Sentence examples for primary candidacy from inspiring English sources

Her reference to Mr. Kennedy's assassination appeared to focus on the timeline of his primary candidacy and not the assassination itself.

As he prepared to file his official primary candidacy papers here on Saturday, Mr. Edwards, who considers the South vital not just for his candidacy but for the Democratic Party, characterized this primary as a semifinal for the candidates.

Grasping the unpopularity of the deepening war, he sought to make a party issue of it, announcing his primary candidacy against President Johnson, a fellow Democrat, in the hope of building pressure for a policy change.

In West Virginia, where Trump won by about 42 points and Republicans gave the president credit last week for urging voters to reject the primary candidacy of a former coal executive who had served jail time, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III acknowledged that Trump's popularity in the state is a major boon for the Republicans.

As part of an effort to build a campaign against Trump's primary candidacy, Castellanos helped draft a plan that warned of "the danger and risk of a Trump Presidency". The Times reported that "Castellanos even produced ads portraying Mr. Trump as unfit for the presidency, according to people who saw them". Safe to assume at this point that those will not see the light of day.

The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery talked to donors who had supported the winning primary candidacy of Mitt Romney in 2012 and found everyone they asked now favoured Mr Bush.

But now, even though the senator is still on the ballot in the Connecticut primary, his candidacy is over, and so, it would seem, is whatever opportunity the state had to become a player in primary season.

In part because of a sympathy backlash, Mrs. Clinton went on to win the New Hampshire primary, keeping her candidacy alive.

On Wednesday, the former senator Rick Santorum, who had been the runner-up to Mitt Romney in the 2012 G.O.P. primary, announced his candidacy.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a victory over Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, giving her candidacy a boost as she struggles to raise money and persuade party leaders to let the Democratic nomination fight go on.

Rick Santorum has won the Missouri primary, giving his candidacy a boost after a long stretch in which he trailed his rivals even as he claimed to be the real conservative in the race.