political favor

Trump’s going to “try to de-authenticate her as Black,” Alim said, “trying to paint her as someone using Blackness to gain political favor.”

Some fear that any short-term pursuit of political favor through the scattering of money could undermine the longer-term project of spurring jobs through the promotion of industry.

Wise was prosecuting a string of high-profile cases, including the Gun Trace Task Force and Mayor Catherine Pugh, who pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling copies of children’s books she had written to nonprofit organizations and other groups in exchange for money and political favor.

When I sat down with Harrison in the cafeteria of a community center in the tiny town of Seneca, S.C., he told me that Biden’s call to reorder the primary calendar was an act of equity more than political favor.

His critics question if he approved it too soon without a concrete plan in order to gain political favor.