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New poll puts National below 26% as Willis and others face losing their seats
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New poll puts National below 26% as Willis and others face losing their seats

With National slumping below 30% in recent polls and Labour also struggling, Saturday's election is likely to end several high-profile political careers. Finance Minister Nicola Willis is at risk because she is not running in an electorate and relies on list seats that dry up if National's electorate wins outweigh its party vote; ACT's Cameron Luxton and New Zealand First's Jamie Arbuckle are ranked 12th and 13th on their lists. A new RNZ-Reid Research poll has National dropping below 26% to 24.8% with The Opportunity Party holding the kingmaker position, while fresh unemployment data due Wednesday, forecast to ease to 5.5%, is the last major economic input before voters decide. Also in this briefing: John Key urges National voters in Epsom to back Goldsmith, not ACT's Seymour; Trans-Tasman gun crackdown seizes 67 firearms, 3D-printed guns and a pipe bomb; Health NZ hands out 2300 injecting kits as unregulated peptide use surges.

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National's polling plunged below twenty-five percent, threatening list seats for senior MPs like Nicola Willis.

The Opportunity Party surged to seven percent, creating difficult coalition arithmetic for major parties.

Sir John Key broke a longstanding pact by endorsing Paul Goldsmith over ACT's David Seymour in Epsom.

Operation Athena seized sixty-seven firearms and nearly fifteen hundred three-D-printed parts across New Zealand.

Health New Zealand distributed over twenty-three hundred injecting kits amid a surge in unregulated peptide use.

In this episode
  1. 01Intro1 min
  2. 02New poll puts National below 26% as Willis and others face losing their seats: What happened2 min
  3. 03New poll puts National below 26% as Willis and others face losing their seats: Why it matters and what comes next2 min
  4. 04John Key urges National voters in Epsom to back Goldsmith, not ACT's Seymour1 min
  5. 05Trans-Tasman gun crackdown seizes 67 firearms, 3D-printed guns and a pipe bomb1 min
  6. 06Where things stand1 min
  7. 07Health NZ hands out 2300 injecting kits as unregulated peptide use surges2 min
  8. 08Outro1 min
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