running mate in English

noun
1
an election candidate for the lesser of two closely associated political offices.
a rationale offered by a presidential candidate for choosing his vice presidential running mate
2
a horse entered in a race in order to set the pace for another horse from the same stable, which is intended to win.
He has a record of 2.15 with a running mate .

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1. Running mate.

2. l'm not running, mate.

3. 17 Who is his running mate for vice-president?

4. Or, we can revisit the choice for running mate.

5. Maybe I'm not ready to be your running mate.

6. Your top three choices for running mate, they're all tight with the gun lobby.

7. Mr McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running - mate has turned the defeat into Armageddon.

8. Lattimore’s running mate at Cornerback coming into the year was the 24-Yr old Eli Apple

9. However, in August 2018, Mourão became Vice Presidential running mate of right-wing Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

10. And I will forever question the fact that McCain chose such an out and out Airheaded nobody to be his running mate

11. Some of the Bundlers backed Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, when she was running for the top spot in the ticket in 2019

12. Trump's Racist 'Birther' Attacks On Harris Are A Return To Familiar Territory The president's amplification of a false conspiracy theory against Joe Biden's running mate is part of a …

13. The word ‘Chose’ rhymes with ‘those’ and indicates that a choice has already been made.‘Chose’ is the simple past tense form of the verb ‘choose’.If you are speaking of events in the past, ‘Chose’ is the appropriate word.The MLA Style Guide Example sentences using ‘Chose’ He Chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas as his running mate.

14. The 2020 presidential Campaign of Joe Biden began on April 25, 2019, when Biden released a video announcing his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic party presidential primaries, and concluded with him and his running mate Kamala Harris defeating incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the general election.Biden, the vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017