The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 26, 2024


BC Conservatives are smashing David Eby's NDP in new poll!


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The BC Conservatives are gaining ground in the polls and are on the edge of defeating the BC NDP in the upcoming election. In this episode, I break down what's going on and why you should vote for the BC Conservatives.

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00:00:00.000 British Columbia Premier David Eby and his NDP party are absolutely falling apart right now.
00:00:05.760 They assumed that they could do and say whatever they wanted and they would still win the next
00:00:09.720 provincial election. Nothing was going to come back to bite them because obviously we're so far
00:00:14.120 ahead in the polls, BC voters will put up with anything. They didn't realize that their voting
00:00:18.560 base was completely hollow. People were only selecting the BC NDP in the polls because it
00:00:24.160 seemed like it was the only party that could actually win the next provincial election,
00:00:27.180 and a lot of people tend to bandwagon. They want their MLA to be part of the government,
00:00:31.960 so even maybe moderate conservative voters were willing to say that they were going to vote BC
00:00:37.040 NDP provincially. But then the federal conservatives started getting extremely popular in British
00:00:41.760 Columbia and what never ends up holding up well in the long run in politics anywhere is split ballots.
00:00:49.120 People tend to vote the same way on federal, provincial, and even municipal levels. They
00:00:54.440 vote conservative down the line, they vote progressive down the line, they vote liberal down the line.
00:00:58.940 And so what David Eby was relying on is that a lot of people who are going to vote federal
00:01:03.780 conservative, which tended to be their more stronger preference between their preference between the
00:01:08.220 NDP and the federal conservatives, is that he was relying on a lot of crossover voters who liked
00:01:12.860 Polyev but were willing to vote for David Eby, even though the two men were complete opposites.
00:01:18.160 Really, people were only selecting Eby in these polls because he seemed like he was going to win.
00:01:21.980 And now that the opposition scene in British Columbia is becoming less cluttered and the BC
00:01:28.100 conservatives and John Rusted have obviously defeated Kevin Falconson's BC United party and are
00:01:33.460 moving on to beat the NDP, now voters are all starting to consolidate towards the BC conservatives.
00:01:39.480 It's not just that John Rusted and the BC conservatives are taking votes from the United,
00:01:44.180 they're also taking votes from the NDP, all those people who were just defaulting to them because,
00:01:48.280 you know, David Eby is going to be our premier anyway, so I guess I can say I voted for him.
00:01:52.520 That was never going to hold, especially with the carbon tax issue and the drug issue.
00:01:57.100 And so now, since the last Main Street poll that came out showed that the BC conservatives were down
00:02:02.280 six points on the NDP. Not an amazing result, but it showed that the BC conservatives had momentum.
00:02:07.900 And now in this poll that Main Street just released today, the BC conservatives and NDP are now
00:02:13.260 tied at 38%, with BC United at 15%. And before I move on, I just quickly want to urge anyone who lives
00:02:21.180 in British Columbia, vote BC conservative. I don't care if in your downtown Montreal or Victoria riding,
00:02:27.680 technically the United polls better in your specific area, it doesn't matter. In three months,
00:02:32.740 that's not going to be true. Vote BC conservatives because it's only, you're never going to have
00:02:36.680 this strange victory over the BC NDP, where it relies on people in rural areas and suburban areas
00:02:42.220 voting BC conservatives, but in urban areas, you got to vote United and that's how you get rid of the
00:02:46.620 BC NDP. The only way that the BC NDP are going to go away is if the BC conservatives get enough
00:02:51.840 support that they can smash them. It's not going to be this divided up victory like we've seen in
00:02:56.760 the past where two parties in different parts of the province need to kind of team up in order to
00:03:01.300 win enough seats to overcome the bigger party. It's not going to happen here. Vote British Columbia
00:03:06.740 conservative because the 15% that the United have here is going to keep falling. As their voters,
00:03:12.140 because the BC United spend a lot of money, as their voters realize that the ad campaign is not
00:03:16.680 reflective of their support, they will consolidate to the BC conservatives, the BC conservatives will
00:03:21.580 have more money than them, and they will be able to smash probably both the NDP and the United's
00:03:27.160 campaign spending. So just go for the BC conservatives, I urge you. But things get worse for the BC NDP
00:03:33.640 when you look under the surface of this poll, and I'm going to start off with the less bad one for
00:03:38.000 them. Because in this poll, and this is, again, just all voters, these are people who are leaning
00:03:42.000 one party or decisively in favor of a party or undecided. You'll notice that there's 17% of people
00:03:48.540 still undecided on who they're going to vote for in British Columbia. This means that the BC NDP
