He ran for office as a supporter of gun control.
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You ran for office because you wanted to be somebody.
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"I ran for office, not her," the freshman lawmaker continued.
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Jedlicka ran for office several times in the Czech Republic.
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L.G.B.T. candidates ran for office in record numbers this year.
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They ran for office and set a record in the House.
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"I ran for office once and I won," Mr. Trump said.
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You first ran for office in 1993, for Syracuse Common Council.
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"Michelle would leave me if I ever ran for office again."
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"I think I outworked anybody who ever ran for office," he said.
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I'm so grateful he ran for office so I had the opportunity.
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AS YOU KNOW, I RAN FOR OFFICE NOW JOINING THE MINNEAPOLIS FED.
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She ran for office multiple times before winning her vice chair seat.
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Would Mr. Coday vote for Mr. Pruitt if he ran for office?
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Bernie Sanders for president and ran for office on a progressive platform.
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"I got the greatest publicity until I ran for office," Trump said.
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Accusations of racism have followed Trump since before he ever ran for office.
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They used to treat me so good too until I ran for office.
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When I ran for office, the producers stopped post-production of the movie.
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More than 100 educators in Oklahoma ran for office in the state's primaries.
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I met Franken in several different contexts before he ever ran for office.
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He ran for office as a conservative and bought into several publishing ventures.
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Trump's taxes have been largely a mystery since he first ran for office.
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I ran for office telling people I wasn't gonna change those two things.
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The women, who both ran for office as widows, left observers pleasantly surprised.
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Donald Trump ran for office loudly pledging big tax cuts for the middle class.
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"I think I outworked anybody who ever ran for office," he said on Thursday.
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It's a historic development, coming after a record number of black women ran for office.
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But where Obama ran for office promising a conciliatory politics, Sanders promises a confrontational politics.
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In the 232s he ran for office several times as a Democrat, losing every race.
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In 2012, before he ran for office, Trump blasted the Fed for "destroying the dollar."
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Trump ran for office promising to build a Mexican-funded wall along the southern border.
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It also notes President Barack Obama won the district twice when he ran for office.
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On the political front, women ran for office because they felt they weren't being represented.
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That year, as in 2018, a surge of women candidates ran for office and won.
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Okay, when Ronald Reagan ran for office, he said he had a three-pronged program.
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Trump ran for office promising to protect Americans from terrorists, immigrants and free trade agreements.
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I just want to finish up with you, and then your husband ran for office.
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In Wisconsin, of the 13 women who ran for office after attending the training, nine won.
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In 2018, a "rainbow wave" of over 400 LGBTQ+ candidates ran for office — and 57% won.
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Remember when President Donald Trump ran for office and made campaigning for women's empowerment a priority?
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Romney tapped Ryan as his vice presidential running mate when he ran for office in 2012.
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"Trump ran for office on a message of law and order, and he won," Sessions wrote.
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Edwards first ran for office in 2017, winning a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
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They moved to Texas, where Mr. Bush built an oil business and eventually ran for office.
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He never ran for office again, but his remark about rape had a long shelf life.
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For one thing, this issue was in question well before Mr. Trump even ran for office.
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Both ran for office calling for a wholesale crackdown on Islamist militancy and the drug trade.
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When he ran for office, Trump told voters that he would not cut Medicare or Medicaid.
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Mugabe and his guerrilla rival, Joshua Nkomo, ran for office and eventually formed a coalition government.
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Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city councilor, was unmarried and childless when she first ran for office.
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She became his secretary and was chosen as his running mate when he ran for office.
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As he did when he first ran for office, tonight President Obama spoke eloquently about grand things.
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Though he never ran for office, politics surrounded John F. Kennedy Jr. for all of his life.
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Trump ran for office pledging to "drain the swamp" and to end business-as-usual in Washington.
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And American women were so outraged that more women ran for office than ever before—sound familiar?
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He even once ran for office, unsuccessfully, in a 1998 election for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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He first ran for office in 2000, when he lost the Democratic primary for Montana attorney general.
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He ran for office five times between 1977 and 1996, but never won a national election outright.
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Malik has lived in Washington since the mid-80s but ran for office in Kenya in 2013.
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She ran for office as a non-partisan candidate with a liberal and welcoming stance toward migrants.
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But 223 was simply a different era from the last time he ran for office -- in 222.
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The two-term congressman led the Alabama Policy Institute for 25 years before he ran for office.
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O'Rourke has acknowledged his prior arrests on multiple occasions over the years as he ran for office.
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"I ran for office because I was very critical of President Obama's trillion-dollar deficits," Paul said.
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He was already winding down his wrestling career before he ran for office, according to Bleacher Report.
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Warren first ran for office only in 2012; even Pete Buttigieg has been in elective politics longer.
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Years before he ran for office, Mr. Trump falsely claimed Mr. Obama was not an American citizen.
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When Obama ran for office in 2008, most Democrats and even he did not support marriage equality.
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Terrorist-linked and other militant candidates ran for office in the country's national elections of July 2018.
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McCabe, whose wife ran for office as a Democrat, was the acting FBI director at the time.
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Remember what, exactly, McCabe did that drew Trump's ire initially: His wife ran for office in Virginia.
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Trump ran for office in 2016 on a protectionist platform aimed at shoring up U.S. manufacturing jobs.
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DONALD TRUMP ran for office promising to spur the private sector to rebuild America's roads, bridges and airports.
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Nicole Cannizzaro ran for office on the promise of improving educational and economic opportunities for her fellow Nevadans.
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"I ran for office because I was very critical of President Obama&aposs trillion-dollar deficits," Paul said.
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So I went into all the other things I did in my life—ran for office, activist work.
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So I wasn't going to suddenly turn into a different beast on the day I ran for office.
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When Hawley ran for office, he campaigned on a platform of lower drug prices and health care freedom.
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I believed in the voters when I first ran for office, and I still believe in them today.
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The winners were among 65 Oklahoma educators who ran for office on Tuesday, according to the teachers union.
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"I don't think there's enough Kevlar around to keep me alive if I ran for office," he said.
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He first ran for office at 19, losing a Queensland state election, then became a state police officer.
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Mr. Trump ran for office promising to eliminate such discretion and replace it with heedless and pointless enforcement.
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She's going up against one-term Congressman Jason Lewis, who defeated Craig last time she ran for office.
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Fed up with Obama's stimulus and health-care policies, he ran for office and defeated a Democratic incumbent.
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When Rick Snyder ran for office, he faced a ton of questions about his track record on outsourcing.
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Morales, the former leader of a coca growers' union, ran for office on the Movement Toward Socialism ticket.
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"All my life I got the greatest publicity, until I ran for office," Trump said, according to reports.
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Hardly anyone ever voted for him — just 11,455 people in 2014, the last time he ran for office.
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Women were paying attention: in the wake of the hearings, a record number ran for office and won.
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Trump ran for office posing as a savvy corporate executive who would manage the government like a business.
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Matt Bevin, ran for office and won on the promise of ending Kynect and possibly ending Medicaid expansion.
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Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not tomake our country great.
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But she was still "terrified" that she'd be asked about abortion when she first ran for office in 1988.
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By the numbers: 40 former educators ran for office in Kentucky primaries with a dozen of them moving on.
