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Does it or was it situational? I'm not sure of the answer. The situation was that a weak incumbent wanted to stand and the party was powerless to stop him entering a primary. As an incumbent who has already beaten the likely opponent it would be hard to see him losing the primary. His weaknesses would be really exposed in the primary, causing problems in the election therefore you avoid the problems and skip the primary.
It's a pretty unique position they found themselves in.