He Only Calls It Manipulation When It Doesn’t Help Him
Hipkins says National is clinging on by manipulating the electoral system. Te Pāti Māori ran an overhang strategy, too, and he needs those seats.
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Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: