Translation of "Vorwahlkampf" in English

The Greens started their pre-election campaign in May 2006 with the presentation of two "Black Books".

The Greens started their pre-election campaign in May 2006 with the presentation of two "Black Books".

How, indeed, can we imagine that, in the period running up to the elections, President Bush would sacrifice his farmers and his agri-food industry?

The law was vigorously opposed by each of the major Republican presidential candidates during the 2012 primary season, including presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.

On the day he entered the race, he said it was "because we Republicans, can no longer say it is all the liberals' fault.

Now hackers, believed by the US to be working for or on behalf of the Russian state, are thought to be the source for Wikileaks’ publication of a slew of Democratic National Committee emails revealing DNC leaders’ support for Clinton during the primaries.

In the US, Trump’s ascendancy and the political traction gained by Senator Bernie Sanders’s primary campaign reflect many of the same sentiments that led to Brexit.

In April 1946, a Supreme Court ruling enabled black citizens in Georgia to cast ballots for the first time during the primary race later that summer.

Independently of the primaries and for the most part unnoticed by Europe new ground is being broken in the US, Aftonbladet points out:

The Republican primaries are being fought out with nothing but lies and insults, the centre-left daily El Periódico de Catalunya criticises:

Somebody shouts “Team Hillary”, somebody else “I’m with her” (one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogans).

And this is happening against the backdrop of an open proclamation (December 2010) of well-known political opponent of the rules pre-election campaign: "No references to laws and voters' opinion in the case of a bad outcome of the regional organization of the ruling party in elections will not be counted.

Recent developments in the primaries for the French presidential election have intensified the mood of uncertainty.

Not so long ago, during the Republican primaries, the Penelope-Gate scandal destroyed the credibility of François Fillon, who had employed his wife and children as assistants.

At the same time we are already in the run-up to nominations for elections to the Chambers of Agriculture, in January 2013, most of them controlled by the largest farmers' union (FNSEA).

Earlier that year, during the Democratic primaries, the Clinton campaign turned the allegedly lenient sentencing of Stanford student Brock Turner into a national political issue in order to present her campaign as the vehicle for women's empowerment.

His attacks against Clinton ("crooked Hillary") and his rivals within the Republican Party during the primaries were frequently below the belt but drew attention.

The primary races are one of the idiosyncrasies of the American system that has democratized the election of candidates – albeit only a few decades ago.

The presidential primary race in the US is in a crunch time – recent weeks have further narrowed the field of presidential candidates on both the Democratic and Republican sides.

The part of the elections that Stevenson and his contemporaries experienced differently from their political heirs is now characterized by special entertainment value: the primary contests.

At the same time we are already in the run-up to nominations for elections to the Chambers of Agriculture, in January 2013, most of them controlled by the largest farmers' union (FNSEA).

After one democratic candidate after the other dropped out in the course of thime only he and Hillary Clinton remained in the primaries.