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write-in candidate

  1. A candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot (usually because he or she has not secured the nomination of a political party) but whose name must be written on the ballot by voters.


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For both, their narrowest margin came in New Hampshire, which Biden won by more than 40 percentage points as a write-in candidate and Trump’s margin over Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, exceeded 10 points.

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Kramer says he disagrees that his robocall suppressed turnout, noting that Biden won the Democratic primary by a wide margin as a write-in candidate.

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He also won as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire, after he refused to campaign or appear on the ballot.

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He said Rust can still run in the general election as an independent or write-in candidate if blocked from the Republican ballot.

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Biden won the Democratic primary as a write-in candidate after he kept his name off the ballot in deference to South Carolina’s new lead-off position for the Democratic primaries.

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