For the past week, as Kemp has issued forceful public statements about the group's alleged fraud, voting organizers in the Atlanta area have scrambled to counter the state's latest accusations.
He has criticized it for months, and on Wednesday he issued a forceful veto threat.
A wisecracking, self-deprecating, third-generation Washingtonian, Ms. MacGuineas has spent years issuing forceful warnings about threats to the solvency of Social Security and to the pristine bond rating of American debt, often using Washington dinner parties as her soap box.
Beginning just after dawn Thursday, more than two dozen top officials and Cabinet members raced to issue forceful statements denying they were the anonymous author of the Times op-ed.
It's impossible to tell whether the Trump and his administration are issuing forceful and perhaps unilateral actions because they believe it's good and effective to sidestep bureaucracy and Congress, or if they just want to be able to take credit for making big moves even if the orders end up being more bark than bite.
"This puts Congress in a tough spot politically". It's impossible to tell whether the Trump and his administration are issuing forceful and perhaps unilateral actions because they believe it's good and effective to sidestep bureaucracy and Congress, or if they just want to be able to take credit for making big moves even if the orders end up being more bark than bite.
Then on Monday, he issued a more forceful statement, which eased the controversy even if it didn't satisfy his critics.
"THE YOUTH use of e-cigs is rising very sharply," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday, as he issued the federal government's most forceful warning yet that these electronic nicotine-delivery devices are hooking a generation of teenagers.
(Njeri later issued a forceful denial).
But even as Mr. Urlashov issued his forceful denials, federal officials were declaring his guilt.
