\u201cThe first one is going to seem completely obvious but I have to say it out loud and that is just how much I support our Labour team. How much I am cheering for them, but in particular as leader my old colleague and friend Chris Hipkins, who I believe in wholeheartedly and who I have known for many many years and I know how deep his Labour values run.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ardern said she remembered her own time as Labour leader and how much it meant for her to have people volunteer or donate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2017, I still remember when the general secretary told me not just the amount we were able to raise online but when he told me how many people had given.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single pledge, regardless of the dollar amount, is someone putting up their hand and saying they support you and that means so much in this campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n
Former Prime Ministers tend to commentate more the more time passes from their own tenures \u2013 Helen Clark and Sir John Key are both regular commentators.<\/p>\n
Key opened National\u2019s campaign launch this election and Clark has been commentating on a range of issues through a range of media.<\/p>\n
Labour is well behind when it comes to large (over $20,000) donations, having declared only $890,000 this year.<\/p>\n
National and Act have declared $2.3 million and $2.4m respectively. Labour typically does better with small donations, which do not have to be declared immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe first one is going to seem completely obvious but I have to say it out loud and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,13176,27518,13912,1738,2947,4101,19789,5903,28167,2740,13175,6721,6722,111,43,139,69,4762,384,135,415,1974,35995,11165,1886,223,2846,3055,416,80],"class_list":["post-626945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-ardern","tag-asking","tag-broken","tag-campaign","tag-dame","tag-debate","tag-donate","tag-election","tag-enters","tag-former","tag-jacinda","tag-labour","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-people","tag-politics","tag-prime","tag-record","tag-relative","tag-silence","tag-support","tag-the","tag-them","tag-urging","tag-video","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}