Barry Soper: ZB senior political correspondent ahead of the latest 1News-Verian poll

The latest 1News-Verian poll is due to be released tonight - and it's generated plenty of speculation.

The previous poll had National on 38 points, Labour on 29 points, the Green Party on 13 points, ACT at 7points and NZ First on 6 points.

ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper outlines what to expect.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Barrisoer, senior political correspondent with US Barry, have you got
any intel on what's going on in that pole tonight?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, I've done a bit of talking around and it
would seem that the general view is the one news
variant pole tonight it's a bit of a fizzit and
that would okay that it hasn't really changed that much,
And it really hasn't changed that much this year when
you consider it. The last poll had a national on
thirty eight up two percent, Labor down one percent to

(00:27):
twenty nine. The Greens were very strong at thirteen even
though they dropped slightly. ACT was there at seven and
New Zealand first at six. The one before that had
New Zealand first, not even in parliament. So yeah, the
general views it's a phissit. It comes out at six o'clock,
so I guess we'll all be glued and pick up
exactly where.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll all be gloo into Neuce Talk ZB Drive. We
will immediately have the results. Yes, that's exactly what's going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Has just arrived at the Democratic National Convention well.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
As I understand it. Of course, Camilla Harris is there
and Ordinarily, these conventions in an election year like this
would confirm a presidential nominee, while she's already been confirmed.
Very unusual circumstances, of course, with Joe Biden stepping down,
she's apparently expected to share the stage with Joe Biden

(01:17):
within the next five to ten hours in Chicago, justinto derness,
quite extraordinary. She's been invited to Chicago by some outfit
there that called the Center for American Progress Action Fund,
and they say that their mantra essentially is to have

(01:42):
a non partisan policy institute and they like progressive, bold
ideas as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Well,
she'll be on a panel, which is very unusual for
somebody from not in America. She'll be on a panel
giving her views on what a kind leader she was
in this country. And you know, it's the thing that

(02:03):
doesn't surprise me that Justina A. Durn whenever I traveled
with her overseas, she was in big demand, and mainly
it was because of the dreadful events that happened in
Christchurch with the mosque shooting. So she became well known
instantly really and her ban on guns that was popular
with the anti gun people in the United States. So

(02:26):
she's still a fairly prominent person overseas and that's where
of course she's living now. So so yeah, they've trotted
her out and she'll be on a panel. She'll be
rubbing shoulders with Barack Obama. He'll be there along with
of course Joe Biden. So Jinda a durn will be
really in her element there now.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Barry, it seems to me act was not invited to
today's stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, it was invited. I can tell you it was invited.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
O can tell me how you know this.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was invited last May, and they were told that
there was going to be a whole ferry for political parties.
But I think the view of actors that the day
for the political part is to be present is not
just Rattina, because there's no real expectation for people to
be at Rautina. It's a Whitani day, which is always

(03:17):
observed by politicians of every political queue. That act decided
against going to this particular event because it's not a
political event, very unusual for politicians to turn out in force.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
That you're talking about from May.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I can't read that too far.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Away, age because you're a boomer. Have you look at that?
Is that the invitation? Because that invitation only mentions a
poor forty on Wednesday, which is the one that they
say they were invited to today's Monday. There is no
mention of it in the invitation.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, well, look I was told that they were invited.
They knew there was an invitation on the table.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
The body Kings people tell you that.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, no, they didn't know. It was a bit closer
to home to ACT.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay, all right, we'll have to I'll believe them for
I'll belied you for information during the break and then
come back when do an assessment of whether you're on
the money or not.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
But then they're all there, I mean, except for Act
and don't forget to very unusually King to Hantea in
fact criticize roundly ACT and basically told Maldi to gather
forces against the coalition government. That's very unusual. He's the

(04:28):
head of the king he Tongue movement. But you know
it's unusual for the Maori royalty to try and get
the troops against the government and the way he has done.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hey, this crackdown on breath testing, I love it because
I want to see the roads be a safer place.
But I imagine that there will be a little bit
of negative reaction from people who get annoyed about this stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, the only problem, I guess is and it's manning them.
I mean, you know, if you've got to take you know,
three point three million million breath tests, it's going to
be one hell of a job to get demanded, particularly
when there's so many demands on police, particularly violent.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Listen, the cops get paid for this, so where else
do you get paid for a service? And then you go,
I'm only going to do half.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, Well, I guess they're too busy is the answers.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And don't take the money, which is what's going on here.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah. No, I wasn't aware until I heard you say
earlier that there was money involved. Yeah, and I'm sure
that they'll be out there. We'll see the booze buses
around the place. The drug testing is the other thing
that I think is a big step forward.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Hi, Grithie Berry, Thank you very much. Barry so for
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