The riding I grew up in (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre) had a guy who tried to replace Kenney's right-hand man & Sky Palace partier Jason Nixon as the UCP candidate but was disqualified due to social media activity (such a free speech party!) and allegations Hoven disparaged the RCMP at the Coutts blockade. There was a big hullabaloo and he ended up running as a pro-Smith independent.
Despite this MUH VOTE SPLIT opportunity, even the CBC said the "risk of vote-splitting and the opposition coming up the middle is nearly non-existent. The NDP scored nine per cent of the riding's vote in 2019, and until this year has never run a candidate who actually lives in the riding." https://archive.is/wip/u5t0l
The was clearly also believed by Notley and the candidate- he showed up to debates dressed worse than Fetterman and even a dyed-in-the-wool NDP supporter my dad knows was extremely disappointed in him.
"BUT WE CAN'T SPLIT DUH VOTE!"
Literally what I've heard firsthand from people who voted UCP.
The riding I grew up in (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre) had a guy who tried to replace Kenney's right-hand man & Sky Palace partier Jason Nixon as the UCP candidate but was disqualified due to social media activity (such a free speech party!) and allegations Hoven disparaged the RCMP at the Coutts blockade. There was a big hullabaloo and he ended up running as a pro-Smith independent.
Despite this MUH VOTE SPLIT opportunity, even the CBC said the "risk of vote-splitting and the opposition coming up the middle is nearly non-existent. The NDP scored nine per cent of the riding's vote in 2019, and until this year has never run a candidate who actually lives in the riding." https://archive.is/wip/u5t0l
The was clearly also believed by Notley and the candidate- he showed up to debates dressed worse than Fetterman and even a dyed-in-the-wool NDP supporter my dad knows was extremely disappointed in him.