Trudeau or Poilievre: Who would deal with Trump best? | TREND LINE

Welcome to CTV News trend line with Michael SLE and Nick Nanos the thing is is for the Biden people they’ve got to be frustrated because they look at some of those economic numbers and they’re strong for the United States usually when the economy is strong it’s very good news

For whoever’s in the white house but it looks like there’s no bump it’s kind of like joyless prosperity for Joe Biden that you know you look at the numbers and it’s like wow look at what the Biden Administration has accomplished but that people don’t feel the same way and uh

And as a result there’s uh there’s risk and you know what Michael you know not just looking at the numbers it’s pretty clear in the United States there’s two things it’s like two solitudes you know for the Trump people they hate the Democrats and they’re angry and for the

Biden folks and the Democrats they are just in denial they cannot believe that someone like Donald Trump is even competitive with Joe Biden and uh it’s going to be you know this this election could be ugly in terms of an escalation of conflict between uh between Americans

And uh who knows what will happen especially considering the age of both of the both of these individuals Biden and Trump you know that’s all it takes is for one of them to trip or one of them to make a mistake either or and uh could change the complexion of the race

In very short order there is a lot of attention uh on on Biden’s age now Nick and and a lot of eyes focused on you know whenever he’s making a public statement If he if he makes a flub it’s it’s in the news but I mean Donald Trump

Has made a lot of flubs as well and and doesn’t seem to have the that same critical eye yeah neither of them are spring chickens how about that uh and you know why this is you know this is critically important for Canada because we’re going to be coming up in 2026 and

202 27 whoever is the prime minister will be dealing with the president will be dealing with the renewal of the Canada US uh Free Trade Agreement you know Canadians are really focused on the relationship between Canada and the United States because we’re trade Partners we’re NATO partners and you

Know there’s been a lot of stuff that’s been said especially by Donald Trump in terms of how he feels about countries that don’t pay for their fair share their 2% GDP Target but it’s interesting from a polling perspective we ask Canadians who they thought would be best

To deal with Donald Trump and uh on the advocacy front Pier PV and Justin Trudeau are statistically tied just as many people think that they would either one of them would advocate in the best interest of Canada however and this is the kicker asked who would be best to

Negotiate with Trump Pierre PV actually scores higher than Justin Trudeau 3928 which is unusual because Pier PV has never negotiated with Donald Trump while Justin Trudeau you can say negot iated the Free Trade Agreement or the renewal of the Free Trade Agreement and uh and generally recognized as doing a

Good job looks like he doesn’t have a big Advantage even though he is the prime minister has the experience and has negotiated with the Trump Administration in the fa in the Past

CTV News’ Michael Stittle and Nanos Research’s Nik Nanos break down new data showing which leader Canadians feel would deal best with the possibility of a second Trump presidency.

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