as in moderate
a person who holds moderate views
since the party's middle-of-the-roaders often lack verve, the activists inevitably nominate some extremist who can't win in the general election
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Noun
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Keyser is a 39-year-old auditor and former Marine who unseated Winder in a contentious 2024 primary that favored further-right candidates over moderates, the Idaho Statesman previously reported.—
Rose Evans
May 6,
Idaho Statesman,
6 May 2026 -
Vance offers his own party the same blank screen, and can pull in MAGA populists, business-first capitalists, and suburban moderates alike.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The strange upside of high-profile rulings like Friday’s is a boost to Democratic messaging against the few swing-state centrist Republicans who are still clinging to House seats.—
Nicholas Wu,
semafor.com,
8 May 2026
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Collins, a centrist Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, presents her nearly three-decade, five-term Senate career as results-driven.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
7 May 2026
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