How to Use gubernatorial in a Sentence

gubernatorial

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• After his landslide victory in the 2022 gubernatorial election, he was viewed as a nascent kingmaker in the party with the best chance to help the party turn the page on Trump.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• That’s enough to override a gubernatorial veto in that house.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Lots more money will be needed; a record $100 million was spent on the past gubernatorial campaign, with Mr. Shapiro accounting for more than half of it.
  — Readers, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
• The gubernatorial race will be decided in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states as the ruling party scrambles to regain lost ground in key states.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• But last year incumbent Abbott buried O’Rourke in the gubernatorial race by some 11 points.
  — Dana Liebelson, The New Republic, 29 May 2023
• Wednesday marks the first time since at least 2003 that one of the major party gubernatorial candidates skipped the forum put on by the farm bureau, which bills itself as the voice of agriculture.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
• After Beshear's victory, some observers noted the fact that, since 2003, the party that wins the Kentucky gubernatorial race has always gone on to win the White House the following year.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Nearly all of the 49 tribes united against the governor during the last gubernatorial election, the New York Times reported.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 3 May 2023
• This, too, is improbable—the gubernatorial candidates in key swing states who would have enabled such a theft all lost.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2023
• Springer launched a campaign in the early 1980s for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Ohio, but did not win.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Michigan was one of five states where 2022 gubernatorial contests were between two women, a U.S. record.
  — Sara Burnett, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Along with a contentious gubernatorial race, Democrats are hoping to come away with a win in the presidential election in North Carolina.
  — Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Trump’s take is that DeSantis owes his political success to the fact that Trump backed him in the 2018 gubernatorial primary.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
• Their race is expected to be one of the country’s most competitive gubernatorial races this year.
  — Mark Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• And the state is hosting a competitive gubernatorial race next year.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Four years later, Hobbs on Thursday hung four rainbow and transgender pride flags seven floors up, from the balconies of her gubernatorial office suite.
  — The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2023
• In gubernatorial elections Sunday, what was long seen as unthinkable is now widely expected: The party will lose one of its last strongholds.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• The complaint notes that those exempted from the restrictions endorsed Walker in the 2010 gubernatorial election, while those subject to the restrictions did not.
  — Scott Bauer, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• Much of that is left over from his gubernatorial race last year, but the committee has continued to rake in large donations, taking in about $10 million in February.
  — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• In fact, just one incumbent (Nevada’s Steve Sisolak) lost in last year’s gubernatorial contests across the country.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• To achieve that status, a party's nominee must receive at least 3% of the vote on the gubernatorial or presidential ticket.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
• That image is the one Youngkin has managed to promote in mainstream media during his gubernatorial campaign and beyond.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• The lieutenant governor title is a huge asset in a gubernatorial race.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• But where DeSantis is awkward and robotic, Youngkin won the gubernatorial race in a Democratic leaning state.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• To ask voters to reverse a law on the next statewide ballot, proponents of a referendum must obtain signatures from 5% of the number of voters in the last gubernatorial election.
  — Taryn Lunastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• North Carolina votes in a high-stakes gubernatorial race.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
• And while Hogan managed to pull it off in two gubernatorial contests, garnering split-ticket votes in a Senate race during a presidential year is likely to be tougher.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• In 2018, coasting to reëlection, Gaetz made another shrewd political move, this one in the gubernatorial race.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• In the 2010 midterms, Silver successfully predicted most of the gubernatorial, Senate and House races.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
• Arizona's top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake's claims back to a county judge to review.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024