The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 31, 2025


Liberals looking desperate! Blocking and destroying CPC signs

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Carney has embarrassingly LOW-turnout for local campaign launch! Carney Liberals drop insane candidate after defending him ALL DAY!

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The Liberals are getting frustrated with the amount of Conservative lawn signs being trashed in their riding, and the lack of support they're getting for their candidate, Mark Carney. I talk about why this is happening, and why it's a big deal.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. I think the Liberal Party knows it's not doing nearly as well on the ground in this federal election as the media and some of the pollsters are trying to portray, because the behavior of the Liberals around conservative lawn signs demonstrates that they're getting a little bit frustrated.
00:00:18.920 But before I move into the lawn sign issue today, I want to highlight this is the lineup for a Mark Carney event in Georgetown, an area with a large population around it, and this is the crowd that showed up to watch Mark Carney speak.
00:00:34.580 That is like what a local candidate should be getting. Maybe there's like 90 people here?
00:00:39.500 However, as Marty up north notes, my impromptu meetups in Calgary attract bigger crowds than this. This is Carney's rally in Georgetown this afternoon, and make no mistake, Georgetown is a key riding for the Liberals.
00:00:54.360 It's a key area in general. Southwest Ontario is a battleground between the Liberal Party and the Conservatives, and it seems like Carney's staff even knew he was not going to be able to attract more than flies, so they intentionally booked a much smaller venue than what Pierre Polyev would have booked.
00:01:12.260 Things are not going well. The polls can say what they want, and I think that the polls are going to start reversing for the Conservatives as the next couple of weeks drag on.
00:01:20.860 Naturally, naturally, in every election that I've looked at, the Liberals actually tend to have a big pop at the start, and then they tend to fade, because so many Canadians have voted Liberal at least one point in their lives.
00:01:31.860 When they don't know who they're going to vote for, they just start telling pollsters, default, I guess I'm voting Liberal.
00:01:36.800 And we've seen in the polls that the people saying they're voting Liberal are also far less likely to say they're definitely actually going to show up and vote Liberal, so they're still free agents for the most part.
00:01:46.360 But now, I want to get to the lawn sign side of this, because the amount of Conservative lawn sign destruction is, like, off the charts compared to any other election I've looked at.
00:01:56.440 But before I get into it, guys, I just want to remind you, if you like my federal election coverage, make sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, it really helps us on the algorithm, and I like to go scroll through and see what you guys are saying, respond to some people, all that good sort of thing.
00:02:11.000 I'm on my path to get to 100,000 subscribers, so if you like this video, make sure you do subscribe.
00:02:16.620 But now, let's get down to the lawn sign side of things.
00:02:20.940 It is actually just nuts how many lawn signs are just being trashed at the side of the road, multiple of them.
00:02:27.860 People's lawn signs being stolen and hidden behind garbage cans, going to private people's lawns and taking them, all these air and gun signs that have been absolutely ripped to shreds.
00:02:37.060 These are multiple instances in just a single riding of these lawn signs being destroyed.
00:02:43.480 And let me tell you, you're only finding out about it because air and gun's team tend to be pretty savvy with social media, so when they see their lawn signs destroyed, they know they should document it and post about it.
00:02:54.400 This is guaranteed going on in every single riding.
00:02:57.160 Here, down here, you can see Yara Saxe's people literally surrounding a Roman Baberlawn sign in York South with her signs. 0.98
00:03:07.260 This is utterly pathetic. 0.60
00:03:09.140 And the same thing was also going on with Mark Carney posting his signs in a median along a road to try and block conservative signs from being seen. 0.94
00:03:19.120 I have to pull this off screen for a second so I can find it. 0.87
00:03:21.660 But it was, it's just so silly.
00:03:24.020 And what they're proving, in effect, is that they actually weren't having a lot of people requesting signs for their private lawns.
00:03:30.320 Because anyone can print signs.
00:03:32.040 That's not impressive.
00:03:33.360 You could be an independent and spend, you know, $10,000 on signs, and you could look like you have as many signs as anybody else.
00:03:41.140 You don't usually want to put too many signs on public property.
00:03:44.220 Because, like here in the riding of Nepean, where Barbara Ball, the conservative candidate, is running against Mark Carney, the liberals have seemingly had to resort to just putting Mark Carney signs anywhere on public property, especially to block Barbara Ball signs.
00:04:01.840 Barbara Ball is not posting a lot of signs here because she's a weak candidate and she doesn't know what she's doing. 1.00
00:04:07.320 She only has one sign here because, presumably, there are hundreds to thousands of people in her riding who want her signs on their private lawns, and those signs are being prioritized there. 0.70
00:04:19.580 Carney probably doesn't have that many people reaching out right now, so for the meantime, they're just sticking them in the middle of intersections like this. 0.95
00:04:27.880 That is utterly pathetic. 0.88
00:04:29.880 And again, this is a key data point. 0.98
00:04:31.840 I have seen this constantly, people saying that they are not actually seeing a lot of lawn signs for the liberals around.
