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I think when it comes to raising money, an incumbent president doesn’t have problems. – Robert Wolf	Found on CNN 12 months ago
If states passed laws that say things like, and many of them are currently contemplating these, ‘ whatever the NCAA rules are in NIL, they do n’t apply in our state, ’ that creates an issue where you put schools and conferences, many of which involve multiple states, in an impossible position, i think John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas’s incumbent on us to come up with a proposal that works in the absence of that [ legislation ], but I do think it will be harder to apply John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas to all 50 states if states passed laws that put schools in positions where they have to make a call. – John Jones/Icon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We should be concerned in any country where you see an incumbent president shaking up the electoral administration, while there’s really no force left standing in opposition to push back. – Will Freeman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The incumbent has the advantage of scale, and even in a situation where you have kind of a polarizing figure like Musk take over Twitter, people are realizing that the newer platforms are not nearly as effective from a one-to-many, getting your message out there. – Tom Forte	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are at a moment in time, because the American people elected a Republican majority in the House, where we have an opportunity to stop the madness. And I believe it is incumbent on that Republican majority, and on the Republicans in the Senate, to use every lever point we have to stop the out-of-control spending that is driving inflation, that is punishing hard-working Americans across this country. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement. the party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party. – Scott Huffmon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party, to that end, the Biden administration went back on it promise regarding human rights and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the visit to Saudi Arabia in hopes of increasing OPEC production and bringing down gas prices. While that had the temporary desired effect on prices, recent threats of OPEC production cuts will cause another spike in gas prices that could come at the worst possible time in the midterm election cycle for Democrats. – Scott Huffmon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The lack of justice for families who have had family members murdered is completely unacceptable, and it's incumbent on us to make sure that we're doing everything we can to solve those cases. – Chief Huffman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Herschel Walker is down but not out of the race for Senate. However, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock rides the overwhelming support of African Americans and wins big on favorability, the catchall polling measurement for everything from character to potential job performance. – Quinnipiac University	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Americans should be thrilled that Kari Lake has committed to declare an invasion on Day 1 in office, with a Biden administration committed to an open border, it’s incumbent on border governors to protect their people. – Director Russ Vought	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
But the other reason why the Trump endorsement was so critical in our race is because of the jungle primary here in Washington State. In order to be effective against a 12-year incumbent, we had to really rally around one candidate. – Joe Kent	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He's definitely the leader of the America First Movement, but the other reason why the Trump endorsement was so critical in our race is because of the jungle primary here in Washington State. In order to be effective against a 12-year incumbent, we had to really rally around one candidate. – Joe Kent	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ron Johnson is, without a doubt, the most vulnerable Republican incumbent on the map. – Amanda Sherman Baity	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's now incumbent on Russia to actually implement this deal. – Victoria Nuland	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is incumbent that the CIA and State use the same criteria to implement Havana Act. Both for who is considered a victim, and what level of compensation one is entitled to. I remain concerned that both agencies will not follow the intent of what is now law, based on the historic USG failure to take the victims' cases seriously, remember, this law is designed to provide financial relief for victims whose careers and lives have been destroyed, and who have suffered mental, physical and financial hardships. – Marc Polymeropoulos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’ve probably all been in situations, whether it’s high school, college or pro, where we’re the incumbent starter, and there’s a new freshman, there’s a new rookie, there’s a highly recruited guy, i’ve always believed in, the starter shouldn’t have to go out of his way, because he’s got a lot of things to deal with. But definitely be open to questions and help the growth and development of a younger quarterback, yeah. – Mason Rudolph	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They have to understand themselves as having those resources to be able to actually examine and understand what the implications of these donations, these open doors of access, may be, it is incumbent upon them. – Casey Michel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My take is that Trump is like an incumbent. He is beloved by people, but people also respect great governors, leading that way is Ron DeSantis, they love the senators that always stand up and do the right thing. – Matt Schlapp	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm going up against an incumbent governor. I'm David Perdue, I knew that. This is no surprise. They're going to outspend us five or six or seven times, but we're not getting out of this race. – David Perdue	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As for the Minsk agreements, are they alive and do they have any prospect or not ? i believe that there is simply no other alternative. I repeat once again, in Kyiv, they either say that they will comply, or they say that this will destroy their country. The incumbent president recently stated that he does not like a single point of these Minsk agreements. ' Like it or don't like it, it's your duty, my beauty.' They must be fulfilled. It won't work otherwise. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t want to see any particular program come back that we have learned there are dynamics of the program that doesn’t work. And that’s what we learned from the SRO program, yes, there were positives to that program, but there were also negatives. It’s more about looking at what type of environment do we want to create in our schools that’s a safe one and built on the premise of relationship building. And it is incumbent on us to build the right program. – Montgomery County Police	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I looked into Herschel Walker's record -- I'm entirely comfortable with him, we believe he starts his race dead even, pretty unusual against the incumbent anywhere in the country. And I think when you see his finance report, it'll be impressive as well. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And so the incumbent is not necessarily safe just because their district is still reflective of their party affiliation. – Jacey Jetton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's incumbent protection, the red seats got redder and blue seats got bluer. – Will Hurd	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think when it comes to raising money, an incumbent president doesn’t have problems.

