project.
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Wisconsin Democrats don't have a clear frontrunner for governor in 2018, but several officeholders are considering campaigns, including Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, state Sen.
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He is one of three former GOP officeholders doing so, but some state parties have called off primaries to prevent a direct challenge to Trump.
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Even after a record number of women were elected in the 2018 midterms, the majority of officeholders in the United States remain male and white.
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But Mr. Northam was an adult when these photos were taken and he is now a Southern Democrat, surrounded by black Democratic officeholders and voters.
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This view commands overwhelming support among Republicans, but few prominent Republican Party officeholders have championed it because it's not popular with the public at large.
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"I will just say that my candidacy or my potential — which will soon we realized — candidacy has been greatly received, I've been tremendously encouraged by Republican leadership throughout the district, and from state officeholders, as well as local officeholders, as well as party leaders throughout the district, so I think we all have a tremendous base of conservative Republican support heading into the primary season," he said.
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He said he doesn&apost endorse individual candidates and said he couldn&apost name any California officeholders when asked if any state politician fit his mold.
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Reconstruction was a moment of racial promise such as this country had never seen: A generation of former slaves became landowners, teachers, voters and elected officeholders.
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The only way to create a bond between leaders and followers in a post-deferential and post-industrial era is to restore officeholders' reputation for competence.
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In an interview with Vox, Whitehouse talked excitedly about the former Republican officeholders and George W. Bush officials who have formally voiced their support as well.
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This includes the vast majority of GOP officeholders who once represented the party's supposedly bright future: Ryan, Rubio, Scott Walker, Mike Pence, and many, many others.
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The FEC has given a free pass to government contractors who violate the decades-old ban on using campaign contributions to curry favor with the officeholders.
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Municipal debt crises would have adverse effects down the road, but those would be borne by future officeholders rather than those currently incurring too much debt.
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Because there is no specific law prohibiting public officeholders from financially beneficial self-promotion, what Mr. Trump is doing is probably not illegal, Mr. Eisen added.
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A judge could make a narrow ruling that Beijing's interpretation applies only to taking oaths, which candidates, as opposed to officeholders, do not have to do.
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It's true that in an era of sky-high polarization, the vast majority of Republican officeholders will endorse Trump and Republican voters will vote for him.
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It's the success and exposure of these candidates and officeholders, Gillespie says, that will have the effect of drawing more into the fold in the future.
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Instead, the early maneuvering is striking for the large numbers of officeholders, activists and voters who want to wait to see how the Democratic race develops.
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After all, there is no lack of veteran Democratic officeholders with all manner of conventional qualifications who are also hoping to receive invitations to such events.
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But mostly, candidates are exploiting their biographies and touting their endorsements from local officeholders, who can serve as guideposts for voters who don't know the candidates.
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Many Republican officeholders would like to distance themselves from Mr. Trump, yet they can't as long as his approval rating from their voters remains sky-high.
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It portrayed Washington as a permanent feudal village of bipartisan politicians, former officeholders, celebrity staff members, lobbyists, journalists, hangers-on and usual-suspects of all stripes.
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The more substantive issue for investors is that Trump's increasing isolation from corporate CEOs and fellow Republican officeholders may kill his sluggish legislative agenda for good.
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At issue in this case was the meaning of "emolument" -- a term used in the Constitution that says US officeholders should not accept presents from foreign governments.
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Roberts didn't need to respond to the AP's inquiry; most officeholders, especially those generally allied with the president, are extremely used to ignoring Trump's more inflammatory statements.
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Earlier this month, that exemption was extended to advertisements, giving users free rein to lie in Facebook ads so long as they are political candidates or officeholders.
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Advances in technology and data-collection (as Justice Elena Kagan wrote last year) "insulat[e] officeholders against all but the most titanic shifts in the political tides".
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In the past decade, more than 30 current or former state officeholders in New York have been convicted of crimes, sanctioned or otherwise accused of serious wrongdoing.
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"The Koch network ... has become thoroughly intertwined with the Republican Party and functions to pull GOP candidates and officeholders into alignment with Koch policy preferences," Skocpol says.
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The March rate review was the final one before the BOJ leadership change, in which two new deputy governors will replace the departing officeholders on March 20.
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Some officeholders in the liberal-tilting city initially voiced concern about hosting the convention, and last year the Charlotte city council passed a resolution condemning the president.
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The report, prepared by The Reflective Democracy Campaign, which studies demographics in American politics, crunched data from nearly 45,000 elected officeholders nationwide, and the findings were telling.
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What has truly shaken me is the zeal with which Republican officeholders and conservative commentators, some of whom I'd thought better of, have come to Kavanaugh's defense.
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Maine has changed how it will choose most officeholders, becoming the first state in the country to adopt ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting.
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These examples, and many more, flout Article 1 of the Constitution, which bans federal officeholders from accepting "emoluments" from any foreign country unless Congress approves the arrangement.
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That bill would apply to returns filed in the past five years as well as all New York state returns filed by those officeholders in future years.
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The rejection of the ticket by so many officeholders in the past few days gives a sense of the scale of the elite's disaffection with their own voters.
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This is not how Pence's potential vice presidency is being sold to the Republican officeholders who are wary of Trump, and whom Trump in many cases has humiliated.
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There are congresspeople and local officeholders in their 30s and sometimes even their 20s, but by and large people tend to go gray before they go into politics.
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He can relate and communicate with working-class voters, but this is a state that does not have much of a heart or mind for Democratic Party officeholders.
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The March rate review will be the final one before a BOJ leadership change, in which two new deputy governors will replace the departing officeholders on March 20.
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With trust in government at historic lows, we should demand that all officeholders with significant power — presidential candidates, senators, congressmen, governors and state lawmakers — disclose their tax returns.
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The bill also includes provisions for mandating transparency in digital-ad spending, strengthening disclosure policies regarding foreign gifts to officeholders, and strictly enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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If human 10 Commandments display Roy Moore defeats incumbent Luther Strange in Tuesday's Alabama primary, the threat of challengers from the right could push Republican officeholders to act.
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The big thing about 19923 and now is that 21992 starts this trend where most of the candidates coming in and the officeholders coming in are Democratic women.
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There are oddities as well, like restricting the ability of successor governments to modify long-term agreements entered into by their predecessors and setting minimum qualifications for officeholders.
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Biden's victories on Super Tuesday, and the centrist coalescence behind his campaign, was a relief to many Democratic officeholders, who have been unnerved by the rise of Sen.
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The 54 friend-of-the-court briefs, from party elders and officeholders, social scientists, historians, constitutional lawyers and even a neuroscientist, help build powerful arguments on both sides.
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The Trump administration pressed the remaining Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys to offer their resignations Friday, a seemingly abrupt move that surprised many — including the officeholders asked to leave.
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For Trump's impeachment to actually serve as a means of accountability, of showing future officeholders that misbehavior carries costs, there needs to be some actual bite to them.
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Meanwhile, Republicans have a deeper bench of local officeholders, with their own networks of supporters and donors, lining up to seek the two open seats in the district.
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Both experienced local Democratic officeholders and fresh face candidates with attractive bios have calculated that 22018 is likely to be a favorable year for them to run for office.
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They're one of the key ways politicians interact with voters, where almost anyone can have a chance to ask questions or speak his or her mind directly to officeholders.
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Several lawsuits, including one from Democratic lawmakers, accuse Mr Trump of causing harm by violating the constitution's Emoluments Clause, which forbids American officeholders from accepting money from foreign governments.
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Even so, regulators — spurred on by social scientists — realized that the restrictions would tie the hands of researchers hoping to study government figures in their official capacity as officeholders.
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Meanwhile, the bulk of the party opposed both an anti-terrorism law that will soon replace temporary states of emergency and a law toughening ethics rules for public officeholders.
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Winner-take-all elections, instead of proportional representation, mean that the slimmest of victories puts total power in the hands of the officeholders who did not attract many voters.
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On the western front, Summer Lee, an African-American lawyer and community organizer, and activist Sara Innamorato, unseated a pair of longtime Democratic officeholders, cousins Paul and Dom Costa.
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The more he publicly pushes the economic argument for tax reform, and privately assures GOP officeholders they're jobs are at stake, the better chances this plan has to pass.
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Recent polls show that the president is still enormously popular among likely GOP voters — a fact GOP officeholders and those contemplating political bids in 2020 are well aware of.
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Superdelegates, who are made up of Democratic Party officials and officeholders, will wield much less power next year than they did in the competitive primaries of 6900 and 2628.
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If federal officeholders and candidates are not provided with an alternative way to finance their campaigns, influence-money corruption in Washington will not stop – it will grow far worse.
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For companies to be held accountable, they must disclose all of their political spending, both direct and through secretive channels, to influence the election of state and federal officeholders.
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State officeholders are very important this year because in most states, they will control the redistricting process following the 2628 census and — therefore — Democratic prospects for the next decade.
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Traditionally, state and local parties back incumbents, but Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has rankled fellow Democrats with her and her supporters' unabashed willingness to back primary challenges against longtime officeholders.
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Their central committee, the Republican State Leadership Committee — which helps elect lieutenant governors and other officeholders in addition to state legislators — recently announced it raised $19 million in 2019.
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Turns out the Republican National Committee is footing a good portion of the bill, under a law that allows officeholders to dip into campaign funds to cover legal fees.
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Many asserted that the move represented a violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which bars federal officeholders from accepting payments from foreign countries, U.S. states or the federal government.
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Beyond that, they expect wide variance in how officeholders handle Mr. Trump and his agenda, from moderates who seek out accommodation to blue-state leaders who pursue total war.
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Whoever leads this team helps set the course of US foreign policy for years, and previous officeholders include prominent figures like George Kennan, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Richard Haass.
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But since the racial revolution of the 1960s, Alabama has been a state in which officeholders and most community leaders avoid taking a stand on issues with ethical implications.
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For Democrats, the real victory of Tuesday's elections was that the party can now boast a diverse slate of state and local officeholders in several areas of the country.
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They didn't worry when Republican officeholders deployed every available weapon—investigation, impeachment, Supreme Court majority, filibuster, government shutdown, conspiracy theories, implied threats of violence—to destroy their political enemies.
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As a result, Republican officeholders often focus more on blocking Democratic initiatives than on developing their own alternatives, concentrating instead on broader fights over taxation and the federal budget.
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While 2018 may be a record-breaking year for women candidates in many ways, the midterm elections are unlikely to significantly alter the longstanding party gap among women officeholders.
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" In addition, current officeholders and candidates "should use the absolute greatest amount of restraint and caution if they are considering publicly calling the validity of an upcoming election into question.
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And while some prominent Republicans in the state, like former Senator John E. Sununu, remain vocal Kasich defenders, few sitting officeholders have made a point of consistently challenging Mr. Trump.
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More than 60 prominent Republican current and former officeholders issued statements condemning Trump's remarks about women, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and John McCain, the party's standard bearer in 2008.
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U.S. elections this year could double the country's number of transgender officeholders, currently at six, according to the Victory Fund, which works to elect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates.
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Unlike impeachment, which targets officeholders who have committed crimes and requires action by both legislative chambers, removal is aimed at incompetent but law-abiding officials and requires only Senate action.
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By contrast, the Republican officeholders and elder statesmen who have opposed Trump—from Mitt Romney to Ted Cruz to John Kasich—have mostly seen their stars fall within the party.
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It is also notably increasing in popularity with some of the most ambitious Democratic officeholders -- a group of Senators possibly looking to run for the party's presidential nomination in 2020.
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Many of these new officeholders ran on their military service, pointing to their ability to work with diverse people and to focus on a mission greater than any individual interests.
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But don't look for young Latinos to adopt traditional minority group politics as practiced by the Democratic officeholders, the corporate diversity officers and advocacy groups that constitute the Latino establishment.
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In the five decades following Raspberry's ignored warnings, replacing white elected officials with black officeholders was continually hailed as the great pathway to improving conditions in America's devastated inner cities.
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When we wrote It's Even Worse Than It Looks, many former Republican officeholders understood we were not attacking the Republican Party as partisans but trying to save it from itself.
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On Sunday evening, after a Twitter feud with Trump, Corker gave an interview to The New York Times in which he said publicly what Republican officeholders usually say only privately.
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Over the last quarter-century, city voters have affirmed in three referendums — in 1993, 1996 and 2010 — that they want all their officeholders to max out at two consecutive terms.
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In interviews with nine local officeholders in places where the Mississippi River crested recently, several politicians said they believed climate change was playing a role in the frequency of floods.
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Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Sanders endorses 85033 progressive House candidates Biden leads 2020 pack in congressional endorsements MORE (D-Mich.) and state Rep.
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Because their goals of reducing the scope of government and reversing cultural change are difficult to achieve in practice, Republican officeholders are vulnerable to accusations of failing to uphold principles.
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The company, which sells the only tamper-resistant, long-acting opioids in Canada, met with 40 officeholders last year, up from eight in 2015 and three in 2014, records show.
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I and many other officeholders testified to our strong belief that we did but Robert Rubin, then U.S. secretary of the Treasury, was the last witness and torpedoed our momentum.
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Older Republicans (who constitute much of that party's most active base) are on the wrong side of this issue, and they've got GOP officeholders trapped on the wrong side as well.
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A new lawsuit alleges that one of the reasons is a set of provisions in the Mississippi Constitution that "dilutes" the African American vote in favor of white districts and officeholders.
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But the bigger point is that there are multiple factions, and as the different factions achieve roughly equal balance among the party's leading officeholders, the internal stalemate will be particularly bad.
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Now, though, Resistbot users can also interact with the service through other platforms like Facebook Messenger and Amazon's Alexa, and they can send notes to a wider variety of public officeholders.
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Overall, more than 2000,21950 black officeholders would be elected during Reconstruction throughout the South, including, by 19683, a total of 21968 black congressmen and two United States senators, both from Mississippi.
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In a monarchy, citizens do not get to choose their rulers, power is fixed and inherited; in a republican form of government, the people ultimately retain sovereignty and choose their officeholders.
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" The numbers…: "Recent polls show that the president is still enormously popular among likely GOP voters -- a fact GOP officeholders and those contemplating political bids in 2020 are well aware of.
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The outspoken businessman has struggled to win support from officeholders, who have been reluctant to embrace the man who has shaken up the GOP presidential race like no one before him.
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He's also being sued separately for violating the Emoluments Clause -- which prohibits federal officeholders from receiving gifts and payments from foreign states or their representatives -- in his official capacity as President.
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She told CNN that Democrats have a case for impeachment based on claims that Trump violated the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits federal officeholders from receiving gifts and payments from foreign states.
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Yes, there were still plenty of Republican officeholders in the state, but Bill Clinton won the state in 1992, and the Democratic Party was winning more and more state-level seats.
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But Mr. Trump has gone even further, not only taking on individual Democratic officeholders by name, which most presidents avoid, but also ridiculing them and insulting them with playground-style taunts.
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Turner's group favored replacing the three elected commissioners, and a row of other elected officeholders staffed by patronage hires, with an elected executive, an 13-member county council, and appointed administrators.
