CTV Drops BOMBSHELL, Has Bad News For Carney
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Summary
Is the honeymoon over for Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals? In this episode, we talk to Nick Nanos, founder and Chief Data Scientist at Nanos Research and CTV's Pollster of Record, about what's going on.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, he's having a really rough week.
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He came back from the United States without a trade deal,
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even though he said he was going to get one, and now both sides of the aisle,
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they're angry. Let's take a look at a recent CTV report that completely rips him apart,
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then stick around for some commentary. Well, Conservative leader Pierre Apoliev
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and Prime Minister Mark Carney were both talking about the cost of living for Canadians.
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That issue has eclipsed Canada-US relations as the number one concern for Canadians,
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according to Nano's polling. And new today, Nano's has found that since the summer,
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Mark Carney has experienced a 10-point drop in Canadians' optimism towards the government.
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Did you hear that? Even the clowns at CTV are admitting that Carney is falling out of favour.
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How big of a problem could that be for the Prime Minister? Well,
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Nick Nano's is the founder and chief data scientist at Nano's Research. He's also CTV's
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pollster of record. And guess what? He joins us in studio right now. How are you doing, Nick?
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Good, Michael. How are you doing? Good. So, as I said off the top or earlier on,
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is the honeymoon officially over or not? Well, it's not as good as it was for Mark Carney and
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the Liberals, that's for sure. You know, the thing is, during the election, there was a lot of
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hope coming out of the election. And, you know, the thing is, is that Carney's numbers pulled away,
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the Liberal ballot numbers kind of, they had a larger gap. But, you know, the thing is,
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is that when we look at the, how people feel, emotions that people would use to describe how
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they feel about the government in Ottawa, not the Liberals or Carney, the government in Ottawa,
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it was actually pretty, pretty positive in terms of the level of optimism. And what we're seeing now
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is that optimism is eroding. Now, let me translate that. That's a polite way of saying that people
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are done with Carney. And remember, I told you this is going to happen. You know, the other thing is,
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you've got to remember, 15% said they're angry, another 22% pessimistic. And if you go to,
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here's a little tidbit, go to the prairies, they're really angry, much more angry than
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everybody else. I don't know if you're surprised. I mean, I don't want to call it not breaking news,
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but yeah, certainly not happy. I mean, and when I was looking at the numbers, it seems like it is
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back to those April levels. Yeah, it's back to the April levels. I guess the only consolation for
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the Liberals is that it's not as bad as it was during the darkest days of the Trudeau government
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where, you know, the people that said that they were optimistic, I can show it like this. You don't
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need a board. Seven, Michael, 7% of Canadians were optimistic when Justin Trudeau was prime minister.
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So even the 10 point drop to 33 is better for the Liberals than under the end, the tail end of
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Justin Trudeau. And so how has that also reflected the party support? I mean, the numbers seem to be
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narrowing between the two parties. Absolutely. You know, coming off the election, you know,
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the election was almost a dead heat, right? Between the 43, 41, between the Liberals and the
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Conservatives. The Liberals did have a honeymoon. They pulled away from the Conservatives, especially
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during the period when, when Polyev was kind of seeking, reelect, seeking to get elected out West
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in the by-election. But now the gap has narrowed. It's within the margin of error. It's a statistical
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toying cost right now between the Liberals and the Conservatives. On the ballot numbers,
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on the preferred prime minister front, Mark Carney still has a noticeable double-digit advantage over
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Pierre Poiliev. Talk to me about that. You know, I don't call it an incongruence, but how the party
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brand and Carney's brand seem to be so different. Well, why don't we say the same thing for both of
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the front-running parties? So people still don't like the Liberals and are upset about the last 10
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years, but they seem to like Mark Carney. When people look at the Conservatives and Pierre Poiliev,
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the Conservatives have a stronger brand right now than Pierre Poiliev. So it's about Canadians who
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still want change, think the Liberals have been in power too long. And Pierre Poiliev is kind of like
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another dimension, not the driver of support for the Conservatives, not in the same way that Carney
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is driving Liberal support today, at least. And it's interesting because that election was fought
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so keyly over Canada-US relations and fighting back against the US. And you also have some numbers
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about how Canadians feel about boycotting travel to the US and buying US items. What's that like?
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Absolutely. In the survey that we did, we asked Canadians whether boycotting US goods or boycotting
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travel to the United States would help or hinder the Canadian bargaining position. You can see that
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80% or thereabouts of Canadians, 8 out of every 10, think that these types of boycotts help the
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Canadian bargaining position. So it's pretty strong right across the board by gender, by region,
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and stuff like that. Moral to the story, Michael, you poke a bear, it's going to respond.
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True, but you've had Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada and Donald Trump,
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both kind of push back against that, saying that they don't appreciate him. He's even brought up in
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the Oval Office this week that travel to the US is down about 23%. And so while Canadians believe that
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it is a good thing, it almost seems like it's more of an irritant to the US.
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Well, maybe if it's an irritant, it's working. Think of it this way.
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Like if they didn't care, it'd be like, yeah, sure, do whatever. We can do whatever we want
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because there's no repercussions. I think the fact of the matter, there are a lot of American
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enterprises, especially close to the border, that rely on Canadian customers, visitors,
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all that kind of stuff. And they're having a more difficult time than they have in the past.
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Do you think, given the numbers that you are spelling out for us and how Canadians are feeling,
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that that sort of bodes well for how Mark Carney is attacking Canada-US relations, even though
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it's not the number one priority for Canadians right now?
