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Carney's Liberals Win Canada Election,
Setting Up Talks With US

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Posted By: sunset, 4/28/2025 10:52:33 PM

Canada’s Liberal Party won a fourth consecutive election, giving a mandate to former central banker Mark Carney after a campaign in which he pledged to boost economic growth and stand up to US President Donald Trump in a trade war. Liberal candidates were leading or elected in 135 of the 343 seats, ahead of the Conservative Party with 88 as of 10:14 p.m. Ottawa time. The Liberals will secure enough seats to try to form a government, but it’s still unclear whether they’ll win a majority or be forced to work with other parties to pass legislation, according to projections from major TV networks.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 4/28/2025 11:04:23 PM (No. 1942068)
Gee, I wonder if they cheated to win. Oh, wait, they're liberals. Of course they did.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: globalwarmer 4/28/2025 11:04:24 PM (No. 1942069)
Welcome, Alberta, to the world of common sense. Enjoy your globalism Canada, and your subservience to the CCP.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/28/2025 11:19:38 PM (No. 1942075)
How can Canadians be so stupid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: crashnburn 4/28/2025 11:21:44 PM (No. 1942077)
They can have one or the other but not both!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: BarryNo 4/28/2025 11:30:43 PM (No. 1942079)
Nothing to talk about. Canada is Kaput!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Citoyen 4/29/2025 12:44:05 AM (No. 1942089)
I hope Mark Carney and the Liberal Party have the grace to effusively thank President Trump for his help in ensuring their victory. The Conservatives were polling way ahead of the Liberals until Trump began to insult Canada with talk of it becoming the 51st state. The voters also couldn’t have been pleased with him complaining that Canada was ripping off the USA, that Canada was a deadbeat and, to add injury to insult, imposed tariffs despite brokering a trade deal with Canada less than four years ago. After that the Conservatives didn’t stand a chance. I hope Trump realizes the hubris can slap the best of us.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: john56 4/29/2025 1:03:36 AM (No. 1942094)
I could go with Alberta as State #51.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Miceal 4/29/2025 3:01:18 AM (No. 1942099)
Good bye, Canada. It's been good to know you, I think?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Birddog 4/29/2025 4:03:48 AM (No. 1942103)
Last I checked Libs were "winning" by 1.4%, with 4% of the vote still uncounted, and not enough seats to control the parliment/form a govt. They will have to bring another party in to actually "Win" . Conserv gained 26pts over the last election.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/29/2025 5:06:03 AM (No. 1942109)
Oh, Kanada!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DCGIRL 4/29/2025 6:16:48 AM (No. 1942117)
#6 is absolutely correct. You can thank Trump for the Conservative loss. There are times when our president needs to be quiet. The conservatives were pulling ahead until Trump started talking. You ask your self WHY did he do this?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: petrichor 4/29/2025 6:41:58 AM (No. 1942126)
Despite anything Trumps says, the Canadians had a simple choice. It appears they're choosing euthanasia for themselves.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: spacer 4/29/2025 7:05:17 AM (No. 1942133)
The canucks being so put off by President Trump to vote in this bunch says a lot more about their national character than anything from outside might say or do. President Trump asked them to assist on THEIR heavy tariffs , the invasion from the north both fentanyl and bodies. They did nothing. The people they just put in will seal their collapse
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Reply 14 - Posted by: billa57 4/29/2025 7:14:54 AM (No. 1942139)
The Canadians have chosen. No skin off our backs. We are no longer going to subsidize your Globalist/Marxist government anymore. Sorry.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: planetgeo 4/29/2025 7:50:59 AM (No. 1942159)
Our Canadian cousins apparently have not yet learned where the liberals are taking them. And unfortunately, President Trump's intemperate comments only pushed them to get there faster. The last time I flew into Vancouver BC I thought I had mistakenly landed in New Delhi or Karachi. Like America, Canada is being transitioned by a migrant invasion. It's happening more slowly than in the U.S., but it's definitely happening. And their government showed its future intentions by the way it handled their trucker demonstration. Arrests and financial confiscations are in their future. They don't like what Trump has been saying, but they're going to like where they are heading even less. See you when you get over your snit and eventually escape to the Land of the Free, eh?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: bpl40 4/29/2025 7:52:16 AM (No. 1942161)
If they have to cheat to win it is bad. But due to the sheeple in Ontario, they don't have to cheat. It is worse.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: hurricanegirl 4/29/2025 8:09:44 AM (No. 1942167)
Some of you obviously need to do your research about why Trump said what he did about Canada. Here's a hint: America first means that Canada does not have the option to continue screwing over America. If Canadians can't survive without taking advantage of their neighbor, then they deserve what they get, and that is NOT Trump's fault!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 4/29/2025 8:41:56 AM (No. 1942184)
Mindless, needless political rhetoric on both sides of the border, including Trump's, gave the election to the Liberals.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: bighambone 4/29/2025 8:44:07 AM (No. 1942187)
They say that you can always expect that Canada will do the wrong thing when it comes to politics. My grandmother was from Nova Scotia and maybe that’s part of the reason why she came to the USA. On the other hand this election was pretty much forecast after Trump went along slamming Canada claiming that he intended to scoop Canada up as the 51st State. As Canada is a proud country, and a member of the British Commonwealth, that fought alongside the USA in most of the past big wars. In reality it’s more likely that Canada will join into an international alliance with Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to become one of four equal States together, than become the 51st State of the USA. That’s up to the Canadians to figure out.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: stablemoney 4/29/2025 8:48:48 AM (No. 1942191)
The despicable Trudeau replaced by the despicable Carney. Neither should ever be allowed into the US. We should increase the tariffs to offset the scam of Canada using the border to export their products here, and use US defense to protect their socialist state.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: ARKfamily 4/29/2025 8:53:21 AM (No. 1942192)
Oh please to the people saying that Donald Trump was responsible for this win because he started stating some truths. These people voted for Justin Trudeau and you want me to believe that the tide was turning and they were going conservative but Donald Trump ruined that chance? Don't buy it. . .
