The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 25, 2025


The Media is interfering in Pierre Poilievre's by-election! (Dishonest tactics)


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Wyatt Claypool talks about the obvious campaign being put on by the liberal media to hurt Pierre Polyev in the upcoming Battle River-Crowfoot by-election, and why it's a complete waste of time.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. We need to talk about the very obvious campaign being put on by the liberal media to try and hurt Pierre Polyev in the Battle River Crowfoot by-election.
00:00:13.340 I'm going to say right from the start, there's no chance that Polyev is going to lose this by-election. I know he lost Carlton, but if you actually look at the historical results from Carlton, Polyev only ever really won that riding by a 10% margin.
00:00:28.760 It was actually fairly impressive that he had been the MP from there since 2004, because that used to be a more traditional liberal riding back in the day.
00:00:37.600 And the fact that him door-knocking the entire riding two times over every election only resulted in a 10% margin of victory is quite telling of how sensitive, how delicate his actual hold on it was.
00:00:50.840 I think that whoever in the Conservative Party HQ suggested he just run there again when he was leader and didn't have any time to actually door-knock his own riding is a complete fool.
00:01:00.820 But that is not the situation in Battle River Crowfoot. It's not just, well, he lost in Carlton, he could lose anywhere. You cannot lose in Battle River Crowfoot.
00:01:09.020 But Damien Couric, in the general, got 86% of the vote. And now he's stepped down for Pierre Polyev. And this riding is not exactly anti-Polyev.
00:01:19.740 They voted for Damien Couric by massive margins, in large part because they like the Conservative Party under Pierre Polyev right now.
00:01:27.940 There's no one turning on Polyev because they love Damien Couric so much and they can't stand that Polyev is replacing him.
00:01:34.420 That doesn't really represent that many people. I guarantee there's a lot of people who really like Damien Couric, but there's not that many people who don't understand how politics work and that the leader wants to be in Parliament for the rest of his caucus
00:01:46.640 and that it would be good to have somebody step down so that the leader can take the seat.
00:01:52.060 Anyone pretending that this is weird does not understand how parliamentary politics work.
00:01:57.600 William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest serving Prime Minister in Canadian history, did this twice.
00:02:02.920 He lost two ridings when he was the Prime Minister and then had to run again in a by-election to get a seat back in Parliament.
00:02:10.720 It's not that strange. But the media is playing this up like there's a possibility that Polyev could actually lose because they are propping up an astroturfed independent candidate by the name of Bonnie Crickley.
00:02:24.240 Is she a bad person? No. I don't really have any opinions on her.
00:02:27.360 She's obviously far more liberal than she lets on. She goes on liberal podcasts. She goes on liberal television shows.
00:02:33.960 You can tell by the way she sort of positions her opinions.
00:02:37.380 She has very generic liberal opinions, but she's acting like a peer-centrist in this by-election.
00:02:42.880 But this has nothing to do with her. This has to do with the media who are pretending she's got a chance because there are articles coming out from different media outlets saying this.
00:02:52.380 And this is rare for me, but I'm going to actually be giving a compliment to Kyle Hutton from the Green Party because he's written a very good article calling people out for this election misinformation, playing this up as a tight race when it is not at all a tight race.
00:03:07.120 But before I get into more details, guys, I just want to remind you, hey, if you like this podcast, make sure to leave a like on the video, subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment on what you think about the situation.
00:03:20.200 I like reading through what people think, and it really does help us on the algorithm.
00:03:24.660 Anyways, so here is the article written by Kyle Hutton, and it is titled,
00:03:30.400 And Kyle Hutton, who again, I've had a lot of disagreements on, I know he doesn't like me, I think does a really good job of calling out many media outlets at the start of this article.
00:03:48.700 We're not going to read through the whole thing, I just want to read through a few paragraphs of it because I think he does frame this in a good way.
