Mr. Kerry's aides said that there was intense pressure on Mr. Kerry by Democrats in the capital to choose a primary rival -- Mr. Edwards or Mr. Gephardt -- and they argued that the two politicians bring a wealth of knowledge, national experience and fund-raising contacts to a Kerry ticket.
Although 12 Senate Republicans voted to block his declaration of an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, several of his occasional critics — such as Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C ., who is up for reelection next year and could face a primary rival — stuck with the president.
His endorsement of Mr. Lazio, a former Long Island congressman, will enhance a sense of momentum that Mr. Lazio has been trying to project as he faces a potential primary rival in Chris Collins, the Erie County executive and a favorite of Mr. Cox.
But Vlasic has a new primary rival in Germany's blond and tattoed Ariana Friedrich who cleared 2.06 meters in Berlin earlier this year.
During the presidential campaign, he at one point alleged that the father of Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican primary rival from Texas, had been with Oswald shortly before Kennedy was killed.
Today he stole a technique from his primary rival John McCain and showed up on a campaign bus for a rally here at the replica of the historic Crosley Field.
Rockwell Collins won the contract to produce the flight-control computer for 737 models in 2003, a coup over its primary rival in the aviation electronics business, Honeywell.
And a potential 2016 presidential primary rival for Mr. Rubio, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, also voted against the legislation, despite making a show of announcing his general support for an immigration overhaul earlier in the year.
Clinton formally secured the nomination earlier in the night during the roll call of states, which ended with a symbolic gesture: Her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, asked that Clinton be declared the nominee by acclamation, a move that prompted resounding cheers.
Clinton has pushed to repeal the law that allows gun manufacturers and dealers to have legal immunity from civil lawsuits -- a law her leading primary rival, Sen.
Committed gun rights ideologues like Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America remained skeptical even after Trump eliminated his final primary rival, Ted Cruz, a protege of a top gun rights lawyer and GOA's pick in the race.
