What's the difference between preelection and reelection?
Preelection
Definition:
(n.) Election beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We will fix the debt and deficit disaster that we were left by the Labor party," he says before claiming the budget will remain "faithful" to preelection promises.
Reelection
Definition:
(n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) China's Communist Party has now publicly praised Obama's reelection.
(3) But even his admirers would hesitate to call him a great economist, and after FDR's landslide reelection in 1936, Morgenthau made cutting the federal deficit his personal cause.
(4) But some of the key groups of supporters who brought Corbyn the leadership and secured his reelection in September – young, internationalist, liberal – feel strongly that Brexit is wrong for Britain.
(5) Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection 3. Who can stand in the election?
(6) Bush received roughly 40% of the Latino vote share in his 2004 reelection.
(7) The amendment's success came as House Republicans were preoccupied with selecting a new majority leader to replace Virginia's Eric Cantor, who lost his reelection primary.
(8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
(9) Greece needs to take its responsibility [seriously] … we will also speak with Turkey .” But Greece’s leftist Syriza party, bidding for reelection in next Sunday’s vote, called for external help in dealing with the crisis.
(10) In a further challenge to his reelection chances for 2017, the party’s national council announced on Saturday that it would back a primary contest to select a single presidential candidate for the broader French left – a prospect that is likely to embolden potential Socialist challengers.
(11) • Back to the top Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection?
(12) To have a chance of being reelected, he must win over a large part of the record 6.4 million people who voted for the far right's Marine Le Pen in the first round.
(13) Clinton said the pattern of mass killings – the Umpqua shooting was the 994th such incident in the US since Obama’s reelection in late 2012 – was “beyond my comprehension”.
(14) She’s up for reelection for a third term in March but has been hemorrhaging public support since the case broke.
(15) His post-reelection tweets also included: " What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives " and " Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide.
(16) It may not be this Trump, but it could be the Trump in four years time, as America becomes a society shaped by global forces that Washington can’t control.” Responding to a question about rising popular discontent with the Australian, US and UK establishments and support for Brexit, Trump, and newly reelected senator Pauline Hanson, Carr said there was a “self-correcting process” and Trump as president would result in “an enormous rethinking”.
(17) They wanted this moment of political opportunity, and they wanted it in time for Corbett’s reelection.
(18) Reelected in 1997 for the seat of Hampshire North West following boundary changes, he served as William Hague's shadow defence secretary from 1997 to 1998.
(19) Its director, Ahmad Moeinimanesh, has made personal financial donations to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee even though her congressional district is on the other side of the country in Florida, as well as to her reelection committee.
(20) A headline in the Washington Post even called it “the unofficial kickoff of his 2020 reelection campaign ”, suggesting that in the age of permanent campaigning, Trump will spend the next four years trying to shore up the support in the midwest that was so crucial to his success.