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Kuczynski, who like Fujimori is 79, ran for office to cap a prestigious career in finance and public administration.
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"President Trump, before he ran for office, was for certain sane, rational, limited aspects of gun control," Schumer said.
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Blackwell also once ran for office and insisted his (straight) opponent was secretly gay, and thus unfit to serve.
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Despite health problems, Fletcher ran for office after the protests that followed the Michael Brown shooting in August 2014.
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A decade ago few South Asians ran for office of any sort in immigrant-heavy suburbs around Chicago, he says.
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Schmack's opponent was present in court Friday just as Schmack had attended McCullough's 21957 trial when he ran for office.
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"When I ran for office I pledged to stand with life and that's exactly what I've done," Trump said Tuesday.
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It's the same thing that happened to me when I first ran for office in the city of West Miami.
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In 1912, the former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt ran for office as the candidate of the newly created Progressive Party.
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In 2014-15, just before he ran for office, Mar-a-Lago hosted 52 events — this year they've booked 25.
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Long before she ever ran for office, in Massachusetts, she went door-to-door collecting stories of children with disabilities.
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The Democratic Party base has moved far to the left since the last time she ran for office in 2008.
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A record number of women ran for office this year and many of them made history with their primary victories.
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"Back then, most of the other members were retired, and they ran for office as a civic duty," he said.
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Former Senator Evan Bayh last ran for office in 2004 yet his campaign fund maintains a nearly $10 million balance.
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As the president said when he ran for office, his motto wasn't, 'Yes I Can,' it was, 'Yes We Can.
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Women created new political organizations, led protests, ran for office and voted for Democrats more than they ever had before.
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Mitch was outspoken for civil rights when he first ran for office in Louisville for the county executive job there.
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Sharpton says it's too late because Trudeau damn well knew he had done blackface when he first ran for office.
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The first time he ran for office was in the 1970s, when he ran for a position in his university.
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That match did not exist in 1993, the last time an incumbent Democratic mayor, David N. Dinkins, ran for office.
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Phil Bredesen, a 74-year-old Democrat who has won twice statewide before but last ran for office in 2006.
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So, you then went on to buy a publication, you did a lot of things, your husband ran for office.
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The problem for Biden is that the politics and the party have changed since 1972, when he first ran for office.
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Nixon has also been a staunch supporter of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio since he first ran for office.
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Yes, but: 27 officials ran for office again in the midterms, and 23 were re-elected or elected to new positions.
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Gorsuch is already delivering as the strong conservative President Donald Trump promised his voters when he ran for office last year.
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He first claimed to realize that Farrakhan was an anti-Semite when he ran for office in 2006 seeking Jewish support.
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President Trump ran for office as a law-and-order candidate; now he is governing as a law-and-order President.
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Nationwide, more women ran for office this year than in recent memory, helping Democrats win control of the House of Representatives.
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The first time I ran for office, for a seat on my county board of commissioners, I was 24 years old.
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He said in a statement he intended to honor a term-limit pledge he made when he first ran for office.
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But he had an impression of the real-estate-mogul-turned-reality-TV-star long before Mr. Trump ran for office.
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I first ran for office in 2012 because I had seen my family, my clients and their business leave the state.
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And so in 2003, well before Mr. Thompson ran for office, the two men formed the firm that still exists today.
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Obama said expanding insurance coverage for millions of people and reforming the healthcare system was a key reason he ran for office.
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A cancer survivor with a shock of white hair, he ran for office promising to focus on "solving problems, not picking fights".
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In fact, less than a year ago, she was still waiting tables and working as a bartender as she ran for office.
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"When I ran for office, I pledged to stand for life, and as president, that's exactly what I have done," Trump said.
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There have been multiple instances of American politicians who ran for office, passed away before the votes were cast — and still won.
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"When I ran for office, I said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president," Bush said on Friday.
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Mr. Zinke has spent most of his life in the military, and he ran for office largely on a national security platform.
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President Trump repeatedly pledged support for the LGBT community when he ran for office, including during his speech at the Republican convention.
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And before he ran for office, he decried budget deficits and said no member of Congress should be re-elected amid deficits.
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He said he made the decision in order to honor a term-limit pledge he made when he first ran for office.
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"Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great," Cohen said.
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A record 399 LGBTQ candidates ran for office this year, at all levels of government, including 22 for Congress and four for governor.
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It was in 1916 -- four years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote nationwide -- that Rankin first ran for office.
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Entertainment Weekly reports that the singer-turned-politician (he ran for office back in 2014) denounced his past defense of the sitting president.
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According to a count by Mark Trahant of the website Indian Country Today, 103 native candidates ran for office in the mid-terms.
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"When I ran for office, I pledged to stand for life, and as president, that&aposs exactly what I have done," Trump declared.
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Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist, ran for office with an entirely progressive platform and by rejecting donations from corporate political action committees (PACs).
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Blonde and slender, this mother-daughter pair from Bowie, Maryland, is active in local Republican politics and once even ran for office together.
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"I was sequential," is how Pelosi explains her experience and that of the few women of her generation who actually ran for office.
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He is also the state's governor, who switched from Republican to Democrat when he ran for office, then back to Republican last year.
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Jeb Bush's eldest son, George P. Bush, first ran for office in 2014, and has served as the Texas land commissioner since 2015.
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The president ran for office in 2016 on cracking down on China in order to help U.S. manufacturing workers hurt by free trade.
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I ran for office in 2010 with what was called sort of the Tea Party tidal wave," Paul told CBS's "Face the Nation.
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Mr. Bush, similarly, ran for office for the first time in a high-profile race, as the 1994 Republican nominee for governor of Florida.
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I really became very sensitive to this when I ran for office the first time because both Democrats and Republicans were upset about it.
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Swank, who is serving in the country's first majority-women legislature, said Kihuen was a mentor to her when she first ran for office.
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The video shows Trump saying he'd release his tax returns if President Barack Obama released his birth certificate and if he ran for office.
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As we saw in Virginia in the special election, so many women ran for office because they're inspired by their sisters across the country.
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He ran for office by railing against runaway political correctness and the nationwide failure to call threats to the US by their rightful name.
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One of the things I liked most about President Trump when he ran for office was that he articulated a clearly different foreign policy.
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What was once a reliably Republican district when he first ran for office in 6900 has been trending bluer and bluer in recent years.
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This has been most evident in the midterms' "blue Muslim wave," in which more than 22016 American Muslims ran for office across the country.
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Black women ran for office in record numbers in Alabama, and a Michigan Democrat will likely be the first Muslim woman elected to Congress.
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"I'm not as good a farmer as I was two years ago — really since I ran for office," Miller said in a recent interview.
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For lawmakers, this is an opportunity to get educated on issues, gauge the pulse of the district and remember why they ran for office.
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During last year's midterm elections, nearly 100 Muslim candidates ran for office, and some of the largest American Muslim communities are in swing states.
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It's an unparalleled good thing that so many women ran for office this year, and that so many women worked and volunteered on campaigns.
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Unlike Mr. Obama, who ran for office promising to turn around the war in Afghanistan, Mr. Trump scarcely mentioned it on the campaign trail.
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"When I first ran for office six years ago I made a commitment to be a voice for all Oklahomans," tweeted Democratic state Rep.
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Trump has worked to appease the swing state's voters since he ran for office and he owns several properties, including Mar-a-Lago, there.
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Berlusconi, for example, ran for office in 1994 because he needed to shield his companies—and himself, of course—from criminal investigations and trials.
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Donald Trump ran for office promising to protect the "forgotten man and woman" and to Make America Great Again for Americans who feel left behind.
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The big picture: Democrats took back control of the House in the 2018 midterms, and credit is owed to the women who ran for office.
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We&aposre pleased with what we&aposve rolled out, and this is what we said we would do when we ran for office in 2016.
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Kushner, who was a Democratic donor before Trump ran for office, is viewed by Bannon as an obstacle to achieving his right-wing ideological vision.
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I ran for office and took the oath knowing that the death penalty would be part of my job, whether I liked it or not.
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Ocasio-Cortez, who ran for office calling herself a Democratic socialist, has vowed to make climate change a key issue during her time in office.
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Ocasio-Cortez, who ran for office calling herself a Democratic socialist, has vowed to make climate change a key issue during her time in office.
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I ran for office to stand against injustice and serve as a voice for the women who too often go unheard by their elected leaders.
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President Donald J. Trump ran for office touting a tax reform agenda that would significantly benefit the wealthy members of his Mar-a-Lago Club.
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Speaking from personal experience, we ran for office and had to campaign and fundraise before being elected state attorney general in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
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But Mr. de Blasio, who ran for office as a champion of transparency, has more latitude in interpreting it than he has thus far used.
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Jimmy Carter ran for office on a promise to withdraw all ground combat forces, in part to protest South Korea's autocratic government at the time.
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Like many Democrats who ran for office in 2018, Plame said that she wants to go to Washington and tackle the high cost of health care.
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He ran for office talking about cutting government positions, so it's probably not a shock to anybody that he hasn't filled a whole lot of them.
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But it didn't discourage them: Instead, women who ran for office decided that they weren't going to continue to tip-toe around people's apparent gender biases.
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But people in my community were suffering before Donald Trump ran for office and neither Democrats nor Republicans were able to do very much about it.
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"The political class opposed me when I first ran for office, they did not want a businessman outsider, but the voters had other ideas," he wrote.
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He ran for office campaigning to change the statute of limitations, which imposes deadlines on when victims can bring civil suits or prosecutors can press charges.
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However, the FBI said in documents released earlier this month that McCabe did not have any role in the probe while his wife ran for office.
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He combined that with attacks that Mr. Morrisey, 50, despite two terms as attorney general, is an outsider, who once ran for office in New Jersey.
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At 26 years old, she ran for office for the first time to offer TX28 new leadership that fights for workers, gender rights,& a climate agenda.
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" ■ "The same thing went on when President Trump ran for office; there was about 15 ladies who ran to the press and said the same thing.
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When he ran for office, President Trump said he would bring business leaders into government and use the best corporate practices to make it more efficient.
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The influential former Democrat, who ran for office as a Republican, told The New York times he talked with Trump only once since the president's election.
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"The political class opposed me when I first ran for office, they did not want a businessman outsider, but the voters had other ideas," he said.
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Well you know, the first time I ran for office and actively thought about it was in college, because there was an inequity ... KS: At Spelman.
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He ran for office vowing to end large-scale troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, sensing the American people were war-weary after a decade of combat.
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PIRRO: (AUDIO GAP) -- ran for office, he said he was going to vote or put conservative justices on the Supreme Court bench, no one should be surprised.
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As Rebecca Traister notes, even amid that backlash, women ran for office, refused to settle down, and helped render sexual harassment an actionable form of gender discrimination.
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Watts said that in November, 13 members of Moms Demand Action, from state reps to city council members, ran for office across the nation and nine won.
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" Politicians like Sam Yorty in Los Angeles and Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia ran for office on racist ideas around crime and promises to restore "law and order.
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"I really liked Michael and I think he liked me, but it went really strangely haywire once I ran for office," Trump told The Post this week.
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"A lot of us ran for office – a lot of us for the first time – because we saw what is going on with this budget process," Sen.
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In November a few years ago Cardinal Dolan himself ran for office in the 2007 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, but he lost for vice president.
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Few governors -- who ran for office to tackle their state's tough issues -- ever considered a widespread nationwide pandemic would be possibly the biggest test of their careers.
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The candidate who ran for office warning that Democrats wanted to end the Second Amendment appeared to have adopted the positions of his predecessor Barack Obama wholesale.
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Democrats have 89 female representatives after a record number of women ran for office in 2018, many of them motivated by a dislike of President Donald Trump.
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A mother of six who ran for office after years at home with her children, Blanco was also the first woman elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
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PIRRO: But you know, when the president ran for office, he said he was going to build the wall and he said that he would have zero tolerance.
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During the 2018 midterm elections, a historic number of women and candidates from underrepresented communities ran for office — and forever changed the idea of what Congress looks like.
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When Trump first ran for office, the channel veered toward the #NeverTrump movement, including a public conflict with Megyn Kelly, then FNC's second-biggest star behind Bill O'Reilly.
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In 2008, Barack Obama ran for office promising to restore America's good name in the world through a policy of engagement with adversaries and respectful treatment of allies.
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The Republican governor, Pat McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor who ran for office promising a practical-minded, pro-business administration, was forced into a defensive crouch this week.
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The proposition also prohibits anyone who ran for office or worked on political campaigns or as a lobbyist within the last six years from serving on the commission.
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Prior to the endeavor, which she founded in partnership with Kenneth Lerer and future BuzzFeed founder Jonah Perretti, Huffington was a media commentator and, briefly, ran for office.
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Mr. Moon, a progressive former human rights lawyer, ran for office on a platform of conciliation with the North and has moved aggressively to deliver on that promise.
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She ran for office on a pledge of "economic democratization," vowing to correct South Korea's brutally fast development, set forth by her father, with a warm, maternal touch.
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It would not surprise me to see Steele [Kevin R. Steele, the prosecutor] retry this case, since he made it a campaign issue when he ran for office.
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" But Rice has an authentic center, knows that if she ran for office "every compromise and stifling and self-suppression to be performed would … devour her with shame.
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Trump ran for office in 2016 pledging to crack down on illegal immigration for security reasons, and has called for "extreme vetting" of foreigners entering the United States.
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When Modi first ran for office in 2014, his campaign was focused on the economy: he promised reforms to, among other things, boost growth and fix India's jobs problem.
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A month ago, a judge on the board ordered the removal of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee who "repeatedly" ran for office while on the job.
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Trump won over gay Republicans by carrying a rainbow flag onstage when he first ran for office and acknowledging that same-sex marriage is the law of the land.
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Sean Casten, who asked him: If a member of the American Nazi Party ran for office, could they purchase an ad that included hate speech otherwise prohibited by Facebook?
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She moved back to Alabama in 2016 to work at a local TV station — a career she originally thought would last a lot longer before she ran for office.
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He suggested the pool of potential jurors in Montgomery County had been tainted because the Constand case became a major campaign issue when Steele ran for office last year.
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President Trump ran for office on a platform that included a clamp down on undocumented immigrants and warned that anyone in the U.S. illegally would be subject to deportation.
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"Gay people have always been involved with electoral politics and many of them ran for office," said Egan, associate professor of politics and public policy at New York University.