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Reply 22 - Posted by: franco 4/29/2025 8:58:53 AM (No. 1942193)
#9: It's worse than you think. I watched an all-day podcast from Canada covering the election, and at the very end of that podcast in the wee hours of the morning, it became clear that the Liberals would be able to form a coalition with a (heavily weakened) NDP to get a +1 seat majority. The NDP will not wish to see another election any time soon and Carney will get 4 years to run the country into the ground. The only question now seems to be when Alberta secedes, and how many other western provinces join it. Absent Alberta, the other western provinces will be expected to step up their "extortion" payments (the Canadians euphemistically call them equalization payments) to levels that will bankrupt them. They won't do that -- they'll join Alberta instead and secede. And what's left of Canada will become financially unstable in a hurry.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: franco 4/29/2025 9:15:47 AM (No. 1942208)
For everybody else, this election was an almost even split, roughly 42% each, between the Liberals and Conservatives, with the remainder held by the minor parties. Due to the construction of the districts (called "ridings" in Canada), which might have been gerrymandered, the Liberals got about 18 more seats than the Conservatives. This means that Carney really has nothing approaching a "mandate" from Canadian voters, and that there is plenty of reason for President Trump to negotiate with Carney as if he's negotiating with a rag doll... Also, the complaints here about PDJT interfering with the election are misplaced. Reality is that the Liberals jabbed, juked, and danced, and the Conservatives ran as if Trudeau was still PM and nothing the Liberals did affected public sentiment. That was wrong. Pierre Poilievre is a policy wonk who ran on a Reaganesque platform but failed to embrace Reagan's admonition about maintaining a contrast with his opponents. Reagan called it "Bold colors, not pale pastels." The Liberals made things pastel by stealing portions of Poilievre's platform, and Poilievre did little to restore the bold contrast. Poilievre also joined in on bashing Trump, contributing to his own demise, when he could have instead pinned Trump's behavior entirely on the Liberals. In short, Poilievre's policy positions were like Reagan's, but he wasn't a great communicator like Reagan. For that shortcoming, Canada wrote its epitaph yesterday.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: udanja99 4/29/2025 9:26:59 AM (No. 1942217)
They never learn, do they?
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Californian 4/29/2025 9:37:04 AM (No. 1942218)
6, the idea that Trump caused the Canadian Conservative Party to lose is weird. Weird, weird. What that means is millions of voters in a foreign country made a dramatic shift in their world view and changed their votes because the leader of a foreign nation made some nasty jokes about their country. That makes no sense. If King Charles made some nasty comments about the US still being a co
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Reply 26 - Posted by: franco 4/29/2025 9:40:09 AM (No. 1942220)
Addendum: The data above about Liberals having an 18-seat majority was where things stood in the wee hours of the morning. This morning, it appears that they widened their majority to 24 seats, but will still have minority government in coalition with the weakened NDP. Sad footnote for Pierre Poilievre: With 80% of the vote counted in his suburban Ottawa riding, he's on track to lose his seat to a Liberal. So his career in politics may be coming to a close. Canadians who pinned their hopes on him will be sadly cast adrift...
