The phrase "an insider candidate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person who is being considered for a position or role within an organization, typically someone who is already part of the organization.
Example: "The board is considering an insider candidate for the CEO position, as they are familiar with the company's culture and operations."
Alternatives: "internal candidate" or "in-house candidate".
And he is the ultimate insider candidate, a Yale and Harvard graduate whose Rolodex brims with the names of corporate and political titans, and blue-blooded enough that even as a little boy he realized on a visit to his relatives that his best friend should not have drunk from the finger bowls.
"If you can make the connection for people," said one, "that the reason why these organized interest groups are all lining up behind McGreevey is because he's not going to change things in Trenton, and that ultimately that's why the property taxes are so high, and nothing has really been done about auto insurance, I think suddenly we're in a situation where Jim McGreevey is the insider candidate".
Mr. Suozzi has referred to his opponent as the "insider candidate," and it is a label that Mr. DiNapoli does not necessarily shy away from.
"He is the non-Washington insider candidate, but he will be seen as being tied to special interests, and that will hurt him".
It appears he is the insider candidate that has supplanted Jeb Bush as the representative of the Republican establishment.
One of the unanswered questions from the primary campaign was why more superdelegates didn't endorse Clinton over Obama, even though they were party insiders, and she was the insider candidate.
Nonetheless, there is still reason to think that the barrier that has historically insulated insider candidates from outsider challenges may yet be breached.
Mr. Goldin had been asked how he would feel, as president, about the presence on campus of John R. Silber, the chancellor and former president, who had dominated the university for more than three decades, as well as several insider candidates.
Of course, people don't realize that the real winner will be the best of the worst as they are all the "insider" candidates and the support from all of the bottom 55% (not Trump or Carson) will all go to whoever wins from the bottom 8 remaining candidates, probably Cruz or Rubio.
The overwhelming favorite in the party vote on Monday is the same politician the experts named as the likely winner months before the campaign began: the insiders' candidate, Taro Aso, a hawkish former foreign minister.