00:03:54.980 And then I want to get into just the absurd amount of promotion of this Bonnie lady, by people who do not live in the riding, and that's not bad, but there is no local grassroots movement for Bonnie locally.
00:04:09.240 All of the content is people outside, and then you might see a picture of Bonnie and like one other person.
00:04:14.880 There's not exactly a mass movement behind her.
00:04:17.020 She couldn't exactly put on a town hall without bussing in people from out of the riding in order to listen to her.
00:04:23.040 But Kyle starts this article off saying,
00:04:25.880 For some reason, media is trying to manufacture a race in Battle River Crowfoot by election.
00:04:31.540 So far, I've seen multiple media figures and publications attempt to boost the profile of a single independent candidate named Bonnie Crickley.
00:04:39.780 The most recent is Max Fawcett in the National Observer, who talks about Crickley, concerns about separatists, and so on, so forth.
00:04:47.880 But she's also being interviewed and profiled on the CBC National Post and the Calgary Herald.
00:04:53.920 The fact the last two are post-media owned as well, it makes it very funny.
00:04:58.140 And he means that because post-media tends to be more conservative overall, but they're also playing up Bonnie Crickley as a potentially, you know, significant figure.
00:05:07.440 I don't think it's because it's like a bipartisan consensus that this race may be tighter than people think.
00:05:12.440 I think she became newsworthy, so the National Post also covered it.
00:05:16.500 But most of the people who've been playing her up early were from the left.
00:05:20.780 Maxwell Fawcett, CBC Power and Politics, David Cochran.
00:05:24.660 You have Laura Babcock on her podcast, and we're going to get to a TikToker later.
00:05:29.260 But it's all obviously artificial.
00:05:31.060 He goes on to say, Kyle says,
00:06:01.060 And then basically he just goes through, and I'll link the article in the description below.
00:06:06.160 You guys can go read it.
00:06:07.180 One of the few things someone from the Green Party has written that I think is good.
00:06:11.180 But scenario one is Pierre takes riding for granted, independent screening ground.
00:06:15.280 And yeah, that's not really still feasible.
00:06:17.820 He goes through that.
00:06:19.200 Scenario two, separatists or other cranks get momentum.
00:06:22.080 No, there's really no separatists even running in that riding.
00:06:24.720 And he goes on to say, Pierre sucks.
00:06:27.240 That'll do him in, just like Carlton.
00:06:29.800 But he goes through and debunks that Carlton was ever that safe a seat in the first place.
00:06:34.660 But yeah, so check out that article if you want to see the full reasoning.
00:06:39.240 But now I want to jump over to what I see as the AstroTurfed campaign, which even Kyle Hutton on the left sees.
00:06:47.940 There are so many people creating graphics and other things for Bonnie Crickley's campaign that are obviously not coming from her.
00:06:57.120 This person who is named Saucy Seawitch, who I don't think I have to tell you does not live in Battle River Crowfoot, says support Bonnie Crickley, independent in Battle River Crowfoot, to be elected as the representative who actually lives in the riding.
00:07:11.760 A person who won't abandon constituents to help keep a 20-year career politician in place.
00:07:16.820 Okay, well, I am waiting for all these people to get very mad at Mark Carney for running in Nepean when he wasn't living in Nepean.
00:07:25.580 In fact, he didn't have a permanent address, apparently, in Canada when he was running for prime minister.
00:07:31.080 Nobody was freaking out about that.
00:07:32.420 Nobody cares that he unseated.
00:07:34.040 He just told the liberal candidate in that riding to go pack sand and it was his turn.
00:07:38.620 Nobody cared when Mark Carney did it, but everyone cares when, for some reason, like, Pierre Polyev's doing it for good reason.
00:07:47.820 He's not just inserting himself in the political scene.
00:07:49.940 He was already on the political scene.
00:07:51.520 He's the leader.
00:07:52.400 He needs a seat and someone voluntarily stepped down.
00:07:55.220 But here is this other person, Aaron Graham, saying Battle River Crowfoot riding, independent in Canada.
