primary process

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.

Example Sentences

“More problematically, it’s telling the new voters that have come into the Democratic primary process that ‘We don’t like your views, we don’t like you voting in the Democratic primary.’”

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Unlike in Mamdani’s case, Sanders’s primary candidacy ran aground after establishment Democrats united around a single candidate in response to the senator’s early successes in the presidential primary process.

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“They came into this primary process, they got enthusiastic about the candidate, they expressed their preferences, and if you’re going to try to overturn, it has less to do with Mamdani than telling a bunch of these voters, ‘I don’t like your preferences,’” Shakir said.

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Pelosi argued that Harris would have done well in such a primary process and it would have made her "stronger going forward".

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If Joe Biden had not selfishly plunged the party into a deep crisis by insisting on running for reelection as a profoundly unpopular, 81-year-old incumbent, Democrats could have had a vigorous debate about policy and chosen a consensus nominee as part of their ordinary primary process.

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