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"Because Texas Republicans are currently too lackadaisical ... it is the down-ballot Republican officeholders who will likely suffer most in 2020," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist and a Texas native.
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Sander LevinSander (Sandy) Martin LevinWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Bottom Line Canada left facing a fait accompli in NAFTA negotiations MORE (D-Mich.), will work on the account.
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Sadly, there remains a sizable constituency for incompetency on this scale — the look-the-other-way evangelicals, the get-yours-while-you-can corporate class, the ditch-your-principles Republican officeholders.
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Democrats feel they have momentum on their side, and their confidence has been bolstered by expressions of concern over Trump's conduct from former members of his administration and fellow Republican officeholders.
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McCaskill faces reelection in 2018, and while she doesn't have a GOP opponent yet, the two-term senator is one of only a few remaining statewide Democratic officeholders in the state.
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Challengers to sitting Republican officeholders from the ideological right have not only become more frequent over time but have also come to represent a serious risk to their chances of renomination.
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What's changed is whom voters are listening to: Unelected elite actors, especially conservative media figures, are gaining influence over the behavior of Republican voters while officeholders and candidates are losing it.
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Trump explicitly ran on undoing the law as a presidential candidate -- the same way that Republican officeholders across the country rallied their supporters with that promise in every election cycle since 2010.
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Trump's strategy: Where he says he can win CNN interviewed more than a dozen veteran Republican campaign strategists, pollsters and past and current officeholders about what Trump needs to do to win.
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He highlighted how the "Constitution requires a process other than" the criminal justice system to hold officeholders accountable, a clear signal his obstruction investigation into Trump could be carried on by Congress.
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Some Democrats worried that the scandals enveloping their executive officeholders may have an electoral impact — if not in the minds of voters, then at least on the party's efforts to raise money.
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The presidential organizing model has trickled down to officeholders in Ohio, an essential swing state, where no one has built a better voter-mobilization team than the twice-elected governor, John Kasich.
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The second count, referring to Trump's business interests, including his hotels, asserts that he violated the foreign-emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars federal officeholders from receiving payments from foreign governments.
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For officeholders, lawmakers and pundits in the Beltway, it is far easier politically to talk tough to the Russians, enact sanctions on the Russian economy and snub pragmatic diplomacy when disagreements arise.
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Atlanta is a Democratic stronghold in a state that is largely Republican, and the city's government remains the only major Democratic power center in a state political system dominated by Republican officeholders.
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The other large statistical determinant of primary success is whether you've held earlier elective office, and since most existing officeholders are men, that means the pipeline for congressional candidates is predominantly male.
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But the idea of trying to raise money and hold rallies while spurning the three highest officeholders in the state came to be seen by many Democrats as just a needless handicap.
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At an afternoon press conference, DeWine talked of a tough decision, made in consultation with other officeholders and voters calling with concerns about plans to go through with the primary as scheduled.
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The significance, Mr. Henson said, is that those are the Republicans who are most involved in primaries and party activities, and Republican officeholders who control state government are most responsive to them.
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Critics argued that the Tea Party was little more than a rebranding effort to rescue conservative Republicans from responsibility for the failures of governance, organizing, and messaging that afflicted actual Republican officeholders.
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In July 2017, the Urban Revitalization Coalition was registered in Delaware, according to public records, and it began promoting the Opportunity Zone program in conjunction with administration officials and other Republican officeholders.
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There have been exceptions, but by far the most vocal critics of Trump on the right have been the columnists, political consultants and former Republican officeholders who don't need to face voters.
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Other cases are being pursued by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, who allege Trump transgressed the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which bans officeholders from profiting from foreign interests.
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The unions believe that their priorities will be more prominent in the minds of officeholders if they own and control the get-out-the-vote infrastructure, and if it outlives each campaign cycle.
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Mueller highlighted how the "Constitution requires a process other than" the criminal justice system to hold officeholders accountable, a clear signal that his obstruction investigation into Trump could be picked up by Congress.
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" The next question to the Republicans officeholders was this: "What are you going to do to make sure that individuals who gained coverage under Obamacare will still have access to affordable health care?
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They also claimed the Framers intended impeachment to encompass a wide spectrum of misconduct and the Constitution's reference to "high crimes and misdemeanors" applies broadly to injuries done to society by public officeholders.
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In the Obama diaspora, the term of art for what Clinton is doing is building a "permission structure" for Republican officeholders and Republican voters to overcome their partisan inhibitions and vote for her.
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As Speaker Paul Ryan noted when he withdrew the Republican alternative to Obamacare in late March, there are growing pains that come with the new responsibilities that GOP officeholders have been tasked with.
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Clinton allies on Capitol Hill did not attack the report directly but said it was wrong for Republicans to single out the former first lady, given OIG criticism of officeholders in both parties.
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Lack of engagement and education too often feed the frustration that we see in politics today: voters dissatisfied with phony political agendas have lost faith in officeholders' ability to resist being self-serving.
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In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld the law based on a "prediction … that state and local candidates and officeholders will become the next conduits for the soft-money funding" of federal campaign ads.
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Though Mr. Yang, an entrepreneur, has received scattered support from local and state office holders, he does not appear to have endorsements from any current members of Congress or other current federal officeholders.
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"That puts these lazier and sleepier incumbents under the microscope," said Brian Smoot, a Democratic consultant and former DCCC political director, referring to longtime officeholders who haven't had a serious challenge in years.
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But these days, alas, Republican officeholders and Trump's base of voters shrug off and enable tirades, taunts, and threats and a stonewalling of Congress they would surely deem unacceptable in a Democratic administration.
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According to an internal poll commissioned by Republican officeholders and described by several Republicans who were not authorized to discuss a confidential survey, the governor's approval rating is at an abysmally low level.
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One crowdfunding campaign, for example, is trying to raise $1 million to buy the browsing history of Republican officeholders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Paul Ryan, and FCC Chair Ajit Pai.
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No civil service protected officeholders in the executive branch, but many postmasters and customs collectors had held their jobs for decades and come to think of them as their property, bequeathable to their sons.
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Conservative media, such as it was, aggressively supported Nixon throughout the crisis, but it was simply not powerful enough to reshape the emerging consensus around administration wrongdoing or to keep Republican officeholders in line.
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Partisan officeholders also get to decide how many voting booths will be available in poor and student-dominated areas, thus causing long lines to wait to vote, or what forms of ID are necessary.
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Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore is famous for refusing to remove a statue of the Ten Commandments from a government building but told reporters Tuesday he doesn't support a "religious test" for officeholders.
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Clinton -- who, like Bush, didn't mention President Donald Trump -- agreed that officeholders need to be humble, and warned that those "who are real arrogant in office" have forgotten that history will be their judge.
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The optics of cutting off support to a female lawmaker like Comstock — especially at a time when the GOP is already poised to lose 25 percent of its female elected officeholders — could be detrimental.
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He said it would be very hard for the Vermont senator to close the gap, which only grows when superdelegates — lawmakers and other Democratic officeholders who pledge their support to a candidate — are included.
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In particular, when he inflamed racial tensions by saying "both sides" were at fault for violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, it drew the condemnation of many Republicans, including some officeholders.
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While almost all Republican officeholders have endorsed Mr. Trump, the same isn't true of what we might call the G.O.P. intelligentsia – actual or at least self-proclaimed policy experts, opinion writers, and so on.
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And yet many of its elected officeholders remain deeply wary of saying so and especially conflicted about how to address the flaws in the country's immigration system — or whether to address them at all.