00:08:00.140 Bonnie Crickley is running against Pierre Polyev.
00:08:03.220 And you, you know, here's a video of her talking just so we get a little bit of a sample of what she's like. 0.87
00:08:08.620 How's it doing, everyone?
00:08:11.200 We're at the Hardesty Rodeo.
00:08:13.140 It's a little wet, a little muddy.
00:08:15.400 We're all out here.
00:08:16.580 We ain't gonna melt in the rain.
00:08:19.360 We're not made of sugar.
00:08:21.180 Let's support some locals.
00:08:23.340 We're all out here.
00:08:26.820 Yeah, she's hard at work campaigning, seeing as she's just at a rodeo, not actually with any literature, not talking to anybody.
00:08:33.700 You might see quite quickly, this person is not actually really a real candidate.
00:08:39.860 Here is her on the Ryan Jesperson Show, a large radio show and podcast in Alberta.
00:08:45.360 They voted for this guy and he ran away.
00:08:47.980 He abandoned his duty to them.
00:08:49.900 You're kind of trying to convince longtime conservative voters to vote against the party they've always voted for.
00:08:54.540 Do you think that they're mad enough to vote against the conservatives for an independent candidate?
00:08:58.580 Absolutely, and I'm not the one who's saying that.
00:09:02.160 The funny thing is, notice how she's not telling people, well, you know, I have never been a conservative, but I think you can maybe agree with my ideas, or I've been a longtime conservative myself.
00:09:11.820 She's a liberal, and that's the problem here. 1.00
00:09:13.980 It's dishonest.
00:09:15.080 Well, she has a cowboy hat on. 1.00
00:09:16.540 She's a local.
00:09:17.380 She's, you know, wanting to represent your voice.
00:09:19.740 It's like, but you're not their voice.
00:09:21.660 They have conservative values.
00:09:23.540 You don't.
00:09:24.720 Great.
00:09:25.440 You served in, as a, like, in the military.
00:09:28.300 I think I heard that she was, like, the second woman ever to, like, to be in an armored division in an actual combat role.
00:09:35.780 Great.
00:09:36.640 Okay.
00:09:37.340 But just because somebody who is a communist or a fascist or, you know, some Green Party type hippie lives in a riding doesn't mean that they represent the riding.
00:09:47.980 Same thing in a very downtown progressive riding.
00:09:51.340 Just because you, as, like, a red meat conservative live in a downtown progressive riding doesn't mean that you really represent the views of the people who live there. 0.58
00:09:59.480 You maybe want people to change their views and vote for you, but it's dishonest basically pitching yourself as, oh, I'm just grassroots.
00:10:06.440 I'm just, I'm people's local.
00:10:08.140 You're not because you don't agree with their political stances.
00:10:12.000 You're just some local person.
00:10:13.440 Anyone could run by this standard if they're local.
00:10:15.900 And I don't exactly think that being local to the riding is necessarily the end-all and be-all.
00:10:22.120 Guess what?
00:10:22.780 There's a lot of terrible people who live around you that shouldn't represent the area.
00:10:27.160 I wouldn't mind if someone came from Quebec to represent my riding if they were more in line with the values of myself.
00:10:34.260 That's just how politics works.
00:10:35.700 People vote for values, not for location.
00:10:38.620 Location helps sometimes.
00:10:40.200 Sometimes it demonstrates that someone's more informed in the area.
00:10:43.340 I always find the fact that someone doesn't live in the riding is more of the cherry on top of them being a bad candidate.
00:10:49.600 It's all of our neighbors who are saying that.
00:10:51.760 People are choked.
00:10:53.640 Keurig sold us out to the angry guy from Ottawa.
00:10:56.420 For us to have an election and then promptly have to go back another $2 million by-election,
00:11:01.900 because the guy we just voted in, who asked us for a mandate, suddenly turns around and says,
00:11:06.940 no, I don't think so.
