misfire

The Electoral College has a misfire rate of five out of the 59 presidential elections in American history, delivering the Oval Office to the popular vote loser twice this century.

Just a few weeks after the Republican midterm misfire, it put the former president in the headlines when many were still wondering if he had lost his political instincts.

Things had been all too easy for Gabriel before that misfire on a play in which his intended receiver fell down.

Opening with an apparent verbal misfire, Trump brought out independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he called “an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share.”

Those are a little harder in general to misfire or mess up with.