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It's not so much that it causes a change in party as much as it causes a change in the political identity of the officeholders, so moderate Republicans are replaced by extremely conservative Republicans.
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And the reaction to it seems of a piece with the drama of the presidency — of holding candidates and officeholders to a higher standard of dignity yet wanting them to be just like us.
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He hasn't assembled panels of experts to advise him, developed detailed policy programs, shown off a growing body of knowledge about world affairs, consulted with respected former officials, or impressed other Republican Party officeholders.
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So far, just one Republican organization in Alabama — the Greater Birmingham Young Republicans — has formally distanced itself from Mr. Moore, and typically talkative Republican officeholders have refused to respond to messages in recent days.
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"The founders ensured that federal officeholders would not decide for themselves whether particular emoluments were likely to compromise their own independence or lead them to put personal interest over national interest," the lawsuit states.
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But there will be several longtime Democratic officeholders onstage who are also committed to liberal policy goals like expanding health care, strengthening gun control laws and raising taxes on Wall Street and the wealthy.
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Other officeholders and activists supporting the presidential candidate include Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor, Macomb County Commissioner Robert Mijac, Macomb County Commissioner Elizabeth Lucido and Lonnie Scott, who heads the liberal group Progress Michigan.
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The Framers intended impeachment to encompass a "full spectrum" of presidential misconduct, Garcia said, adding that the Constitution's reference to high crimes and misdemeanors applied broadly to injuries done to society by public officeholders.
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The only reasonable strategy is to sweep the pieces off the board and form a new, moderate, left-of-center, political party and attract as many Democrat officeholders and voters to it as possible.
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Republican officeholders know that Mr. Trump can take to Twitter or to Fox News or to the podium at rallies — or all of the above — to excoriate them for a weak will or disloyalty.
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It does not seem to matter, Asian-American officeholders and activists say, that all five Asian-American elected officials at the city, state and federal levels are Democrats, like Mr. de Blasio and Gov.
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The die-hard remnant population of Never Trumpers comes most visibly from the class of Republican consultants, conservative media personalities and a few G.O.P. officeholders safely removed from the considerations of re-election campaigns.
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" Speaking to the convention hall an hour later, he revealed to groaning Trump delegates that "as a first step toward unity, we have invited our top three statewide officeholders to join us on the slate.
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Democrats who took uncompromising stands against racism and sexual harassment and assault find themselves questioning just how far their idealism goes as Virginia's top three officeholders struggle to weather political storms that threaten their careers.
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Social media misinformation campaigns are now a permanent fight for candidates and officeholders, and will just get worse with the AI-driven deepfake technologies, which make it easy to phony up images, audio and video.
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Like the FBI director, the Cabinet, the generals and admirals who command the American military, and other key officeholders, they work for the American people and they swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution.
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He also helped ensure that Democratic officeholders would more closely reflect the coalition of their party, and that a woman may take over the House, should Ms. Pelosi secure the voters to reclaim the speakership.
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"Doubling down on the same failed policy proposals and tactics that led to the erosion of Democratic officeholders nationwide is a surefire way to fail once again," NRCC spokesman Jesse Hunt said in a statement.
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Though the subject of impeachment hovered in the air, the state's Democratic officeholders were far more focused on electing Democrats up and down the ticket than on the inquiry happening 3,000 miles across the country.
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But the strains are mounting quickly in this case in part because Mr. Trump, an unconventional political leader, lacks the sort of relationships with Republican officeholders that most presidents enjoy upon entering the Oval Office.
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They may say things journalists know are wrong — climate change denial is a constant among Republican officeholders — but they protect themselves by wrapping their arguments in well-constructed controversy or appealing to hand-selected experts.
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In his May speech, he highlighted how the "Constitution requires a process other than" the criminal justice system to hold officeholders accountable, a clear signal his obstruction investigation into Trump could be carried on by Congress.
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It also involves signaling to (presumably) Democratic officeholders that they have a large and active constituency that won't tolerate the nomination of someone who hasn't made preventing violence against women and protecting abortion access a priority.
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In such an intensely polarized political environment that distrust of mainstream media will make it less likely that Trump supporters - and the Republican officeholders who rely on their votes - will abandon the president any time soon.
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That puts Virginia Democrats in a politically tenuous position of forcing out Virginia's only black statewide officeholder — while two white officeholders accused of racist acts that played on African American stereotypes are clinging to their jobs.
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The city is a Democratic stronghold in a state that is otherwise largely Republican, and the city's government remains the only major Democratic power center in the state's political system, which is dominated by Republican officeholders.
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And some of his leading allies are already warning Republican officeholders who may be faced with an impeachment vote in a Democratic-controlled Congress to be fully mindful of the president's popularity with their shared base.
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And as Sanders has emerged as the front-runner in 2020, the media has reported widespread concerns among Democratic officeholders that he will not win the presidency and will drag "down ballot" candidates down with him.
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The rise of progressive politics on the left and the wave of women officeholders, including the first black and Muslim and Native American representatives from their districts, have combined to give Ms. Chisholm new cultural consideration.
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In October, Facebook doubled down on its decision to exempt politicians from its usual policies prohibiting posting misinformation and other forms of problematic content, extending the carte blanche to ads purchased by political candidates or officeholders.
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I do think the DNC will need to think about this for the next time: how to create a clear system that better allows lower-profile candidates and non-federal officeholders to get their voices heard.
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The good news for Democratic officeholders and candidates — and something many of them gingerly brought up — is that they may fare better the next two years thanks to Mr. Trump than they would have if Mrs.
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Their victories would provide Democrats an opportunity to turn back voter suppression efforts by Republican officeholders—and could give the party a leg up in voter turnout when President Donald Trump is up for reelection in 2020.
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Previously, Clinton had given credit to activists (and Newsome by name), but her words on Saturday offered a far more sanitized version of history—one in which primacy is again given to the personal decency of officeholders.
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New Mexico was among the states that saw a tide of young and diverse Democratic officeholders sweep to power during last year's midterm elections, and some of those newly elected officials may now consider running for Senate.
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With a bit of luck, genuine ferment and debate among Democratic candidates and officeholders over the right direction on issues like trade and immigration might result in at least one party oriented around a set of ideas.
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Andrew M. Cuomo might not like a ballot that includes a wide-open, potentially raucous primary for attorney general, with no incumbent: the more placid a primary, the thinking goes, the better for officeholders like the governor.
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Inspired by the neo-Georgian architecture of Federal Hall downtown, the building, at 100 East 17th Street, was built in 1929, the heyday of the Democratic officeholders Alfred E. Smith, James J. Walker and Robert F. Wagner.
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All but six of the 40 Republican officeholders whose races are considered competitive in the election have condemned Trump's comments in the video, although only three members of that group have called for him to drop out.
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The party's drift has so alarmed its Israel-backing stalwarts that several leading Democratic activists and ex-officeholders have formed a new group – the Democratic Majority for Israel – to rebuild the party's steadfast support for the Jewish state.
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This is certainly a common theory among political observers, and it's helped support a large number of state restrictions on party spending in elections on the belief that doing so would free up officeholders from strict partisan behavior.
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Our guess is that this — the declining uniqueness of female candidates — is a price Jeannette Rankin would be willing to pay to see many more women join her in the ranks of elected officeholders in the United States.
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Pence on the ticket could help Trump mend fences with Republican officeholders and conservative institutions, but it wouldn't require him to work together with anyone he's clashed with or who has denounced any of his more outlandish ideas.
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During the dark days of the "Access Hollywood" tape, as many Republican officeholders were distancing themselves from the nominee, Mr. Jordan made clear that, while he found such vulgar talk unacceptable, he nonetheless would stand by his man.