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One Republican source close to McConnell noted that Johnson ran for office as a long-shot Tea Party candidate in 2010 in response to the conservative outcry over ObamaCare.
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You know, John, I ran for office a lot, I know how easy it is to say something that in retrospect you go, 'Woops, why did I say that?
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The big picture: Lewis has faced strong criticism for these comments at home since he first ran for office, but now they're getting their turn in the national spotlight.
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President Trump ran for office as a champion of American workers and a friend of labor unions, but his administration has systematically favored employers at the expense of workers.
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Many of the people backing him now he worked with for decades as a senator and vice president, or got his endorsement as they ran for office in 2018.
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A damning report released by Missouri's House of Representatives told how the governor, Eric Greitens, above, made unwanted sexual advances toward his former mistress before he ran for office.
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"When I ran for office, I promised the American people I would begin to bring our troops home, and seek to end this war," Trump said in his statement.
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But establishing whether there are Trump relationships with Russian businesses could help provide clarity on whether he was compromised by Russia in any way before he ran for office.
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A record number of women ran for office this year, many of them for the first time; among their ranks were Deidre DeJear, Pearl Kim, Anna Eskamani, and Morgan Zegers.
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"Before I ran for office, I'd watch incidents like this with churches and other things and think, 'What a shame, what a shame,'" Trump said before he left for Indiana.
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President Donald Trump ran for office in 2016 pledging to crack down on illegal immigration for security reasons, and has called for "extreme vetting" of foreigners entering the United States.
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The Russian government was running an operation designed to "sow discord in the US political system" through social media from 2014 on, and well before Mr Trump ran for office.
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But in many other ways, she's a classic political striver of the sort familiar in both parties: She went to an Ivy League school, studied law, and ran for office.
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It has happened before: In 1992, women were so angry after watching the Senate Judiciary Committee grill Anita Hill about Clarence Thomas that they ran for office in record numbers.
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"Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great," Cohen told lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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Without these disclosures, required by law when he ran for office, there would be no paper trail linking any of Trump's companies to ones in India paying him licensing fees.
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Mr. McCrory ran for office as a pro-business moderate but has often gone along with a staunchly conservative Republican legislature whose supporters he needs to win a second term.
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He later ran campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Charles B. Rangel, and then ran for office himself, winning elections to become a New York City councilman, public advocate and mayor.
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President Trump ran for office on a promise to keep the prison open and possibly send more "bad dudes" there, though no one new has arrived since he took office.
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A record-breaking 1,500 current and former educators ran for office this midterm cycle, galvanized by widespread teacher strikes that took place in multiple states this year, according to Vox.
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That year, Mr. Kessler also ran for office — unsuccessfully — in a local Berlin election as the candidate of an orthodox Communist party, according to the local public service broadcaster RBB.
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Ben Sasse The Nebraska senator, who attended McCain's memorial service in Arizona, recounted jokingly that when he first ran for office in 2014, McCain endorsed one of his primary challengers.
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He's reminding voters of his close ties to the president and his own Trumpian record on immigration and crime that dates back well before the president ever ran for office.
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The registered independent, who ran for office as a Republican in the past, spent just over $20 million during the 2016 elections, supporting both Democratic and Republican candidates, the Post reported.
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Tensions have run high between Mexico and the United States over the shared frontier ever since Trump ran for office vowing to build a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants.
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He ran for office because he felt called to be the voice of low-income residents in his community and to fight so future generations wouldn't go through the same struggles.
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Not so for Ivanka, a married mother of three who was running the family business when her father ran for office, in addition to operating a side business of her own.
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Those potent combinations raise the question of how much power will be left for Conte, who never ran for office and whom most Italians had never heard of before last week.
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Trump ran for office in 2016 pledging to build a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico to keep migrants out, and has fought Congress to get funding for it.
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That feeling was cemented in 2006, the last time Bredesen ran for office, when he won every single county in the state on his way to a second term as governor.
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That figure is up slightly from 2628's reported income, but The Washington Post reported Wednesday that business at the Miami resort has been in decline since he ran for office.
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In 2008, the same year Angela Corey first ran for office, a 35-year-old Republican who had never tried a homicide case, Matt Shirk, announced his candidacy for public defender.
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President Trump, of all people, should know what it feels like to be wrongly targeted, as both the FBI and FISA courts were used against him when he ran for office.
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And watching the treatment Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin endured when they ran for office confirmed some women's "worst fears" about the way female candidates are treated, the institute's researchers found.
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Nine of 20123 volunteers trained by the group ran for office this year and won seats, ranging from New Hampshire state representative to city council member in West University Place, Texas.
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Look at Michelle Obama: if she ran for office in America she would immediately connect because she already has that reputation for being open and honest, hard-working, empowering and respectful.
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A crackdown is being led by Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, who ran for office promising to unleash economic growth by completing a nuclear deal and freeing the country from international sanctions.
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Amy Klobuchar -- have questioned the mayor's electability given he has only ever won small mayoral races in South Bend and the only time he ran for office statewide, he lost handily.
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She has served at the Central Intelligence Agency as well as the Pentagon, can distinguish between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and knew who Qassem Soleimani was before she ran for office.
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A record number of women ran for office, a record number of women won congressional seats and female candidates flipping red seats helped power Democrats to a majority in the House.
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Nick Givas writing for Fox News quoted Lt. Bob Kroll blaming the local Minneapolis politicians for emboldening criminals with a city council that ran for office on an anti-police agenda.
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A record number of women ran for office, a record number of women won congressional seats and female candidates flipping red seats helped power Democrats to a majority in the House.
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"When I ran for office, I promised I would do everything in my power to protect coal miners' jobs," said West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in a statement to Reuters.
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"There is one thing that is very clear: Josh Hawley ran for office saying he was going to clean up public corruption," Ms. McCaskill said Thursday during a brief interview in Washington.
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The new director of the C.I.A. was Mike Pompeo, the congressman who represented Charles Koch's district, in Wichita, Kansas; before Pompeo ran for office, the Kochs had invested in his aerospace business.
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The financial obstacles are bad news for Iran's moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, who ran for office on promises of an economic revival fueled by the nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions.
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We saw that with the Women's March, and we saw it again on Election Day last month, when women all over the country got off the sidelines, ran for office, and won.
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"The party has always discouraged right-to-life Democrats, including myself," said Stupak, who faced a tough primary from a pro-abortion rights candidate when he first ran for office in 22019.
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We are not invincible; we are just a group of people who ran for office to make a difference in an institution that is – at best – slow to adapt to modern times.
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"After the Pulse nightclub shooting, she ran for office to bring change to Washington, including common sense gun laws — and as president, I will work closely with her to get it done."
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Jean Sinzdak, associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said the record number of women who ran for office in 2018 has helped drive the issue.
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"The mayor of the city of Chicago ran for office making promises and commitments about basic educational supports, about equity, about transforming neighborhood schools," said Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
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It further presses the governor, who ran for office as a moderate, into an unexpected role, as a conservative warrior on social issues, months before voters decide if he deserves a second term.
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Alicia evolved from a supportive spouse waiting in the wings to a legal badass who ran for office and started her own firm, all while exploring relationships with hunky men who weren't Peter.
