Mr. LoGrande, after calling his opponent in the early afternoon, left his office.
Mr. Johnson later called his opponent "a whiny kid talking about things he's absolutely wrong about."
"We're going to call my opponent on what he's been doing."
By confronting her, on what I thought was don Juan's behalf, I turned her against me and she became what he called my "worthy opponent."
During the 2001 campaign for district attorney, he called his opponent soft on the issue.
She calls him only "Chuck Schumer's opponent."
The election became very nasty as Nelson called his opponent "an extremist who would sacrifice the elderly, the poor, and the working class to coddle the rich."
In the movie, a radio announcer calls Marshall's opponent the "Xavier Pirates."
So Mr. Menendez essentially called his opponent a swindler and a master of the corporate shakedown.
A candidate was called petitor, and his opponent with reference to him, competitor.