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But Biden is no Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE.
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The Emoluments Clause, which bars federal officeholders from accepting payments from foreign countries, U.S. states or the federal government, has been cited by numerous Democrats and outside watchdog groups to call into question Trump's use of his properties.
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry — who won the Iowa caucuses en route to the 2004 Democratic nomination — was the headliner among a group of Democratic officeholders who embarked on a "We Know Joe" bus tour this week.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday launched a wave of ads targeting 14 House of Representatives races including defenses of eight incumbents and four currently Republican-held seats whose current officeholders are not running in the Nov.
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NASHVILLE — Hillary Clinton's defeat last year ignited an intense debate about the role of gender in American politics, but the presidential race overshadowed a deeper structural challenge for Democrats: They have a scarcity of female officeholders in state capitals.
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Instead, Democrats intend to focus on a sparer agenda of bread-and-butter priorities that can win support from both liberal and moderate officeholders — and appeal to voters just as much in red states as along the two coasts.
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Laying the groundwork to look for potential violations of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bans payments from foreign governments to federal officeholders, he wrote to the Trump Organization requesting documents related to the company's procedures for identifying foreign payments.
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The Reconquista revisited Most of America's serious conservative thinkers, as opposed to the people who play conservatives on Fox News, are repelled both by the Republican Party's leader and by the willingness of its officials and officeholders to stand by him.
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Schumer said Gorsuch declined to answer questions such as whether a ban on Muslim immigration would be constitutional or comment on what is known as the Emoluments Clause in the U.S. Constitution that bars officeholders from accepting money from foreign powers.
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But, if we continue to analogize Facebook to the government, the campaign speech policy tacks in the opposite direction, granting extra rights for political candidates—who are disproportionately likely to already be political officeholders—that the rest of us don't get.
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New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, one of the longest-serving officeholders in the country and a fierce defender of his state's first-in-the-nation primary, on Wednesday won his bid for a 22nd term by a narrow margin.
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Before the trip and since, Ms. Warren and her emissaries have been reaching out to key Democratic officeholders in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina — three states early in the presidential primary calendar — making introductions and offering help in the midterm campaign.
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Transition Briefing The lobby of Trump Tower had a frenetic pace on Thursday as a parade of current and former officeholders and others came to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump as he works to build his nascent administration.
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"The election of a president who has decided to maintain his ties to a broad array of business ventures raises questions about the adequacy of existing legislation concerning financial disclosures, government contracts with federal officeholders and government ethics," the brief said.
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In particular, after Election Day Republican officeholders will be faced with competing impulses: to acknowledge the legitimacy of Clinton's victory, and the broader set of electoral institutions responsible for their own victories, or side with Trump's fervent supporters against the establishment.
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Every day it becomes clearer that the insurgency led by activists and media figures on the right against Republican officeholders was not merely a byproduct of conservative frustration during the Obama years, destined to fade once the party regained power.
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Despite making up a majority of voters in every presidential election since 1964, and fielding serious major party candidates for president and vice president, women still fall short in nearly every other metric of political power — as donors, candidates, and elected officeholders.
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For Democrats and Republicans alike, Silicon Valley is an annual stop on the way to Election Day: The region's executives are cash flush, politically inclined and, at times, can serve as helpful gateways for national officeholders to boost their own tech expertise.
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Hampton Roads, too, is becoming important source of Democratic votes Even Northern Virginia's few remaining Republican officeholders stoutly advocate for federal workers, openly challenging Mr Trump over his bureaucrat-bashing, including his short-lived freeze on government employment early in his term.
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BuzzFeed News contacted more than 15 Republican candidates, operatives, and officeholders in Southern states with the same basic question: Does seeing these symbols embraced in the name of racism and in a violent manner change how you feel about pro-Confederate politics?
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Recently disclosed audio and video footage of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women with impunity due to his star power has set off a cascade of Republican defections, concentrated among, but not limited to, officeholders who face competitive elections next month.
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But this is important context for the future of trade policy, and raises the prospect that a Trump-Clinton general election could produce a larger realignment with Democratic officeholders joining rank-and-file Democrats in embracing trade deals while Republicans oppose them.
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"What this is is effectively Republicans who are using their majorities that they still have until the new session begins in January to cement a little bit of power or take some power away from the incoming Democratic officeholders," Wilson told Hill.
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During Reconstruction, South Carolinians made black officeholders a majority in the lower house of the state's General Assembly and celebrated the service of black lieutenant governors, a secretary of state, a treasurer, a state Supreme Court justice and a speaker of the House.
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Public opposition to a shutdown over the wall Uneasy GOP officeholders have legitimate reason for concern: In a National Public Radio/Marist survey last week, just 36% of Americans said Trump should shut down the government if Congress doesn't fund his wall.
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PORTLAND, Me. — Facing urgent calls to stabilize his candidacy and declining poll numbers, Donald J. Trump struggled on Thursday to refocus his message after threatening to withhold his endorsement from top Republican officeholders, including Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House.
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Elsewhere this cycle, Vermont Democrat Christine Hallquist has already made history as the first major-party transgender nominee for governor, and if she wins, she would be the nation's first transgender governor and one of the very few transgender officeholders around the country.
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If the 2018 cycle generates an unusually large cohort of newly elected women state legislators and other down-ballot officeholders (as seems likely), then there will be a much larger pool down the road of women well positioned to win House nominations.
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In the 2016 primaries, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, two champions of Latino support, were punished, and the party was left with Mr. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, two finalists for the presidential nomination that Republican officeholders loathed but could not stop.
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Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland say that by allowing foreign officials to patronize the five-star Trump International Hotel blocks from the White House, Mr. Trump is violating the Constitution's ban on payments from foreign governments to federal officeholders.
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In the 21995s, Herbert Hoover, as secretary of commerce, rightly anticipated that radio, the nation's next great mechanical experiment, would make it possible for political candidates and officeholders to speak to voters without the bother and expense of traveling to meet them.
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Several of the endorsed Democratic candidates, Teresa Fernandez in New Mexico, Georgette Gomez in California and Samelys Lopez in New York, are running for open congressional seats where the current officeholders are either not seeking reelection or running for a different office.
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And the self-justifying doctrine of the present elite — that you can serve the common good while in office and do well for yourself afterward — became far more implausible when the elite's projects kept failing even as the officeholders kept on cashing in.
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Although women remain underrepresented as elected officeholders -- a fact that's particularly true for women of color -- women's representation in state legislatures increased significantly post-2018 according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics, from 25.4% to 29.1% in 2020.
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It came after the historical commission's state chairman, John Nau — a beer-distribution magnate who donates heavily to Republican officeholders — told staff members to inquire about having markers that described raids that occurred on Anglo ranches around the time of the Porvenir massacre.
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By Trump's methodology of counting interim officeholders, he's on his third VA secretary (David Shulkin, Peter O'Rourke, and Robert Wilkie) and will be on his third attorney general (after Jeff Sessions and Matt Whitaker), should William Barr be confirmed by the Senate.
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"I hope (Trump's) indecency to John's memory and to the McCain family will convince more officeholders that they can't ignore the damage Trump is doing to politics and to the country's well-being or remain silent despite their concerns," said Mark Salter, McCain's biographer.
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Schumer, however, has argued that Gorsuch has not demonstrated that he's likely to be strong check on Trump, noting he dodged questions on the president's travel ban and whether the Constitution's ban on officeholders receiving gifts from foreign powers applied to Trump's real estate empire.
