Mr. Bloomberg could make a formidable candidate for governor, in part because of his great wealth.
"With my three years as councilman-at-large I believe I not only know the workings of the council and town government, but would make a formidable candidate," said Mr. Calzone, who lost the councilman-at-large race by a 53to47percentent margin.
And this is why, despite his age, @JoeBiden would make a formidable candidate for Democrats.
On the Democratic side, attention now turns squarely to Mr. Kaine, who served four years as governor and whose popularity would make him a formidable candidate.
In July I wrote a print column arguing that his long record of success in state elections and the narrative he could spin around Texas's record of job creation would make him a formidable candidate.
At lunch with New York Times reporters on Friday, Tom Daschle was muted in his criticism of the president and conceded that Mr. Bush's transformation to a wartime leader would make him a formidable candidate.
Regional elections were coming up in a few weeks, and, like many people, Matthieu was worried that the attacks would mean a major victory for Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme-right Front National, which could make her a formidable candidate in the 2017 Presidential election.
In the past few months, as Hillary Clinton has embarked on what has often looked like a soft launch of her 2016 Presidential campaign under the guise of publishing a memoir about her four years as Secretary of State, she's demonstrated some of the attributes that would make her a formidable candidate.
This would make him a formidable candidate in an Experts Assembly election that is shaping up as broad battle between, on one side, candidates including Rafsanjani and Rouhani, and on the other side fundamentalists including Mesbah-Yazdi, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the Guardian Council and Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the current chairman of the assembly.
By John Cassidy August 13, 2014 In the past few months, as Hillary Clinton has embarked on what has often looked like a soft launch of her 2016 Presidential campaign under the guise of publishing a memoir about her four years as Secretary of State, she's demonstrated some of the attributes that would make her a formidable candidate.
As I pointed out back in December, one of the things that makes Trump a formidable candidate is that he's tough to pigeonhole.
