Electable in a sentence

When figuring out who’s electable, people first figure out who they like more, then say they like them because they’re more electable.

He has generated significant interest among GOP primary voters by casting himself as a younger and more electable version of the 76-year-old former president.

They say the party needs to start winnowing the field earlier than it did in 2016 to help ensure the most electable nominee advances to the general election.

Harris, however, took over from Biden after the 81-year-old leader withdrew from the race, thus sparing her “this process of trying to convince people that she’s electable” during the primaries.

Magistrate Prasad then adjourned the matter to July 5 for mention to elect a court as the offence was an electable one.

And so we are, once again, being asked to question whether a woman is "electable," by which we really mean whether all of her qualifications for the job can outweigh the fact that she is a woman.

Anyway, it sure seems as if the most obviously electable candidates have already exited — Jean Charest, Rona Ambrose, and even Skippy Poilievre.

Can the opposition parties find an electable candidate and unite behind him/her?

How huge of a turnout surge does Sanders need to be as electable as a moderate?

Impeachment has made Trump more electable than ever.

It’s sort of faction first, irrespective of whether their policy positions are electable.

Much of the analysis of why she failed has focused on the applied to female candidates, with voters less likely to view them as electable as a matter of course, and therefore less likely to lend them their vote.

There's still a risk that panicky voters decide he is not electable and go with someone else instead.

Another possibility is that Democrats who support Sanders will convince themselves that in the general election he would never win, so voters in the primaries will choose someone supposedly more "electable" like Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden.

But primary voters shouldn’t single out Sanders for their worry; the fact is that neither Warren nor Biden is obviously more electable than Sanders.

For some Democratic voters, the most electable candidate is the one with the best policies to contrast with Trump.

Hapless Joe Biden has always failed in his presidential bids, but is hyped as supremely “electable” this time around because Democratic elites fear and loath Bernie Sanders.

Polls show Democratic primary voters are prioritizing “electability,” but who do they think is electable?

The other is the Electable candidate, the person who can achieve job one as far as most Democratic voters are concerned, which is ousting Trump.

When I ask voters about Harris, I hear way more often their concern that she is not electable than anything about her criminal justice record.