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Trump had accused him of being biased against him, pointing to McCabe's wife, who ran for office in Virginia as a Democrat in 2015 and had accepted donations from a top Clinton ally.
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Mr. Trump, a strident defender of gun rights who ran for office with the strong backing of the N.R.A., has come under immense pressure to endorse new gun limits after the Parkland massacre.
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In particular, Tuffy is skeptical that deregulation will simply sail through Congress, given popular discontent with big banks and the fact that Trump himself ran for office on an anti-Wall Street platform.
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And though attendance at those marches has dwindled in recent years, they served as gathering places for many who continue to participate in activism and who ran for office — and won — in 2018.
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She then ran for office herself, winning a seat on El Paso County's governing body before seeking the House seat vacated by Beto O'Rourke, who in 2018 unsuccessfully ran against Senator Ted Cruz.
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I ran for office because I believe in the American dream -- the faith that education, initiative, and hard work can earn anyone a better life in this country -- is a dream worth defending.
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It has been a staggering rise and fall for Mr. Shortey, who was 28, unemployed and living on his wife's savings when he first ran for office in 2010, winning as an underdog.
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The certainty of a pardon for Mr. Lee is in doubt given the political climate and the fact that the new president, Moon Jae-in, ran for office on a platform of punishing corruption.
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Omar and Talib are among 100 or more Muslims who ran for office in 2018, an unprecedented surge in political engagement for a community targeted by policies intended to keep them on the sidelines.
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I was actually a fan of Donald Trump before he ran for office because I remember seeing a documentary where he said something like, 'My kids can't help that they grew up with money.
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Omar and Tlaib are among 100 or more Muslims who ran for office in 2018, an unprecedented surge in political engagement for a community targeted by policies intended to keep them on the sidelines.
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"When I ran for office, I said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president," Bush said at the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, according to CNN.
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President Obama is likely to leave office having failed to close Guantánamo, which he promised to do when he ran for office in 2008, calling it an insult to the Constitution and American values.
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Yes, but: That's against the state's so-called "sore loser" or "sour grapes" law, which prohibits primary candidates who ran for office and lost from launching a third-party bid in the general election.
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I kind of woke up at age 113, ran for office, and lost, but part of that journey, I would go into schools and I would see thousands of Hadis learning how to code.
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NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) - When anti-nuclear activist Junko Isogai ran for office in Japan's northern Niigata region, it had an awkward dimension: not just stump speeches and chats with constituents, but entertaining potential backers.
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The 41-year-old nurse and pastor first ran for office in 2016, vying for a seat in the Senate ("I went all the way up," she laughed, surprised now by her own brazenness).
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Although he did not explicitly apologize for his legislative record, Schock said that when he first ran for office in 2008, presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton publicly opposed marriage equality.
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Some of its most high-profile figures, including former student leaders Nathan Law and Sixtus "Baggio" Leung, ran for office and won legislative seats -- but they were disqualified in a heated controversy in 2017.
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The black women who ran for office in Rio de Janeiro after her killing were mindful of the risks they were taking, said Mônica Francisco, another of the black women elected as state representative.
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For me, as president, to watch any of this go, you know, before I ran for office, I'd watch incidents like this with churches and other things and think, what a shame, what a shame.
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Justice, who recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal, told the crowd that neither he nor Trump are politicians, explaining that they both ran for office to get something done.
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Obama ran for office promising a new kind of politics — a politics that transcended red and blue, that would rid Washington of the dreaded influence of "special interests," and that engaged minorities and the young.
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The FEC had previously permitted tapping campaign funds for "occasional" child care, but the 36-year-old candidate required more consistent care for her 2- and 3-year-old children as she ran for office.
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That tradition was challenged by LePage, who first ran for office in 2010 on a wave of populist Tea Party support and won two three-way races with less than a majority of the vote.
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"I met Pamella Roland before her sister-in-law ran for office, and I respect her for being an amazing designer who's done it on her own terms," Vanessa Williams told Refinery29 at the show.
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Trump also spread many of the birther theories that hung over Obama when he ran for office, fueled by conspiracy theorists who did not believe that Obama was born in the U.S., as he was.
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From Belgium, Puigdemont ran for office in the December 2017 Catalan elections and was proposed for regional president by a parliamentary majority, but Spanish courts banned his attempt to assume office from outside the country.
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The issues that President Obama debated with his opponents, Democratic and Republican, when he ran for office in 2008 were not the ones that greeted him in 2009 when he was sworn in as president.
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Younger feminists, who came of age in the wake of Anita Hill's testimony against Clarence Thomas and the surge of women who ran for office in 1992, have tried to make the word less polarizing.
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While his competitors have spent months banking money, building donor lists and glad-handing contributors at events, Patrick — who last ran for office in 2010 — is just starting to rekindle relationships with past supporters. Sens.
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" It was only when he ran for office, he said, that he "realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be — as the cameras start going off in the background.
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"We would see the outcome in the polls and we would see a lot of the NRA-backed politicians out of office and a lot of younger people who ran for office, in office," González said.
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"He's not a political guy, he is not someone who worked on campaigns or ran for office, Zubrensky said in an interview, " but he likely worries what will happen to the judiciary if the attacks continue.
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" Mayor Rob Allen of Hoosick Falls, a music teacher who ran for office in his New York town after the discovery of contamination from nearby industrial sites, called the PFAS issue "exceedingly important to our village.
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Some high-profile transgender candidates ran for office in May elections, and a recent lower court ruling suggests there may be a route to winning same-sex marriage in India, the world's second-most populous nation.
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The deterioration at McMurdo can be seen as an extension of the national infrastructure crisis that President Trump ran for office vowing to fix, even if the problems are 8,000 miles from the mainland United States.
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I, like so many of my colleagues, ran for office because I believed that our political system was broken, controlled by the powerful and the wealthy, ignoring and failing the regular people that it's supposed to serve.
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Sixty-two Indigenous candidates—like 25-year-old Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, a New Democratic Party member and Inuk woman from Nunavut who claimed a seat in the House last night—ran for office down-ticket in this election.
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Scott first ran for office emphasizing his opposition to Obamacare, but he tried in 2018, like many other Republican candidates across the country, to claim that he also still wanted to keep the law's preexisting conditions protections.
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But President Donald Trump, who frequently found himself the target of jokes when he attended before he ran for office, including by then-President Obama, has refused to attend the dinner his first two years in office.
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"All the rhetoric that was out there and what people were saying, I think there were people who ran for office saying they were going to do this, and they've been emboldened by the administration," Denis said.
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In 2007, when he ran for office in the state legislature in Uttar Pradesh, he had four criminal cases pending and some 13.6 million rupees (about $200,203 at current rates) in assets, according to his election filings.
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When Mr. Thompson ran for office, this page expressed reservations over his lack of significant managerial experience and his publicity-seeking behavior as a private lawyer, factors that made him "not an ideal successor" to Mr. Hynes.
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Glorian acknowledged that the National Front was attracting some C.G.T. members in Pas-de-Calais; in one case, he said, a prominent C.G.T. delegate from a nearby tire shop ran for office on a National Front ticket.
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He was once registered as a Democrat — he voted for Jimmy Carter — and ran for office as a Republican in Illinois, for Congress, Senate, the Cook County recorder of deeds and briefly for president, in the 2008 race.
