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Maddow Blog-Liberals prevail in Canada, fueled by a dramatic anti-Trump backlash
Up until quite recently, Canada’s Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared to be facing electoral doom. Then Donald Trump happened.
https://bsky.app/profile/democracyblue.bsky.social/post/3lnxdlgkrdk2f
Liberals prevail in Canada, fueled by a dramatic anti-Trump backlash
Up until quite recently, Canada’s Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared to be facing electoral doom. Then Donald Trump happened.
Up until quite recently, Canada’s Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared to be facing electoral doom. Then Donald Trump happened.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/liberals-prevail-canadas-prime-minister-race-fueled-dramatic-anti-trum-rcna203460
The public backlash to Trump was the one thing — perhaps, the only thing — that could rescue the Liberal Party and keep Prime Minister Mark Carney in office. And as NBC News reported, that’s precisely what happened.
While celebrating the results, Carney focused much of his remarks on domestic affairs, though he also devoted parts of his celebratory speech to the American president who helped fuel the Liberals’ victory that seemed unlikely in the very recent past.
“President Trump is trying to break us, so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen,” the prime minister said.....
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lnwm745pbc2b
As for Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the opposition Conservatives, the sudden shift in his electoral fortunes has been brutal. As of a few months ago, Poilievre was widely seen as the next Canadian prime minister. Now, thanks almost entirely to Trump’s antics, the Conservative leader didn’t just lose an opportunity to lead, he also appears to have lost his own seat in Parliament.
As Election Day in Canada got underway, Trump published a weird item online, once again insisting that Canada should become an American state. “ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!” he wrote. “America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”
Poilievre wrote soon after, “President Trump, stay out of our election.”
It was far too late for that: Trump had already positioned himself at the center of the election, and it made all the difference for Liberals.
Canadian voters backed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party on Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects, in a national election strongly influenced by U.S. President Donald Trump. The CBC said it was too early to know whether the Liberals would win enough seats to form a majority government, but it projected another term for the party, which has governed Canada for almost a decade.
While celebrating the results, Carney focused much of his remarks on domestic affairs, though he also devoted parts of his celebratory speech to the American president who helped fuel the Liberals’ victory that seemed unlikely in the very recent past.
“President Trump is trying to break us, so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen,” the prime minister said.....
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lnwm745pbc2b
Link to tweet
As for Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the opposition Conservatives, the sudden shift in his electoral fortunes has been brutal. As of a few months ago, Poilievre was widely seen as the next Canadian prime minister. Now, thanks almost entirely to Trump’s antics, the Conservative leader didn’t just lose an opportunity to lead, he also appears to have lost his own seat in Parliament.
As Election Day in Canada got underway, Trump published a weird item online, once again insisting that Canada should become an American state. “ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!” he wrote. “America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”
Poilievre wrote soon after, “President Trump, stay out of our election.”
It was far too late for that: Trump had already positioned himself at the center of the election, and it made all the difference for Liberals.