Do you have a sinking feeling over Todd Muller?
The MAGA hat that was a non-story he refused to make a non-story by keeping on answering dumb questions about it until he stuck it in a box. Thus indicating that if you ask enough dumb questions, he'll turn it into something.
Then the possum in the headlights reaction to the ethnicity question over the new front bench, which was only partly his fault but because he didn't sound like he owned it. Nikki Kaye, who I also have a sinking feeling about, decided making Paul Goldsmith Maori was a good idea.
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And then she doubled down when Paul Goldsmith decided to make "stick to your knitting" a headline-grabbing story by suggesting they weren't the best choice of words when in fact there was nothing wrong with them, nor has there ever been.