The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 06, 2025


Poilievre's approval surges as Carney sinks by 11%


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16 minutes

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175.38806

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2,821

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214

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Summary

In this episode of Conservative Perspective, Wyatt Claypool talks about the key personality differences between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Polyvencic, and why they are so important in the upcoming election. He also points out that Canadian voters are more interested in the personality of the candidate than the policies they are voting for.


Transcript

00:00:00.320 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Something I continuously mention as being very important
00:00:06.620 to this federal election is the personality differences between Prime Minister Mark Carney
00:00:11.960 and Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev. This is obviously an area that Polyev and the
00:00:17.880 Conservatives have a major advantage over the Liberals. I've said it before, I will say it
00:00:23.500 again. Mark Carney has the personality of a beige painted wall. He gives off no energy. He doesn't
00:00:30.880 make you think he actually cares about the average person. It's really bad. That is why the Liberals
00:00:36.760 keep having to talk about Donald Trump. They're having to try and fight the personality battle
00:00:41.400 with Pierre Polyev through indirect means. Mark Carney's not an interesting person, so they
00:00:46.860 constantly talk about how they're up against Trump. We're taking on Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
00:00:51.300 Trump. And I want to bring up something later that demonstrates that Liberal voters are actually
00:00:54.960 more motivated by Trump than Canada's actual domestic political and economic situation.
00:01:02.560 It's utterly pathetic. But they almost have to use Trump as a stand-in for Carney in like a reverse
00:01:08.940 kind of a way where they're not marketing in favor of Trump. They're marketing against Trump saying,
00:01:13.520 you know Carney over here? Yeah, he is an absolute dud of a candidate, but he's not Trump. He's anti-Trump.
00:01:21.300 I guess so in the sense that he is boring and massively incompetent, whereas Trump is energetic
00:01:27.960 and deeply competent, at least when it comes to like domestic political management of the United
00:01:33.720 States. I don't like the tariff thing, but in general he can get stuff done, whereas Carney has
00:01:38.380 been economic advisor for the last five years before becoming prime minister, and he was deeply
00:01:43.260 incompetent. But anyways, before I get into some of the deeper topics I wanted to get into today,
00:01:48.340 I just want to mention to you guys, make sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel,
00:01:52.360 as well as leave a comment. It really helps our videos on the algorithm, and I always like to
00:01:56.560 scroll through a few times to see what people are saying about the topic of the day. But I want to
00:02:00.440 show you the numbers behind Polyev and Carney's approval ratings. This is the big story of the
00:02:06.140 election. It's the big personality fight that's taking place. Yes, policy matters, but you would be
00:02:12.080 shocked how many voters just vote on the vibes of the leader. Frankly, this is what caused Justin
00:02:19.260 Trudeau to beat Stephen Harper back in 2015. Harper didn't feel like he wanted it. He felt like he was
00:02:25.180 there waiting to get another term, and that was kind of it. And then people were going to obviously shift
00:02:30.800 towards the guy who was energetic, saying stupid things, but at least he said it with some energy.
00:02:35.800 That's how politics work in so many people's minds. That's why O'Toole lost to Trudeau.
00:02:40.260 O'Toole's policy sucked because he kept breaking promises, but so many people voted for Trudeau
00:02:45.480 again because Trudeau has, again, energy, charisma, where Aaron O'Toole always came off like a wet
00:02:52.260 sandwich on stage. But now let's cut to wet sandwich Mr. Mark Carney, who this is a pre-recorded
00:03:00.320 video I'm going to emphasize. And when I get into the numbers about his approval, you are going to
00:03:05.040 realize why they've slid in so hard. We're going to build big things in this country,
00:03:09.120 from naval ships to neighborhoods, to the new grids that power them. It'll be a great time
