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Washington state completed its primary Tuesday, the last mainland state west of the Rocky Mountains to do so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The most watched Senate primary in the country now becomes the most watched Senate election in the country, as El-Sayed will face former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers in November.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Given the narrowness of El-Sayed's primary victory, he has considerable work ahead if he wants to unite the party before November's vote.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Chip company Arm, Flutter and fintech Wise are among a litany of companies to ditch primary listings in London to move across the Atlantic in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
He became the latest party House incumbent to be ousted in the primaries.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
This time, progressive and Black political organizations have largely united behind McKinney in a historically Black district, making the incumbent vulnerable to the anti-establishment mood sweeping Democratic primaries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
She listed some recent races where the progressive candidates had been outspent but won their primaries.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Only 18% to 25% of registered Democrats voted in each of the closed primaries for three contested House nominations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
It was the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, and polls there were showing a tight race.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
One former lawmaker, Dallas’ Jason Villalba, knows what it’s like to be primaried by a GOP rival backed by insurgent groups.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
“He primaried me last year, so I’m not a shill, but I see this and I see how unfair it’s been.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Manchin brushed off the warning, saying, “I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
He will die a senator or be primaried and spend the rest of his life just hanging out around the Capitol.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2015
"Right now Cantor is impregnable, but if we can make him vulnerable then he can be primaried," Hurd said.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2011
In 1998, the Working Families Party began testing the strategy: primarying the worst incumbents, endorsing the best and running third-party races only when it made sense.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2019
In Rhode Island, it is former secretary of state Matt Brown and Bernie Sanders-organizer Aaron Regunberg primarying Raimondo and her lieutenant governor.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
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