Running mate

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The Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in July 2008, Joe Biden (front) as his running mate before

In the United States and other English-speaking countries, a running mate is a person who runs alongside the actual candidate as a co-candidate for a proxy position in an election for a high office in the state. The term is primarily used for the candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States , referred to as the running mate of the presidential nominee . At the state level , a candidate for lieutenant governor is also often called a running mate . A prerequisite for this, however, is that the governor and lieutenant governor are elected jointly and not independently of one another (as is the practice in some states).

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