Advisers to Gov. George W. Bush said today that he would participate in three presidential debates, an announcement clearly intended to blunt a drumbeat of criticism from the campaign of his opponent, Vice President Al Gore, that Mr. Bush was trying to avoid such face-to-face contests.
A19 Bush Agrees to 3 Debates Advisers to Gov. George W. Bush said he would participate in three presidential debates, an announcement intended to blunt criticism from the Gore campaign that Mr. Bush was trying to avoid such face-to-face contests.
Both he and Mr. Lautenberg have declared themselves the winner of their first face-to-face contest, held on Wednesday.
Victory over Oona King would set him directly on another collision course with Boris Johnson, the Tory who wrested City Hall from Livingstone and Labour in 2008 and a man who, two years into the job, remains popular enough to face the contest with considerable optimism.
But Gove is likely to face a fierce contest from another Brexit-supporting MP.
Speaking on the BBC's Question Time programme, Mr Farage said he would not step down to face a leadership contest.
Mr Strauss-Kahn is unlikely to want to give up his plum job to return to face a grubby nomination contest.
Sixteen finalists were named on March 4, and governors from seven of those states traveled to Washington to face videotaped questioning by contest judges.
LAWYER TO CHALLENGE HYDE In the Democratic contest to face Representative Henry J. Hyde, Brent Christensen, a 37-year-old lawyer, defeated Thomas Cramer, a health care consultant.
Promoter Warren has said he hopes to arrange a fight for the winner of the Cleverly-Bellew contest to face Dawson or Hopkins.
Markey, a moderate who defeated Republican Marilyn Musgrave in the long-time GOP stronghold of CD-4, is expected to face a tough reelection contest this fall.
