MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the “Trump effect” as Donald Trump destroys candidates who used the MAGA playbook from Canada to Australia. BambooHR: Check it out yourself with a FREE demo at BambooHR.com/FREEDEMO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Donald Trump is an international disgrace, an international embarrassment, and we're seeing the Trump effect take place today in Australia. It is in effect there where Donald Trump has changed the dynamic of the election in Australia. The MAGA party there, or the MAGA party leader, a guy by the name of Peter Dutton, Timu Trump, they call him in Australia was once leading in the polls.
He's from the liberal party in Australia, which is confusingly their conservative party in Australia. He was expected to become the prime minister there months ago, but as Donald Trump has attacked the entire world and has caused devastation to our ally, caused harm to our ally in Australia, uh, The polls change there.
The current prime minister, Anthony Albanese is expected to go on to keep a labor. That's like their liberal party, even though it's going to be the labor parties, their more left party there, the labor party majority in Australia. And no one expected that to happen. If you were looking at the polls, take a look here. This looks very similar to what we saw in Canada yesterday.
You see the blue right there is the liberal block right there. And you see based on the latest polymarket estimation, at least as of this recording, their odds of holding on to or getting a majority now at 4.5%, the Labor Party, 95.5% chance there as voting is underway today, Saturday, May 3rd. record early voter turnout in Australia.
And look, the people of Australia, like the people of Canada, by and large, hate, hate, hate Donald Trump. I mean, just take a look right here. They had big hands-off protests in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks back. Just a reminder, here's what was going on there. All right. Now, here is their MAGA candidate, Peter Dutton, in Australia. You can see him right here.
He refers to the national broadcasters there as hate media, very similar to the way Donald Trump would call the media here, or calls the media fake media, an enemy of the people. Dutton, Timu Trump, as they call him in Australia, the leader of the Liberal Party there, would always talk about woke this, woke that. Here, let's play this clip right here.
I have no doubt in my mind that we can win this election. Forget about what you're being told by the ABC and the Guardian and the other hate media. Forget about that.
I'm looking at the YouGov polls right here. YouGov, as of this recording, predicting a 97% chance that Labor will hold on to its majority. On the eve of the elections in Australia, one of the things that was uncovered as well, although the Liberal Party in Australia... that this is taking place. But what can you say? I mean, this is what Chris Lasavita, Donald Trump's campaign manager is on tape.
He's on a zoom saying it apparently that he was helping the liberal party in Australia. So a Trump campaign manager is, said you listen to you for yourself what he said helping the liberal party in australia the duttons so now dutton has to be like no no no we don't want anything to do with that here watch this clip from seven news australia great work seven news play this clip
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