presidential candidate

基本解释

He said she never supported any particular presidential candidate.
他说她从未支持过任一总统候选人。
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.
但即使上述种种，我从来没有想到一个未来的总统候选人居然会凭空创造出一个关于私有化推动已失败的完全错误的故事。
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.
一名共和党的总统候选人在一次争论中失去了全民投票，但在多个月的党派争斗之后赢得白宫，这不是谎言，而是历史本身。

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.
The steamer Lady Elgin was carrying passengers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago to hear a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Stephen Douglas.
The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

John Wilkins finds some irony in press coverage critical of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
FORBES: Rick Santorum and the 13th Century