Donald Trump's win in the American election has been a real bonus for other nations, because now they just say the opponent is like the American President and the voters run a mile as happened in Canada and now Australia.
Last week in Canada the Liberal party won a fourth-term despite being 20 points behind in the polls in the lead up to the election and it seemed the Conservative Party had it in the bag until they hit upon the 'He's just like Trump' rhetoric and the Conservative Parties lead not only dropped dramatically but the leader, Pierre Poilievre, ended up losing his seat.
As Trump had repeatedly gone after Canada with tariffs and his ridiculous assertion that he wanted to make Canada the United States 51st state, it was a ploy that worked brilliantly as most Canadians were more likely to punch Trump in the face rather than vote for someone like him and it is now The Liberal Parties Mark Carney settling his backside into the big chair at the Canadian Prime Ministers Residency.
In Australia in almost perfect parallel to the Canadian election, Peter Dutton of the Conservative Party was looking unbeatable and cruising to victory over Labor's Anthony Albanese who was struggling to turn around his campaign until they took a leaf from the Canadian Book and began comparing Dutton to Donald Trump.
The Labor campaign became weeks of saying Dutton was Australians Trump, the nickname of 'A Temu version of Trump' stuck and the last few weeks was Dutton trying to distance himself from being a Trump-a-like but he was now a man in voters mind who was Australia's Trump and as it turns out Australians do not appear to want that and Albanese won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition and Dutton fell from hero to zero and ended up losing his own seat.
Appears then that not only has Trump made a difference in American elections but also in elections outside of his borders because now other nations have a fine example of an awful leader to point towards and ask voters, do you really want someone like THAT??
Sunday, 4 May 2025
Trump Effect On Other Nations Elections
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they run a mile? not a 1500 meters?
1500 metres are not a mile.
no duh. i ran both in high school. thought you brits and associated societies used meters...
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