As a member of the Republican Party, which is generally considered favorable to business and China, and a Mandarin speaker, Ambassador Huntsman is well qualified to speak on the subject.

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To be eligible to seek the GOP nomination, he needed a special waiver from three of the city's five Republican chairmen because he isn't currently registered as a party member.

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The issue -- I would refer you to a leading member of Congress in the Republican Party who, himself, called this politics.

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The purist conservatives were left to back the third-party candidacy of John Schmitz, a Republican congressman and a member of the John Birch Society.

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"Don't forget that a person's religion is the religion of his friend, " the prime minister said of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition leader, who like many of his sect, is a member of Turkey's secular Republican People's party.

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His once-impressive 10 point U.S. Senate race polling lead has vanished placing him into a deep hole against democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill nearly every member of the Republican party has asked him to exit the race, and most of his funding has dried up like the 2012 Midwestern corn crop.

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Only three members of the president's party may sit on the five-member commission, and President Clinton needed to appoint a Republican to an open position.

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