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It's critical that our elected officeholders listen to their constituents — and support policies that open energy markets to more competition from clean energy sources like wind and solar that will drive job creation and economic growth, ensuring both a bright economic and clean energy future.
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In that ruling, the majority recognized that "just as troubling to a functioning democracy as classic quid pro quo corruption" is the danger that large contributors will be able to purchase influence over and access to the officeholders who are the recipients of their largesse.
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The policy rollout of "A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future" came with wide support from Democratic officeholders and a large helping of public appearances as the party sought to build out points of agreement and an agenda for the coming elections. 6.
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One such assumption, that voters follow the signals sent by party elites and officeholders, is the basis of the famous "party decides" thesis in political science, which was invoked early and often to explain why Trump couldn't possibly end up as the Republican nominee.
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But this new front in the trade war carries substantial risk not just for the auto industry but for Mr. Trump and Republican officeholders nationwide, given the impact that a full-blown trade war could have on American jobs tied to the auto industry.
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Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 28503 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE's former campaign chairman John Podesta.
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The continuing Sanders movement embodied by Our Revolution is critical to the future of American politics, and the so-called liberal Tea Party movement is similar and also important by forcing Republican officeholders to publicly answer questions they would rather duck at town meetings.
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To overthrow Mr. Renzi, the Five Star Movement made common cause with other parties aligned with the Italian establishment, including lifelong officeholders and others such as former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, as well as leftist leaders and recipients of public benefits and labor protections.
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"The thread that ran through Alan's work — that American political history was made as much by popular figures wielding cultural influence as by officeholders and policymakers — was fully developed in this magisterial rendering of Luce's life," Lizabeth Cohen, a friend and Harvard history professor, wrote.
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" Not only can Kellyanne Conway not promote "Kellyanne's Steaks" or anything else that grants her a personal benefit, but public officeholders cannot do anything that results in a private gain for "friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity.
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Now, I'm not saying that US House people are going to tell the US Senate what to do or that Democratic municipal officeholders are going to tell the state legislators what to do, but we have got to have some sort of working coordination.
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And the US political ecosystem — media, consultants, power brokers, think tanks, foundations, officeholders, the whole thick network of institutions and individuals involved in national politics — cannot deal with a presidential election in which one candidate is obviously and uncontroversially the superior (if not sole acceptable) choice.
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Hillary Clinton moved aggressively on Sunday to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump's party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE won the Granite State by roughly 3,000 votes in 2016, NBC News noted.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 220006 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE won Fort Bend County in 2202 by 2628 points.
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The leaked audio of Trump's 2005 comments led Republican officeholders and candidates to start denouncing Trump in droves for the first time, going further than they did when he insulted Mexican immigrants, threatened to ban Muslims, or started a war of words with a Gold Star family.
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In a lawsuit on Monday, ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington contended payments to Trump's businesses for hotel rooms and office leases run afoul of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which forbids U.S. officeholders from accepting various gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval.
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Republican officeholders are terrified that if they don't support him, or are seen as in any way contributing to Clinton's election, they'll face the wrath of their conservative base and be defeated in the primary challenges that the Tea Party used to such devastating effect in 2010 and 2012.
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" To make public officials serve the public interest, the party says it will "expand conflict of interest law, require Presidential disclosure of tax returns, slow the revolving door, prohibit members of Congress from serving on for-profit boards, limit first class travel and end taxpayer financed settlements for officeholders.
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Entirely absent are virtually all of the Republicans who were seen, as recently as a few months ago, as the bright stars of the party: young officeholders who by virtue of their background or political biography, or the states they represented, seemed primed to expand the party's electoral horizons.
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With knock-kneed Republican officeholders showing signs of summoning the nerve to desert him, Mr. Trump labored to demonize Hillary Clinton — blaming her even for his own failure to pay taxes — and to remind his core supporters that he is all that stands between her and the presidency.
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In an era that has seen a woman come within striking distance of the presidency and an influx of female candidates and officeholders at every level of government, we continue to debate, as did those who supported and opposed women's suffrage a century ago, women's impact on American politics.
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While core Republican voters remain loyal to him and he is not currently facing a contest for the nomination, Mr. Trump's low standing with political moderates and especially women is leading some G.O.P. officeholders to voice unease about having him at the top of the ticket next year.
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David Pepper, the chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, prefaced a Sunday night post to his social media accounts with praise for DeWine and LaRose — both are Republican officeholders whom Pepper has worked to defeat in the past — before proposing an extension to the vote-by-mail period.
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Former New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE offered a preview.
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He formed the group for the 2018 midterms after being upset about Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE's loss in 2016.
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Team Rising weighs in on the lates Morning Consult Poll and Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE's rise.
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At first glance, it looks like Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report MORE's three primary challengers are just a random assortment of disgruntled ex-officeholders.
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In an election year in which record numbers of women are on the ballot, speaking with women officeholders provides some insights into the difference it might make if more women win so that they are at the tables -- and on the committees -- where major political decisions are being made.
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"Southern white federal officeholders repeatedly blocked anti-lynching legislation over the decades of the early 20th century, asserting that a federal role in thwarting lynching would violate 'state's rights,'" Michael Pfeifer, a history professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, told the Los Angeles Times recently.
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On the day that Trump spoke in Wisconsin, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ), a prominent legal watchdog group, expanded a federal lawsuit that accuses Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, a provision that restricts officeholders from receiving gifts and favors from foreign interests.
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In the closely watched congressional primary, Mr. Lipinski, a conservative Democrat, just barely edged out Ms. Newman, who drew on the Trump-era appetite within the party for more confrontational and liberal officeholders as she gave Mr. Lipinski the biggest scare he has had since he was elected in 2004.
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The Oversight and Judiciary Committees are likely to focus on any violations of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bans payments from foreign governments to federal officeholders, an avenue that will lead to an examination of payments to Trump-held properties and the role of both of his sons and Mr. Kushner.
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Indeed, if it is true, it has devastating implications for the entire Republican Party, since many officeholders enjoy lavish financial support from the N.R.A. Still, an N.R.A. role in Russiagate would explain a few things, including why the N.R.A. has, in recent years, developed such a close relationship with Russia.
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She's a political activist and worked on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE's 2016 campaign and later for the Democratic National Committee.
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Donald Trump's real impeachable offense, as far as the anti-Trump "Resistance" is concerned, was defeating Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE.
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Last March he said Trump was "chosen by God" to run for president against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE in 2016.
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The event will proceed relatively rapidly into the main program of speakers, the most important of which will be: Trump's economic policy agenda is at odds with the mainstream approach of Republican Party elected officials in that he is sharply critical of free trade agreements that most Republican officeholders support.
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Andy LevinAndrew (Andy) LevinPro-union bill draws 85033 battle lines Stuck in DC for impeachment, senators hold ground in Iowa Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists MORE (D-Mich.), vice chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, pushed back on the idea that the bill could hurt vulnerable Democrats.
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U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington said in a 58-page ruling that lawmakers who brought the suit had legal standing to sue the president for allegedly flouting the U.S. Constitution's "emoluments" clause, which prevents federal officeholders from accepting presents and other benefits from foreign governments without the "consent" of Congress.
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It is a mark, too, of Mr. Trump's extraordinary isolation within the party, even as he is poised to claim its nomination, that there is no clamor among its most popular and diverse young officeholders to enlist one of their own in the race against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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More than 190 Democratic lawmakers sued President Donald Trump in federal court, saying he had accepted funds from foreign governments through his hospitality businesses without congressional consent in violation of the U.S. Constitution's "foreign emoluments" clause, which bars U.S. officeholders from accepting payments and various other gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval.
