Even if that’s how it goes, I think his days are numbered. There’s 100% a couple of rivals in dark rooms right now, calling around trying to get the numbers to oust him as leader. Whether they’ll be successful, I don’t know, but this is such a dramatic snatch of defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s only been a couple of months since the Conservatives were 30 points up. That can’t all be blamed on Poilievre, but there will be those within the party who will. Party unity will be shot.
I’m not so sure about the “jaws of Victory” bit. I think that Canadians were just fed up with Trudeau, couldn’t bring themselves to vote NDP and ended up polling Conservative. So it wasn’t really support for PP, but unsupport for Trudeau.
Take Trudeau out of the equation and the Liberals came flooding back to the party.
I think so too. I think they just wanted a more traditional centrist candidate than Trudeau. Not that he’s anywhere near as left as he’s painted to be.
Even if that’s how it goes, I think his days are numbered. There’s 100% a couple of rivals in dark rooms right now, calling around trying to get the numbers to oust him as leader. Whether they’ll be successful, I don’t know, but this is such a dramatic snatch of defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s only been a couple of months since the Conservatives were 30 points up. That can’t all be blamed on Poilievre, but there will be those within the party who will. Party unity will be shot.
I’m not so sure about the “jaws of Victory” bit. I think that Canadians were just fed up with Trudeau, couldn’t bring themselves to vote NDP and ended up polling Conservative. So it wasn’t really support for PP, but unsupport for Trudeau.
Take Trudeau out of the equation and the Liberals came flooding back to the party.
I think so too. I think they just wanted a more traditional centrist candidate than Trudeau. Not that he’s anywhere near as left as he’s painted to be.