floundered

But his campaign floundered amid ethical concerns.

It was the first general-election faceoff ever to be held before September, and Biden’s team had reportedly pushed for such a schedule, in fact, because it felt the arrangement would give him “time to recover if he floundered.”

As England floundered, Smith scratched around in the early part of his innings.

And when Ms Harris is on the end of prosecutorial questions, as opposed to giving them, she has floundered in the past, such as in a notorious 2021 interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt in which she struggled when pressed on the issue of illegal immigration.

The Galaxy won the MLS Cup that season but quickly floundered while Chivas USA never did catch on.