Talk about the grand old tradition of mudslinging in campaigns.
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"A lighthearted fun way without getting nasty or mudslinging," Drogin recalled.
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We have reached the saturation point for mudslinging in this election.
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The speculation rapidly evolved into mudslinging that directly attacked Jackson's character.
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"This is not the time for infighting and mudslinging," he said.
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"He wants this to be a mudslinging match," Mr. Biden said.
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"It's a mudslinging affair at the moment," he said of the controversy.
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Qassem Soleimani, and the mudslinging is showing no signs of slowing down.
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Get ready for a lot of mudslinging over the next several months.
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Roxas, 57, said the campaign had been extremely taxing and characterized by mudslinging.
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During the campaign, the state broadcaster devoted much airtime to Mr Trump's mudslinging.
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I know a lot of people will give Trump credit for not mudslinging.
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Bostaph: It's funny because I think they call that mudslinging, what he's doing.
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Amid the mudslinging, there are efforts to bring the momentous events to life.
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But Democrats are currently embroiled in a messy mudslinging match in the primary.
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Instead, drag down, and hope to pull the other party into the mudslinging game.
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The mudslinging builds and builds before Jackson renders Corden silent with his last riff.
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Mudslinging about which party dealt a blow to manufacturing can make for good politics.
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Clinton, and gently coaxed them to focus on policy positions rather than the mudslinging.
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Both sides made accusations of cheating ... before agreeing to quit the mudslinging in public.
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Talk about fear and hate-mongering among politicians -- and how mudslinging is nothing new.
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The eight-month partnership ended with a nasty split in February followed by mudslinging.
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I commend Hillary for her ability to answer policy questions with poise despite the mudslinging.
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"This is just plain mudslinging," said Terry Tucker, a Colorado DNC member who backs Ellison.
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But she's also hopeful people will pay attention to her work, instead of the mudslinging.
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But those tense interactions, experts say, seem almost quaint compared to the public mudslinging unfolding now.
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Much to the delight of Chinese back home, Ms. Liu accepted, on one condition: No mudslinging.
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Republicans and Democrats both stressed that the response to the virus should avoid mudslinging and fingerpointing.
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It didn't take long for Meek to respond by roping Nicki's convict brother into the mudslinging.
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O'Rourke said he doesn't want to focus on mudslinging and would rather focus on policy issues.
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Even so, state Democrats say the mudslinging that went on in the Republican primary will benefit Donnelly.
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Mudslinging started almost as soon as the hostile all-stock, no-premium bid was announced on Monday.
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Democrats do not win elections that resemble attempts to set a Guinness Book World Record for mudslinging.
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Well, in this world of high school politics, the stakes and the mudslinging mirror current political campaigns.
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When you see something like this, Trump's frantic mudslinging starts to make at least a modicum of sense.
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He didn't mind the mudslinging, but his law practice suffered and he disliked all the begging phone calls.
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The election turned into a mudslinging campaign every bit as vicious as the current US presidential contest. Gen.
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Mr. Dickerson clued us into the election of 1824, whose wanton mudslinging makes our current campaign seem tame.
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Even in such a big primary field, the candidates have stayed away from negative mudslinging against their own.
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It's been a mudslinging race to out-Trump one another, but Trump has stayed away from endorsing anyone.
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Murray, who prioritizes jobs, doesn't hear anyone talking about the issues he cares about — he just sees the mudslinging.
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Democrats have been gleeful over the mudslinging, believing it puts them in a strong position for the general election.
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It's been a mudslinging race to out-Trump one another, but the president has stayed away from endorsing anyone.
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The mudslinging and cutthroat machinations prompted Mr. Rivlin to offer an apology to the Israeli public on Monday morning.
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The recent campaigns have been characterized by mudslinging and accusations that Netanyahu has incited against the country's Arab minority.
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Her TV utterances tend to be sober, conventional--and, by the mudslinging standards of talk TV, a little bland.
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The two have been in a mudslinging match including allegations of tax fraud and legal action over a voicemail.
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A Democratic mudslinging match over the future of Paul Ryan's seat, a Republican battle royal to oust Democrat Sen.
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But the Dirtbag Left has no use for civility, and instead wants to counter the alt-right's mudslinging in kind.
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While Washington is full of partisan mudslinging and political sniping, elsewhere, love is in the air as Valentine's Day approaches.
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In the wide-ranging interview, Barkley also said the presidential race made him "sad" and criticized the mudslinging between candidates.
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Politicians are used to mudslinging, but the current presidential campaign has yet to fling dirt involving their four-legged friends.
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The Republican primary is a standard conservative mudslinging contest that has come to typify a competitive Republican primary this year.
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In doing so, he has laid out a pathway for how Democratic candidates can criticize while not resorting to mudslinging.
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What in the World Amid all the mudslinging and soul-searching about global migration, one thing is often overlooked: the money.
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But amid the political mudslinging with Mr. Trump — and a stubbornly high number of voters who dislike and distrust her — Mrs.
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With the country so sharply divided, the next four years are likely to be marked by continued mudslinging and political stalemate.
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But if Conway wanted a mudslinging fight on social media, that was a game Pressley was pretty sure she could win.
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The 44th president acknowledged that it was McCain who always hoped that politics wouldn't include the ongoing mudslinging out of Washington.
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After an hour and a half of mudslinging, the second Presidential debate came to a close with a brief glimmer of positivity.
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During the campaign, the state-controlled broadcaster devoted much airtime and commentary to Mr Trump's mudslinging and broadcast the presidential debates live.
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In a vain effort to maintain its majority, the DLP, which has held power for the past decade, has resorted to mudslinging.
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Instead, the barge&aposs arrival opened a Pandora&aposs box of partisan mudslinging in a country hobbled by political sectarianism and dysfunction.
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Certainly, one of the reasons the Sanders ad stands out so much is that it's such a departure from the usual mudslinging.
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John R. Kasich of Ohio declined to join in the mudslinging, and insisted that he had a positive vision for the country.
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For months, Bryce and Myers have been embroiled in a messy mudslinging match to clinch the chance to win Ryan's congressional seat.
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This election cycle — filled with mudslinging and finger-pointing — has left many Americans feeling like the country is more divided than ever before.
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Why it matters: Wolf's move will trigger more political mudslinging after Republicans lambasted a court ruling last month as judicial overreach and partisan.
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What's more, a Trump presidency would never have been possible had the '90s not normalized new depths of voyeurism, mudslinging and hardball politics.
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With Jones' win, some Republicans on the Hill are looking forward to avoiding more mudslinging and further allegations of impropriety of a public official.
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But at the end of the day, the residents of the 13th District preferred her platform of transport infrastructure improvements over the incumbent's mudslinging.
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Just don't be the person to start the mudslinging — that will hurt your chances at landing the new job, and your reputations, the most.
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But a campaign dominated by personal invective and political mudslinging exacerbates polarization and makes governing tougher, say knowledgeable veterans of other campaigns and administrations.
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After nearly a week of political mudslinging, the president still has not issued a statement about what exactly happened on the ground in Niger.
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It'd be a mistake to allow the erratic rhetorical attacks and mudslinging between President Trump and Kim Jong Un to distract from this fact.
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"It's been about mudslinging and attacking personalities instead of talking about issues, talking about how we can help our country move forward and succeed."
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It's become such a cliché that we're just bored hearing the word, especially right now, given the schoolyard mudslinging that goes for national governance.
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The hatred toward her would have bloomed forth unchecked: more obstruction, more mudslinging, more investigations, more vile would have been in store for her.
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The 2016 presidential contest was always going to be what political experts call a "contrast election"—a mudslinging, scorched-earth affair dominated by negative campaigning.
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Insults and mudslinging have become part of the currency in U.S. domestic politics, but what works on the campaign trail won't work with North Korea.
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And while U.S. politics has always been known for its fair share of mudslinging, many health experts are saying this presidential election is remarkably different.
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Charlotte Pence, who lives in Los Angeles, says she doesn't "pay a ton of attention to the negativity" and mudslinging rampant in the nation's capital.
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An MSNBC contributor, he was the target of a mudslinging campaign by alt-right media personality Mike Cernovich, a Posobiec ally and fellow Pizzagate fabricator.
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"Because of your obsession with evading trial, you're lying, attacking, dividing, mudslinging, spreading malicious rumors and inciting," he said in an angry speech on Wednesday.
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The arguments have given way to vicious mudslinging and hacking attacks against the leaders on both sides, leading some prominent developers to leave the project.
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Trudeau targeted his Conservative counterpart near the end of the nearly six-week official campaign period, which has been characterized by mudslinging on both sides.
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The dinner made news last year when President Trump, then still a candidate, broke with tradition and turned the friendly roast into a political mudslinging.
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The arguments have given way to vicious mudslinging and hacking attacks against the leaders on both sides, leading some prominent developers to leave the project.
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Rather than offering coherent and respectful arguments against the Republican plan, Warren and others have resorted to ridiculously overblown mudslinging with no basis in reality.
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Or do you think that we've now changed the sort of tenor and sort of what counts as mudslinging or an embarrassing fact to arise?
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Mudslinging abounds elsewhere in the field as a grouping of other candidates fight to be the alternative to Trump with battles over national security and immigration.
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The incident sparked off several rounds of mudslinging between Henan locals and other Chinese netizens on Weibo, who accused Henan people of a history of dishonesty.
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While debates have been the perfect venue for political mudslinging for decades, the addition of Donald Trump has certainly made things more interesting this time around.
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"I and other Democratic candidates are running campaigns based on principles and ideas and not engaging in mudslinging or personal attacks on each other," Sanders wrote.
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As The Washington Post notes, this mudslinging campaign appeals to the distrust many on the hard right have for the mainstream media and for establishment Republicans.
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Trump may have questioned the heroism of Senator McCain, but Hillary Clinton exploited a soldier's last full measure of devotion for her own lies and mudslinging.
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Party dissidents have described orchestrated mudslinging campaigns disseminated across the vast constellation of Five Star blogs and supportive websites, some of which have propagated fake news.
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"I and other Democratic candidates are running campaigns based on principles and ideas and not engaging in mudslinging or personal attacks on each other," he wrote.
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She was referring to the mudslinging and accusations that have followed the collapse of a bridge in Genoa last week that left at least 43 dead.
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There is a prevailing wisdom in Washington that our nation's top national security positions should not be handed to political hacks with a penchant for partisan mudslinging.
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On top of that, a combination of mudslinging candidates and muddled manifesto pledges has meant a notable lack of enthusiasm for any of the main party leaders.
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Both Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, best known for helping to lower the cost of HIV drugs in the developing world, dismissed those attacks as political mudslinging.
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Also, her quote, "When they go low, we go high," was seen as the moral compass of the Democratic party throughout the mudslinging of the 2016 election.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE in 2000 with a mudslinging campaign still remembered for its ugliness and disinformation.
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Not surprisingly, the first attacks have been launched by the experts on mudslinging against fellow Democrats: David Brock and those whose lease he holds like Peter Daou.
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The corporate maneuvering and mudslinging drew the attention of China's financial regulators, who focused on the source of insurance funds fueling Baoneng's, and later Evergrande's, share purchases.
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Given the mudslinging in political discourse it will be tough, but, he said, "part of my job now...is to wipe the windshield so people can see clearly."
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We got the Fonz at LAX Wednesday, and asked what he thought of the legal jockeying and mudslinging over Bannon's remarks in Michael Wolff's book, 'Fire and Fury.
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According to RealClearPolitics, Trump has a 58.3 percent unfavorable rating and Clinton has a 55.1 percent unfavorable rating, not to mention the countless scandals and mudslinging between them.
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As with any topic on social media, the conversation quickly mushroomed beyond the original post, which in this particular case was a mudslinging debate on religion in general.
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The judiciary committee houses a number of firebrand Republicans known for their scorched-earth style of attacks, and Wednesday&aposs hearing quickly devolved into theatrics and partisan mudslinging.
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Bloomberg is willing and able to fight Trump on the same battlefields where Trump has always outdone his opponents: Net worth, mudslinging, attention-getting attacks and unbridled competitiveness.
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America also withstood the mudslinging of 18th-century partisans, the nativism of the 19th-century Know-Nothings, and the (eerily familiar) tariffs and anti-immigration sentiments of the 1920s.
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Both Hillary and Bernie have done their level best to grin at one another over clenched teeth and avoid the kind of mudslinging that has characterized the Republican primary.
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While such steps appear innocuous, they can lead to campaigns and interest groups engaging in mudslinging, and occasionally result in a judge who weighs decisions on a political balance.
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From the podium, the Vermont senator made it clear he intended to wage a positive campaign that would stand out from the mudslinging and vitriol in modern American politics.
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And while some sections of the media aim to call out others they suspect of perpetuating lies, this process often descends into mudslinging that makes both sides look bad.
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Asked who of the five candidates is most honest and trustworthy, 35% name Trump, 22% Carson -- who has largely stayed out of the mudslinging - 14% Cruz and 13% Rubio.
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Cruz and his allies also got into some good old-fashioned South Carolina mudslinging here in the final days — hitting Trump and Rubio, both of whom hit back hard.
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Clinton's aides about a series of speeches, branded with a "Stronger Together" theme, aimed at shifting the conversation from political mudslinging to her more optimistic vision for the future.
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"Mudslinging is not part of the campaign strategy that Sanders and his advisers have crafted," David Corn wrote last summer for Mother Jones, previewing the Vermont senator's White House run.
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Because these former BFFs have stopped being polite and started getting real — and it's becoming very challenging trying to determine where the truth is in all the mudslinging going around.
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There wasn't much in it for Mr. Dauman, although he avoided the prospect of years of mudslinging litigation that might well have damaged his reputation as much as Mr. Redstone's.
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In this mudslinging cultural melee, we need the right words: the stories, jokes, essays, poems, harangues and treatises that paint a compelling vision that we all want to stand for.
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The allegation drew a rebuke from members of the state legislature's black caucus, who called it racist, as well a rebuttal from Mr. Govan, who accused Mr. Harpootlian of mudslinging.
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Kids exposed to candidates' mudslinging and name-calling on TV, on radio, and in video clips online may parrot this talk and engage in bullying behavior at school or home.
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Election examines the simmering desperation of one middle-aged Middle American teacher, while also commenting on how even the least important political campaigns can devolve into shallow posturing and mudslinging.
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After a veritable festival of mudslinging, the only sunny moment came in the final moments when an audience member asked the candidates to name one thing they respected about the other.
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The creditors and Argentina's previous president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, reached an impasse after years of mudslinging and rulings that led the country to default on its debt again in 2014.
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With the mudslinging overshadowing issues, policy experts say the challenge for voters this election is to sift through the promises and rhetoric and drill to the reality of the candidate's policies.
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Banville said he believes that the mudslinging suggests state Republicans are worried about Quist's momentum, understanding that to win statewide in Montana, being "Montanan" can be more important than party affiliation.
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But the accusations of attacks, mudslinging and innuendo have made it increasingly hard for the Democratic party to promote the line that its candidates are running a positive, issue-focused contest.
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As Recode reported, Definers Public Affairs set up a Silicon Valley shop last year with the explicit goal of courting the Bay Area's biggest companies for some lucrative "dark arts" mudslinging.
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While social media mudslinging may not be the best way to deal with a hostile leader, there's at least one group who may not mind Trump's Twitter threats: defense industry investors.
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"This is something I have no concern about at all because literally they are making up a completely false charge just because it's mudslinging," Feingold told a local reporter last month.
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"I really hope that it opens up civil conversation instead of just mudslinging, I really do," said Barr, who supports the Republican president and said she spoke with him on Wednesday.
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The election campaign has been especially nasty, with mudslinging and lawsuits leveled at candidates as polls show a close race in some of the most important cities, including the capital, Ankara.
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It was clear from the beginning that the CNN debate moderators were angling for some mudslinging, after they launched straight into a question directed at Sanders about Clinton's judgment and qualifications.
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This time of year — campaign season — can easily wear on the average voter with the constant barrage of political ads, campaign phone calls, mail pieces — not to mention the usual mudslinging.
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But Republican operatives worry that the lack of a presidential endorsement and the intra-party mudslinging this has caused will leave Ms McSally too little time to take on Ms Sinema effectively.
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The committee has tried for the past year to showcase bipartisanship in its investigation, taking pride that it has yet to devolve into public partisan mudslinging like its counterpart in the House.
