Front runner
In US politics, being an early front-runner in a US presidential campaign guarantees you will be in the first Presidential Debate. This also brings more media coverage, but it does not guarantee you would be the party's nominee.
John Adams was the runner up in the 1788 United States presidential election.
The first president of the United States to campaign actively was William Harrison. Harrison was with the Whig party.
According to the media, she is the front runner in the forthcoming election.
James G. Blaine. Senator from Maine, was the Republican nominee for president in 1884, but lost to Cleveland. Edmund Muskie, vice-presidential candidate in 1968, was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 1972 but lost the nomination.
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Roosevelt had been the vice-presidential candidate in 1920 and so was known nationally. In 1928 he was elected governor of New York . He won most of the primaries in 1932 and so was the front runner by the time of convention.
The South loved it. The North hated it. And the unknown Abraham Lincoln debated its implications with presidential hopeful Stephen Douglas in Illinois, emerging as a front-runner himself.
Robert Kennedy was a front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 1968 when he was shot down by Sirhan Sirhan.
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Many political analysts believe that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016. Many political experts believe she is the front runner.