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Andrew Dickens: Is Luxon in trouble? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Cam Satter say what you like about him. He can
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  Speaker 1: certainly write. His head is ups and downs. He's paid
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  Speaker 1: for some bad behavior, but he has good flow in
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  Speaker 1: his writing. He always had a good contact book. But
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  Speaker 1: whether those contacts still talk to him as anybody's guess.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, he's now renamed Whale Oil to a website
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  Speaker 1: called good Oil, and yesterday he wrote a think piece
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  Speaker 1: called the coming National Coup. He reckons Christopher Luckson's continued
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  Speaker 1: bad numbers means the National Party is now seriously talking
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  Speaker 1: about replacing him as leader. Even cams and on game
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  Speaker 1: these days, he claims sources inside caucus say that Luxon
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  Speaker 1: has three months to turn around his numbers. He claims
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  Speaker 1: that women don't like Luxon, people who believe in anything
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  Speaker 1: don't like Christopher because nobody knows what he believes. Kam
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  Speaker 1: Satter says his coalition partners know what they believe, and
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  Speaker 1: he says the free marketeers can go with Act, the
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  Speaker 1: Nationalists can go with New Zealand first, so who's going
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  Speaker 1: to go with Christopher? He says the opposition can smell blood,
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  Speaker 1: and then he lumps the media into the opposition camp,
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  Speaker 1: even though of course he is acting like an opposition
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  Speaker 1: right now with this opinion, but slowly Christopher Luxon seems
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  Speaker 1: to be losing the support of the center right according
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  Speaker 1: to cam Slater, not that he had much in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. To be fair, he was never given a
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  Speaker 1: honeymoon period. I think the electric could see that he
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  Speaker 1: had a very performative nature in his politics. But these
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  Speaker 1: are easy editorials to write, and everyone can point out
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  Speaker 1: the flaws and the problems with anything. Only the truly
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  Speaker 1: talented can provide a solution. So if the problem as
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Luxen, what is the answer? Is it Willis? Is
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  Speaker 1: it Bishop? Is it Stamford or is it Simeon? There
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  Speaker 1: the next four on the list. You want to go deeper?
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  Speaker 1: Would Mitchell, Goldsmith or Collins be any better than Christopher Luxon?
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  Speaker 1: Fkam is correct and a coup is coming inside the
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  Speaker 1: next three months? Could that be National shooting itself in
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  Speaker 1: the foot? Well, of course it is. Did they learn
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  Speaker 1: nothing from all the long years in opposition where they
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  Speaker 1: chopped and changed their leader without going forward in any way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form. For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge,
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