How to Use wedge issue in a Sentence

wedge issue

noun

• Health care was a key wedge issue for Democrats in the 2018 House wave that cost Republicans dozens of seats.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 8 Dec. 2020
• Instead, Trump and his fraud claims have become a wedge issue.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• From the outset of the short campaign, Trudeau has used vaccine mandates as a wedge issue.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2021
• Instead, the term seems to be used by politicians to frame a cultural wedge issue.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2021
• Hungary may be a bellwether of whether making gay rights a wedge issue pays off.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• Even the current attempts by Fox News to make soccer a wedge issue feel half-hearted.
  — Adam Elder, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
• The reactionary Trump is now clearly rehashing a wedge issue from the era of the Trump Shuttle.
  — Richard Thompson Ford, Slate Magazine, 3 Aug. 2017
• This wedge issue bandwagon is brought to you by the same people who drove the anti-Title IX bus for decades.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• Trans children are victims of a culture war that has forced them into the role of wedge issue to get ring-wingers elected.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 30 June 2022
• From the early days of the campaign, Trudeau has sought to position vaccine mandates as a wedge issue.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• Crime and public safety, perhaps more than anything else, are the wedge issue of all wedge issues in this race.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2022
• One national area that has become a wedge issue in the district is Israel.
  — cleveland, 24 July 2021
• Trump gives his best reading of a long speech full of the usual SOTU emotional blackmail and wedge issues.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• Cordray will have to reassure the base on his past actions on guns, which have become a wedge issue in the primary.
  — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
• Trump has sought to use those facts as a wedge issue in manufacturing hubs like Michigan.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Likud and other right-wing parties consistently try to use the specter of Arab influence in the Knesset as a wedge issue.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New York Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2020
• From Sam Farmer: Phil Mickelson, a master of the short irons, suddenly finds himself in the middle of golf’s biggest wedge issue.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• But as Tuesday’s primaries loom, the factory has become a wedge issue in local and state races for many voters near the future plant.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 May 2022
• How are some people in Columbus trying to use truth to derail the runaway train that is the wedge issue of critical race theory?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
• Homelessness has become a wedge issue Manning has focused most of the campaign arguing that Daniel and the county haven’t done enough to get people off the streets.
  — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2020
• The debate over what role the police should play in maintaining public safety has become the biggest wedge issue in the mayoral campaign.
  — New York Times, 12 June 2021
• Both parties use immigration as a wedge issue to rally their base.
  — Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• My sexuality is used as a wedge issue and quite frankly my vocation as a minister is part of it as well.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2018
• For evidence that the wedge issue has potential, look no further than the latest data from the Pew Research Center.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 5 Oct. 2022
• The moment illustrates again the power of education as a wedge issue.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• Transgender rights have emerged as a wedge issue in the culture wars ahead of the November midterm congressional elections.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 May 2022
• With no deal in sight, immigration has become more of a political wedge issue for years.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2023
• How the system approaches policing was a key wedge issue in November’s board elections.
  — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2021
• That would essentially be a cut – a strong signal given the surge of migrants at the southern border and that immigration is a key wedge issue in an election year.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• As trans people ran for office and starred in television shows, right-wing strategists decided they could be used as a wedge issue to drive conservative voters to the polls.
  — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024