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The letters themselves are not that big a deal — the coalition has been around for several years and sent many similar letters to Obama — but they are evidence of a robust, enduring strain of bipartisanship on this issue (one that, unlike the carbon tax, commands support from more-than-zero Republican officeholders).
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"Candidates, officeholders, Republican leaders need to not just disavow the comments, they need to unendorsed Trump and they need to work hard to preserve the Senate, the House, down-ballot races, their own personal integrity and the integrity of the party," said John Weaver, who served as a senior strategist to Ohio Gov.
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The most influential constituencies within the Democratic electoral and activist base — such as labor unions, racial minorities, environmentalists, and the economically disadvantaged — maintain an extensive wish list of specific policy priorities, encouraging Democratic officeholders to work pragmatically to enact an ambitious legislative agenda rather than engaging in symbolic acts of philosophical devotion.
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Cost-benefit analysis in play Rather than rely on federal or state actors, evacuation decisions fall to local officials -- municipal disaster experts, elected officeholders, hospital managers, nonprofit directors, business leaders -- said Richard Serino, a FEMA deputy administrator from 2009 to 2014 who is now a fellow at Harvard University's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.
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To the Editor: Re "Aide Says Trump Shares Kim's View of Biden" (news article, May 27): Sometime in the future, the question will be asked about how, in 2019, Republican officeholders responded when the president of the United States affirmed the insult by a North Korean dictator of a distinguished American politician.
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Among them are John Podesta, the former campaign chairman for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE in 2016, Maria Cardona, Alex Padilla and former Rep.
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The Democratic National Committee has weakened the power of superdelegates, who helped propel Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE to the nomination in 2016.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE is calling it a "shame" that no women were nominated for the Academy Award for best director this year.
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Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 28500 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 6900:2628 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE, still a long shot to win the Democratic presidential nomination, has an important booster: Donald J. Trump.
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Y.), Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarSanders endorses 9 progressive House candidates Biden leads 2023 pack in congressional endorsements Sanders wants one-on-one fight with Biden MORE (Minn.) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Sanders endorses 9 progressive House candidates Biden leads 2020 pack in congressional endorsements MORE (Mich.).
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It would also fall to Mr. Conway to oversee Mr. Trump's defense in a pending lawsuit charging him with violations of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which bans federal officeholders from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments, because of the profits his hotels and resorts receive from foreign officials who are customers.
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In 1988, in the invisible primary (the hunt for elite endorsements before the primaries and caucuses begin) Bush secured just over 50 percent of the endorsements made by major Republican officeholders, with Dole and Kemp winning 20 percent each and the last 10 percent scattered among the remaining candidates (data from The Party Decides).
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Taking the stage between sets from a doo-wop band, Mr. Brady's colleagues repaid the favor before a crowd of Philadelphia Democratic ward leaders and officeholders, many of whom were as captivated by the open bar, roast pork sandwiches and cheesesteak stations as by the out-of-town lawmakers paying homage to their leader.
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Clinton has the overwhelming support of the party establishment, she is near-universally regarded by the party's officeholders as more electable (Sanders's camp disputes this analysis, but the fact is it's how she's seen), and the main theme of the Sanders campaign has been that everyone who participates in the conventional campaign fundraising process (i.e.
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Former advisor to Bill and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE weighs in on HRC's recent comments about Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders campaign says it raised more than .
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Presidential candidate Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 2628 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 28503:22020 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE recently canvassed for Democrat Eliz Markowitz, who is running against Republican Gary Gates, earlier in the month.
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But the sheer disarray surrounding this presidency — the intensifying investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the plain uncertainty about what Mr. Trump will do in the next week, let alone in the next election — have prompted Republican officeholders to take political steps unheard-of so soon into a new administration.
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Like other former officeholders before him, Boehner has signed on with the Harry Walker Agency's Speakers Bureau, which boasts names like former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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On May 3, 2016, when Donald Trump appeared to clinch the Republican nomination by winning the Indiana primary, an elderly remnant of Hoosiers could remember the unlikely ascent of another businessman who, in 1940, came out of nowhere, convincing the G.O.P. that he, rather than someone from an array of familiar officeholders, should be the Party's Presidential candidate.
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"For women historically, the challenge has been that the expectations of candidates and officeholders have aligned more often with masculine traits and masculine areas of expertise," said Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University and co-author of the book A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Representation Matters.
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Because Mr. Trump received only 8 percent of the African-American vote in the 2016 election, and 86 percent of black voters disapprove of the job he's doing, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, "there is a bigger expectation" that black candidates and officeholders will be on board with resisting Trump administration policies, Professor Theoharis said.
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Scott told The Detroit News that Warren and former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 2628 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 28503:22020 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE have put the most effort in the potential battleground state.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE said Monday that she was not thinking about the 2020 Democratic primary or her effect on voters when she criticized Sen.
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Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who will co-chair the rules committee, and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 28500 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE's former campaign chairman John Podesta, who will have a seat on that committee.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Friday that she is considering throwing her support behind former New York City Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 2628 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 28500:6900 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE for president.
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"That's not a conspiracy theory," Cotton responded, citing individual Ukrainian officials who had expressed support for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE and criticism of then-candidate Trump.
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New Hampshire is also expected to be hotly contested in the general election after Trump lost to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE there by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2016.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE's campaign is set to send 2.5 million mailers out to primary voters across Super Tuesday states on Monday.
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The claim was made in a video clip featured in an upcoming documentary about former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE that was obtained by NBC News.
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Former New York City mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE has also picked up endorsements from four House Democrats in recent days, and former Rep.
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Devin NunesDevin Gerald Nunes2023 top Republicans who continue to deny the undeniable A Republican Watergate veteran's perspective on a Trump impeachment Meet the lawyer at center of whistleblower case: 'It is an everyday adventure' MORE (R-Calif.): CNN asked 80 Republican officeholders if they had any concerns about Trump's call for Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens.
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"The election of a President who has decided to maintain his ties to a broad array of business ventures raises questions about the adequacy of existing legislation concerning financial disclosures, government contracts with federal officeholders, and government ethics, more generally," House General Counsel Douglas Letter told the Court in briefs filed during an earlier phase of the appeal.
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Her first misstep was offering the Chicago Teachers Union a 16% raise before talks even began - a maneuver intended to avoid the strike that caused 300,0000 students to miss class for more than two weeks but instead emboldened union leadership to push for more spending in other areas, according to fellow officeholders, political analysts and Chicago's media.
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" More than a dozen current Republican officeholders who were Scouts declined to comment or did not respond to messages on Tuesday, but a spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who also attended the jamboree, said that he thought the speech was "very well received" and that he "appreciated the president taking the time to talk with America's future leaders.
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As impeachment proceedings head into the next phase, Democrats have been debating whether to bring articles of impeachment on allegations of obstruction of justice laid out in the Mueller report as well as potential violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution which prevents federal officeholders from receiving payments or anything of value from a foreign state.
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More on this... Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms Puerto Rico issues new data on Hurricane Maria deaths Puerto Rico institute sues health department to obtain data But as they begin the painstaking work of rebuilding their lives in the Sunshine State, the influx of new residents has also commanded the attention of Florida's officeholders and candidates.
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Alexander Burns and Amy Chozick reported on a Clinton campaign event on Sunday: Hillary Clinton moved aggressively on Sunday to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump's party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.
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Republican women running in swing districts are instead left to carefully carve out the separation between themselves and Mr. Trump, a president who was elected with the biggest gender gap ever recorded, and who regularly dismisses female officeholders as "crazy" and "low I.Q." Those running in districts where the president is popular have been punished for so much as criticizing him for incivility.
