Sentence examples for primary challenge when from inspiring English sources
John McLaughlin, a Republican pollster, said the mayor's struggles with the police could create "the possibility" of the mayor facing a tough Democratic primary challenge when he's up for reelection in three years.
Several Texas Republicans, including perhaps former Governor Rick Perry, are said to be weighing primary challenges when Cruz seeks reëlection to the Senate, in 2018.
They say they will mainly support primary challenges when there is clear evidence that a lawmaker is out of step with his constituents.
Both Johnson and President Jimmy Carter faced liberal primary challenges when they stood for re-election: Mr. Johnson because of the Vietnam War and Mr. Carter because he was deemed to be ineffectual in advancing liberal ideals.
Both faced serious primary challenges when seeking re-election and failed to win a second term.
Congressional Republicans know all too well about the threat of primary challenges when the base is unhappy.
Single-cytosine analyses of methylation using NGS technologies encounter two primary challenges when summarizing to region-level results, namely dependence in methylation status between cytosines and the discrete nature of test statistics (and associated P values).
In 1968, disgusted with the Johnson administration, they fervently backed Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in their Democratic presidential primary challenges and, when these collapsed, sat out the election.
The last time Mr. Rangel faced a serious primary challenge was in 1994, when he defeated Mr. Powell, who was then a councilman, 61 percent to 33 percent.
The power brokers claimed the proposal was sloppily written and politically motivated (Lincoln, who was from Arkansas, was fending off a primary challenge from the left when she cooked it up).
E. Scott Garrett was a little-known Republican state assemblyman until two years ago when his primary challenge nearly unseated Representative Marge Roukema, the incumbent in New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District.