00:03:15.140 for a career in the trades, and we'll help you get started. We'll cover the cost of your training
00:03:20.460 and make it easier to work wherever you want in Canada. You're going to be busy building this
00:03:26.460 country. It's such a bad ad. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a conservative. Obviously,
00:03:33.000 I'm a conservative. I will be openly partisan. Hey, guys, I've linked in the description below
00:03:37.680 the lawn sign request link. Go get a conservative lawn sign. But that's a bad ad from an objective
00:03:43.180 perspective. He's talking about building big things. And he sounds like he's talking about
00:03:49.320 whether you want chamomile tea or if you want some other form of herbal tea. We have orange tea. We have
00:03:56.280 lemon. You can have some chamomile. He just sounds dead. He's talking about trade jobs. Oh,
00:04:02.220 there's going to be great opportunities for trade jobs. It's like, dude, sound like you're working on
00:04:08.660 a work site having to project to the back, except he's so dead. He just isn't saying anything. The
00:04:15.540 substance of the ad has already been vaporized from your mind because it was so dull. He didn't give
00:04:22.400 you many specifics. He just says, we're going to build more ships, homes. There's going to be trade
00:04:27.740 jobs. And I'm already putting way too much energy into it to be a Mark Carney, to be Mark Carney at
00:04:33.700 all. It's terrible. He has the delivery of a doctor coming into your room and saying terminal. It's bad.
00:04:41.400 Now let's move on to another one. This is him at a rally. And him pre-recorded and him at a rally are
00:04:47.680 basically the same thing. You got to give the guy the fact that he's consistent.
00:04:52.400 And he's even talking about something. He's going to be talking about the US. He's talking
00:04:56.240 about something that should be politically hot blooded and he cannot get himself over an
00:05:01.060 emotional two out of 10. The US is harming themselves with these tariffs. Okay. It takes
00:05:06.860 some time for that to filter through, just like it took some time for the impacts of Brexit to filter
00:05:12.260 through to the UK economy. Yeah, it took some time because he was screwing everything up. Brexit should
00:05:17.360 have been good for the UK, but his monetary policy, putting pressure on the government to pass
00:05:21.960 terrible legislation is what caused the economy to tumble. So one, I just had to stop and fact
00:05:28.140 check that. But this is like, he's talking about the US and destroying their economy and
00:05:33.060 how we need to protect ourselves. And he sounds again, like he's telling you that you've been
00:05:36.720 one week late on a book at the library.
00:05:39.800 But I have seen this movie before. I know exactly what's going to happen. This is what's going
00:05:43.720 to happen to them. The Americans are going to get weaker. We are going to stand by our
00:05:47.600 workers. We are standing by our companies. We are building new trade relationships. We
00:05:52.320 are going to stay strong and get stronger.
00:05:58.500 Someone even had to start the clapping for everyone else because there is nothing about
00:06:03.480 anything, Mark Carney's delivery that says, oh yeah, applause line. You want to raise your
00:06:09.100 voice a little bit while you're talking about something like this. You want to almost, again,
00:06:13.360 project to the back. You know, we're going to stand strong and we're going to get stronger.
00:06:17.680 He's like, we're strong and we're going to get stronger. It's just bad. Do you want to,
00:06:25.700 let's cut to a good example. Let's cut to Polyev at a rally talking off the cuff,
00:06:31.160 obviously not scripted at all. Here is him just pointing to a little girl in the crowd and having
00:06:36.860 an actual human moment that Mr. Carney, like the Terminator cannot. You like that? Look at this
00:06:45.320 little girl. Who is this little girl? What's your name? What's your name? Avery. And what brought
00:06:53.140 you here today, Avery? To help the country.
00:07:12.660 She's even got a wonderful handshake. This is, I think we have a future prime minister right here
00:07:17.440 in Avery. This man could be interesting reading the phone book. He is good. He could read the back
00:07:25.600 of a soup label and he could be more compelling than Mark Carney. In fact, you could probably read
00:07:30.440 the back of a soup label and see all the really cheap ingredients that are having to be used because