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But Mr. Trump appeared to concede that he was concerned about Mr. McCabe's political affiliation, noting that his wife ran for office in Virginia in 2015 with political support from Terry McAuliffe, a close ally of the Clintons.
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Still, many of the new members in the Senate Democratic conference ran for office on a pledge of getting corporate money out of politics, and Monday's plan of action seems calibrated to make good on those campaign promises.
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She's had to hide her ambitions while she ran for office, then turn around and give a gracious concession speech after a man (who won on sexist and racist tropes) got to be president despite earning fewer votes.
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But as the accusations against Mr. Franken piled up, Mr. Dahlmeier, a Democrat who was a fan of Mr. Franken's books and radio show even before he ran for office, decided that his beloved senator had to go.
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Yet in the same period, a record number of Muslims ran for office, donations have poured in to Muslim advocacy groups, and Muslims are showing unprecedented civic engagement, forming strategic alliances with other groups in the Trump administration's crosshairs.
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Over the two years of his presidency, it's become his one-word public relations play during crises, and a characteristic he defined — twice in tweets — with the help of a Mark Twain quote well before he ran for office.
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Hickenlooper is known for his retail politics: meeting voters and sharing an approachable personal story about a suburban Philadelphia kid who studied English in college, became an unemployed geologist, opened a brewpub in Denver, and then ran for office.
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"The bottom line is there is no excuse for the political stunt just because the President had made a commitment when he ran for office and afterwards," said Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, in a CNN interview.
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When Mr. Cruz left the solicitor general's office in the spring of 2008 to join a law firm in Houston, just about everyone who knew him figured it was only a matter of time before he ran for office.
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A provocative conservative radio talk show host before he ran for office, Patrick has backed policies ranging from requiring people to use restrooms that match their assigned genders to the building of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
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When he first ran for office in 2006, the Texas Observer called Patrick "Houston's king of right-wing talk radio" and reported that he was one to beat in a four-person Republican primary for a Texas Senate seat.
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"Hondurans aren't allowed to express themselves as they want, and they feel that their votes don't count," said Juliette Handal, a prominent business executive who ran for office as a Libre candidate in 2013 but is now an independent.
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I ran for office at the tender age of 19 and won a municipal election for township auditor in my hometown of Warminster, Pa. I'm also a bass guitar player, though my enthusiasm for the bass surpasses my talent!
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As Vox's Ezra Klein noted, Sanders ran for office believing that President Obama's core failure was in surrendering the "outside game" — that Democrats had to learn to take their message far beyond Capitol Hill for it to impact Washington.
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Before I explore this, I feel obligated to say that even for a show conceived mainly from Rhimes' imagination, none of the politicians on the show would get my vote of confidence if they ran for office in the real world.
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And like most other states, we found hope in the many fantastic women candidates who ran for office, but for numerous reasons — mostly due to lack of financial and strategic support — none of them won like they did in other states.
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And while he earned adjusted gross incomes of $106,635 in 2012 and $116,81 in 2013 -- his first two years as mayor -- Buttigieg had an adjusted gross income of $7,115 in 2011 when he was 29, the year he ran for office.
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Trump, who starred in a popular reality television show before he ran for office, kept saying he was not sure whether the meeting would come together, giving reporters traveling with him regular updates while noting logistics and security were difficult.
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Michelle Obama, who met her husband at a prestigious law school and was the primary household earner when Barack Obama ran for office, not unlike the Clintons, opted to quit her job as a hospital administrator when he ran for president.
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But before he ran for office, Trump was the most fervent critic of the fact that President Barack Obama regularly hit the links with friends, aides and advisers, arguing that it showed the president was unserious about fixing America's problems.
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They can match Mr Rauner, who was boss of a private-equity company before he ran for office, and who put $50m in a campaign fund last December even though he has not formally said that he will seek re-election.
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Something that excites her is that the world has changed a lot since she was first elected to local office at the tender age of 24: In 2018 alone, over 400 LGBTQ+ candidates ran for office — and more than half won.
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Leeann Tweeden, a radio host, said that in 2006, two years before Franken ran for office, she joined him on a U.S.O. tour to Afghanistan and Iraq, and he kissed her during a rehearsal, although she told him not to.
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Trump, for his part, has been working to discredit McCabe on the ground that his wife, who ran for office in Virginia, received campaign donations from a PAC affiliated with Terry McAuliffe, the state's then governor and a Clinton ally.
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The initiative may raise eyebrows in the administration of US President Donald Trump, who ran for office vowing to close the border to criminals and drugs from Mexico, and accused the country of taking advantage of the United States on trade.
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It's hard to find a Republican who ran for office without calling to reform and reduce government spending — almost as hard as it is to find any now who seem to care as their party continues to ratchet up the spending.
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"The President ran for office on the promise of banning Muslims as part of the most bigoted, racist, and divisive presidential campaign in modern history, and in only ten days in office, he's making good on those promises," the lawmaker continued.
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"Legalizing adult-use marijuana is a monumental step to reducing disparities in our criminal justice system," Murphy, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs investment banker who called for legalizing weed when he ran for office in 2017, said in a statement.
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"None of that is directly the same thing as someone's race, but I'm someone who has struggled and that informs why I ran for office and my ability to work with everyone," he said in an interview earlier this fall.
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When reports surfaced that Mr. Trump's longtime lawyer had paid $130,000 to Ms. Daniels after she came forward with an account of having an affair with Mr. Trump before he ran for office, leaders of the religious right were largely unmoved.
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Ricardo Rosselló ran for office, the ambitious and telegenic young man and his closest friends made no secret of his aspirations to move back to the palatial governor's mansion where he grew up as the scion of money and privilege.
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That should be hard to swallow for someone who ran for office on the pledge of stopping, and reversing, America's huge and systematic hemorrhage on external accounts, and its steadily deteriorating net foreign debt — $8 trillion at the last count.
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Mr. de Blasio ran for office criticizing charter schools and promising to halt the practice of giving them space in public school buildings, but he soon got a lesson in the danger of going head-to-head with their wealthy supporters.
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Egerman and Warren first met before she ran for office: His son was a law student of Warren's at Harvard, he told the Boston Globe in 2012, which had led him to strike up a conversation with her on an airplane.
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CreditCreditCeleste Sloman for The New York Times Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher transcript During the midterm elections, an unprecedented number of women ran for office, most of them Democrats.
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Trump, who ran for office on a platform of cracking down on illegal immigration, has grown increasingly frustrated by the ballooning numbers of mostly Central American families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and asking for asylum in the United States.
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The initiative may raise eyebrows in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, who ran for office vowing to close the border to criminals and drugs from Mexico, and accused the country of taking advantage of the United States on trade.
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Long before Mr Trump ran for office, the European Commission in Brussels, the International Monetary Fund in Washington, America's treasury department and the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, were already berating Germany for causing imbalances in the European and global economies.
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Be smart: Obama's message could be most successful for Democratic voters looking to embrace activism in the final two months of the election, but it could also remind those Obama-Trump voters what they liked about politics before President Trump ran for office.
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After President Obama's time in the White House ended, she moved from D.C. back home to Naperville, IL. And when she heard rumors that Democrats were looking for someone to challenge the Republican incumbent, she wanted to support whoever ran for office.
