National putting campaign out in Whangaparāoa pushing against overhang strat:

Mount Albert Electorate Poll | The Spinoff-Curia. Helen White* (Lab): 33% (-0.7) Melissa Lee (Nat): 32% (-1.6) Richardo Menendez-March (Grn): 14% (-9) Qiulae Wong: 10% (+6.6) Others/Undecideds: 11% *incumbent MP D: September 21 - 28 | R: 400. +/- 2023 election.

Imagine Chlöe Swarbrick flying to New York as Finance Minister and trying to convince the bond markets that New Zealand is a sensible place to lend money. Chlöe has made it clear that Finance is the job she wants in a Labour-Green Government. Our cost of borrowing would be whacked up after about five minutes of Chlöe Swarbrick talking about her Venezuela-style plan to nationalise supermarkets. That's before she gets to her plans to spend an extra $236.7 billion over the next Parliamentary term, or her plans to punish wealth-creators with a wealth tax. The Greens aren’t shy about what they want. They want a much bigger Government, much more spending, more debt, and more taxes. Chlöe herself says she wants Finance because that’s where the power exists to ‘transform this economy’. A Swarbrick-led Finance portfolio sure sounds like a circus act, but it's plausible because the direction of travel is the same for Labour and the Greens. The only difference is the Greens want to travel further. ACT is pushing in the opposite direction: cut the waste and grow the country. Have the courage to find savings so that No New Taxes is both possible and sustainable. We are campaigning to re-elect the coalition, while also making it go further and faster on the issues that matter – starting with balancing the books.

John Key specifically warns voters off “trying to be clever” by giving their candidate vote to National and their party vote to someone else.