Presidential nominee

In United States politics and government, the term presidential nominee has two different meanings:

1. A candidate for president of the United States who has been selected by the delegates of a political party at the party's national convention (also called a presidential nominating convention) to be that party's official candidate for the presidency.^[1]
2. A person nominated by a sitting U.S. president to an executive or judicial post, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.^[2] (See Appointments Clause, List of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation.)