unelectable

/ ˌʌnɪˈlɛktəbəl /

adjective

1. (of a political party, candidate, etc) not likely to be elected

Example Sentences

The president tacitly acknowledged as much on Truth Social: One of the primary benefits of getting rid of mail voting, he asserted, is that Democrats would be “virtually Unelectable” without it.

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In 2020, the media onslaught continued with Sanders receiving the most negative coverage of any candidate, accused of being unelectable despite evidence to the contrary, having his polling misrepresented or completely invisiblized in legacy media reporting, being smeared as a Russian stooge despite flimsy evidence, style of politics compared to communist executions by MSNBC’s Chris Mathews, and receiving attacks based on unsupported claims such as CNN siding with Democratic Primary rival Elizabeth Warren in a “he said/she said” debate with Sanders.

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He allowed Trump to handpick lousy, unelectable candidates, and Scott himself complicated Republican candidates’ messaging by freelancing his own policy blueprint that could have allowed Medicare and Social Security to lapse.

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Another wrote online that the party "cannot be beholden to the unelectable Alba party", even though making some kind of agreement with that group might be Yousaf's only way to hang on.

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The stakes were extraordinarily high: Many of his Republican opponents see Mr. Trump as, at best, unelectable and, at worst, a threat to the foundations of American democracy.

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