Was Eby’s snap election call a bad bet for the B.C. NDP?

A week into the provincial election campaign and the race is about as tight as it gets.
This was not the plan.
Experts now warn that NDP leader David Eby’s snap election call could backfire as his justification for going to the polls has so far rung hollow and a new Conservative leader has deftly shifted the narrative away from internal party chaos.
University of British Columbia political science lecturer Stewart Prest called it a “potentially significant miscalculation.”
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