How to Use unelectable in a Sentence

unelectable

adjective

• If those activists were not naive, if this man was not unelectable, the centrists’ entire lives had been a lie.
  — David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
• In the past, a candidate with such legal problems would be unelectable.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 June 2023
• El-Sayed’s campaign is built on the premise that what party leaders dismiss as unelectable may be what voters crave.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 8 July 2026
• So Democrats compete to determine which of them stands the best chance of toppling a president who should be unelectable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Such candidates can’t be treated as part of a comically unelectable, and thus harmless, fringe.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• Corbyn, the subject of a ferocious assault from Britain’s right-wing tabloid press, was widely deemed unelectable.
  — Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• Whatever the new thinking — bold, strong, even unelectable — humility may be needed as well.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• The Democrats went all in to nominate the most unelectable Republicans.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
• Thus, Democrats must assemble coalitions to win, and some measures that would please its far left would make candidates in flyover country unelectable.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• In a similar way, donors and consultants warned, Democrats were on the verge of nominating an unelectable socialist.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• The Obama of those earlier campaigns would have been unelectable in the 2016 primary.
  — Berny Belvedere, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• Bartos, meanwhile, has claimed the existence of the protection orders made Parnell unelectable.
  — Michael Warren, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
• The more unelectable Labour became, the more Corbyn and his Stalinist controllers were entrenched in power.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Republicans in other states were either selecting or snuffing out unelectable candidates.
  — Brian Reisinger, National Review, 17 Aug. 2020
• This belief persists this despite the victory, in that election, of a man who was widely considered one of the most unelectable candidates ever to seek the presidency.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2020
• Her defeat was a relief to national Democrats who saw Moser's liberal campaign as an unelectable drag on their chances of retaking control of the House.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Many Republican voters, moreover, don’t care about the abundance of evidence that Mastriano is unelectable in a statewide election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• Corbyn has been dubbed unelectable and faced considerable opposition from his own party, but his radical chic and pro-spending policies have won over considerable numbers of younger voters.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• Republicans, meanwhile, are increasingly worried they may be saddled with an unelectable nominee in West Virginia.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 20 Apr. 2018
• Doughty, who repeatedly painted Diehl as unelectable during the primary, threw his support behind the nominee after conceding Tuesday.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• For them, Biden is a safety valve—a good, churchgoing Catholic and anti-police defunder whose presence ensures that the party doesn’t nominate someone centrists consider unelectable.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• Yet Trump’s own success in winning the presidency serves as an effective counterargument that in today’s political climate, practically no one is unelectable.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists in Washington, who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Schulz has called those positions unelectable in a November race against a Democratic nominee, in which the winner will need the support of some Democrats and moderate Republicans.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2022
• His unelectable Republican opponent is Curtis Sliwa, a street mercenary and former mob kidnap victim who lives with either 16 or 17 cats.
  — Choire Sicha, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2021
• No longer do these voters follow the old pattern of threatening to back seemingly unelectable alternatives to the establishment only to relent and hand out the Republican nomination like a gold watch at a retirement party.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 6 Dec. 2021
• If Republicans nominated a few too many unelectable stop-the-steal candidates or if a few too many Democratic incumbents proved too resilient, the Republican structural edge would evaporate.
  — Nate Cohn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• But then-Representative Mike Castle lost the GOP primary to an unelectable Tea Party challenger.
  — David M. Drucker, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
• His presence at the top of the ticket is unlikely to help build functioning Republican majorities in the House and Senate, especially given his track record of promoting unelectable candidates.
  — WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• While the question of any link between Buttigieg’s sexuality and electability has not been a major issue among his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls, his rivals have been trying to use his mayoral experience to paint him as unelectable.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020