Withdraw party support for (a political candidate) during an election campaign.
the Right planned to disendorse him for refusing to cross a union picket line
Example sentencesExamples
- Rumour has it that this threat to disendorse Dan was sabre rattling.
- He was disendorsed by the party for his public comments.
- The decisions were made to "disendorse" candidates when their campaigns took an ugly turn within two days of an election.
- I would ask his state to disendorse him next time he comes up for preselection.
- Her anti-immigration policies and mistrust of multiculturalism led to her being disendorsed by the party and widely criticised by the left.
- He will not disendorse the candidate who has said he supports his lunatic spouse's theory "100 per cent."
- It was this criticism in the heat of the election campaign that provoked the party to disendorse her, giving her a great deal of free publicity.
- Don't expel him, disendorse him.
- The coalition last week demanded the party disendorse him as its candidate.
- He saw fit to banish him from the party and disendorse him for the next election, yet he still accepted his vote.