00:11:08.240 Vote this guy in instead.
00:11:09.460 It didn't sit right with me.
00:11:10.900 And I'm like, I looked around, said somebody should do something about it.
00:11:13.820 So I looked at what was happening when Mr. Keurig stepped down and said, that's not right.
00:11:19.120 So I stood up.
00:11:20.720 Victory for me.
00:11:21.360 Again, I await to see her sub-stack articles on why it was so terrible back in the day for liberal MPs to step down
00:11:28.820 so William Lyon Mackenzie King could take their seat.
00:11:31.840 That's also happened for other prime ministers, too.
00:11:34.440 This stupid moral panic.
00:11:36.460 Oh, it's not the local guy.
00:11:37.920 We're going to have to pay $2 million to run a new election.
00:11:40.480 I await seeing your social media history sharing Taxpayer Federation articles and Fraser Institute articles
00:11:48.580 that are going on about wasteful spending in government.
00:11:51.420 Do you actually care?
00:11:52.560 No, it's concern-trolling.
00:11:54.020 Oh, I'm concerned about this.
00:11:55.340 No, you're not.
00:11:56.200 You just don't like Pauli.
00:11:57.380 The fact that you parodied him by just saying, he's the angry guy from Ottawa.
00:12:01.820 He's also born in Alberta.
00:12:04.220 He grew up in Calgary.
00:12:06.100 So settle down a little bit.
00:12:07.500 Oh, he's the angry guy from Ottawa.
00:12:10.520 Yeah, tell that to the entire writing of people who really like him.
00:12:14.120 That they're just voting for some angry guy from Ottawa.
00:12:17.840 And that there was nothing else to his popularity.
00:12:20.420 Especially in the writing that voted conservative by the widest margin in the entire country.
00:12:25.520 But now I want to get over to a TikToker who's also talking about him. 1.00
00:12:29.840 Or Bonnie Crickley, her. 1.00
00:12:32.680 And again, all these people.
00:12:34.920 All of the people promoting her.
00:12:37.340 Are the most metropolitan people I've ever seen.
00:12:39.580 I wanted to get more examples for you guys today.
00:12:42.220 Do you know why I couldn't find you guys more examples?
00:12:45.320 Or I could have.
00:12:46.100 I just eventually gave up.
00:12:47.520 Every single person who was promoting her.
00:12:50.480 Almost to a man or woman.
00:12:52.860 Had blocked me preemptively.
00:12:55.060 So I was looking at all these tweets.
00:12:56.240 I'm like, oh, I'll bookmark that one as a good example.
00:12:58.320 Of somebody with rainbow flag as their profile picture.
00:13:02.500 Pronouns in the bio.
00:13:03.560 You know, like, screw Polyev is their profile name or whatever.
00:13:06.700 And it's like 3,000 likes or whatever.
00:13:09.220 And it's like they live in Toronto.
00:13:10.560 Or this person lives in Nova Scotia.
00:13:12.340 Or this person lives in Victoria.
00:13:14.680 Yeah, it's fake.
00:13:15.760 All these people.
00:13:16.320 These are the most metropolitan people on the planet.
00:13:18.780 Backing somebody up.
00:13:19.640 Who, while they may live there, is not exactly a Battle River Crowfoot beacon.
00:13:27.220 This is not someone who exactly represents the political voice they're writing.
00:13:30.500 But here is somebody promoting her.
00:13:32.140 Here's what you need to know about the Battle River Crowfoot by-election.
00:13:36.140 As of today, there are 178 candidates registered to run.
00:13:40.960 Majority of those candidates are from the longest ballot committee.
00:13:44.360 They're advocating for electoral reform.
00:13:46.660 They're advocating for a ranked ballot voting system.
00:13:50.620 No, they're not.
00:13:52.160 They're just idiots.
00:13:53.300 If they truly cared about electoral reform, they would try and actually get it on a referendum
00:13:58.560 ballot in one of these provinces and win for once.