00:07:34.580 of the high taxes. You could make an entire political speech out of it. But look at the
00:07:39.540 difference there. Now I'm wanting to get into the numbers. So this is day one of Pure Polyev.
00:07:43.640 This is the Main Street tracking poll that they do a tracking poll every single day of around like
00:07:48.480 1,100, 1,300 people. So we have on day one, Polyev has 28% of people strongly in favor of him, 15%
00:07:56.740 somewhat in favor, and he has 40% strongly unfavorable and 12% somewhat unfavorable.
00:08:03.760 Really bad numbers starting out. I believe that's like a negative nine or something like that.
00:08:08.220 Super bad. I have someone who's like calculated it elsewhere. I just don't want to do the addition
00:08:13.240 and subtraction here. And then on day 14, so like yesterday, he was at 33% strongly favorable,
00:08:22.220 15% somewhat unfavorable, 12% somewhat unfavorable, 34% very unfavorable, which makes sense because
00:08:30.600 there's MVP and liberal partisans who are always going to say they hate your guts. Same thing happens
00:08:34.760 with Carney. Any conservative is always going to say they're strongly not in favor of him. But let's
00:08:39.960 look at the difference there. So it went from 40% unfavorable, 12% somewhat unfavorable. It's still 12%
00:08:46.880 somewhat unfavorable, but you have dropped the super unfavorable, very unfavorable, dropped 6%.
00:08:53.660 Now let's go to day one of Mark Carney. He had 30% day one strongly in favor, 24% somewhat in favor.
00:09:03.540 That is over 50%, 54% approval rating here. And then he only has 28% strongly not in favor of him,
00:09:11.920 11% somewhat unfavorable. And then there's still 8% undecided. Let's jump to day 14.
00:09:19.340 Now we have 33% up from 28, 33% very unfavorable. We have the somewhat unfavorable is the same,
00:09:28.680 11%. Very favorable is 32% and somewhat favorable is 19%. He used to be on, like his very favorable
00:09:37.040 has moved up a couple points, but the somewhat has dropped back a lot. Now I want to jump over now
00:09:44.040 to the person who's actually calculated this because the swing is quite dramatic here. It's
00:09:49.560 Shrey Attiste on Twitter. You guys should all go give him a follow. He does really good polling analysis.
00:09:54.820 He puts everything into his own model on polywave.com. But he says right here, both Polyev and
00:10:01.760 Carney now have a positive approval rating, plus 7 for Carney and plus 2 for Polyev. Compared to the
00:10:07.760 first day of the campaign, Carney had a plus 15 and Polyev had a minus 9 approval rating. So
00:10:13.540 Carney has gone down 8% with his approval rating, while Polyev has gone up 11%. That is a massive swing.
00:10:21.500 And it speaks to the idea I have been ballyhooing since this election started off. The liberals started
00:10:27.340 in a honeymoon period. You swap out Justin Trudeau, who was the bubonic plague for the liberals with
00:10:33.160 anybody, and they're going to shoot up in the approval ratings, both national polls as well as
00:10:38.020 the leader's approval. Same thing happened when Brian Mulroney was swapped out for Kim Campbell.
00:10:43.520 Same thing happened Joe Biden to Kamala Harris. That even happened between Stefan Dion and Michael
00:10:48.680 Ignatieff, who got absolutely clobbered in 2011 by Stephen Harper. This stuff obviously was not going
00:10:56.560 to last forever. It's a temporary boost because people were artificially giving that second, third
00:11:02.200 look at the liberals thinking maybe they've changed when the entire front bench the party, the cabinet,
00:11:08.000 the parties even, the rest of caucus is the same in the liberal party. And they're marketing this to
00:11:13.800 us like it's any different. My friend Chase Zaba, he's also somebody who's worth giving a follow to.
00:11:19.220 I'll even link this post in the description below. If you guys want to go and give Chase Zaba a follow,
00:11:24.280 he's been putting out some good stats here. Chase Zaba here says, interesting, most polls for most
00:11:30.900 polling firms have reported a notable decrease in liberal support over the last days. Main Street has
00:11:36.140 had the liberals lose 0.9% over the last day. Liaison has had them lose 2%. And Nanos has had the liberals
00:11:43.700 lose 2.5%. In fact, in the Nanos poll, who has not been friendly to the conservatives at all,
00:11:50.480 I believe they still lead the conservatives by a couple points or so, or actually might still be like
00:11:54.860 five points. But there's been a 4% swing in like the past three days in the Nanos poll. And then we go
