Justin Trudeau Has 12 Days to Salvage His Career After Election Blunder
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election for Sept. 20, hoping to earn his Liberal Party a ruling majority.
Last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was convinced of two things: his successful vaccination strategy had made Canadian voters grateful, and his main opponent, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, was somewhere between unpopular and unknown. So Trudeau called a snap election for Sept. 20, hoping to earn his Liberal Party a ruling majority. Instead, his numbers dropped instantly, confounding many. With 12 days to go, he's likely to end with a weakened minority government or even a humiliating defeat. "The Liberals likely called the election thinking that they would be able to run on their pandemic record, bask in a vaccination halo and get ahead of the post-stimulus economic adjustment," said Nik Nanos, an Ottawa-based pollster at Nanos Research Group. "That's out the door now." Analysts suspect a number of factors are at play in Trudeau's potential downfall.More Related News