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And while Mr. Obama is unlikely to face a primary challenge, the campaign will need that money to build a ground operation and to respond to attacks from rivals and independent Republican groups.

"Some have suggested that Mr. Chafee is looking to rebrand himself after opting not to seek re-election as governor amid weak poll numbers and the threat of a primary challenge," the Times piece continued.

While Soros's comment gave some attendees the impression that he'd cheer a primary challenge to the president, the point, sources say, was different.

campaign supporters reportedly attempted to coerce Matt Bevin (R) into not mounting a primary challenge against the senator, the National Review reported Tuesday.

A primary challenge, besides the noisiness of the data collection methods and the ability to find datasets others have already collected, is the science of working with big data".

The original Bush tax-cut proposal was devised in late 1999 not to win votes in the national election but to fend off a primary challenge from the supply-sider Steve Forbes, the presumptive favorite of that part of the base.

Then, in August, Grassley went home and, faced with angry Republican voters and the prospect of a primary challenge from the right, started warning about "pulling the plug on Grandma".

Though he ran to the right during a primary challenge in the 2012 election, they believe he might be brought back into the fold now that he is safely ensconced in his seventh Senate term.

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who switched to the Democratic Party from the Republican last year, faces a primary challenge on the left from Representative Joe Sestak.

That's because until last April, Mr Specter was a Republican...until he was forced out of the GOP by a primary challenge from the right.

Most of them don't dare stray from the party line for fear of retaliation in the form of a primary challenge from the Far Right.