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Californian 4/29/2025 9:43:02 AM (No. 1942225)
(Continuing because that posted without everything I typed). If King Charles made some nasty comments about the US still being a colony, you wouldn't suddenly change your vote to the democrats. I assure you none of my Canadian family made their vote decision based on Trump saying anything. The leftists voted left, the conservatives voted conservative. The same way they always have.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Sunhan65 4/29/2025 9:44:48 AM (No. 1942226)
To dispense with some stuff up front, the Canadian polling stations are completely and carefully monitored. Canadians are required to show both personal identification with their address and their voter registration card in order to vote. Voting in Canada is far better regulated than we in the US have been doing until recently. #6 is exactly right. This outcome was entirely predictable and completely preventable. President Trump made the election about himself, as he tends to do, and completely undermined the Conservative Party's chances to win on the real issue, which was a decade of Liberal incompetence. Supporting President Trump in the many courageous, difficult, and necessary things he is doing for our country does not obligate us to overlook his mistakes. This was an unforced error.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: griddog1 4/29/2025 10:11:41 AM (No. 1942244)
The Canadians I deal with on a weekly basis have all bought into "fake news" they have no idea what's going on, other than they all hate Trump.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: Zigrid 4/29/2025 10:16:08 AM (No. 1942247)
To my Canadian friends...call for a recount of the votes....somethings not right.....
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Reply 31 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 4/29/2025 10:32:17 AM (No. 1942253)
The unpleasant reality is that Canada spends next to nothing on its own defense because it is shielded by our nuclear umbrella. It "repays" us by ripping us off on trade and winking as fentanyl and illegals, including terrorists, cross our border. Both the Liberal and "Conservative" parties campaigned as though the only problem with this arrangement is that Americans are fed up with it. Not a dime's worth of difference.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: Kate318 4/29/2025 10:45:23 AM (No. 1942258)
The globalists were determined not to let their firm foothold in North America evaporate. RIP, Canada.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: franco 4/29/2025 10:45:45 AM (No. 1942259)
#31: Your observation may be spot-on and may be what PDJT was thinking -- that it wouldn't make much difference to America who won Canada's election. Personally, I hope that PDJT gives Carney the cold shoulder and leaves him with this singular message: Fix your fentanyl, border security, and money laundering problems, and afterward we'll have a discussion about tariffs. For now, nothing changes, and until visible and concrete action takes place on the issues that led to the punitive tariffs, nothing will change.
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Reply 34 - Posted by: downnout 4/29/2025 10:51:09 AM (No. 1942264)
I hope the Canadians decide to stay home next winter. They turn Florida into a mess.
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Reply 35 - Posted by: mc squared 4/29/2025 10:57:17 AM (No. 1942269)
Trump can be brash, but does any American vote based on how another country feels about us? Liberals were destined to win any way.
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Reply 36 - Posted by: NorthernDog 4/29/2025 11:05:09 AM (No. 1942274)
I have a couple social media ''friends'' in Canada. We don't talk politics much. But they always fear the US is too influential in their country. I'm always tempted to say that without the US, Canada would be a cold version of The Congo.
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Reply 37 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 4/29/2025 11:16:24 AM (No. 1942275)
#6 Canadians have always been very liberal people and that's why nothing President Trump would have said or say, would have made a difference on how they voted. PDT is just a convenient scapegoat for those who want to blame him for the election outcome. We have visited Canada a few times and it's like visiting S.F. As a Christian, we know how intolerant their govt. is towards people of faith and the persecution of them. During Covid pastors were arrested and put in jail. So tell me, an intolerant govt. towards people of faith and no pushback from the people are going to vote conservative? I think not. Canada is like Europe/the EU.
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Reply 38 - Posted by: NotaBene 4/29/2025 12:25:00 PM (No. 1942323)
The good side is that we will get our automobile industry back. The bad side is that TDS gets people out to vote.
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Reply 39 - Posted by: planetgeo 4/29/2025 12:35:58 PM (No. 1942335)
Here's a small dose of "tough love" reality for any of our Canadian friends who may be lurking here. Wake up! The reason you can be liberal and mistakenly believe you are intellectually and culturally more refined and accepting is because, like many youngest children, you have a bigger brother who has to fight your fights for you, do the toughest jobs, pick up the tabs on many things, and generally keep you safe all the time. And no, like big brothers, we don't want your appreciation for everything we've done and keep doing for you. Just grow up and don't be stupid. Especially not liberal stupid.
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Reply 40 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/29/2025 12:45:21 PM (No. 1942345)
Canada has to be the largest SchiffT Hole outside of the EU!
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Reply 41 - Posted by: danu 4/29/2025 12:46:13 PM (No. 1942348)
when i see goldman employees running for office-i run...far away.
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Reply 42 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/29/2025 1:47:52 PM (No. 1942373)
Not true #6 and #11. This outcome wasn't related to Trump. My brother who lives up in central B.C., reports that pre-election polls all favored Pierre Poilievre and the conservative party to win. However, the voting ballot was had over 90 names listed for Poilievre's "riding" - those seeking to get elected to Parliament. Carney's name was listed near the top of the list and easily found. Poilievre's name was buried into the middle of the list and was difficult to find. Older voters couldn't find Poilievre's name. The ballot was very confusing. It turns out that someone on Canada's voting commission found a loophole that allowed moving Poilievre's name into the middle of the list in an effort to hide it. Poilievre was reported to have record numbers of voters attending all of his pre-election rallies. The general consensus among western Canadians - it was a stolen election.