00:12:01.320 down Chase notes. Meanwhile, conservatives are up in Main Street by one point, liaison by one and
00:12:06.800 Nanos by one. So if you can combine the Nanos negative and positive for the conservatives, there
00:12:12.420 has been a 2.6% swing for the conservatives in this election. Like I've been saying, we are leaving the
00:12:21.400 honeymoon period, we are almost through it. And then we are into a real election. Now I just want to
00:12:27.540 quickly bring up some other stuff regarding Trump and what issues people care about in this election.
00:12:33.300 This isn't exactly a polling video, but we're analyzing kind of what are, what's the issues of
00:12:38.360 this election. So I want to find this poll. It's actually not a poll. It's a basically a word
00:12:43.940 association thing. This is what I find so silly. It's called from Kolsowski Strategies. They asked
00:12:50.940 liberal supporters basically what motivates them to vote. And these are the word clouds that motivate
00:12:56.700 liberals. And you can see Trump is the biggest word here. It's Trump. The words that they say the
00:13:03.100 most are Trump, Canada, Carney, leader. So they're probably, we want leadership against Trump to
00:13:09.800 protect Canada is the most generic way of summing up what liberals think. Even the economy there,
00:13:15.860 the economy might be only like the fifth biggest word, where if you actually go to the conservatives,
00:13:21.880 it's liberals, liberal, they really don't like the liberals. But then the next, one of the next
00:13:27.220 biggest things is taxes and then government tax corruption, a lot more of the conservative voters
00:13:34.380 care about the issues domestically. And I don't even think Trump's even on here, like the WEF's on
00:13:41.580 here, very small. Notice how Pierre's name is so small. It's just Pierre. Maybe there's a Polly up here
00:13:47.480 too. And the Carney's name is even small. But conservatives do not vote simply in opposition
00:13:54.260 of Donald Trump in the United States, because it's silly. It's foolish to be making your vote
00:13:59.580 based on who you abstractly think is going to upset the president of the United States that you don't
00:14:05.820 like. That is just foolhardy. And it's usually people who are far too economically, like they're very
00:14:12.440 economically secure people voting this way because they have the money to basically ignore real issues
00:14:17.700 and just vote in this silly way. And so, yeah, this is actually one thing that the conservatives
00:14:23.780 have been doing well. They've been really stripping the bark off of Carney and going after him on like
00:14:28.960 a corruption level, because the idea of Carney was that he is a fresh start for the liberals.
00:14:34.820 All you have here says, Carney hid his company's money in Bermuda to avoid the same taxes liberals
00:14:39.700 hiked for everyday Canadians. He could have chosen Canada, but instead Carney sheltered his company's
00:14:44.740 money overseas and moved his headquarters out of Canada to Trump's America. He literally moved
00:14:51.380 Brookfield Asset Management from Toronto to New York City. It's absolutely ridiculous that he was
00:14:58.820 able to get away with that and not have people call him out for not being patriotic. Anyways, so that
00:15:03.980 should be it for me today here. I think that we're going to continue seeing this trend go as we
00:15:09.600 move forward that Polyev is going to keep moving up his popularity. Carney is going to keep moving
00:15:14.220 down. I think they're going to be at parity at some point here. And I think the debate is really going
00:15:18.560 to make a difference. The polls are already starting to shift towards the conservatives. Many of them
00:15:23.100 haven't quite gotten there yet. But even pollsters are saying a lot of these other pollsters are not
00:15:27.620 polling the election right. They are allowing massive response biases to guide what their polls look like.
00:15:35.060 They're not actually making any effort to go and reach out to people who usually don't answer polls,
00:15:40.100 like people who work in trades, farmers, whatnot. The problem with polls is many polls are kind of
00:15:45.180 opt-in. You sign up to be part of the sample. And who signs up to be part of the samples? Public sector
00:15:50.420 workers, downtown office workers, people who have a lot of time on their hands, not guys who are
00:15:55.400 electricians or farmers. Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. Remember to like the video,
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