0 in the US, a political partner chosen for a politician who is trying to get elected:
1 someone who is trying to get elected to the second of two top positions:
It will soon be time for the presidential candidates to choose their running mates.
The danger of the current system is that there is no opportunity for a running mate.
The deputy mayor should not be a member of the assembly and a running mate of the mayor, elected on the same ticket.
Nothing destroys families—the family policy group and everybody else should know this —more quickly than those strains and worries, and their running mate, unemployment.
If they were running on the same ticket, what would be the difference between the mayor designating his or her own deputy and the mayor having a running mate?
Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them.
Twenty-five states required that a presidential candidate have a running mate to appear on the ballot.
Someone who is from a different region than the candidate may be chosen as a running mate to provide geographic balance to the ticket.
The principle was subsequently abandoned by him and his running mate in the 2004 presidential election.