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There's actually good news this week, which can feel almost magical if you spend most of your time reading headlines about political mudslinging, the wholly idiotic encryption debate, and missing elderly people.
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Congressional leaders are racing this week to pass an emergency funding package to combat the coronavirus, desperate to avoid political mudslinging with the nation already on edge over the fast-growing outbreak.
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The authority's roughly $800 million short-term rescue plan ended up being split by the state and the city, but only after months of mudslinging between Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio.
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Black's campaign proved to be a politically fatal combination; it was overwhelmingly Trump-y, stuck in a damaging mudslinging match with Boyd, and Black proved surprising unpopular as a creature of Washington.
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First signed into law in 1994 by President Clinton, VAWA has been a hotbed of conflict and deep divisions along party lines – with both sides taking part in public mudslinging and scare tactics.
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" While Lockwood's lawyer said that he "is not going to publicly disclose very negative information about Ms. Presley to retaliate," Girvan says that "oftentimes these custody battles end up mudslinging back and forth.
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As the mudslinging of the 2016 presidential election comes to a close, one reporter is opening up about how she dealt with loss while covering an unprecedented battle to be Commander-in-Chief.
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Pakistan itself provides great political entertainment for the masses as we are treated to strikes, long marches, mudslinging and grand charges of corruption almost every day not to mention the constant media trials.
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Sweden is one of a handful of countries considered a possible venue for a meeting between Trump and Kim, who have engaged in bellicose mudslinging over North Korea and its nuclear arms program.
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Few states mandate that custody evaluators have domestic-violence training; judges often characterize the allegations as mudslinging and focus not on their veracity but on which party appears to be the better parent.
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After months of speculation, mudslinging and debate, the embattled Brazilian President's fate is now in the hands of her country's Senate, which is scheduled to vote on whether impeachment proceedings against her should begin.
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One might think that mature, thoughtful people who have made it their profession to report the news would be able to resist the impulse to get into a mudslinging contest with the new president.
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And Jemisin, the same author subjected to racist mudslinging by Rabid Puppy leader Vox Day, took the prize for Best Novel every year she came up for eligibility during the Puppies' period of agitation.
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Bracing debates over the future of Uber's business is one thing, but personal mudslinging is another, even if it provides an eye-opening insight for me into just how dirty the situation there has gotten.
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With Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump as the nominees, America, which is as repulsed by political mudslinging as it is ghoulishly drawn to it, can expect an extraordinarily ill-tempered and divisive election in November.
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Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat, said the fight is nothing in comparison to the vitriol on the GOP side, where Trump and his rivals have engaged in a daily tit-for-tat of mudslinging.
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And then, too, Trump's unprecedented mudslinging and attack-dog campaign style unsettled Clinton's mojo, but through it all she was able to hold her own and managed to remain the frontrunner until the very end.
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"I and other Democratic candidates are running campaigns based on principles and ideas and not engaging in mudslinging or personal attacks on each other," Sanders wrote in the letter, first obtained by the New York Times.
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The job of governor can be a springboard to the presidency and weeks of campaigning have been overshadowed by mudslinging, political intrigue and rising hardline Islamist sentiment, raising questions about the role of religion in politics.
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On the other hand, reports of China backtracking on previous trade deals are mere "mudslinging," Wang Shouwen, the Chinese vice minister of commerce and deputy China international trade representative, said as he led the Sunday presser.
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In a Friday tweet, Anne Serling — an author herself — pointed out that her father wouldn't have appreciated the present day face of the GOP, which has descended into mudslinging and a partisan gaming of the system.
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But Williamson took the unusual step of including a section in her opinion partially supporting his underlying complaint, accusing the magazine of "mudslinging" rather than recognizing its approach as squarely within the tradition of investigative journalism.
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As Trump starts his mudslinging at Clinton and begins wooing anyone he can think of from the Democratic side of the ledger, mainstream Democrats are faced with polling that shows Trump narrowing the gap with Clinton.
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Inside 15 minutes near the open-air pissoirs, I witnessed actual mudslinging, a brief comradely fight, an apparent fainting, some nonchalant, almost stylish puking, and men and women in multiple modes of non-latrine-related undress.