00:14:00.740 My last video was on the fact that in three separate provinces, they have lost every single
00:14:05.580 electoral reform referendum that's ever been put up.
00:14:08.880 So no, I don't trust that they actually care about reform because they know what they're
00:14:12.500 doing doesn't actually promote the reform.
00:14:14.300 And they've been told in all these provincial referendums that the reform has not popular.
00:14:19.420 What they're doing is a protest to our current electoral system.
00:14:23.140 What they're advocating for is for people to be able to vote for the candidate that they
00:14:27.340 most want to win and rank them as number one and then rank the least favorite candidate last.
00:14:33.520 It's actually better for everyone and better for democracy because your vote would never
00:14:37.080 be wasted with ranked ballot voting.
00:14:39.760 He's eventually going to get to Bonnie correctly, but it's actually good that this is here.
00:14:44.940 That's not true.
00:14:46.860 I don't value if you feel like your vote was wasted or not.
00:14:51.640 Oh, I voted for someone and they didn't win.
00:14:53.280 Do I get a second choice?
00:14:54.560 Do I get a third choice?
00:14:55.440 You're dumb enough to vote for somebody who had no chance.
00:14:59.000 What do I want?
00:14:59.740 I don't want our elected officials to be ultimate compromise people that we all, okay, everyone's
00:15:06.300 fifth choice won.
00:15:07.340 It's like, okay, so we got the worst possible person, the person who everyone agreed with
00:15:11.660 like 15%, but I guess they didn't agree with them 0%.
00:15:14.680 I would rather we elect people that 40% of people voted for rather than 60% of people who all
00:15:22.340 eventually got down to some fourth or fifth choice and nobody really either.
00:15:27.060 The guy who won only got like 22% of the vote on the first ballot.
00:15:30.820 That doesn't inspire me at all.
00:15:33.280 That's bad for government, but I'll let this guy keep going.
00:15:36.040 But anyways, also running in the Battle River Crowfoot by-election is Pierre Polyev.
00:15:41.440 Pierre does not like the longest ballot committee and he wants the liberal government to table
00:15:45.900 legislation this fall to essentially get rid of them.
00:15:49.160 Good.
00:15:50.020 Pierre is also still posting about Justin Trudeau over on his ex-account and I did check all
00:15:55.240 the candidates that were running in the by-election and I can confirm none of them are Justin Trudeau,
00:16:01.060 who is running in that.
00:16:02.220 Oh, wow.
00:16:03.260 Wow.
00:16:03.720 Really?
00:16:05.020 Cool.
00:16:05.440 It's not like he's still posting about things that have to do with Justin Trudeau's record
00:16:09.400 when he wanted to blame Mark Carney for everything going on.
00:16:12.100 That would be unfair.
00:16:13.480 But, you know, smug face McSmuggington here knows that Justin Trudeau was not in fact on
00:16:19.780 the ballot, but Pierre Polyev mentioned him at one point this week.
00:16:23.300 By-election though is Bonnie Critchley and she is running as an independent and Pierre's team
00:16:27.560 is somewhat nervous.
00:16:29.600 She is the one candidate.
00:16:30.960 Show me anything.
00:16:32.100 Show me a single person from Pierre Polyev's team who is nervous because of Bonnie.
00:16:38.900 Name any of them.
00:16:39.500 Name any of them.
00:16:40.660 Show a tweet.
00:16:41.700 Show even something that if you really squint, you could kind of see that the person is only
00:16:46.700 criticizing her because they might be concerned by her.
00:16:49.300 They don't even acknowledge her existence because she's a nothing. 0.65
00:16:53.200 She's astroturf. 1.00
00:16:54.280 There's nothing real but her campaign.
00:16:56.580 Out of all the other candidates that seems to have some momentum behind her.
00:17:00.740 And depending on the turnout and depending if people unite around one specific candidate
00:17:05.900 to vote for to make sure that Pierre Polyev doesn't get elected and they don't split the
00:17:11.380 votes trying to make sure that Pierre doesn't get elected, she could have a fair shot at winning 0.99
00:17:16.340 this.
