Sentence examples for primary nominee from inspiring English sources

The mainstream Muslim Brotherhood's primary nominee, Khairat al-Shater, was barred due to a past criminal conviction.

Significant discussion of the Klan also took place at the Democratic Party's convention; senator and Democratic presidential primary nominee Oscar Underwood decried them as "a national menace".

Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich suggested Obama should face a more progressive primary nominee because it would make him a better candidate; even if, as Kucinich acknowledged, Obama would probably win.

Polls suggest that Mr. Romney's transition from primary candidate to presumptive nominee has deeply unified Republicans around his candidacy.

The report contends that Mr. Uba arranged for his brother, Andy, a close adviser to Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president, to win the party's primary as nominee for governor, using a feared street gang known as the Buccaneers to clear voters from polling stations while gang members marked the ballots.

As a result, Romney is now weaker than any post-primary party nominee in recent political history.

Because the new member of Congress is being chosen in a special election, there are no party primaries; the nominees are being chosen by party officials.

A couple of weeks back, Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he wanted his party to speed its presidential nominating process -- never mind that many candidates, consultants and voters say there already are so many early caucuses and primaries that nominees are often known by early March, well before they are, well, well known.

Notably, if no candidate gets more than 35percentt of the primary vote, the nominee will be chosen at a convention dominated by party activists.

He had voted in most general elections by mail in California but, according to records, did not vote in the 2012 presidential primary, when eventual nominee Mitt Romney beat candidates including Newt Gingrich, Bannon's fellow rightwinger and Trump ally.

But a tough Republican primary left their nominee Representative Jeff Flake, a well-known and well-established Republican, broke, bruised and in need of more help than his party expected to give.