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El-Sayed thanked the crowd in the early hours of Wednesday morning for taking a chance on "the unlikeliest of candidates", saying his win was theirs.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Alvarado was underperforming Barr’s 2024 margin by around 20 percentage points — a staggering drop, indicating that a significant number of Republicans had either stayed home or decided to take a chance on Dembo.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
The New York Giants took a chance on former Michigan star J.J.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
But Hilton would “need a whole lot of them in California in order to have a chance on a statewide level,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“What a fine day for a group of strangers with no prior knowledge of each other to meet by chance on the garden path, as it were.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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