Let’s get ready to rumble, Conservative race turns into a street fight

Leadership races are more about logistics than strategy and what’s important is who, and how many, are actually in the tent when the dust settles. The last few Conservative leadership races have devolved into the classic scenario of winning the battle but losing the war.
The contenders: Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, and Patrick Brown are all running for the federal Conservative leadership, which will be decided on Sept. 10, still six months away.
OTTAWA—It’s not as if we don’t have enough going on to consume our attention, but the Conservative leadership race might just warrant carving out some cognitive space. I will leave the analysis about what it may mean to the experts and concentrate on the more entertaining element of what it wi...

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