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Reply 43 - Posted by: Sunhan65 4/29/2025 2:29:05 PM (No. 1942383)
#42, that would only affect Pierre Poilievre's home riding where he ran for his own seat. Neither his name nor Carney's were on the ballot in any other riding. Canadians vote for the Member of Parliament (MP) running on behalf of their party in a given riding (kind of like a congressional district). Whichever party gets the most MPs elected gets to form the government and the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister. In effect, a vote for the local member of the Conservative Party is a vote to elect the leader of the conservatives Prime Minister, but Poilievre's name isn't on the ballot as such.
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Spain has declared a state of emergency after a nationwide power blackout hit most of the Iberian peninsula, leaving roads gridlocked and prompting people to clear supermarket shelves. The country's Interior Ministry added the emergency status will be applied in the regions that request it - amid fears the chaos could last for days. It comes after huge queues formed outside shops and banks as residents, tourists desperately sought to stockpile essentials and take out cash as they could amid the uncertainty. Rows of cars were pictured lining up at petrol stations as people hoped to fill up their vehicles and fuel cans, with expats detailing how they have tried
Pritzker Calls For ‘Mass Protests,’
‘Destruction,’ Says GOP ‘Cannot
Know A Moment Of Peace’
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 4/28/2025 9:18:39 AM Post Reply
Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, apparently beginning his quest for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, called for “mass protests” and “destruction” in an evident attempt to outflank any other prospective candidate in rhetoric targeting the Trump administration. An average of recent polls of prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates found that former Vice President Kamala Harris led with 27.1%, followed by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 16.1%, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at 12.9%, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker at 8.6%, and California Governor Gavin Newsom at 7.9%. Pritzker ranked 10th with 3.2%. Speaking at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner on Sunday, Pritzker bellowed, “Never before
Iran Dangles ‘Trillion Dollar’ Incentive
for Trump in Deal Talks
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Posted by sunset 4/28/2025 9:08:32 PM Post Reply
As countries around the world try to bargain with US President Donald Trump over tariffs, longterm adversary Iran is pitching its sanctioned economy to him as an investment opportunity. With talks between Iran and the US over the Islamic Republic’s atomic activity showing signs of progress, top Iranian officials are for the first time in decades overtly promoting their economy to the White House to secure a lasting and more effective nuclear accord. If Trump wants a deal that’s better for the US than the one he jettisoned in 2018, the Iranians want the same for Iran.
Hakeem Jeffries Invokes Civil War Rhetoric,
Suggests Republicans Are the Party of ‘Traitors’
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 4/28/2025 4:06:59 PM Post Reply
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), during a ridiculous "sit-in" on the steps of the Capitol, invoked Civil War-era rhetoric to portray Democrats as "patriots" and the Republican party as "traitors." Jeffries' controversial comments came during a staged protest on the steps of Congress, where he was initially joined by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ/Sparta) and then accompanied by several other Democrats and their colleagues. This was by design, an attempt to make their "sit-in" appear to be an organic swelling of support—impressive in their own minds, much like Booker's fake 25-hour filibuster. Rev. William Barber joined the exercise in futility. He discussed putting “principles over party," triggering Jeffries to
Kamala Harris mocked for 'big return'
to the political stage with $25 per stream
price tag
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 4/28/2025 8:43:04 PM Post Reply
Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants to propel herself back into the national political conversation, as former aides are teasing an upcoming major speech criticizing President Donald Trump. The failed presidential candidate will deliver the keynote speech at the Emerge 20th anniversary gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET. The speech will be live-streamed, according to the organizer Emerge, a Democratic group that recruits and trains women to run for public office. It's a major fundraiser as tickets cost up to $50,000 for a sponsor. But the group is also charging $25 per virtual watch. Harris is expected to deliver a 'call to action,'
CEO of Jeff Bezos-backed EV startup explains
how it'll make the affordable $25,000
pickup no one else can
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Posted by ConservativeYankee 4/28/2025 10:01:58 AM Post Reply
With the average cost of a new car edging toward the $50,000 mark, affordable, basic transportation is becoming increasingly difficult for many Americans. Slate, a new EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos, believes its new $25,000 pickup truck, which could cost less than $20,000 with tax credits, could help change that, its CEO, Chris Barman, told Business Insider. "There's a massive population of people out there when it comes to safe, reliable, affordable transportation; there just really aren't many alternatives for them," Barman said in an interview ahead of the unveiling of the new EV this week. A $25,000 price point would mean achieving something
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