Sunday, May 4, 2025

GET ME REWRITE Trump is helping conservative candidates lose elections worldwide

 
Turning the world upside-down isn't doing First Felon Donald Trump a bit of good.   He's going down.




New York Times, 5/2/2025

It was a resounding defeat of the conservative opposition led by Peter Dutton. He began the campaign riding dissatisfaction with the status quo, but was hamstrung by a string of missteps and an association with some of President Trump’s messaging and policies
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Australia was the third major U.S. ally, after Germany and Canada, to hold elections since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. The Trump administration’s efforts to influence the vote in Germany did not appear to bear fruit. In Canada, Mark Carney won another term on an anti-Trump platform. While Mr. Trump did not figure as prominently in Australia’s election, the global turmoil unleashed by his administration has weighed on voters there.

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