incumbent

The maps, historically drawn in smoke-filled backrooms, protected incumbents and created bizarrely shaped districts, such as the “ribbon of shame” along the California coast.

Upstart brands gained share then, and many incumbents turned to acquisitions to keep their product portfolios fresh.

In fact, it made it worse by protecting incumbent broadcasters.

Internal Republican polling shows that, in a hypothetical match-up between Greene and the state’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, she would lose statewide by 18 points.

As the governing party at the time, he added, it was "incumbent on us" to show the party could deliver its policy programme.