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Speaker 1: Staying the course when things are tough. As a skill,

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Speaker 1: I think you either habit or you don't. Chris Lackson

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Speaker 1: will not get rolled, but he may quit or he

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Speaker 1: may not. That would be a mistake, of course, of

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Speaker 1: epic proportions. What would drive me? What would drive me?

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking over the weekend if I was him,

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Speaker 1: would be rational thought. One. This election is not about personality.

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Speaker 1: It's about economic management. On that the government are tracking well. Two.

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Speaker 1: The internal polling within the National Party is fine. It

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Speaker 1: does not reflect the Courier poll that the media made

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Speaker 1: so much of on Friday. The unfortunate thing about Friday's

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Speaker 1: pre hype release, as it came at the same time

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Speaker 1: Luxon had a bad week on the war That week,

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Speaker 1: by the way, was now we're near as bad as

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Speaker 1: some made it out to be. But the two events

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Speaker 1: came together for a good old Friday headline. Three, This

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Speaker 1: would be the bit that would really focus my mind.

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Speaker 1: It's only hipkins, I mean, seriously, you're only lining up

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Speaker 1: labor as an opponent on the economy. The people who

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Speaker 1: wrecked the place two and a bit years ago are

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Speaker 1: asking the voter to come back and do a bit

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Speaker 1: more of it. You don't believe me. Read Thomas Coglin's

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Speaker 1: Peace with Barbara Edmonds. Four. Even if you take the

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Speaker 1: pole seriously, which you shouldn't, it's a one seat shift.

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Speaker 1: Did you get to that part of the pole. It's

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Speaker 1: a one seat shift. It's within the margin Mira. Five.

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Speaker 1: The economy will save you new campaign on a turnaround.

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Speaker 1: The turnaround is real and given we're voting on economics,

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Speaker 1: the national leader is not a deal breaker if you're

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Speaker 1: voting on interest rates and jobs. Does Chris Bishop, Erera

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Speaker 1: Ca Stanford really change of you or your lot? They

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Speaker 1: are good people, yes, and they're good talents yes, but

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Speaker 1: they aren't game changes and they won't get you a

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Speaker 1: job anymore than lux Andwell. Six. Having done the hard yards,

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Speaker 1: why quit now? The prize is just down the road

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Speaker 1: and with the second term perceptions change. Seven. The coalition

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Speaker 1: as an operation is a success. Three parties have and

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Speaker 1: do work well together. It's MMP and action. The alternative

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Speaker 1: Hepkins is talking about a minority government and a Green Party,

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Speaker 1: an extremism and a Mari Party that will not be

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Speaker 1: back in anywhere near the numbers they have now. It's

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Speaker 1: not a combination. This must all sit, of course, heavily

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Speaker 1: with Luxeon. I mean, how could it not. But that

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Speaker 1: is what leadership is about. That is what you chased

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Speaker 1: and brought into. If you think you will fail, you

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