presidential primary

noun

1. a direct primary for the selection of state delegates to a national party convention and the expression of preference for a U.S. presidential nominee.

Example Sentences

Dems in disarrayIt'll be months, or years, before Democrats make final decisions about their next presidential primary schedule.

From Washington Post

Measures he has bankrolled have eliminated the caucus system for presidential primaries, brought unaffiliated voters into the primaries and created a system intended to eliminate gerrymandering.

From Fortune

Rather than struggling with too few poll workers, which hampered the presidential primary election early in the pandemic, some locations have been overwhelmed with volunteers.

From Washington Post

That changed in April, when state Republicans forced Wisconsin to go through with its presidential primary and a hotly contested state Supreme Court race despite the surge of the coronavirus.

From Washington Post

Coming into their convention, for instance, Democrats had to repair splits between the progressives and the moderates that were visible during the presidential primary.

From FiveThirtyEight

Is it their votes in a 2016 GOP presidential primary in the state?

From The Daily Beast

There is such a thing in presidential primary politics as a single-issue deal-breaker.

From The Daily Beast

And pro-life bloggers wondered if they should “disqualify” Paul from garnering their support in the upcoming presidential primary.

From The Daily Beast

George McGovern won the  1972 Democratic presidential primary on a campaign of “Come Home, America.”

From The Daily Beast

He is an evangelical in a party in which half of its presidential primary voters are themselves evangelicals.

From The Daily Beast

What you mean is that the Presidential primary ought to be established in every State.

From Project Gutenberg