00:03:53.540 obviously are not considered like, you know, the biggest guy on the block right now. A lot of people
00:03:58.540 are very unsure about who they want to go for, and there's a lot of votes still up for grabs. But then when
00:04:03.740 we move on to seeing what decided voters think, the BC conservatives are now at 40%, with Eby's NDP
00:04:10.860 only at 34%. Even when with Kevin Falconson's United, even if you swap in the name Liberal,
00:04:17.100 because it's the name more people know the United Party by, they still only do 1% better. That is a
00:04:22.340 dead party. It's going absolutely nowhere. And so David Eby is having to rely on some extremely fickle
00:04:29.880 voters in order to win this next election. And does he think he's really going to be able to hold
00:04:33.920 on to them for another six months to actually show up and vote for him when all those voters are
00:04:38.920 planning on voting federal conservative? Because remember, the federal conservatives poll, depending
00:04:44.200 on the pollster, anywhere from like 43% to 52% in British Columbia. That means for BC, like for
00:04:51.380 Premier David Eby to win, either he has to be getting every single anti-conservative federal voter to go
00:04:56.700 his way, which is not going to happen because of the United and the Green Party also take some
00:05:01.040 liberal voters in. He is going to have to rely on at least some federal conservative voters. As I said
00:05:06.660 before, it's not going to happen, especially with Pierre Polyev and David Eby feuding. It's not going
00:05:12.540 to happen. It's especially not going to happen because everyone knows that Pierre Polyev is going
00:05:16.820 to be the new prime minister of Canada. And do they really want David Eby there blocking pipelines,
00:05:22.100 holding up federal legislation by not complying on a provincial level and whatnot? No, they're going
00:05:27.720 to want someone who is working well with the new prime minister and somebody who doesn't remind them
00:05:32.640 of Justin Trudeau. And the fact that David Eby is like the only premier next to, I think,
00:05:37.960 is it Anthony Fury? No, not Anthony Fury. It's like, whatever. It doesn't matter. Some guy in the
00:05:41.500 Maritimes. The fact that David Eby is basically the only premier in the country upholding his provincial
00:05:47.780 carbon tax means that he actually tracks very closely to Justin Trudeau for people. He's not
00:05:52.400 like Wob Canoe in Manitoba, where he, even though he's NDP and the liberals federally are in coalition
00:05:58.240 with the NDP, he seems like a populist left figure who's very different from Justin Trudeau. He's the
00:06:03.080 type of guy on the side of the road who's changing his own tire, wearing a suit, and he seems like the
00:06:07.620 sort of like non-stuck-up corporate type guy like Justin Trudeau is. David Eby is very much like
00:06:14.160 Justin Trudeau. He's very obsessed with having fashionable policy rather than good policy.
00:06:21.380 That's exactly what's underlying all the policies like the drug decriminalization,
00:06:26.040 safe supply, SOGI123, creating the bubble zones around abortion clinics. All this stuff is just
00:06:32.240 things that David Eby supports because it's fashionable. He is still an anti-police guy,
00:06:36.720 a defund the police guy. He literally wrote books on how to sue the police in small claims courts on
00:06:41.240 frivolous grounds and win money. The man is a complete clown and a radical. And so in BC, 0.99
00:06:47.320 the conservatives are going to end up winning all those moderate middle-class voters who want to see
00:06:51.600 tax reform. They want to see the healthcare system fixed. They don't care about throwing away their
00:06:56.840 votes to protect a dream that somehow, if we spend enough money on safe supply, we're going to get all
00:07:02.260 the drug addicts off the street and everyone's going to clean themselves up because a social worker
00:07:05.820 came by and gave them a pamphlet at their tent. It's not going to happen. David Eby will basically
00:07:10.920 destroy this province. And for the good of the rest of the country, if BC voters throw at the NDP
00:07:17.180 and they vote British Columbia conservatives, they will make sure that the flow of hyper-progressive
00:07:22.320 far-left policy stops flowing from British Columbia into the rest of the country. Because BC,
00:07:27.800 under the NDP and the liberals before them, were like the experimental hyper-progressive part of the
00:07:32.820 country where every single bad idea was put into policy and eventually adopted on the federal level
00:07:38.180 by Justin Trudeau. We can stop this flow by getting rid of the NDP and David Eby. Anyways,
00:07:44.440 so this is all great news. Again, vote BC conservatives if you're in that province.
00:07:48.760 I expect that in the next poll, we're going to see that David Eby's personal approval ratings start
00:07:52.880 turning south on him and that the only stronghold he's going to have left is the most downtown parts
00:07:58.060 of Vancouver. Because you can't survive forever being a complete radical clown assuming that you're 0.97
00:08:03.300 not going to have an actual opposition to run against in the next federal election. Anyways, 0.94
00:08:07.860 well, if you guys live in the riding of Calgary Signal Hill in my city of Calgary, straight west
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