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Justin Trudeau should step down before next election, majority of survey respondents say | Toronto Star

Most Canadians — and many past Liberal supporters — think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign instead of leading his party into the next federal election, a new poll suggests.

Justin Trudeau should step down before next election, majority of survey respondents say | Toronto Starhttps://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/justin-trudeau-should-step-down-before-next-election-majority-of-survey-respondents-say/article_70de9db7-daa7-51aa-909a-987fd30c54bc.htmlOpen linkView original on kbin.social
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Fifty-six per cent of respondents to the latest national survey from Abacus Data said Trudeau “should step down” when asked if he should run for office again. That’s compared with 27 per cent who said Trudeau should stay, and 17 per cent who were not sure.

Of those who said they voted Liberal in the 2021 federal election, 28 per cent agreed it’s time for Trudeau to leave, while 52 per cent said the prime minister should run again.

The second paragraph quoted here is the more important one.

I'm not sure that two years is enough time to do a proper leadership reset in order to rebuild the party's reputation. It's quite likely we end up with a John Turner/Kim Campbell scenario where the new leader carries all the political baggage of the previous administration, as well as sacrificing the incumbency advantage.

For those reasons, I think Trudeau stays on. There is virtually no advantage to switching now. If he was going to step down, it should have been shortly after the last election.

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