00:17:16.700 She could have a fair shot of winning this, an 86% conservative riding.
00:17:22.420 She could have a fair shot of winning this if the other 14% get behind Bonnie Critchley. 1.00
00:17:27.960 If we really concentrate, we can somehow win in a riding where the conservatives win by Saddam 0.99
00:17:34.400 Hussein numbers.
00:17:36.260 This man failed fifth grade math if he thinks that this is how anything works.
00:17:41.480 He doesn't follow elections.
00:17:42.700 She has momentum because I heard someone talking about her in a downtown Toronto Starbucks.
00:17:48.760 Somebody who watches the CBC religiously in Toronto knew who she was.
00:17:52.860 Ergo people who go to rodeos are going to vote for Bonnie Critchley who has liberal values 0.99
00:17:57.660 that they don't like.
00:17:58.620 So if you are somebody who just does not want Pierre Polyev to win in that riding, whether
00:18:03.460 you're a conservative, a liberal, an NDP or an independent voter, I would say rally around
00:18:09.300 Bonnie Critchley.
00:18:10.160 She has the best chance of making sure that Pierre doesn't win.
00:18:13.980 Can we get a, can I get a, can I get a definition of what, of what like best chance means?
00:18:22.560 What does best chance of beating Polyev mean in this scenario?
00:18:25.820 What, what the heck is going on?
00:18:27.520 I guess she has a better chance of winning than one of the longest ballot committee candidates 1.00
00:18:32.000 living in like Gatineau who just randomly signed their name onto the ballot.
00:18:36.320 I guess technically Bonnie has a better chance of winning over those people. 1.00
00:18:42.380 If Polyev dies in a plane crash, I guess she has a chance of winning. 0.98
00:18:48.120 She does not have a chance of winning.
00:18:50.100 The reason the media and influencers and other people on social media are trying to get behind
00:18:55.860 Bonnie is because it would be too obvious of what was going on if they're telling you
00:18:59.900 to vote for the local liberal candidate.
00:19:01.680 Mark my words, Bonnie Critchley, or don't mark my words, I could be wrong.
00:19:06.460 Guys, mark my words if I'm right, if I'm wrong, assume I didn't say this.
00:19:10.880 I could see genuinely the liberal candidate doing better than Bonnie Critchley.
00:19:16.720 The NDP candidate may do better than Bonnie Critchley because nobody knows who she is. 0.61
00:19:21.840 Most people do not exist on Twitter.
00:19:25.580 Most people do not scroll all day on Instagram.
00:19:29.500 People read local papers.
00:19:31.920 They listen to YouTube shows not about just really obscure independent candidates that the
00:19:38.440 CBC is covering.
00:19:40.040 They don't do that because it's stupid.
00:19:42.420 But apparently, again, she's got a chance.
00:19:45.000 Like, if you actually look on, I actually want to look up Bonnie Critchley on Google.
00:19:55.460 I just want to see what the headlines are looking like.
00:20:00.120 So we got Bonnie Critchley here, top stories. 0.77
00:20:03.300 Let's go to news articles.
00:20:04.760 I'll bring this up just so you guys can see.
00:20:09.540 There is so much coverage of somebody who is going to be getting less than 10% of the vote.
00:20:15.000 Oh, red, rdnewssnow.com, or newsnow.com.
00:20:22.520 I read that wrong.
00:20:23.660 Podcast, who the heck is Bonnie Critchley?
00:20:25.840 She's the opponent of Pierpoli in the federal by-election who's now up against 100-plus others.
00:20:31.020 Okay.
00:20:31.740 MSN, meet the military trailblazer who's gunning for Pierpoli in rural Alberta by-election.
00:20:37.800 What, is she printing five signs? 0.84
00:20:39.700 What is she like?
00:20:40.200 Oh, she's on to him.
