presidential primary
Party candidate selection
A presidential primary is an election in which voters choose delegates or express preference for a political party's presidential nominee.
States hold primaries (or caucuses) throughout the early months of an election year, narrowing the field before national conventions formally select candidates: She won the New Hampshire presidential primary by a wide margin.
- stump speechCandidate's standard campaign oration
- ballotVoting document
- early votingBalloting before election day
- campaign trailRoute of electoral speechmaking
- superdelegateAutonomous convention delegate
party platform · endorsements · name recognition · front runner · debate · voter registration · nomination · swing voters · runoff · New Hampshire · Super Tuesday · executive branch · fundraising · voter suppression · election cycle · political polarization · demographic trends · opposition research
- New HampshireConcord, Manchester, Portsmouth, Nashua, Dover
- Nominationsnomination, nominee, candidate, nomination process, nomination speech
- primariescaucuses, delegates, nominee, caucus system, caucus
presidential primarybrokered convention
Nomination decided through delegate negotiations
smoke-filled room · caucus · party caucus · party convention · backroom deal
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