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Ryan Bridge: Don't underestimate the Trump Bump · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It is Friday, and it is Friday confessional time. With
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  Speaker 1: all the pope passing away and focus on Catholicism, I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling quite repentant this morning. There are two things I
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  Speaker 1: predicted would happen last December as I was signing off,
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  Speaker 1: merely signing off for Christmas here at News Talk ZB.
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  Speaker 1: One of those things hasn't happened, and the other one
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  Speaker 1: is about to not happen. Yev winning the Canadian election
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  Speaker 1: and Elbow losing Australia's We all know who's to blame.
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  Speaker 1: You know who it is, the wildcard, the Cama, Carzee,
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  Speaker 1: the outlaw. It was the Trump bump that did it
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  Speaker 1: for these guys. Carney, while he's won, will have a
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  Speaker 1: very tough term in office given the whole rally around
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  Speaker 1: the Flagpole effect and support of the Canadian sovereignty movement
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  Speaker 1: will fizzle out as quickly as just Sinda's COVID election
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  Speaker 1: high did. The underlying problems Canadians felt before this month
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  Speaker 1: long lovin' will remain, will persist, and this will surely
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  Speaker 1: be his high tide mark. But that's no excuse I
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  Speaker 1: got it wrong, fair cop. And as for Dutton, who's
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  Speaker 1: now been well, looking behind the couch, looking under every
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  Speaker 1: rock and every nook and cranny he can for something
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  Speaker 1: relevant to say. He's now beating up on the return
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  Speaker 1: to country, which during a cost of living crisis people
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  Speaker 1: want not really to hear about, Thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: sort of like when Judith Collins went on the attack
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  Speaker 1: about fat people and that ill fated twenty twenty election campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that if you want to lose weight, then eat less.
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  Speaker 1: Actually not unreasonable thing to say for most people. But
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  Speaker 1: it's the timing, isn't it. It's the timing in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of an election campaign. It's the focus on that
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  Speaker 1: when you should be talking about bigger things. And that
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the elephant in the White House, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: While I predicted he would win last November, I think
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  Speaker 1: most of us underestimated just what America First would mean
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the world. When somebody comes first,
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  Speaker 1: somebody loses, and both Elbow and Karney have been the
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  Speaker 1: benefactors of that. His power, of course, has swung global
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  Speaker 1: political pendulums before. Remember his rise and international the rise
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  Speaker 1: I should say, an international star power of Jacinda Adern
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  Speaker 1: that was really borne out of an anti Trump backlash
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  Speaker 1: from his first term, the liberal, young female prime minister
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  Speaker 1: banning assault weapons and a country post mass shooting becomes
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  Speaker 1: the darling of the global left, just the tonic for
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  Speaker 1: those who not only dislike but actually despise Trump and
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  Speaker 1: his band of Mary Maga supporters. So the political lesson
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  Speaker 1: is don't underestimate the Trump bump or the Trump dump
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  Speaker 1: on any foreign election. The question is what does this
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  Speaker 1: mean for our election next year. We're less affected by
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  Speaker 1: the tariffs unless China implodes. We're not yet being threatened
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  Speaker 1: with invasion, though don't rule that out. And unlike the
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  Speaker 1: Aussies and the Canadians, our incumbents aren't bent to the right.
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  Speaker 1: So the risk of a Trump bump getting chippy over
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  Speaker 1: the line here if you start singing from phel Goff's songbook,
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  Speaker 1: is perhaps more limited, but not nonexistent. When Washington coughs,
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  Speaker 1: somebody gets a colt. How Luxeon and Winston to an
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  Speaker 1: extent navigate the next eighteen months will determine whether it's
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  Speaker 1: them that catches it. For more from Early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge, listen live to News Talk Set B from
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