a caucus
a caucus
party caucus
a meeting of members or leaders or a political party tomake plans,choose candidates,or decide how to vote a meeting of members or leaders or a political party tomake plans,choose candidates,or decide how to vote
These meeting are called political conventions. Nowadays, primary elections are more important than the conventions for choosing candidates.
Nominating Convention.
To convince voters to choose them
A meeting that party members attend to decide policies and choose candidates to run for office.NovaNet: a closed meeting of a party's House or Senate members
open primary.
An election held to choose candidates for the main election is called a Primary Election.
free elections
Perhaps you are referring to the party caucuses and primary elections that choose the candidates.
Voting.