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Ryan Bridge: Luxon needs more than his base to win the election · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: People hate the media, so hating on the media is
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  Speaker 1: not a bad strategy. It's worked for Winston for many decades,
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  Speaker 1: as we all know. Although the bloke only needs about
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  Speaker 1: ten percent of people to like his style, most find
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  Speaker 1: it a little abrasive. As I've said previously, ministers are
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  Speaker 1: the de facto leaders of caucus. When all the ministers
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  Speaker 1: line up behind their man, no voters going to topple him.
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  Speaker 1: The backbench has just fall into line. It's what they do,
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  Speaker 1: it's what they've always done. The group calling for a
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  Speaker 1: coup starts to look a bit shambolic, like a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of disgruntled employees. Andrew Baileys and your Tim Vander Molins.
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  Speaker 1: That's what has been reported. The only real threat to
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  Speaker 1: Luxen is if Poland gets so bad his cabinet comes
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  Speaker 1: under threat. You need a trend to prove that, not
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  Speaker 1: one pole. As we talked about on Monday, If a
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  Speaker 1: trend emerges where the left block can govern his toast
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  Speaker 1: and he'd probably fall on his sword at that point. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you're leading a party that doesn't get back into government,
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  Speaker 1: what's the point. I had loads of text yesterday from
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  Speaker 1: people on the right raving Luckson finally standing up for
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  Speaker 1: himself and doing something anything to look decisive. So he
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  Speaker 1: performed to the bas yesterday. But you need more than
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  Speaker 1: the base to win an election and former government of course.
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  Speaker 1: And from here the next move is crucial. You need
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  Speaker 1: to flood the market with some bold economic initiatives and
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  Speaker 1: some policy ideas. He wants to talk about the economy.
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  Speaker 1: Get out there and do it. Do the big stuff,
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  Speaker 1: do the hard stuff, make the case for why Luxon
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  Speaker 1: officially has everyone's attention. How he uses it will determine
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  Speaker 1: how longs he keeps his job. For more from Early
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