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With the Federal Election underway, journalists are today excitedly firing gotcha questions at both the Prime Minister and the Opposition leader.
Whether its the cash rate, the price of bread, or unemployment statistics – the leaders of the major parties are in for a long six weeks of journalists swinging cricket bats at them.
However, one thing that is clear is that there is no better campaigner than Prime Minister Scotty From Marketing.
This supreme skillset was on display for all today, as the Prime Minister joined former NSW Transport Minister and aspiring Federal Candidate Andrew Constance for a media conference on the south coast.
It was a marketing masterclass for all, as Scott Morrison grit his teeth and white knuckled his way through close to ten minutes of smiles, while standing next to a man that he clearly loathes.
Andrew Constance, a man whose election would directly threaten the Prime Minister’s leadership, was also commendable in his efforts to present a united front, as the two politicians attempted to woo voters from the Gilmore electorate into forgetting about the 2019 Black Summer bushfires that were handled so appallingly.
With the Prime Minister currently in court with the rest of the NSW Liberal Party, who take issue with his decision to overrule the state’s pre-selection processes in favour of his own hand-picked Hillsong candidates, the fact that both of these men were able to pretend that they haven’t spend the last three years talking absolute shit about each other was an impressive feat.
Constance first made national headlines when, as the NSW member for Bega, he openly berated the PM on breakfast TV for going to Hawaii in the peak of the summer bushfires and then returning to their destroyed towns and attempting to force the residents to shake his hands.
And that wasn’t the only time Constance has rocked the boat for the Coalition.
During the Eden-Monaro by-election last year, the Morrison government was once again brought into disarray by both NSW frontbenchers Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Andrew Constance, after both the coalition MPs pulled out of the race within days of announcing their Federal ambitions – leaving many voters to ask themselves what the fuck is going on there, before Labor went on to eventually take the seat.
However, today, it seems that things are all good again – and maybe* Constance isn’t one of the NSW Libs that Scotty needs to worry about – after the two of them were able to pull off a chummy press conference to announce some long overdue funding for roads that were destroyed by these same South Coast bushfires that everyone is happy to pretend didn’t happen at all.
This is day one of the campaign.
