
The campaign wraps up with the most ill-judged wisecrack of all. We report who's in the pink, and who made a blue.
In Newsroom's final Good Day/Bad Day rankings, we'll start with the leader who ended his campaign on the strongest, safest note – and work our way down the grid to the leader who started in poll position (see what we did there?) but went right off-track ...
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Out and about soon after, he rejected accusations from Chris Hipkins of race-baiting. Then a woman passing by in a Suzuki Swift spotted him and shouted out the window: "Racist!"
And Seymour couldn't help himself. "I think she'd seen us racing this morning," he grinned. Yeah, nah, if there's one thing in this campaign that's no laughing matter, it's accusation of racism.