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McCabe, it should be noted, is a career FBI official not thought to be particularly close to Trump or Republicans — indeed, his wife recently ran for office in Virginia as a Democrat, though the FBI said McCabe played no role in the campaign.
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Trump ran for office promising to build a wall along the US southern border that would be funded by Mexico, but since taking office, Trump has said that the US will pay for the wall's initial construction with reimbursement from Mexico coming later.
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He said he was more than aware that partisanship has become an identifier as defining as sports fandom since he last ran for office, making whether your decision as to Democrat or Republican as important as your choice between Tennessee or Ole Miss.
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Ms. Davidson of the Scottish Conservatives, a churchgoing Presbyterian who trained for Britain's Army Reserve and once cheerfully described herself as a "flat-shoed, shovel-faced lesbian," cut her hair shorter than it had ever been when she first ran for office.
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"One of the reasons President Obama ran for office was to strengthen America's most basic bargain — that if you work hard, you ought to have a chance to get ahead," said Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
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Ms. Hallquist, 62, was well-known in Vermont before she ran for office, in part because of her gender transition in 2015, which happened while she ran the Vermont Electric Cooperative and which was featured in a documentary film made by her son.
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A significant number of women of color ran for office this year — and though it looks like Stacey Abrams is not going to win in Georgia, after a long fight not just for voters, but over voter suppression — many of these candidates won.
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Since 2016, when Omar first ran for office, she has been forced to contend with the claim — which she has called "absurd and offensive" — that Elmi was actually her brother and the two had really wed to advance his own immigration case.
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First lady Nancy Reagan even publicized her "Just Say No" to drugs campaign with Mr. T. And in Reagan's wake a host of celebrities ran for office as Republicans, from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to congressman Sonny Bono.
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He belonged to the bevy of military veterans who ran for office for the first time in 2018, and he stood out even among them for his avoidance of divisive issues, his insistence on the possibility of post-partisan consensus, his buoyancy.
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That experience, and that realization, was one of the reasons I ran for office, and throughout my time representing Oregonians in Congress I have been committed to updating Medicare to stay ahead of tomorrow's health care challenges and do right by older Americans.
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IF I EVER RAN FOR OFFICE, WHICH I HAVE NO INTENTION OF DOING, AND I COULD FIND THE TIME TO HAVE SOMEBODY DONATE $215 MILLION TO MY FOUNDATION IN EXCHANGE FOR DOING A 003, 200-MINUTE MEETING I'LL DO IT EVERY SINGLE TIME, RIGHT?
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Michelle Obama's greatest aspiration before her husband ran for office, she writes, was to find a way to simultaneously live the life of both of her childhood heroes: her mother, Marian Robinson, and Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore's character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Cohen said in his opening remarks that Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great," adding that the president "never expected to win the primary" and "never expected to win the general election.
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But since she first ran for office 43 years ago, New York has always been the state that loved her back, and on Tuesday it delivered one of her biggest boosts yet toward becoming the first woman to capture the Democratic Party's nomination for president.
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" Mr. Obama said then that he ran for office to "continue the long march of those who came before us" and to convince the country that we could "perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes.
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The primary in Alabama was a humbling experience for Mr. Sessions, who was treated as a castoff by the Republican Party he helped transform by championing a more nationalistic, anti-immigration, anti-free trade agenda years before Mr. Trump ran for office sounding those themes.
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But nothing clarifies the congressional mind as much as the end of the year, and Democrats, who ran for office on kitchen-table economic issues like jobs and the high cost of prescription drugs, are clearly in a hurry to make good on that promise.
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More than a year after the Women's March, and after a concerted effort by Democratic groups to get them to run, more women ran for office this year than ever before — and more women will serve in office beginning next year as a result.
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The extent of his case for why McCabe shouldn't be in the FBI is that his wife ran for office as a Democrat and, when she did, someone close to the Clintons (who was also the governor of Virginia!) donated money to her campaign.
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I am all here for VALID CRITICISM, but suggesting that Joe Biden - the man who literally ran for office against an incumbent at 29 because of the civil rights movement, the man who... Actively praising a segregationist is just a bad take and a willfully disingenuous act.
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"Ours was an investigation to figure out enough about what happened to determine if Brett Kavanaugh is fit to serve on the highest court in the land," said Ms. Murray, one of the female senators who ran for office after the Anita Hill hearings in 1991.
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In September he told reporters aboard his campaign bus that his McKinsey tenure wasn't "something that I think is essential in my story," though when he ran for office in Indiana in 2010 he used his McKinsey experience as evidence of his grasp on private-sector economics.
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"He ran for office, in part, by saying he would open the pathways for political engagement and community engagement" in a way that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg did not, said Basil A. Smikle Jr., a former executive director of the New York State Democratic Party.
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Republicans and Democrats have fought for years about how to overhaul outdated immigration laws, and the battle has become even more polarized since 2016 when Trump ran for office on a pledge to build a wall on the southern U.S. border to keep out migrants entering the country illegally.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Years before he captained the torpedo boat PT-109, ran for office or set the United States on a path to put a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy was a troublesome teen whose hijinks nearly got him kicked out of his prestigious boarding school.
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Back in February, PolitiFact delved into his career as a "40-year-outsider," a rabble-rousing lefty who first ran for office with his state's socialist Liberty Union Party, served as Burlington mayor as an independent and self-described socialist, and went to Congress, famously, with that same designation.
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There are some ways to measure the march's influence: Many of the record number of women who ran for office in 2018 credited the Women's March with inspiring them to do so, a phenomenon which led to a historic number of them getting elected to office in November.
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"It's very hard to get things done in this highly politicized environment, but you have to remember that when Donald Trump ran for office, many of the people, many of the pundits, many of the so-called experts said he would never run, he'd never be successful," Lewandowski said.
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"The political hit job on McCabe — his supposed ideological bias, the fact his wife ran for office as a Democrat, the attacks on his competence — are way out of line," said Frank Montoya Jr., a former senior F.B.I. official who retired in 2016 and worked closely with Mr. McCabe.
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Only it's others who bear them -- human beings swept up in his incoherent and mean-spirited tirades, and regular people like Jill McCabe, who ran for office because, as an emergency room pediatrician, she thought maybe she could help outside of the ER in addition to in it.
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When President Obama ran for office in 2008, he vowed to implement a cap-and-trade system that would bankrupt anyone who dared to build a coal-fired power plant in the United States, a move that would lead inexorably to the end of the coal industry as a whole.
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A longtime Trump fan In the defense's filing for leniency, attorneys said Sayoc was a fan of Donald Trump before he ran for office, listening to his self-help books on tape.. When Trump announced his run for office, Sayoc began following politics and watching Fox News while at the gym.
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When he first ran for office, in 2012—he served a single term in the House of Representatives before winning his Senate seat, in 2014—Cotton was often described as robotic on the stump, but he's improved somewhat as a speaker, even if he still projects more intelligence than warmth.
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"When I ran for office, I pledged to stand for life, and as president, that's exactly what I have done and I have kept my promise and I think everybody here understands that totally," he told the friendly crowd at the Susan B. Anthony List 11th Annual Campaign for Life Gala.
