presidential candidate

基本解釋

He said she never supported any particular presidential candidate.
他說她從未支持過任一縂統(tǒng)候選人。
But even in the middle of all that, it never occurred to me that a future presidential candidate would invent out of thin air a completely false story about how the privatization push failed.
但即使上述種種，我從來沒有想到一個(gè)未來的縂統(tǒng)候選人居然會(huì)憑空創(chuàng)造出一個(gè)關(guān)於私有化推動(dòng)已失敗的完全錯(cuò)誤的故事。
A Republican presidential candidate loses the popular vote in a disputed election, but wins the White House after months of partisan wrangling. It's not a lie — history does repeat itself.
一名共和黨的縂統(tǒng)候選人在一次爭論中失去了全民投票，但在多個(gè)月的黨派爭鬭之後贏得白宮，這不是謊言，而是歷史本身。

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.
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John Wilkins finds some irony in press coverage critical of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
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