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"nominating convention" is an event where a political party chooses its candidate for an upcoming election. During this gathering, party members vote and decide on who they want to represent their party.
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The convention met in Columbus to select delegates to be sent to the Green Party presidential
nominating convention in Baltimore this July.
Suffolk's Democrats and Republicans have both
held nominating conventions, but neither party has decided who will run in November for the North Fork's open State Assembly seat.
The gallant efforts of Ron Paul supporters to clinch the 2012 Republican nomination for president will soon come to an end — at the Republican
Presidential Nominating Convention in Tampa, Florida at the end of August.
Tong, who co-chairs the legislature's judiciary committee, is hoping to capture the 40 Democratic delegates in D'Agostino's hometown of Hamden as he moves toward the state Democratic
nominating convention on May 18 and 19.
The leader of the free world was on a dual mission, it seems, to push a $ 50 billion infrastructure rehab bill in Congress and to upstage the
Republican nominating convention at nearby Rye.
After leading multiple rounds of the
GOP nominating convention in June, voters selected former Capitol Hill aide David Young as the nominee.
Democrats in New Jersey, his home state, mocked his address at Brookings as the «Tampa Try - Out Tour,» his audition for a role at the Republican
nominating convention later this summer.
Ulster County's major political parties will gather in annual
nominating conventions next week, the Republicans on Wednesday, May 29 at Quimby Theater at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge, Democrats on Thursday, May 30 at the Garden Plaza Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn) in Kingston.
A: State Green Parties and Caucuses have chosen delegates to the Green Presidential
Nominating Convention by participating in primaries or holding statewide meetings and caucuses.
But with the GOP's
nominating convention scheduled for May — and four possible Democratic candidates already raising money for county executive campaigns — Republicans appear ready to move on from Mangano, a former Nassau County legislator.
The tandem is scheduled to make a joint appearance at the Hartford Marriott Downtown just hours before Democrats open their two -
day nominating convention at the adjoining Connecticut Convention Center.
These elections measure voter preference for the various candidates and help determine which delegates will be sent to the
national nominating convention.
(West had previously endorsed Scott Lingamfelter in the race, but redirected his support to Jackson after he edged out Lingamfelter and several other Republican hopefuls at the GOP
primary nominating convention.
A: Citizens Party Delegates will have the opportunity to field a strong Presidential ticket at our 2016 Presidential
nominating Convention only if we have reached ballot access on a minimum number of states at least 30 days before the beginning of the convention and we have quality candidates that also meet the minimum requirements set forth by the national committee to seek our nomination.
Some pro-Romney upstate county chairmen are so nervous that they've begun talking about sending an «uncommitted slate» of delegates to the GOP
nominating convention if Gingrich wins Florida, in hope that a brokered convention would lead to the selection of a better candidate, a county chairman told The Post.
April 22, 2016 • The Republican National Committee is holding its final official gathering ahead of the
July nominating convention.
Those breaches, in 2015 and the first half of 2016, exposed the internal communications of party officials as the Democratic
nominating convention got underway and helped undermine support for Hillary Clinton.
NY1's Shushannah Walshe reports members of the party's executive committee met this evening and tapped Allegretti ahead of the
full nominating convention, which is about to get underway.
New York's
political nominating conventions are in two weeks, and the electoral process will unfold this summer regardless of who is appointed by the state Legislature.
More than 120 party representatives from across New York gathered at the Holiday Inn for the first state Republican
nominating convention Saratoga Springs has hosted in 50 years.
The Green Party Presidential
Nominating Convention took place at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, from August 4 to August 7, 2016.
Briscoe, who falsely claimed she was a member of the Howard Community College Board of Trustees and a graduate of the school, was selected at the BTP's
nominating convention Read more»
Instead, each fall the parties hold state -
mandated nominating conventions at which delegates elected during the September primary pledge their support to a candidate.
Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a
formal nominating convention.
The breadth of that coalition was evident at Gallo's victory party at Frank Guido's Little Italy on Thomas Street Tuesday night, where the same Democratic Party establishment that spurned him at the party's June
nominating convention turned out in force to celebrate the win.