Coming from a Republican, how s/he sees a Democrat? (7)
I believe the answer is:
arrival
'coming' is the definition.
(I know that coming can be written as arrival)
'a republican how she sees a democrat?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'republican' could be 'r' (abbreviation) and 'r' is found in the answer.
'she' could be 'riva' and 'riva' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'l' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for arrival that I've seen before include "Entry" , "Appearance (at a destination)" , "Act of coming" , "Attainment of destination" , "Appearance, entrance" .)