candidate
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Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman fired part-time campaign staffer Eric Cheng on the weekend before Tuesday’s election, saying he made “reprehensible” remarks on a video where he was discussing a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The only thing that’s changed since then is the candidate Stevens supports.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Hamilton, who once considered running as an independent, has pitched himself as a candidate that can bridge the partisan divide.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“She’s a once-in-a-generation candidate from a state that is disproportionately Latino that has been the unicorn that Democrats have chased for decades,” Valencia said.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
He admired Kennedy’s determination to end the war, and helped the candidate craft speeches in preparation for the pivotal California Democratic primary.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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At some level, not yet precisely defined by courts, candidates for federal office are entitled to an election process that affords them fundamental fairness under the Constitution and statutory law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
We have a lot of reporting determining the key races, but if you look down the ballot beyond the candidates, you have initiatives and other legislation driven by sentiment.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
In many races, the quality of individual candidates also is poised to be a deciding factor, including in Texas, where Republican Atty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
And in most of the highest-profile House races, the Democratic candidates are female.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
While Jackson won the popular vote, none of the five candidates in the running that year received enough electoral votes to win.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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When we think of it, what a ghoulish business "candidating" is!
From The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Meantime that modern church is still very modern indeed, and at this present time its pulpit is vacant—they are candidating!
From Divers Women by Pansy
I believe the whole church is satisfied with the result of our peculiar method of candidating.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Lyman Abbott
The elder was filling the vacant pulpit that day by mere chance, as he told me; but I guess he was really candidating a little after all.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
What said the elegant modern church, that during the process of this change was undergoing a candidating siege?
From Divers Women by Pansy
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