00:04:39.240 They're barely seeing anything for the NDP, and these are even like Vancouver ridings, Vancouver proper, Toronto ridings.
00:04:46.860 The only signs that are up are conservative ones.
00:04:49.220 That doesn't mean that the liberals might not be more popular than the conservatives in that riding, but it probably proves that even if there are issues going on inside the conservative campaign,
00:04:58.060 they're far better mobilized than the liberals, and who could have guessed?
00:05:02.780 The liberals didn't even have half their candidates appointed by the time that Carney pulled the trigger on the election,
00:05:08.520 and they are still trying to get candidates in all the ridings.
00:05:11.420 So in more than half of the ridings, the liberals might not even actually be doing any campaigning for like the first week and a half
00:05:17.940 because they don't even know who's running for them, or they barely got off the ground, and they're just trying to find their volunteers.
00:05:23.760 This, to me, was also a very telling poll result that came out of Main Street.
00:05:29.620 This is something I didn't mention in my last video about polling.
00:05:32.520 Sheree Attiste highlights,
00:05:34.160 So according to Main Street, Mark Carney's favorability went from plus 15 to plus 8.
00:05:39.580 This is from the first day of the election to the seventh day.
00:05:42.740 Pierpaglia's favorability went from negative 9 to negative 5 in one week, and that is absolutely a big deal.
00:05:50.820 Well, Carney, as I've been saying, is in a honeymoon right now, and as people realize, he's just a boring accountant.
00:05:57.960 There's nothing special about him.
00:05:59.200 He's not even an accountant.
00:06:00.120 He's like a central banker. 0.63
00:06:01.100 He's like a bad accountant.
00:06:03.220 So once people realize that, they'll be like, oh yeah, why was I excited to vote liberal?
00:06:07.120 I'm just going to stay home or vote conservative.
00:06:09.320 People tend to return back to the mean over time.
00:06:12.880 People turn back to where they were naturally going to vote for in the long run, and these short little patriotism shocks where Carney's standing up to Trump and a bunch of people start saying, well, I'm going to vote liberal then to back up Carney against Trump.
00:06:27.100 You know, that only lasts so long, and then you realize, oh, this is an election about actual domestic issues in Canada, and Trump truly doesn't care how we vote because it's not his country.
00:06:37.160 People start voting for things that the conservatives are running on, and the liberals aren't, because the liberals aren't running on anything.
00:06:44.160 They announced some national housing program, which is basically Soviet-style housing policy, and other than that, I can't name anything that Carney's actually planning to do that isn't just a diet version of what the conservatives are going to do.
00:06:58.680 So here's just, this is what I'm trying to say.
00:07:02.200 I think that the crowd sizes, while not exactly indicative of where the parties are nationally speaking, I think it's demonstrating the trend that Carney has a very difficult time actually holding people's attention.
00:07:16.300 And I think at the debate, that is where you're going to see the big separation between the conservatives and the liberals, because Carney can only pretend to be some big, new, fresh force in politics for so long, and then people see him talk, and they're like, this guy talks like Trudeau, but with less charisma.
00:07:36.240 This Paul Chang scandal is a perfect example of it.
00:07:39.320 He defends himself in the same way Trudeau would have defended himself. 0.85
00:07:43.160 Just keep repeating the same dumb platitudes over and over again until the media just give you a pass, but I don't think you can really do that in an election.
00:07:52.000 Usually Trudeau was good enough to keep his scandals to, like, the middle of his government's terms, and by the time the election rolled around, they were, like, scandal-free for the three months running up to it.
00:08:03.340 But Carney's having scandals drop, like, every other day around, like, CCP interference, or around his dealings with Brookfield, or around basically all of his crazy policy ideas coming out of the closet from old videos that are resurfacing from, like, four or five years ago.
00:08:20.480 It will eventually affect him.
00:08:22.280 And again, I think higher turnout in this election is going to help the conservatives.
00:08:26.500 Know what higher turnout is achieved by?
00:08:29.040 Good ground game and good sign game.
00:08:31.660 Signs actually do help.
00:08:32.920 So if you live in Canada, go request a sign for your lawn, because the science of it is by putting up a sign.
00:08:39.520 I know if you live in apartments, it's difficult, so don't bother.
00:08:42.280 But the science of it is if you put up a sign, you're usually making sure one or two other people get out and vote, because it's reinforcement that, you know, Bill across the streets voting conservative.
00:08:51.380 You know, I guess I'm going to.
00:08:52.880 It helps get the friends of yours and neighbors who are on the fence to then say, you know what?
00:08:58.080 I like him.
00:08:58.800 I respect him.
00:08:59.560 I'm also going to vote conservative.
00:09:01.100 So make sure you do that.
00:09:02.280 Make sure you sign up to a campaign.
00:09:04.360 Do something productive.
00:09:05.500 Don't just sit online.
00:09:06.840 I'm even going to go into the field and make sure that I'm door knocking as well.
00:09:10.400 I'm doing phone calling.
00:09:11.420 I'm doing all the other stuff because we don't want to lose.
00:09:14.160 And then think, what could have been if I actually ended up helping out?
00:09:17.680 So that's it for me today, guys.
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00:09:23.740 And I'll see you guys tomorrow.
00:09:25.120 I'll see you guys tomorrow.