Thursday, July 23, 2015

126 Things to Know About 21 Candidates Running in 2016

NOTE: This is a pretty in-depth piece by USA TODAY so what I've done is choose a few examples. A link to all the rest will follow at the end:
With John Kasich’s expected campaign launch on Tuesday, that’s a whopping 21 candidates who have formally entered the 2016 race. (Still to come? An early August announcement by Republican Jim Gilmore, and a decision by Vice President Biden on the Democratic side.)
The parade of contenders into the White House race began in March, when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced his bid. Since then, USA TODAY has been compiling facts and tidbits about the large presidential field to help you get to know the men and women seeking the nation’s highest office.
Here are the 126 things you should know about 21 presidential candidates:
1. His full name is John Ellis Bush, and his nickname derives from his initials, J.E.B. He is seven years younger than his brother, former president George W. Bush.
2. Through his mother, Barbara Pierce Bush, he is distantly related to yet another president: Franklin Pierce, the nation’s 14th president (1853-1857) and often rated one of the worst.
3. He met his wife, Columba, when he was in Mexico as part of a high school program abroad. The two married when he was 21 and she was 19. They have three children: Jeb Jr., Noelle, and George P., who was elected Texas land commissioner in November. ...
7. Carson experienced a life-changing incident when he was 14. He got angry when his friend changed the radio station and he tried to stab the other boy; the knife blade hit the friend’s belt buckle instead. Carson prayed to God to help him control his temper.
8. Carson eventually won a scholarship to Yale University, where he met his wife, Candy, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. The couple have three sons.
9. Carson is an internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon. At 33, he became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. In 1987, he directed a 22-member team that, for the first time, successfully separated twins conjoined at the head. ...
19. His start in politics came as a volunteer in the 1977 New Jersey governor’s race. Christie, at 14, got his mother to drive him to then-state legislator Tom Kean’s house so he could knock on the candidate’s door and offer his services. Kean would lose that race but went on to serve two terms as governor and years as Christie’s mentor.
20. As U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Christie aggressively went after corruption among elected officials. He prosecuted more than 130 cases and lost none. He was named to the post after serving as a fundraiser for the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, whose nickname for Christie was “Big Boy.”
21. He doesn’t live in the elegant governor’s mansion, called Drumthwacket, but commutes to the Trenton statehouse from his home in northern New Jersey. When elected in 2009, Christie opted to stay put so his four children would not have to change schools. ...
34. Cruz scored one of the biggest upsets in the 2012 elections when he defeated David Dewhurst in the Texas GOP primary with help from Tea Party activists. Dewhurst, who was Rick Perry’s lieutenant governor, spent more than $20 million of his own money.
35. The senator graduated from Princeton University in 1992 and earned his law degree at Harvard three years later. He clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
36. As Texas solicitor general from 2003 to 2008, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times. He keeps a painting in his office of himself, at 32, arguing a case before the justices. Cruz told ABC News last year that he looks at the painting as a reminder of what it’s like to lose. ...
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