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Speaker 1: Now we've got to talk about Winston. If you hadn't

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Speaker 1: yet noticed, or maybe you didn't believe it, just have

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Speaker 1: a look at Winston Peters State of the Nation's speech

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Speaker 1: yesterday and see the proof that this election looks like

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Speaker 1: it's going to be New Zealand first selection. More than

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Speaker 1: a thousand people turned up and toting it to hear

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Speaker 1: him speak. They had to use two overflow rooms. Compare

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Speaker 1: that to the same speech last election. It was in

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Speaker 1: a church with a capacity of one hundred. More importantly, though,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand First used the event to announce that they

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Speaker 1: had recruited Alfred Nadel, who used to be a National

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Speaker 1: Party MP. Now it was a bit of a joke

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Speaker 1: in the crowd that they didn't know who Alfred was,

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Speaker 1: but commentators do, and I'd say most of us can

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Speaker 1: see this for what it is, which is the recruitment

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Speaker 1: of an incredibly well liked National MP who has a

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Speaker 1: strong Christian faith, which will if not if not not

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Speaker 1: a fend, it will actually appeal to a lot of

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Speaker 1: Winston's older voters, and which I think more importantly is

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Speaker 1: a signal of what is happening and might even speed

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Speaker 1: up closer to the election, which is New Zealand First

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Speaker 1: stealing National stuff. In this case it's MP and as

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Speaker 1: we get closer to the election, its votes. I count

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Speaker 1: among my friends two people who used to be part

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Speaker 1: of National's parliamentary team. Both are now probably voting for

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Speaker 1: New Zealand verst the election because the Conservatives and Winston

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Speaker 1: is making New Zealand First the home of the Conservatives.

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Speaker 1: This cost a living crisis, which is now a crisis,

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Speaker 1: a fuel crisis as well, is going to play into

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Speaker 1: his hands. He's going to go hard on smashing the

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Speaker 1: power companies to bring down prices, which National has failed

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Speaker 1: to do. He's going to argue for New Zealand owning

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Speaker 1: state assets which will appeal more than now, more than ever,

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Speaker 1: which you just have to think about the Marsden Point

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Speaker 1: oil refinery to get my point. He's going to choose

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Speaker 1: mining over the climate. That's going to appeal to the

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Speaker 1: working class voter. This is everything is lining up for

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Speaker 1: him to be able to really lift his votes. So

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Speaker 1: watch his polling. He's sitting on over ten percent now.

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Speaker 1: If things track the way they look that like they're

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Speaker 1: going to track with the fuel crisis squeezing this economy

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Speaker 1: and Chris Luxen unable to fire. The National Party up

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Speaker 1: ten percent now, I reckon might become fifteen percent closer

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