It's at least possible that the outcome of the nomination race will be determined then - well before the California and other primaries.

The primary came late in the nomination race.

In the 2004 election cycle, the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination race was the closest to date.

Small wonder that so many in Britain have been enthralled by America's Democratic nomination race.

But by June, most nomination races were over.

(The last Republican nomination race, in 1980, attracted 12.7 million primary voters.)

The presidential campaign is going full-throttle and the nomination races, at least, might well be over by a year before the actual election.

The pair had been in a disputed nomination race before the general election.

Nat, the nomination race is pretty much over.

Wilks would go on to win the nomination race and the general election.