00:20:42.280 National Post, meet the military trailblazer.
00:20:44.140 That's another one.
00:20:44.960 It's the same one.
00:20:46.660 Strathmore, now independent Bonnie Critchley, wants to be the next MP for Battle River Crowfoot.
00:20:52.040 CBC, Alberta by-election Canada, reports potentially threatening comments.
00:20:56.100 RCMP, like reporting that she, what?
00:20:59.840 She reported potentially threatening comments to the RCMP and the media is covering that.
00:21:03.300 So somebody said something rude to her, and then she reported it to the RCMP, and now the media is going to cover even that.
00:21:11.460 Bonnie, like, Drumheller online, Bonnie Critchley puts a name for it.
00:21:14.580 Do any people know who she is?
00:21:16.120 I know she has technically some profile in military circles, but I wouldn't consider it enough that you're, like, writing articles on her.
00:21:26.000 A Pierpoli of Safe Seat isn't so safe after all.
00:21:29.160 This is the one that was written by Max Fawcett that Kyle Hutton was referencing.
00:21:33.840 And it's clownish.
00:21:36.000 No, he's not.
00:21:37.120 He's not.
00:21:37.520 It's not safe anymore.
00:21:39.680 Well, he's under threat because some random lady's running who the media is talking about because apparently everyone's going to vote the way that David Cochran would. 0.99
00:21:47.420 But anyways, oh, yeah, it's not going to work.
00:21:50.220 But, again, what they're trying to do here is get enough people to vote for anybody but Polyev that he maybe slumps down towards the mid-60s or something like that in terms of the vote.
00:22:02.180 Maybe low 70s they'll even try and claim victory, and they'll say, whoa, Damien Kirk had 86%, and now Polyev only has 72%.
00:22:09.980 It's like nobody likes him anymore.
00:22:11.920 And then there's going to be panels on CBC, and there's going to be articles written at all the other outlets talking about how is Polyev done?
00:22:19.900 Did Bonnie Crickley getting 3.25% of the vote in Battle River Crowfoot end Polyev's political career?
00:22:27.060 It didn't.
00:22:28.820 Is Polyev going to be the leader of the Conservative Party after January of next year?
00:22:33.280 I don't know.
00:22:33.960 I think it's more likely than not that he's going to stay on as the leader.
00:22:37.100 I think a lot of people still like him.
00:22:38.660 I hope he fires Jenny Byrne.
00:22:40.240 She's awful.
00:22:40.820 It's a stupid decision to keep her around.
00:22:43.300 But whatever.
00:22:44.200 Overall, people still like him.
00:22:46.660 The idea that anyone's going to turn on him because of a slight underperformance underneath Damien Kirk in a by-election is stupid.
00:22:55.340 By-elections also have really weird voter turnouts.
00:22:57.900 So you'll always get the political hardcore showing up, whereas the people who make up the bulk of the electorate are not going to show up.
00:23:05.180 And typically, if you vote for any of the other parties when one party gets 86%, you're probably more likely to be a hardcore for that party.
00:23:13.980 So I have no doubt that Polyev is not going to get 86% of the vote.
00:23:18.300 He's probably going to get like 75% or something like that, 73%.
00:23:21.560 That's perfectly fine.
00:23:23.120 In a by-election where a lot of people aren't motivated to turn out and it's just basically a formality to get the leader back into parliament, that's fine.
00:23:31.160 Even if he fell into the 60s, who cares?
00:23:33.800 This entire election is a formality.
00:23:35.820 And Bonnie Crickley is not a real candidate, and anyone pretending she is should have their journalism card taken away from them. 0.70
00:23:42.820 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys.
00:23:45.860 Just another reminder, if you like the show, like the video, subscribe, leave a comment, do all that other great stuff, and I will see you guys around for next time.
00:23:54.740 I don't know.
00:23:55.020 I really screwed this end thing up.
00:23:56.860 I will see you guys next time.