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Ryan Bridge: Too early for National leader switcharoos · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Our look on the issue of the pole. Everyone's been
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  Speaker 1: texting about this one this morning. It's too early to
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  Speaker 1: tell whether National should switch leaders. We've had one poll
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  Speaker 1: last night with the Left Bloc winning.
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  Speaker 2: The tables have turned on National's coalition government, putting even
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  Speaker 2: more pressure on the prime minister. National crashing down four
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  Speaker 2: points now on thirty percent, and another serious hit for
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Luxen down four points to sixteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if that case were to eventuate, it probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: eventuate in the way that it's being reported right now.
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand first, I think, would step in to rescue
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  Speaker 1: Labor from departy Mardi and soften the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Greens if there wasn't enough support on the right to
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  Speaker 1: form a government. You can't tell me that Winston wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: do a deal with his devil to keep the left honest.
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  Speaker 1: But back to Luxen and the leadership for a second.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a bad poll, no doubt about it, but
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  Speaker 1: there have been plenty of late with the Right keeping
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  Speaker 1: the treasury benches. That's why most of his cabinet keeps
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  Speaker 1: his support. That and the fact that nobody else seems
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  Speaker 1: confident in enough that actually do a better job and
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  Speaker 1: improve those numbers. The next best preferred prime minister for
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  Speaker 1: the NATS is Bishop on two percent. Until it's clear
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  Speaker 1: in not just one poll, but a trend of polls,
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  Speaker 1: that these guys wouldn't be part of a cabinet because
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have the numbers to form one in the
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  Speaker 1: first place, then the leadership won't change. There's still plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time before election day. There's more than six months
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  Speaker 1: to go, and a lot can change by then too.
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  Speaker 1: Descenda didn't need long to turn and transform Little's vote
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  Speaker 1: into enough support to seize powdered cheap. This idea that
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  Speaker 1: all must be decided this Tuesday or next Tuesday, before
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  Speaker 1: Luxon's trip to Singapore ahead of the budget that follows
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  Speaker 1: it is a red hearing Caucus would be making a
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  Speaker 1: decision without enough time to gather the facts and without
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  Speaker 1: confidence in a decent replacement.
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