political capital

English

Noun

political capital (uncountable)

  1. (politics, sociology) The ability of a person to influence political decisions.
    • 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 November 2023:
      The PSOE leader, who once promised to bring Puigdemont back to Spain to face justice, risked considerable political capital two years ago by pardoning nine of the Catalan leaders behind the drive for secession.
    • 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, quoting Alex Conant, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic‎[2], archived from the original on 7 August 2025:
      But others in the party sense signs of trouble. “He’s spending the political capital he’s accumulated for a decade,” Alex Conant, a GOP strategist who worked in President George W. Bush’s White House and on then-Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, told me.
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