How can lower-profile Conservative leadership candidates shift the race?

'You can’t alienate everybody,' says the University of Ottawa's Alan Freeman, as leading candidates will need their rivals' supporters to come on board if their preferred choice gets cut in early ballots.

Pierre Poilievre, left, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, and Patrick Brown, who some call the four frontrunners in the Conservative leadership race, are faced with the challenge of whether to change their approach in an increasingly crowded field.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia, file photographs, and courtesy of Twitter

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BY ALICE CHEN

March 30, 2022

Lesser-known Conservative leadership candidates will have a chance to bring forward their ideas and increase their notoriety and in the process could force the frontrunners to address them—especially if the vote takes multiple ballots and they need to become their rivals' supporters second choice....

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