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The anger is palpable, via New Daily:

The Liberal vote in Malcolm Turnbull’s blue ribbon seat of Wentworth has nosedived since his removal as prime minister, new polling shows.

The research, commissioned by former Liberal pre-selection hopeful Andrew Bragg, found the party’s best chance to retain the eastern Sydney electorate was to stand a woman candidate.

Mr Bragg on Monday withdrew from the race, saying the party “should preselect a woman” when it meets to settle the pre-selection on Thursday.

According to the private polling, the Liberal’s primary vote has plummeted to 39 per cent, from 62 per cent when Mr Turnbull was the member.

Mr Turnbull held the seat for about 14 years and in the 2016 federal election he was returned with a massive two-party preferred count of 67.8 per cent of the vote.

The private polling also showed Labor’s Tim Murray was tracking with 25 per cent of the vote and Sydney City councillor Kerryn Phelps, who could run as an independent but is yet to declare her intentions, had 20 per cent.

Not even Chris Joye will be able to turn this around.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.