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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