sweeping victory
noun
: a victory that is won by a large margin
The election was a sweeping victory for the party.
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In 2008, after the Democrats’ sweeping victory of the White House and Congress, the longtime Republican operative Ralph Reed began studying exit polls to understand why so many conservatives who wouldn’t have dreamed of voting for Al Gore or John Kerry had supported Obama.
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Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Despite the wins, infighting has threatened to stall the party’s efforts to rebuild in the months after President Trump’s sweeping victory and Republican wins in last year’s race.
—Surina Venkat, The Hill, 7 Nov. 2025
Advertisement The collapse came less than a year after Wilders’ PVV secured a sweeping victory in the November 2023 election but failed to form a stable government.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Less than a year later, Venezuela’s electoral council—dominated by Maduro loyalists—announced another sweeping victory for his party in subsequent elections.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The opposition Conservatives, which had been eyeing a sweeping victory, sought to distance themselves from Trump’s rhetoric, but voters apparently saw them as too closely linked to his right-wing policies.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Washington instead chose to delay negotiations in the hope that its military advances would deliver a sweeping victory over the Taliban or at least an opportunity to negotiate from a position of greater strength.
—Daniel Markey, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2021
Just as in Mahmoud, the Republican justices handed a sweeping victory to social conservatives — seemingly without any regard for how their decision would damage Medicaid.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Despite the wins, infighting has threatened to stall the party’s efforts to rebuild in the months after President Trump’s sweeping victory and Republican wins in last year’s race.
—Surina Venkat, The Hill, 7 Nov. 2025
Advertisement The collapse came less than a year after Wilders’ PVV secured a sweeping victory in the November 2023 election but failed to form a stable government.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Less than a year later, Venezuela’s electoral council—dominated by Maduro loyalists—announced another sweeping victory for his party in subsequent elections.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The opposition Conservatives, which had been eyeing a sweeping victory, sought to distance themselves from Trump’s rhetoric, but voters apparently saw them as too closely linked to his right-wing policies.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
Washington instead chose to delay negotiations in the hope that its military advances would deliver a sweeping victory over the Taliban or at least an opportunity to negotiate from a position of greater strength.
—Daniel Markey, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2021
Just as in Mahmoud, the Republican justices handed a sweeping victory to social conservatives — seemingly without any regard for how their decision would damage Medicaid.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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