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In a city where mudslinging, smear campaigns and partisan bickering are part of the game, 50 Most Beautiful sought to offer a fun and good-looking respite from the political noise coming out of Capitol Hill.
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Payment to the creditors is expected to total about $10.5 billion, ending a decade of mudslinging after the new government of President Mauricio Macri sought to reignite a sluggish economy with policies intended to lure foreign investors.
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The new Speaker has managed to steer clear of the mudslinging and petty personal attacks that have defined the race while using his bully pulpit to offer a positive, forward-looking vision for the party and nation.
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" The debate quickly devolved into well-trod ideological paths, complete with some mudslinging, as one left-wing legislator, Dennis Skinner, was ejected from the chamber for refusing to withdraw a description of Mr. Cameron as "Dodgy Dave.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A prominent leader of India's opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor, on Monday rejected police charges against him for abetment in the suicide of his wife in a case that has led to political mudslinging.
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"Unfortunately, this cycle the DCCC has chosen to spend money on negative campaigning and mudslinging against progressive Democrats in primary elections, which is something Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard cannot support," said Erika Tsuji, who is Gabbard's political director.
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The election campaign was marred by political mudslinging from all sides and the public perception that none of the candidates were fit for the job, according to Luvsanvandan Sumati, the head of polling group the Sant Maral Foundation.
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Mudslinging is to be expected when you have two candidates with as much baggage as Clinton and Trump, but the sheer volume of this negative campaigning is enough to wear anyone down who pays much attention to it.
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Blumenthal's time in the White House in the late 1990s earned him a reputation on the American right as something like the first family's Rasputin, a vicious, mudslinging partisan who'd stop at nothing to defend Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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This isn't unusual behavior from mayors and regional governors on both sides of the Atlantic: His job in London allows Khan to play responsible civic leader while being uncontaminated by the mudslinging that goes on in the national Parliament.
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Instead of succumbing again to the cyclical use of its prevalent corruption for political mudslinging, Argentina needs to tackle corruption at its core — to wage full-out war on an ancient malady eating away at a still-fragile democracy.
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Argentina has agreed to pay $22012 billion to four hedge funds in a deal that could put an end to more than a decade of mudslinging and legal attacks that had cut the country off from global financial markets.
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Unlike some of his Democratic rivals -- who were left on the sidelines Tuesday as the center-ring candidates sparred -- Biden has decided to focus squarely on Trump, even as he talks sanguinely of not being drawn into a a mudslinging match.
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"This public mudslinging not only harms Rupert Stadler as a person, but also the entire company and in the view of the works council, that definitely goes way too far," a spokesman for the Audi works council told Reuters on Thursday.
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As the eighth and final audience member to ask a question at the town hall-style debate, Becker's appeal to generate some much-needed kindness in the face of these mudslinging campaigns touched the hearts of tired and discouraged Americans.
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But to properly make that case, the Clinton team will have to resist the temptation to ignore Trump's mudslinging and keep pressing the point not just with voters, but also with the gatekeeping institutions that Trump is so good at gaming.
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The reason the 2016 Russian active measures operation remains successful to this day, even after public exposure, is partly due to the fact that intense partisan polarization in this country has caused our once-civil political discourse to devolve into mudslinging.
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The two presidents in the dock are radically different as well, both defiant, angry and aggrieved, yet one strived to hide it and be seen as above the partisan mudslinging, while the other dives headlong into the mud, energetically slinging away.
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ARGENTINA REACHES DEAL WITH HEDGE FUNDS | Argentina has agreed to pay $4.65 billion to four hedge funds in a deal that could put an end to the mudslinging and legal attacks that had cut the country off from global financial markets,
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Which is why accusations of "politicizing" might seem like so much mudslinging but often reflect deeper assumptions and arguments about what is objective, what is natural — what is the truth, in other words, free from the distortions of political interference.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20 (Reuters) - The investment arm of Brazil's state development bank BNDES is not considering selling a 21 percent stake in meatpacker JBS SA, whose controlling shareholder remains ensnared in a corruption scandal and a mudslinging with the country's president.