– Robert Wolf

Found on CNN
12 months ago

If states passed laws that say things like, and many of them are currently contemplating these, ‘ whatever the NCAA rules are in NIL, they do n’t apply in our state, ’ that creates an issue where you put schools and conferences, many of which involve multiple states, in an impossible position, i think John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas’s incumbent on us to come up with a proposal that works in the absence of that [ legislation ], but I do think it will be harder to apply John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas to all 50 states if states passed laws that put schools in positions where they have to make a call.

– John Jones/Icon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We should be concerned in any country where you see an incumbent president shaking up the electoral administration, while there’s really no force left standing in opposition to push back.

– Will Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The incumbent has the advantage of scale, and even in a situation where you have kind of a polarizing figure like Musk take over Twitter, people are realizing that the newer platforms are not nearly as effective from a one-to-many, getting your message out there.

– Tom Forte

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are at a moment in time, because the American people elected a Republican majority in the House, where we have an opportunity to stop the madness. And I believe it is incumbent on that Republican majority, and on the Republicans in the Senate, to use every lever point we have to stop the out-of-control spending that is driving inflation, that is punishing hard-working Americans across this country.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement. the party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party.

– Scott Huffmon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The party of the president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections. High prices at the pump can exacerbate anger at the ‘incumbent’ party, to that end, the Biden administration went back on it promise regarding human rights and met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the visit to Saudi Arabia in hopes of increasing OPEC production and bringing down gas prices. While that had the temporary desired effect on prices, recent threats of OPEC production cuts will cause another spike in gas prices that could come at the worst possible time in the midterm election cycle for Democrats.

– Scott Huffmon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The lack of justice for families who have had family members murdered is completely unacceptable, and it's incumbent on us to make sure that we're doing everything we can to solve those cases.

– Chief Huffman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Herschel Walker is down but not out of the race for Senate. However, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock rides the overwhelming support of African Americans and wins big on favorability, the catchall polling measurement for everything from character to potential job performance.

– Quinnipiac University

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Americans should be thrilled that Kari Lake has committed to declare an invasion on Day 1 in office, with a Biden administration committed to an open border, it’s incumbent on border governors to protect their people.

– Director Russ Vought

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But the other reason why the Trump endorsement was so critical in our race is because of the jungle primary here in Washington State. In order to be effective against a 12-year incumbent, we had to really rally around one candidate.

– Joe Kent

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He's definitely the leader of the America First Movement, but the other reason why the Trump endorsement was so critical in our race is because of the jungle primary here in Washington State. In order to be effective against a 12-year incumbent, we had to really rally around one candidate.

– Joe Kent

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ron Johnson is, without a doubt, the most vulnerable Republican incumbent on the map.

– Amanda Sherman Baity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's now incumbent on Russia to actually implement this deal.

– Victoria Nuland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is incumbent that the CIA and State use the same criteria to implement Havana Act. Both for who is considered a victim, and what level of compensation one is entitled to. I remain concerned that both agencies will not follow the intent of what is now law, based on the historic USG failure to take the victims' cases seriously, remember, this law is designed to provide financial relief for victims whose careers and lives have been destroyed, and who have suffered mental, physical and financial hardships.

– Marc Polymeropoulos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve probably all been in situations, whether it’s high school, college or pro, where we’re the incumbent starter, and there’s a new freshman, there’s a new rookie, there’s a highly recruited guy, i’ve always believed in, the starter shouldn’t have to go out of his way, because he’s got a lot of things to deal with. But definitely be open to questions and help the growth and development of a younger quarterback, yeah.

– Mason Rudolph

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They have to understand themselves as having those resources to be able to actually examine and understand what the implications of these donations, these open doors of access, may be, it is incumbent upon them.

– Casey Michel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My take is that Trump is like an incumbent. He is beloved by people, but people also respect great governors, leading that way is Ron DeSantis, they love the senators that always stand up and do the right thing.

– Matt Schlapp

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm going up against an incumbent governor. I'm David Perdue, I knew that. This is no surprise. They're going to outspend us five or six or seven times, but we're not getting out of this race.

– David Perdue

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As for the Minsk agreements, are they alive and do they have any prospect or not ? i believe that there is simply no other alternative. I repeat once again, in Kyiv, they either say that they will comply, or they say that this will destroy their country. The incumbent president recently stated that he does not like a single point of these Minsk agreements. ' Like it or don't like it, it's your duty, my beauty.' They must be fulfilled. It won't work otherwise.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t want to see any particular program come back that we have learned there are dynamics of the program that doesn’t work. And that’s what we learned from the SRO program, yes, there were positives to that program, but there were also negatives. It’s more about looking at what type of environment do we want to create in our schools that’s a safe one and built on the premise of relationship building. And it is incumbent on us to build the right program.

– Montgomery County Police

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I looked into Herschel Walker's record -- I'm entirely comfortable with him, we believe he starts his race dead even, pretty unusual against the incumbent anywhere in the country. And I think when you see his finance report, it'll be impressive as well.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And so the incumbent is not necessarily safe just because their district is still reflective of their party affiliation.

– Jacey Jetton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's incumbent protection, the red seats got redder and blue seats got bluer.

– Will Hurd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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