How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun
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  • States and large cities typically had at least two rival machines, one for each major party.
    — TIME, 14 May 2024
  • Both major party candidates have put a heavy focus on winning over similar voters in the past few weeks.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Others suggest that the nation’s two major parties have not spent enough time and resources on Hispanic outreach.
    — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • In all three states flagged by Heritage, major party presidential nominees are determined after each party’s convention takes place.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 22 July 2024
  • While it has never been attempted by a candidate from a major party before, Trump is allowed to run for president while under indictment — or even if he is convicted of a crime.
    — David Nakamura, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Clinton made history with her candidacy in 2016 as the first woman to serve as the presidential nominee of a major party.
    — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
  • Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The bill had the support of all of Thailand’s major parties and was more than a decade in the making.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In times past, many state delegations to the Senate were split between the two major parties.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Jeffries becomes the first Black person to lead a major party in either the House or Senate.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • More than sixty per cent of the electorate doesn’t identify with a major party.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Biden and Trump are the two oldest major party candidates ever to get on the ballot.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • Allen, 49, enters the field as the first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
  • This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Oz is believed to be the first Muslim nominee for Senate from a major party.
    — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • On the campaign trail, Biden proposed the most aggressive plan of any major party nominee to try to slow that warming.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The number of House members who are not facing an opponent from the other major party.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • January 6 showed how fragile that democracy is, and the year since has confirmed that at least one major party will not be a partner in the fight to defend it.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • One hundred years after some women gained the right to vote, Kamala Harris emerged as the first woman of Black and Asian descent to run on a major party ticket.
    — Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Of the 13 Black women who ran for Senate last year, only one became a major party’s nominee.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • But with a third major party in the mix, nobody could declare outright victory.
    — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The New York representative will be the first Black lawmaker to lead a major party in Congress.
    — Caren Bohan, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Notables: The first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The magnet holds each and every cap, which also prevents you from getting your caps all over the floor after every open — a major party foul in itself.
    — Tim Kohut, BGR, 24 June 2021
  • Adduci said the founders know that campaign fundraising will be a big challenge without major party support.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Castillo said that the large number of parties reflects the presence of many satellite parties that orbit around major parties.
    — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • See, Trump was the first major party nominee -- and first president -- not to release ANY of his tax returns while running for or while in office.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2021
  • On the same evening this week, the two major parties’ presidential candidates each gave a speech that revealed the fundamental nature of the man.
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Ryan sought to emphasize that there's an advantage to running without a lot of major party support.
    — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That's not even factoring in the independent candidates encouraging voters to toss out either major party nominee.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024

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