Ke Zhien: The KMT has no capital for optimism in Kaohsiung where “green is greater than blue”

The Kaohsiung mayoral race is heating up. Recent polls have pointed out that the KMT mayoral candidate and legislator Ke Zhien and the Democratic Progressive Party mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong are in a golden cross. In response to this, Ke Zhien said in an interview at the Legislative Yuan today that no matter how big or small the lead in the polls is, it only represents a trend. The KMT has no reason to be optimistic in Kaohsiung, where "green is greater than blue".

Ke Zhien's camp previously assessed that it is an indisputable fact that Kaohsiung's voter structure is "greener than blue" and will shift the pace of the election campaign to emphasize "candidate characteristics" rather than the traditional "blue-green showdown." During this period of time, Ke Zhien has integrated the grassroots group leader meetings, party member forums and candidate introduction meetings that were mainly for party members in the past, and went to various parliamentary constituencies in Kaohsiung to hold symposiums. They are open-ended and not limited to party members. Recently, nearly a thousand people have participated. In the future, the Blue Camp will successively plan to hold lectures at temple entrances in various districts, as well as medium and large-scale campaigning, etc., which will further increase the excitement of the election.

Ke Zhien said today that she has always emphasized that poll numbers are only for reference, but everyone can observe many elections in the past 10 years to see which polling units are more credible and which units have an error rate of less than 3%. This is what everyone should pay attention to when discussing polls.

Ke Zhien said that she does not dare to believe that she can continue to maintain the lead because she believes that soon, the DPP may throw out internal polls that win over Ke Zhien by more than 10% or more than 20%, but these numbers will be tested after the election.

Ke Zhien emphasized that no matter whether the lead in the polls is large or small, or even falling behind, it only represents a trend. In Kaohsiung, where "green is greater than blue", the KMT has no reason to be optimistic. The team will definitely follow suit and handle everything carefully, and she herself has never let her guard down.