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Originally Posted by Firebot
Polls starting to come in that Carney / Liberals may actually be ahead. What a complete disaster for Poilievre / CPC, who still doesn't get it and posting this stuff.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1894426690509574326
https://twitter.com/user/status/1894507869929677253
This election is absolutely was theirs to lose with the deep Liberal corruption and Trudeau's disastrous policies making it a gimme, and they somehow found a way to potentially lose it all. Not a single condemnation of Trump / Musk or talk about fighting against the latest Tariff talk. Big speech about Ukraine on the 3rd anniversary of the war, but no mention of the US / Israel UN votes.
In the Liberal French leadership debate, many of the biggest priority questions were about Trump and tariffs, and how to work on the economy, and these are the questions most important to Canadians right now.
Yet he's still stuck on Carbon Tax Carney and criticizing his French. How tone deaf can you be. Carney is using several of Poilievre's own policies as well which makes the difference fiscally much smaller.
He's going to be losing the moderates and centrists fast with an alternative, tying Carney to Trudeau isn't working, and quite frankly is not a priority to Canadians who are far more worried about some of the CPC's American factionism. |
It's so weird though. Trudeau had scandal after scandal and should've been done after the SNC issue. That should've been a slam dunk win for the CPC. I lean to the Liberals and I couldn't vote for Trudeau, so clearly there were a lot of "soft support" votes up for grabs. And yet, the CPC just couldn't get out of their own way.
The thing is, with the current situation, a lot of "us" who are centrist, probably would support a Stephen Harper kind of leader. Sure, he was a robot who shook his sons hand, and yeah he did the dumb piano playing stunts that were just cringe-worthy. But he at least was a statesman and I feel like he wouldn't just sell us out. I have zero confidence that Pierre and whoever the people are running his campaign are prepared to deal with the US at this point. Then you contrast that the Liberals are ready to elect a guy with real world experience and it's looking like they frittered away that enormous lead in the polls.