Donald Trump's sudden, wild popularity among young Canadians

 A new poll finds that Donald Trump isn’t just more popular among Canadians than their own prime minister, but he’s one of Canada’s favourite Republican presidential candidates ever.

A survey published Monday by the Environics Institute found that if Canadians were allowed to decide the U.S. presidential election, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris would win by 60 per cent.

Canadians always favour the Democrat in these types of polls, but Trump’s 21 per cent makes him more popular among Canadians than any other Republican presidential candidate of the last two decades, easily besting more moderate contenders such as Mitt Romney and John McCain.

It also means that about as many Canadians would vote for Trump as would vote for their own prime minister. The Liberal party under Justin Trudeau is currently charting in the low-20s in opinion polls, with an Abacus Data poll from last week putting them at 22 per cent.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/donald-trumps-sudden-wild-popularity-among-young-canadians