Hūhana Lyndon

It's a tough, tough one.

Huhana's slightly ahead, but she's so capable, so competent.

It'll be probably won in West Auckland, because that's where most of the vote is.

And it's a contest between her, Huhana, and a Māori Party candidate.

But I think we've got every chance of winning

it.

The vote splitting there will be chaotic.

Absolutely, and I think what it's also done in a kind of interesting way is it's opened up the middle to Willow-Jean Prime, who I didn't think was going to get anywhere near that, but I think she will now, because we've seen votes splitting between those who are picking Aperahama and Mariameno, who won't get on on the list, and Huhana, who is in our poll anyway, was ahead in the poll, but will get on the list on green, and Willow-Jean's all of a sudden come through the middle.

But the others are generally going to go... to the Māori Party.

I mean, Kusha Taongare will win Ikaroa Rāwhiti.

The vote splitting there will be chaotic.

Absolutely, and I think what it's also done in a kind of interesting way is it's opened up the middle to Willow-Jean Prime, who I didn't think was going to get anywhere near that, but I think she will now, because we've seen votes splitting between those who are picking Aperahama and Mariameno, who won't get on on the list, and Huhana, who is in our poll anyway, was ahead in the poll, but will get on the list on green, and Willow-Jean's all of a sudden come through the middle.

But the others are generally going to go... to the Māori Party.

I mean, Kusha Taungare will win Ikaroa Rāwhiti.

And I think he did fulfil that promise.

If you've been on the ground with Hūhana and you've seen the mahi that she is doing and how she is everywhere all at once and constantly solving problems and operating as an electorate MP already whilst also being on the floor of the House and in select committees and representing Northland so vigorously, you could see that this was coming.

And I guess that this is always what's kind of frustrated me with the disconnect with some.

And again, I'm not doing a Winston here and complaining about the media, but very genuinely.

Why? Well, I believe that we need to focus on the core issues that we have at hand at the moment.

Sorry, I'm going to respond to that because just the week before, myself, Hana, Huhana and the others from the Green Party visited Te Whanau Whero at their invitation because they were having a health and wellbeing day, not just for those in Tamaki Makaurau, but right across.

Here's the point.

Kieran Leone posted that she went to the same place a week before and once it hit the headlines for us in the Green Party, it was taken down.

So let's walk you through the timeline here.

So in mid-October, Te Pāti Māori MPs Orini Kaipara and Hana Lawhiti Maipi-Clark, along with Green candidates Huhana, Lyndon and Michael Milipula, attended and evented a mongrel mob gang pad just south of Auckland with photos posted on social media.

At the time, Marama Davidson was unapologetic, but Chris Hipkins did condemn the photos and say it was not acceptable.

Then we had the Whakata Māori election debate where Orini Kaipara threw this accusation at Kieran Leone.

So I think it's just, yeah, that people, not to reference Game of Thrones or anything, but I think with Te Tai Tokerau, with Game of Thrones, as they say, the North remembers of all the drama that happened with Maria Minoa and Te Pāti Māori and all that.

So, but also like not to, I think Hūhana has also been working really hard in that electorate as well.

But yeah, it's been really cool results just seeing on how the ties are kind of shifting on Te Pāti Māori and all that.

And I know we don't have time to go in detail into every different poll result, but is there a specific electorate that you think is particularly interesting that you could speak to more? And maybe that is up north where it seems to all be happening, or maybe that's somewhere else.

Every government minister I've spoken to in the last 24 hours, in fact, pretty much anyone on from the coalition, is absolutely scathing of this photo that's gone up.

This is the Green MP, uh, Huhana Lyndon, alongside Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and Oriini Kaipara of Te Pāti Māori meeting with the Mongrel Mob at a gang pad, it's being reported.

Um, Marama, can you see why people might be upset by the patch and politicians in the same shot?

Yeah.