People queue outside the Australian High Commission in London to vote in the Australian federal election, Friday, May 2, 2025. | Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APIn the second election in two weeks, voters of a democratic ally of the US reject the Donald Trump-sounding conservative candidate. In both Australia and Canada, the liberal government was behind in its reelection bid and in both countries they surged in the lead after Trump’s hostile rhetoric toward allies accompanied the Liberation Day tariffs.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increasing his one-seat majority in the lower house of parliament to 10 seats was considered a landslide. His opening comment on Trump’s tariffs was, “This is not the act of a friend.” Peter Dalton, the conservative leader known as a hard right partisan simply could not shake his Trump identity. It took down his party.
Conservative leaders in both countries lost their own seats in parliament.
This is another setback for President Trump’s strategy to promote far right parties and candidates led by Vice President JD Vance and supported by podcaster Steve Bannon. Are Congressional Republicans listening? Trump has taken down two MAGA-like clones for two liberal incumbents in spite of their own inflation and sluggish economies.
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