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Despite only coming in at 22020 percent, former New York Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE had the biggest jump of any candidate, gaining 3 points since Emerson's last poll.
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Amid his rise in polls, Sanders this week also faced criticism from former secretary of State and 85033 Democratic rival Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE, who called him unlikeable, sparking backlash.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE unloaded on Sanders this week, relitigating her grievances from the 2016 campaign and describing him as an unlikeable "career politician" whose supporters "got sucked into" backing him.
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The closest trailing Democrat to the frontrunners is former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE, who sits at 8 percent and has surpassed former South Bend, Ind.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 21625:2900 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE hit double digits in a new Morning Consult poll on Tuesday, marking the latest sign of his campaign's growing support since launching in November.
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Instead, the Right's media monoculture has created negative feedback loops whereby people with little political acumen like Mark Levin, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck are able to fill Republican voters' heads with nonsensical ideas like planning to shut down the government with no backup plan or electing fewer GOP officeholders in pursuit of more "pure" ones, primarily because they grossly overestimate the number of conservatives in America.
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In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE won among those who had attended before, 59 percent to 35 percent, while Sanders came out on top among first-timers, 59 percent to 37 percent.
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It is no secret that I fervently believe Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE is the only presidential candidate qualified by governing experience and personal history to lead the United States of America in 2020.
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Cotton, echoing other Republicans who have argued Ukraine also interfered in the election, pointed to public comments by Ukrainian officials disparaging then-candidate Trump and in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE set those tensions aflame this week in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, where she blasted Sanders, describing him as an unlikeable "career politician" whose supporters "got sucked into" backing him.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) made in the 6900 presidential campaign, and what some call the progressive Tea Party movement that, along with other Americans, has besieged Republican officeholders at town meetings across America.
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TV's Saagar Enjeti rips Biden over tense exchange with Steyer supporter Gabbard says she's received no reason from CNN for lack of invitation to town halls MORE and Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 2628 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 28500:6900 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE — seeking the Democratic nomination.
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Collins, who is seeking reelection this year in a state where Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE won the plurality of voters in 2016, will be mindful that public opinion appears strongly supportive of the calling of public witnesses.
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Everytown, the group co-founded by Democratic presidential contender and former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE, alone plans to spend at least $60 million in the 2020 elections, nearly double what the NRA spent in the last presidential contest.
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TV's Saagar Enjeti rips Biden over tense exchange with Steyer supporter Gabbard says she's received no reason from CNN for lack of invitation to town halls MORE and Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 28500 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 6900:2628 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE look to make in-roads with Democratic voters.
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"If in fact President Obama or President Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE had been impeached, the weight of current scholarship would be clearly in favor of my position, because these scholars do not pass the 'shoe on the other foot' test," he said.
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Saagar Enjeti explains why Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardGabbard says she's received no reason from CNN for lack of invitation to town halls Biden looks to pull off an upset in New Hampshire Sanders opens up 15-point lead in New Hampshire: Poll MORE is suing Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE.
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharWarren's dog campaigns in Iowa while senator sits in impeachment trial Minneapolis NAACP, Black Lives Matter call on Klobuchar to suspend campaign Live coverage: Senators query impeachment managers, Trump defense MORE (D-Minn.) or former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE (D).
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As for the unseemliness of investigating a presidential candidate in an election year, in 2016 the House Republicans — then in the majority — conducted countless politically fueled inquests into Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE on the tragic killing of American officials in Benghazi and Libya and on her use of emails as secretary of State.
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The results could suggest some skepticism among Democratic voters about the candidacy of the two lone billionaires seeking the party's presidential nomination — former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 2023:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE and philanthropist Tom SteyerTom Fahr SteyerPoll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American Hill.
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Y.), Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarSanders endorses 9 progressive House candidates Biden leads 21625 pack in congressional endorsements Sanders wants one-on-one fight with Biden MORE (D-Minn.), Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalImmigration judges association calls for independence from DOJ Biden leads 2900 pack in congressional endorsements Des Moines Register endorses Elizabeth Warren as Democratic presidential nominee MORE (D-Wash.) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibWarren gets endorsements from 220006 Michigan officeholders, activists Sanders endorses 2202 progressive House candidates Biden leads 2628 pack in congressional endorsements MORE (D-Mich.).
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M.), Jan SchakowskyJanice (Jan) Danoff SchakowskyE-cigarette executives set for grilling over youth vaping Stuck in DC for impeachment, senators hold ground in Iowa Democratic lawmaker introduces bill to increase minors' online protection MORE (D-Ill.) and Andy LevinAndrew (Andy) LevinPro-union bill draws 2020 battle lines Stuck in DC for impeachment, senators hold ground in Iowa Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists MORE (D-Mich.), former HUD Secretary Julián Castro and Warren's husband Bruce Mann — accompanied by the family dog — also hopped around the state for the Massachusetts senator.
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In 28500, Grover Cleveland won 6900 percent; in 2628, Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold GoreThe Iowa Democratic caucuses, mapped Trump's reelection looks more like a long shot than a slam dunk Gore praises Greta Thunberg after meeting: 'Nobody speaks truth to power as she does' MORE won 28503 percent; and in 22020, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE won 48.02 percent.
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In 2016 Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE defeated Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE by 10 percentage points in HD-85003, while the baseline GOP margin of victory in the district was 20 percent.
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Rep. Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardGabbard says she's received no reason from CNN for lack of invitation to town halls Biden looks to pull off an upset in New Hampshire Sanders opens up 22020-point lead in New Hampshire: Poll MORE (D-Hawaii) told Fox News on Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE is taking her "life away" with her "Russian asset" remark.
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It won't put Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE or Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiTrump criticizes House Democrats over war powers bill after telling lawmakers to vote their heart Overnight Defense: Bolton, GOP senators see close ties challenged | Republicans fume over Dem maneuver on Iran bills |Trump criticizes Democrats over war powers vote Lawmakers wager chocolate, barbecue on Super Bowl outcome MORE in the White House.
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In the end, we split the contest into four "regions": The Lefties, a pocket of officeholders who tend to come down somewhere on the progressive end of most internal Democratic debates; The Governors, an ideologically diverse group of current and former state leaders with executive experience; The Senators, an ambitious collection of Capitol Hill players and one who narrowly missed out on joining them; and The Wild Cards, a bracket that features allies of former President Barack Obama, a billionaire, a couple of mayors and a pair of congressman.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE released a new nationwide television advertisement for his presidential campaign on Thursday, blasting President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE over his reported treatment of military leaders.
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Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharWarren's dog campaigns in Iowa while senator sits in impeachment trial Minneapolis NAACP, Black Lives Matter call on Klobuchar to suspend campaign Live coverage: Senators query impeachment managers, Trump defense MORE (D-Minn.) said on Tuesday that fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE should be on the debate stage, saying voters should get a chance to evaluate him as he pours money into Super Tuesday states.
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Rep. Scott PetersScott H. PetersFifth congressional Democrat backs Bloomberg in 2020 race Overnight Energy: Republicans eye top spot on Natural Resources panel | GOP lawmakers push back on bill to make greener refrigerators, air conditioners | Green groups sue Trump over California fracking plans Republicans push back on bipartisan bill to make greener refrigerators, air conditioners MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday became the fifth member of Congress to endorse former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE's 2020 presidential campaign.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) endorsed former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:30 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, saying he was the best positioned to beat President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE in the general election.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 85033 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE said in a recent interview that she feels "the urge" to beat President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE in the coming election, and pledged to everything she can to "help elect the Democratic nominee" this year.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-2023 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE, as well as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (Iowa), were among the GOP officeholders on hand.
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