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The Indiana governor who swore off political mudslinging years ago heard Trump call Democratic rival Hillary Clinton "the devil" and watched him fan the flames of a feud with the parents of a Muslim soldier who died saving U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Related:Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks Election Night and What Hamilton Would Think of Today's 'Mudslinging' Hamilton is actually Ontario's oldest musical theater company, which is a distinction that probably came as a cold comfort to Leonard as she waded through the vitriol on Twitter.
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For most of the story, we have watched Charlie and Nicole talk in a furtive, curtailed way about the things that really bothered them — broken promises, an infidelity, a partner's blinkered selfishness — and instead rely on their lawyers to do the real mudslinging.
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"Democrats turning out for Cochran is just the tip of the iceberg in an already bizarre race marred by name-calling, mudslinging, allegations of cheating and a break-in at a nursing home where the senator's bedridden wife lives," CNN reported at the time.
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"All of the mudslinging back-and-forth between Mylan and Teva only served to reinforce our concern that Chairman Coury would rather keep his pay and power at Mylan's helm than likely lose those benefits to Teva cost- and position-cutting," the investors wrote.
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John Kennedy, the Republican front-runner, disavowed his side's mudslinging in memorably expansive terms: "my campaign played absolutely no role in creating this story alleging…sexual relationships with prostitutes that were later murdered," he insisted, adding that his family was praying for the traduced man.
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The 2019 election campaign was marked by scandals and mudslinging; Netanyahu's Likud party, in one example, edited a TV interview of Gantz to frame him as mentally unstable, while Gantz has painted Netanyahu as a corrupt traitor who sold his country out for money.
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Inside the Nasty Battle to Stop Amazon From Winning the Pentagon's Cloud Contract Naomi Nix reports on shadowy mudslinging involved in winning a large Pentagon contract these days: Allegations of a corrupt procurement process have been directed at Pentagon officials and company managers, primarily at Amazon.
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In interviews with CNN following Thursday night's faceoff, representatives from both campaigns accused the other side of mudslinging and negative campaigning even as, in the same breath, they continued to tout the Democratic primary as a model of good behavior when compared to that of the Republicans.
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"If during the general election cycle, a candidate were able to garner support from the public with a positive message in support of the issues we care about, and did not engage in personal attacks and mudslinging, we would consider potentially getting involved," Mr. Holden said.
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Early on, Black, who has Vice President Mike Pence's endorsement and has been running very close to Trump, was expected to win this race easily, but months of mudslinging with Boyd has given candidates like Lee and Harwell an opening to move up in the polls.
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ARGENTINA REACHES DEAL WITH HEDGE FUNDS | Argentina has agreed to pay $4.65 billion to four hedge funds in a deal that could put an end to the mudslinging and legal attacks that had cut the country off from global financial markets, Alexandra Stevenson and Jonathan Gilbert report in DealBook.
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Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and his Republican challenger, Bob Hugin, squared off in a debate Wednesday night that simmered with an undercurrent of contempt, but rarely erupted into the mudslinging that has defined the race as the candidates repeatedly focused their disagreements on President Trump's record.
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Furthermore, the Brangelina story resonated not only because it's a celebrity-centric narrative that dominated the tabloids for more than a decade, but because it's a welcome break from the 24-hour, doom-and-gloom news cycle, which unfortunately reflects back to us a world of police killings and political mudslinging.
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"Donald Trump's worst nightmare is that the people in the middle, the people who are tired of the mudslinging and the name calling, will have a place to call home this November and that has been our mission from the beginning," the senator said after a sixth-place finish in Nevada.
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Why it matters: A former Trump critic who won over many of the president's supporters by joining his administration, Haley has avoided most of the political mudslinging in Washington from her perch at the UN. She's not just popular with Republicans — a Quinnipiac poll from April found that 55% of Democrats approve of her.
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"I feel like sometime everyone gets caught up with the tweet of the day or the mudslinging that's going on between a dead John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE, or Meghan McCain, and the president, and it takes time away from the policy discussions," Couric told the outlet.
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The contretemps and public mudslinging match between President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and former CIA Director John BrennanJohn Owen BrennanWebb: Questions for Robert Mueller A brief timeline of Trump's clashes with intelligence director Dan Coats Trump critic Brennan praises his Iran decision: I 'applaud' him MORE spiked Wednesday when the White House announced that the chief executive had stripped the career intelligence officer of his security clearances.
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