Then, after his primary loss, the Virginia Republican just wasn't there any more.
Mr. Davis brushed off his primary loss, saying "there was always a split" within the local Democratic Party.
A primary loss would essentially ensure her marginalization on the very policy issues about which she cares.
If he wins New York and Pennsylvania (he lost both in the primaries) and flip-floppingOhio (another primary loss) he will be in good position.
The response came after Trump used a Yiddish vulgarity to refer to Clinton on Monday, saying she was "schlonged" in her 2008 Democratic primary loss to Barack Obama.
This week on the Political Scene podcast, John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza join host Dorothy Wickenden to unpack Eric Cantor's surprising primary loss to David Brat.
At a December rally in Michigan, he said of Hillary Clinton that she was "schlonged" during her 2008 Democratic primary loss to Barack Obama.
The rest said they found it insufficiently ruthless, fearing a primary loss if they seemed the slightest bit soft.
Her campaign, far more energized than it had been in her primary loss to Mr. Miller, worked hard to win absentee voters.
His Democratic primary loss, in March 2000, was at the hands of Hilda L. Solis, who was then a state senator and is now the nation's labor secretary.
But a primary loss would create a far more difficult three-way race in which Mr. Golisano would have the financial advantage, and Mr. Pataki would be under high-volume assault from the left and the right.
