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Ryan Bridge: world voters are picking certainty at best · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: News Talk set B. It is twenty six minutes after five.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt Donald Trump's brand is dicey at best at home,
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  Speaker 1: but globally. In term one of Donald Trump, the world
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  Speaker 1: watched on with a mix of kind of amusement and
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  Speaker 1: feigned concern. Term two is very different. These results out
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  Speaker 1: of Canada and Australia at the weekend show. The brand
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  Speaker 1: is turned toxic, like a beef Wellington at a family
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  Speaker 1: dinner party. We've all seen the host, the chef tucking in,
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  Speaker 1: but we're thinking, hmm, do we want to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get much closer in Stalin substance to Canada
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  Speaker 1: and Australia when it comes to democracy. Both chained to
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  Speaker 1: the Westminster system we inherited from Mother England, and both
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  Speaker 1: of our cousins have turned on their political oppositions as
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  Speaker 1: Trump up ends the global order to rub salt in
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  Speaker 1: the wound. For both Polyev and Dutton, they lost their
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  Speaker 1: seats as well as their elections. We spoke about this
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, but what is the message here? Trump is toxic.
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  Speaker 1: Pollier's problem was one of style. He sounded in campaigned
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  Speaker 1: too much like Trump. The airport hangar with the branded
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  Speaker 1: plane behind him the shots on the nightly news. People
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  Speaker 1: didn't like that. Dutton's problem was more complicated. First, he
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  Speaker 1: ran a crap campaign, realizing a defense force plan so
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  Speaker 1: expensive it gets funding to three percent of GDP. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we can't take on Elbow's tax cuts and a cost
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  Speaker 1: of living crisis, and then only releasing that plan two
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  Speaker 1: weeks out from a campaign was done, But it was
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  Speaker 1: also about the word economists are spitting out like a
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  Speaker 1: bad stake at the moment, uncertainty. Don't ask Luxon, though
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  Speaker 1: he gave a bizarre response when asked about this yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Have a listen.
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  Speaker 2: What you're seeing is in Singapore, Canada, Australia, the public
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  Speaker 2: voting for governments that have their eyes on the right
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  Speaker 2: things and the right things. For us is to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we don't take our eyes off economic growth. That's
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  Speaker 2: why if we say growth, growth, growth, we keep talking
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  Speaker 2: economics and rebuilding the economy from day one.
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  Speaker 1: That's important. A weird thing to say. Basically, the Aussies
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  Speaker 1: and the Canadian and simply picked the most economically credible
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  Speaker 1: parties in the face of uncertain times. What those parties
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  Speaker 1: he's endorsing are both from the left. That's the equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of kicking his sister parties the Aussie lives in the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Conservatives right in the shins when they're down. It
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  Speaker 1: made no sense. I think you wanted to avoid mentioning
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  Speaker 1: the Trump bump. Maybe what's actually happening here is not
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  Speaker 1: really about parties. In terms of uncertainty, you don't change
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  Speaker 1: your horse. Mid Stream voters stick with what they know.
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  Speaker 1: When the world is in a spin, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: up from down. Human nature, for the most part is
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  Speaker 1: to do nothing and hope it goes away. Why risk
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  Speaker 1: a new government of unknown quantity. Singapore arguably just done
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  Speaker 1: the same. The counterfactional, of course, is obviously America. But
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  Speaker 1: remember the American economy was actually growing for the past
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  Speaker 1: few years, consumer spending was strong, inflation had come down
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  Speaker 1: earlier than ours. So that's a different set of circumstances
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  Speaker 1: as to why they went for Trump. The best comparison
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  Speaker 1: for what's happened in Australia and Canada in the past
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  Speaker 1: week is twenty twenty New Zealand. A bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: really worried about a perceived global threat, rallying around the
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  Speaker 1: flagpole and rejecting a campaign that was neither well run
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  Speaker 1: nor nailing the public mood, which Judith Collin's disastrous twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty attempt didn't whether it was Trump worry reaction to him.
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  Speaker 1: For Luxeon to attribute the fiscal credentials of left wing
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  Speaker 1: parties abroad with their success was an unnecessary own goal.
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