major party
noun
: a political party having electoral strength sufficient to permit it to win control of a government usually with comparative regularity and when defeated to constitute the principal opposition to the party in power
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Then, in 2024, Harris ran another historic campaign as the first Black and South Asian woman to be nominated by a major party for president.
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Michaela Zee, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The country’s other major party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or B.N.P., has been another major source of pressure on the interim government.
—Saif Hasnat Atul Loke, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
For decades, prominent members of both major parties focused on the risks posed by tariffs, occasionally citing Smoot-Hawley, Irwin said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Michaela Zee, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The country’s other major party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or B.N.P., has been another major source of pressure on the interim government.
—Saif Hasnat Atul Loke, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
For decades, prominent members of both major parties focused on the risks posed by tariffs, occasionally citing Smoot-Hawley, Irwin said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Major party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20party. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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