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Ben Meiselas (0:00)
Elbows up, Canada. Donald Trump's attack on Canada backfired big time. We're less than a week away from the elections in Canada taking place on April 28th. We already have the advance polls open. Over 7.3 million Canadians have voted during the advanced poll period. That is record setting. And Canadians are going, elbows up. What's up? Maple Midas. It's been such an honor over the past several months to get to know each other so much better. And frankly, we always knew from the outset when the Midas Touch network was started several years ago, how important our Canadian viewers and Midas mighty now Maple Midas are. And so it's been an honor to be on this journey together. And my, oh my, has Donald Trump's plan backfired. Right? Donald Trump was going to prop up MAGA Maple or Maple maga. He had his hand picked people and they were running the MAGA playbook, right? You go on the MAGA podcast, like Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk endorses the MAGA Maple candidate. He puts his thumb on the algorithm and starts amplifying the MAGA Maple, which is the Pierre Poliev Conservative Party there. And then Donald Trump started his rhetoric about he wants to annex Canada. He wants to make Canada the 51st state. He started calling Prime Minister Trudeau, Governor Trudeau, Prime Minister Trudeau very smartly gave the handoff to new leadership. The Liberal Party held elections. You had Prime Minister Carney stepping into the four. You had the banker and Prime Minister Carney versus the bankrupter in Donald Trump, a builder in Prime Minister Carney versus a destroyer in Donald Trump. And Canada united, mostly all of the provinces united. The premiers, regardless of political party, really stood shoulder to shoulder. Other than Danielle Smith in Alberta, she's Maple MAGA as well. She was trying to work with Donald Trump in Mar a Lago to have Trump and Musk interfere with the Canadian elections to try to help Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Conservative Party there. When that was exposed, they tried to have J.D. vance, his roommate and buddy from Yale, who's one of the henchmen for Pierre Poliev, interfere in the elections with Donald Trump. The Canadians smoke that out. And Donald Trump continued his relentless attack on Canada's sovereignty. I mean, even yesterday in the Oval Office, Trump reinserted himself into Canadian politics. He said he wants to increase the tariffs on auto against Canada. He used the rhetoric of Canada should be the 51st state. And let me be clear to those people living in America who don't know when Donald Trump says this, this Ain't merely a trade war. These are words of war, annexation, conquest. It is the language of Putin against Ukraine. It is the way Putin says he wants to de nazify Ukraine. Is Donald Trump saying he's trying to get rid of all of the fentanyl from Canada into the United States which doesn't exist, which is complete and utter bs but it's pretext for Donald Trump wanting to have a war against Canada. Let's be clear about what the language is. So as Donald Trump attacked Canada, Canada went elbows up. Pierre Poie plummeted, plummeted in the polls. This is the headline from the Wall Street Journal in the past 48 hours, how Canada's Trump style candidate blew a 20 point polling lead. Pierre Poliev, populist message. Let's take out populist and say maga. Message was resonating until Trump's antagonism. Let's remove the word antagonism and use language of war against Canada. Push Canadians towards a formal a former central banker. Here we are from polling Canada, which is a good job aggregating these polls. With five days to go, all of the major polls, whether it's 3:38, CBC Polling Canada and Main street, all believe there will be a Liberal Party majority which was un heard of just a few months ago, that that would be the result. But folks, as we always say here, polls don't vote. Let me repeat that, polls don't vote. So everybody should be encouraged, no matter where you are in the world in democracies, to do your civic duty. You take a look at the poly market polling data and they're a kind of an open source, a betting site that takes the percentages of who they think is going to win or lose. So back on February 5th, Pierre Poliev had an 84% chance of winning. Today, Prime Minister Carney has an 84% chance of winning. New high. But as I said and let me repeat it very, very clearly, polls don't vote, wagering doesn't vote. People vote wherever you are in the world in democracies, do your civic duty. Now how bad is it for Pierre Poliev? Mr. Maple, Maga, mini Trump, mini Elon. Let me tell you, the Conservative Party is afraid that he's going to lose his own riding, which for Americans is like his own congressional seat. They call him writings in Canada. There are 343 ridings in Canada. And in Canada you don't vote for like your president or they're your prime minister. You vote in your riding for who's going to go to the House of Commons and then the party that gets either the majority or who for if you don't get a majority, you get a plurality and you have to form a coalition. That's who becomes the prime minister, the leader of that party. So the Conservative Party is worried right now that Pierre Poliev is, is going to lose in his writing, which again is unheard of, I mean, in Ottawa. So that would be like MAGA Mike Johnson losing his congressional seat. For our American viewers out there, let's just go through the receipts. How badly Donald Trump blew it or blowing, it's not the right word, I think expose what was going on here. This right wing authority authoritarian creep originating from Russia that pushed into the US and we've seen these other authoritarian Viktor Orban style leaders. How that drift elevated by these right wing podcasters was infecting Canada, but how it was revealed by Donald Trump's rhetoric, language and behavior. Like all things Donald Trump touches, they tend to die. So here was Donald Trump on one of these right wing podcasts just a few months ago saying how excited he was to work with Pierre Poliev, whose views align closely with Trump. Play this clip. Are you looking forward to working with Pierre there, the new guy?
