Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Ryan Bridge: Is it too late for the Nats to roll Luxon?

Transcript

Ryan Bridge: Is it too late for the Nats to roll Luxon? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The battle for the right and center right vote, I
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: think is the most interesting thing about the election, let's
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: be honest, because it's the battle that's going to determine
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: who wears the pants in the next government. I'm still
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: of the view that the Coalition will be re elected.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: The makeup of the cabinet, though, is what they're now
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: fighting for. That's why over the past week we've seen
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: the biggest dust ups between the three parties currently sitting
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: on the treasury benches. When was the last time you
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: heard anything or from to party Mardi. The lefts being
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: quite fascinated by and in top or opportunities they now
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: call themselves. In some ways this is a function of
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: the media oxygen. Fighting, albeit with gloves on, between coalition
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: partners is quite newsworthy. Punch too hard and the thing
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: could collapse before we make it through the next ninety
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: five days. Punch too soft and you might not make
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: it out the other side. On November seventh, the right
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: is battling for the same group of voters. Luxe and
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: ruling out Top was an attempt to pull some formerly
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: blue voters back to the Mother's but their polling is
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: still at a point where they would lose some big
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: names Goldsmith Bishop Potentially if things don't turn around, the
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: fundamentals i e. The economy and how we feel about
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: it won't change dramatically in the next few months. So
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: this is now a battle of wills. Who has the stamina,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: who has the discipline not to blow it and go
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: off course on the campaign. Will the Nats pull a
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Hail Mary Jacinda last moment move and roll Luxen for
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: fear that his foot and mouth disease strikes again and
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: they lose even more of that soft center. That is
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: going to be a question that will keep being asked
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: until probably something changes. For more from Early edition with
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to News Talks it be from
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: five am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.