In the primary campaign, Bush faced little opposition for the Republicannomination, while Kerry overcame an initial surge byVermontgovernorHoward DeanandNorth CarolinasenatorJohn Edwards; Edwards was nominated as Kerry’s running mate. The general election was contested less than 18 months after the be...
Their daughter, Margaret Hamburg, is a physician who has followed their footsteps into public service becoming Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009. Hamburg was awarded the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, its most prestigious award, and the ...
(7). Under RCV, it’s possible one of those other Republicans might have garnered enough second- and third-choice votes to win the state and ultimately the nomination. LikeThe Revenant— you remember, the divisive Leonardo DiCaprio movie that got beat in ranked-choice voting by ...
Comment: Grant started out promisingly enough, graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After 15 years in the Army (and service in the Mexican War) Grant went on to a series of failures in civilian life. When the Civil War broke out he returned to military service and r...
Gillibrand advocated the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on LGBT military service when she got to the Senate in 2009. She made a name for herself in the Senate by addressing sexual assault in the military. She proposed legislation that would remove sexual assault cases from ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Did Biden Keep His Promises? Biden’s record of promises kept, promises broken and compromises is roughly equally split between the three categories, according to PolitiFact. Cecelia Smith-SchoenwalderJan. 17, 2025 The Biggest Moments of Biden’s Career ...
“Mr. Trump’s meltdown in the closing weeks could be dismissed as a sore loser’s bizarre attempt at rationalizing his likely defeat. But his trashing of the democratic process, in service of his own ego, risks lasting damage to the country, and politicians of both parties should recoil ...
Postal Service to offer basic financial services at low rates in communities around the country. Sponsor the American Mall Act, which would invest $6 billion in turning around struggling malls and find new uses for the buildings and commercial spaces. Yang on Trade and Tariffs Yang's trade ...
In response to speculation Wednesday that Patrick would have been forced to go negative on Warren if both sought the nomination, Rubin said in a tweet there was “no way in hell” he would have attacked his home-state colleague “in the press or anywhere else.” “That’s never been the...
but he did not enter the race. He also hinted he would run for the Governor of New York in 2006 and 2014 but dropped out. On October 7, 1999, Trump formed a prior committee to inform his decision whether or not to seek the Reform Party’s nomination for the presidential race of 2000...