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Yeah. Yeah. I think for Mark Carney and the Liberals, they want to talk about Donald Trump
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and the binational relationship. But for Pierre Poiliev, his strength, and for the Conservatives,
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their strength has to do with the cost of living, affordability, inflation, the cost of housing,
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paying for the groceries and stuff like that. So think of it as a battle of the ballot questions
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right there with the Liberals wanting to talk Trump and the Conservatives wanting to talk about
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Yeah. And we always appreciate that when you come here, you talk Turkey. And that is a happy
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Yeah. Never. Never. I would never do that. Founder and chief data scientist at Nanos Research,
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that's what I'll call him. Nick Nanos. Appreciate that, Nick.
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Okay. Let's quickly summarize what just happened here. Nick Nanos is being really nice,
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but I'll say the quiet part out loud. Carney is done. Let me say it again. Carney is done.
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Now, if I remember correctly, Carney was supposed to be coming home with a good trade deal this week.
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Instead, he came home with nothing but a bag full of excuses. And of course, we all knew this was
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going to happen. At least anyone that watches my channel regularly.
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The next video I'm going to show you is a video of Polly Yev ripping apart Mark Carney and the
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House of Commons earlier this week. If you're enjoying this episode so far,
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I think we're beginning to see how it is that the president has been able to bulldoze over this
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prime minister. He won't even stand up when he is confronted by the Americans. Just over an hour
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ago, a report came out that the U.S. commerce secretary said there will be no relief for
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American Canadian made automobiles going in to the United States. The prime minister is back down on
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counter tariffs, back down on the DST, back down on defense. Yesterday promised to push a trillion
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dollars of private sector investment out of our country. How is he going to look those Canadian
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autoworkers in the eye and tell them how he got nothing for them in return?
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Mr. Speaker, it is a sad day in this House when the leader of the opposition suggests that
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standing up for the defense of this country, when the leader of the opposition suggests
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that spending for, to defend our borders, that spending to defend our filament in NATO,
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that that is backing down on defense. We will shame, shame.
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Mr. Speaker, at least he finally got up, but he didn't address the question about autoworkers.
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There are autoworkers who are sitting at home right now who do not know how they're going to
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pay their mortgages. This prime minister looked them in the eye and said he was going to protect
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their jobs. And then he said he would put his elbows up. And then he said he would get a win by
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July 21st. Then he said that he would have a deal. There's been no deal. There's been no win.
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And now for these workers, there is no job. Today, we learned that he's backing down again
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on auto tariffs. Why is it that he's selling out our autoworkers at a time when they need him most?
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Japan, the European Union, the United Kingdom, every other country in the world is paying a
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higher tariff than Canada has gotten on automobiles. And we are not done. That is why we have not signed
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an accord on autos. That is why we are fighting hard for our autoworkers. And I put the president
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on notice yesterday about the consequences of not having that accord.
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Mr. President, you have been warned. If you put in another tariff, he's going to give you
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The guy who broke his promise to have a deal on July 21st. A guy who broke his promise to
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negotiate a win, who simultaneously removed the counter tariffs while he was giving speeches
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promising to have them in place. And yesterday, he offered more concessions to the U.S. president
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knowing that the tariffs that are killing our auto sector would stay in place. Why does he
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always back down and give our jobs to the Americans instead of-
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, and I think it's important for the entire House to understand,
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that we have a strategy with the United States that means that our auto sector is paying less
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less than 10% tariff when Japan, when Europe, when the U.K., when the rest of the world is
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paying 50, which is bigger than 10 or higher. And we are not done yet because we refuse to
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sign a deal that isn't better in the interests of Canadians, and that's why we're here today.
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He is already signing a deal that makes us worse off because he makes concession after
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concession after concession while getting nothing in return.
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Yesterday, he announced that his policies will drive a trillion dollars of private sector
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money out of our country as part of the agreement that he is going to sign with the United States.
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That means factories and plants closing in Canada, most of all in our auto sector, which
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is on the verge of being wiped out after he promised to save it. So can he tell me, did
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he demand the president lift all tariffs on Canadian autos, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, our agreement yesterday, the president and myself, is to focus now on steel, on aluminum,
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on energy, the building blocks of our broader competitiveness, including our auto sector.
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Those negotiations on autos continue. From a position that is the strongest in the world,
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10 is less than 15, which is less than 25, which is less than 50.
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Zero is less than 50. Zero is the paycheck that those workers who've lost their jobs are getting
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right now. And Mr. Speaker, seventh is last place in the G7 when it comes to growth or in
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this case, negative growth. This prime minister has to get his excuses straight. He blames the
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tariffs for the fact that we have the second highest unemployment in the G7 and the fastest shrinking
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economy. And then he claims at the same time that the tariffs are really not so bad. So which is it?
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Why is our economy so weak? Because of his diplomatic failings abroad or his disastrous economic policies
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at home? And like always, Polly Eve is 100% right. Carney promised Canadians the world. He gave Canadians
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nothing. Carney promised he'd be elbows up. Instead, he's ankles up, folding like a cheap tent at
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every single turn. Now here's the good news. And I like to give you people good news. Everyone is
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turning on Carney. Let's look at it. CBC turned on Carney. CTV turned on Carney. Other left-wing
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media organizations, they turned on Carney. His MPs, they're unhappy. One of them left,
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Christopher Freeland, and there's rumors many more are going to follow her. On top of that,
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his right-hand man, his budget officer, he turned on him. Everyone hates Carney right now,
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and it just gets worse and worse every time I talk to you. And as a bonus, I heard Carney is
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just like Trudeau in the sense that he's a complete jerk to women, and women don't like
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being around him. Now this is my prediction. It's only a matter of time before Carney gets kicked out
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or resigns. He knows the walls are closing in, and he's not going to make it. So like I always ask
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you, please, have a bit of patience. Have a bit of faith. Conservatives are going to win,
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and we're going to win big. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great Friday. Have a great
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