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candidates raise funds for the upcoming primary elections and attempt to garner support of political leaders and donors, as well as the party establishment.

a testing-ground for candidates and their advance teams. It’s an opportunity to find out how much support they can gather before the real primary is held. In fact, the invisible primary can often make or break candidates – candidates who don’t get enough shows of support during the invisible primary often end up bowing out of the race, sometimes before the primary season even begins.

https://politicaldictionary.com/words/invisible-primary/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_primary#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20the,for%20them%20in%20primaries%20and

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The Announcment differs from person to person, but it's when the candidate running for president tells the people that they are going to be running for president.
For example, Joe Biden announced his running for 2020 President in April of 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_campaign_announcements_in_the_United_States

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Happens before the general election. Caucus and primaries let the states choose the major political parties’ nominees for the general election. Each state has different dates when they do this, but it tends to fall between Feburary and April.

https://www.usa.gov/election

https://th.usembassy.gov/summary-of-the-u-s-presidential-election-process/

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The candidates who win the largest share of their party’s delegates secure the nomination. The national conventions are where the party delegates officially select their nominee. Since the parties made the process more transparent in the 1970s, presumptive nominees have often emerged much earlier, sometimes only after a few weeks of voting.
Nomination tends to happen in July, August or early September.
Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee on April 8, 2020

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-presidential-nominating-process
https://ballotpedia.org/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign,_2020

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The party convention is when party members convene to select a presidential nominee out of those that have been going through the process and tests to be picked. The parties tend to meet in July, August, or early September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_nominating_convention#:~:text=Since%201952%2C%20all%20major%20party,moving%20into%20mid%2DSeptember.)

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The campaingn for presidency is an organized effort that seeks to influence the decision making progress within a specfic group.The length of the campaign depends on the person running. For example, Joe Biden's campaining lasted from April 2019 to October 2020.

https://ballotpedia.org/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign,_2020
https://www.thoughtco.com/when-the-race-for-president-begins-3367552
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_campaign#:~:text=A%20political%20campaign%20is%20an,chosen%20or%20referendums%20are%20decided.

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The Genral Election is when the national, state and county election is held and at these elections is where all congressional, state and county officers, including the president and vice-president are chosen to be elected. General elections are always held the first Tuesday, after the first Monday, in November. The genral election happens in November with the 2020 election falling on Tuesday, November 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/statutesrules/idstat/Title34/T34CH1.pdf

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The president and vice president are not elected direclty by citizens but by electors. Each state has as many electors as it has members of Congress which are chosen by each state's political parties.The electroal college voting tends to take place in mid-december.

https://www.usa.gov/election