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BackXiaoying, please pay attention! Tsai Ing-ming marches into the business district of No. 1 Middle School to assist the "mayor-to-mayor exchange"
Xiaoying, please pay attention! Tsai Ing-ming marches into the business district of No. 1 Middle School to assist the "mayor-to-mayor exchange"
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Xiaoying, please pay attention! Tsai Ing-ming marches into the business district of No. 1 Middle School to assist the "mayor-to-mayor exchange"

Polls show that the gap between He Xinchun and Jiang Qichen has narrowed to 1.9%. Tsai Ing-wen will use "real" Internet popularity to boost the election

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  • Former President Tsai Ing-wen will go to Taichung on the 16th to accompany Democratic Progressive Party mayoral candidate He Xinchun to visit the South District City God Temple and visit the No.
  • 1 Central Business District.
  • Recent polls show that the gap between He Xinchun and her opponent Jiang Qichen has narrowed to 1.9%.

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Why It Matters

After leaving office, Tsai Ing-wen has been active on social media, often interacting with netizens and using Internet slang. A recent mayoral election poll commissioned by Taichung Friends of Trust in Taiwan showed that the gap between He Xinchun and Jiang Qichen has narrowed to 1.9%.

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Tsai Ing-wen, the honorary chairman of the campaign headquarters of He Xinchun and former president, has come to assist. Tomorrow (16th) afternoon, she will go to Taichung to accompany He Xinchun to run stalls, including a visit to the South District City God's Temple. Recently, Tsai Ing-wen of the Live Network has repeatedly called netizens "real" and won over many young netizens. Tomorrow, she will go to the "Taichung Youth Holy Land" No. 1 Central Business District to interact with young people and attack in multiple ways to help spell "Mayor Replacement, Taichung Innovation".

The poll revealed that the gap between the Democratic Progressive Party's Taichung mayoral candidate and legislator He Xinchun and her rival KMT candidate and Legislative Yuan Vice-President Jiang Qichen has narrowed to 1.9%. He Xinchun pointed out that this is exciting for the headquarters and supporters. She will continue to fight hard and seize every opportunity to talk to voters of all ethnic groups about future policies and city vision to win the approval of Taichung voters.

After leaving office, Tsai Ing-wen has been very active on online social platforms. She has appeared from time to time to respond to various questions from netizens. She even kept up with the latest Internet chats and deliberately replaced the word "baby" in chat messages with the similar word "real". During her recent trip, she frequently posted updates and shouted "real" reports, winning the hearts of many young netizens.

On the 8th of last month, Tsai Ing-wen went to Taichung to unbox He Xinchun’s campaign headquarters and recommend reasons to support He Xinchun to voters. As the election countdown came, He Xinchun’s headquarters pointed out that Tsai Ing-wen will arrive in Taichung tomorrow afternoon to accompany He Xinchun to vote and assist, 2 p.m. At 20:00, we first went to the South District City God Temple to pay homage. At 3:30, we went to the No. 1 Middle School Business District, the "Sanctuary for Young People in Taichung", to accompany He Xinchun to interact with young people and solicit votes to capture young votes. He's headquarters said, "Xiao Ying Shi Shi" will be picked up tomorrow.

This poll was commissioned and released by the Taichung City Friends of Trust in Taiwan, and the Evidence-Based Polling Co., Ltd. was commissioned to conduct the Taichung mayoral election poll. The poll results were announced on the 12th. The gap between He Xinchun and Jiang Qichen narrowed to 1.9%. The survey time was from October 5 to 6, 2026. The survey subjects were people whose household registration was in Taichung City and who were over 20 years old. The survey adopted random sampling from the telephone database system and conducted the survey using the computer-assisted telephone interviewing system (CATI). A total of 1,071 valid samples were completed, and were weighted according to gender, age and administrative district population structure. At the 95% confidence level, the overall sampling error is plus or minus 2.99 percentage points.

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  • Tsai Ing-wen will accompany He Xinchun to visit the No. 1 Middle School business district on the afternoon of the 16th.

    Very likely · Within days

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  • Do data from other polling agencies show the same trend?

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