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Hmm this could work. I would prefer "they"/"their", but I quite like the "the candidate"/"their" option!

That seems to work. I will have a play around with this to see if it reads well with a few more examples.

I’m not sure how much my suggestions answer your original question, but in the pursuit of proper grammatical structure when trying to rewrite speech, compromise [0] might be of use to you. I’ve only played around with it for a few hours at most, but from my limited experience it is a very effective (if verbose and/or a little bloated in it’s API) tool for language analysis. With some tomfoolery I’m confident you could combine it with the GP’s recommendation of alexjs to replace strings slightly-less-naively.

[0] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise

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