Rishi Sunak v Liz Truss
How Truss can win, just barely...
It’s been reported that thankfully, globalist Penny Mordaunt with her insane pro-child abuse policies has been knocked out of the race, leaving only Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.
From The Daily Beagle’s analysis, we learnt that Rishi Sunak is basically in-bed with the pharmaceutical firms and advocated for vaccine passports, and that Liz Truss voted in favour of vaccine passports.
We also learnt that besides Steve Baker, all the Tories have a terrible track record of defending the lives of babies, with Liz Truss voting two more times in favour of child murder than Rishi Sunak, who has kids. Kids he exploited to worship vaccines by saying a vaccine producer was their hero.
The Daily Beagle’s strategy boils down to ensuring there is a pro-Brexit set of ministers with a decent code-of-conduct (namely, Steve Baker style ideals) under the heading of Liz Truss.
Sunak is still running on his charm and charisma campaign, however he only talks about finances, and is basically Gordon Brown for the Tories (any non-Brits: Gordon Brown was a Labour party financial minister who only ever spoke about numbers and figures in a borish, inhuman manner, basically spelling the end of the Labour party’s reign of power).
How Liz Truss Can (Barely) Win
Liz Truss should not run on the ‘I’m not Rishi Sunak’ platform, because not only does that polarise pro-Rishi Sunak voters into not switching sides by basically invalidating their views, essentially implying ‘you’ve made an awful choice’, it is also a shallow hack that is self-evident and displays no unique talent or skills and appears 1-Dimensional.
Instead, Truss should look at compromises and concessions she can offer the Sunak voting base, and try, as quickly as she can, to grasp why they are voting for him, and see if she can offer something similar or better. Doing a copy-cat approach is not sufficient, however Truss could make a very big brain move.
Declare Publicly She Will Offer Rishi Sunak The Position Of Chancellor Even If She Wins
This actually does a number of things. First, it acknowledges to the Sunak voter base that his financial policies will continue as-is even if they vote for Truss, making Truss a safe bet and making the switch as painless as possible.
Secondly, it acknowledges he has talents and validates their vote, whilst saying ‘you can have both me and Rishi Sunak, you don’t have to choose’. The ball then also lands in Rishi’s court to reciprocate the offer. If he feels insulted and rejects the offer (Truss should offer it after winning regardless of if he rejected it before hand), it falls solely on Sunak, not on Truss.
Thirdly, it retains his numbers-and-figures skills where they’re needed the most; in finances. This might sour the anti-tax crowd, but it would woo the Sunak crowd. If Truss can then also make additional concessions that Sunak cannot make in his position to the Sunak voting base.
For Sunak, it also motivates him not to fight as hard. His financial position is secure and he doesn’t lose grace if he fails the leadership competition. He had his coup attempt against Boris and failed, but he didn’t lose anything for it.
Manually Appeal to the Sunak Voters
Truss will need to manually appeal to Sunak voters in person. Ask them what she can do to earn their vote. Truss does not need to pull the entirety of the voters, just a sizeable chunk of the Sunak voting base (48-50 would be sufficient).
The main swing crowd will be the lost Penny Mordaunt voters, but their policies are toxic to the public, and they will be forced to choose between Sunak and Truss or to abstain. Truss can try to implicitly earn their vote by avoiding being critical of Mordaunt related positions, although she should not explicitly back any of their toxic policies.
Liz will have to remember she is appealing to the niche views of the Tory membership base and not to the general public, so what she says on TV should be calibrated for the voting membership, not the general public.
It will be difficult, but if Liz works hard, she can unify the elements and be statesmanlike in the approach.