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In fact, Cohen hasn't been sentenced in either case, and the charges to which he pleaded guilty in August included information about his reimbursement by the Trump Organization for payments he made or helped orchestrate to conceal allegations from two women about sexual encounters with Trump before he ran for office.
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Trump has arguably achieved more than anyone in American history — he became a billionaire who earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, ran for office for the first time and won the presidency against the odds with only a handful of people, a plane and a cell phone.
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The extraordinary legal showdown between the President and Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump long before he ran for office is certain to escalate in the days ahead -- if for no other reason than the porn star's lawyer is determined to keep her case in the news.
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US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the most high-profile politician to function as a millennial influencer; Ocasio-Cortez grew a passionate national following as she ran for office in New York in part because she's exceptionally good at Twitter and Instagram, explaining her political stances and quipping at opponents.
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Barry Goldwater as examples of Republican presidential candidates who ran for office even though they were born outside the U.S. Perhaps to allow the controversy to continue, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wouldn't definitively say whether she thought Cruz was "naturally born" citizen when asked about it Thursday at her weekly press conference.
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In addition to shifting responsibility for drawing district lines to the commission, the proposition bars anyone who ran for office or worked on political campaigns or as a lobbyist within the last six years from serving on the commission, as well as parents, spouses and children of those who worked in politics.
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McCabe, whose wife ran for office in Virginia as a Democrat, is a common foil for Republicans, some of whom accuse him of being part of the so-called deep state, referring to a conspiracy theory that a group of government officials is working from within the government to thwart Trump's agenda.
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But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.
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She was operating in a new space — for the moment, no one really cared that she was a senator who'd gotten elected from a state she'd never lived in, the survivor of the best-known political sex scandal in American history, the former first lady who ran for office while her husband was still president.
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Both episodes underscore the way Trump's 2020 operation is using the most controversial moments of his presidency to electrify his base, reinforce his brand as the disrupter in chief and assure voters that — despite his incumbency — he's as much a political outsider now as he was when he first ran for office 4½ years ago.
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Speakers included Ashley Bennett—a Democrat who ran for office for the first time and unseated John Carman, the Republican former Atlantic City, NJ Freeholder after he mocked the Women's March last year—and MILCK, a singer who wrote and performed a song called "Quiet," with an acapella group of women at the Washington, D.C. march in 2017.
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But since he last ran for office, in 2006, when he won all 95 counties, his party has suffered a string of defeats: only in Nashville and Memphis do Democrats hold congressional seats; at the state level, Democrats have been reduced to superminority status in both houses, meaning they are not even needed for the Legislature to hold session.
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"I first ran for office in 2006 in my 2-to-1 Republican district in upstate New York not unlike JD's district right here, a rural district, agriculture and manufacturing," Gillibrand told around a dozen Iowans, referring to JD Scholten, the former congressional candidate who came within a few percentage points of unseating controversial Republican Rep.
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When he ran for office, President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE was high on leaks: "I love WikiLeaks," he said.
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We also meet some less well-known, up-and-coming leaders, like Svante Myrick, who at the age of 24 became the youngest and first person of color to be elected mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., and Braxton Winston, a 30-something Charlotte, N.C., City Council member who ran for office after protesting police shootings of black people.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE ran for office pledging to fully support the Renewable Fuel Standard as it stands now.
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"Given how Trump ran for office, and the really Islamophobic tendencies in the base that put him in office, you have to ask the question: Would there be pressure for a wide-scale crackdown of some kind?" says Daniel Benjamin, a Dartmouth scholar who served as the State Department's top counterterrorism official during Obama's second term in office.
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Trump, of course, ran for office as an open advocate of bringing back Bush-era torture, and when as president he backed away from that position, he was clear that he was doing so only on the say-so of Defense Secretary James Mattis rather than because he'd had any change of heart on the underlying substance.
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Her support among men -- at 19923% -- fell nine points from 21992 and was the worst showing for a Democrat since her husband Bill Clinton ran for office in 228, when he was able to win with the support of just 281% of voters because the general election was split three ways between him, Republican George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot.
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"It may have cost me an election in this case, but I stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president because I didn't think, at the end of the day, it was concurrent with the promises I made when i first ran for office or the voices of the very people of the 1st District," he said.
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Gayle Goldin (D), who sponsored the bill, noted that every presidential candidate since Richard Nixon had released their tax returns voluntarily until 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 ran for office.
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We've still got a long way to go, but the strides society has made in carving out spaces and platforms for people of diverse backgrounds are paying off: Last year, LGBTQ+ representation on broadcast television hit a record high, with 8.8% of 857 series regulars openly identifying as LGBTQ+, and more queer people ran for office in November 2018 than ever before.
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Women were so enraged, that there was a record number of, there were 28 Senators and Congressmen voted in the next year in what was then called the Anita Hill class, they went and ran for office and changed the complexion — it is no longer the case, but at the time changed the complexion of the legislative branch of the country.
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Omar released a lengthy statement when she first ran for office in 22011 to address the persistent rumors that she married her brother, which she called "absurd and offensive," and gave the following timeline of her marriage history:She married her first and current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in an Islamic faith ceremony in 22009 when she was 29, but the couple did not obtain a legal marriage certificate.
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And when they do run for elected office, they do it later in life than men do -- like Elizabeth Warren, who won her first-ever race and secured a Senate seat at age 63, as compared to Bernie Sanders, who first ran for office in 1972, when he was 30 (he ran, and lost, a race for governor of Vermont on a Liberty Union Party ticket).
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"It may have cost me an election, but I stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president, because I didn't think they would be concurrent with the promises I made when I first ran for office and for the very voices of the people of the 1st District that I represent," he said Tuesday night, according to the Charleston-based Post and Courier newspaper.
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With a president who ran for office almost never having talked about the war, a coterie of political advisers who bitterly oppose deeper American engagement in it, and a national security team dominated by generals worried about the consequences if the United States does not act quickly, the decision could succeed in buying time for Mr. Trump and his advisers to fully deliberate over what to do in Afghanistan.
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Most of Bloomberg's fortune, estimated at $4 billion when he first ran for office in 2001 -- came from a 72% ownership stake in the financial information firm he started, Bloomberg L.P. After the surprise victory by Bloomberg, a serious concern about possible conflicts of interest came to light: His main business, providing data terminals and financial information to Wall Street firms, put him in a financial relationship with major New York companies -- including Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs -- that were also lobbying the city government for contracts, tax abatements and other favors.
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In an election cycle in which an unprecedented number of Indian Americans ran for office, Impact Fund endorsed approximately 20 candidates, raised and deployed more funds for Indian American candidates (through direct contributions and Independent Expenditures) than any political organization in history, and supported the re-election of every Indian American incumbent in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the elections of the first Indian Americans in Oregon and Kentucky and the first Indian Americans to ever serve in the legislatures of New York, Illinois, Kentucky, and Arizona.
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In an election cycle in which an unprecedented number of Indian Americans ran for office, Indian American Impact Fund endorsed approximately 20 candidates, raised and deployed more funds for Indian American candidates (through direct contributions and Independent Expenditures) than any political organization in history, and supported the re-election of every Indian American incumbent in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the elections of the first Indian Americans in Oregon and Kentucky and the first Indian Americans to ever serve in the legislatures of New York, Illinois, Kentucky, and Arizona.
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