standard-bearer

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Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke ahead of Mamdani, who has gone from an outsider to the unpredictable race's frontrunner -- and a standard bearer with them on the Democratic Party's left.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

Livingstone was his party's standard bearer again in both 2008 and 2012, on both occasions losing to a young Conservative contender called Boris Johnson.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

The American Independent Party now exists only in California, but Wallace won 46 electoral votes nationally as its standard bearer in 1968, one of the most successful third-party runs in modern history.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024

Two years after the Vanderbilt study was published, the nation’s standard bearer for preventive health policy — an independent panel of experts known as the U.S.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

There was a drummer boy banging away in front, and a standard bearer, and then a couple of officers on horseback, and then the marching men.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier