ScoMo edges ahead in Newspoll

Monday, 18 May 2020

He would have to pretty pissed if he didn’t given the virus outcome:

Popular support for the federal Coalition has climbed to its highest level since last September ahead of a looming by-election in Eden-Monaro, as Scott Morrison cemented record approval ratings for his leadership during the COVID-19 crisis.

An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows the Coalition securing a two-point lift in its primary vote to 43 per cent as voters switch camp from Labor, the Greens and One Nation.

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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.