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Kelce’s primary home is in Kansas, not far from the home stadium of his NFL team, the Chiefs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Mr. Fetterman nearly died of a stroke days before his 2022 primary, and the close encounter with mortality altered his political outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Joel, four, is non-verbal and has severe learning difficulties and his parents made the "incredibly difficult decision" to decline his primary one placement offer because of the distance.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The health system also provides more than $270 million in unreimbursed care for low-income patients each year, he said, as well as primary and urgent care for people experiencing homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
In the kitchen, I show them the stainless steel drum that holds our primary water supply.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
On Friday, Bill Maher did a lengthy segment on his show “Real Time,” apologizing to the president for having said “almost none” of his endorsed candidates are winning their primaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
With Tuesday’s primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Carolina over, we’re down to fewer than a half dozen states that have contests left to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And in June, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed a trio of progressive Democrats in the regions' US House races, all of whom won their primaries.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, because Thursday primaries are just how Tennessee rolls.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
As a whole, the general election had been less grueling than the pitched battle of the primaries.
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
"I see the biggest upswing in the local races. Someone who is 65 years old, a farmer and county commissioner, he could easily be primaried by a younger cat using the technology."
From Reuters ● May 30, 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 was primaried by another Republican last year and left office on Jan 3.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
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
If he does, though, good luck to whichever next-big-thing in Massachusetts politics chooses to end their career by primarying him.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
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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