How would Poilievre and Carney have voted in the U.S. Presidential Election?

How a subtle distinction in how people answer this question could lead to vastly a vastly different election outcome.

Imagine, for a moment, that Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May, and Mark Carney all had a ballot in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. Who would they have voted for—Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?

This was one of the more unconventional questions we asked 1,000 Canadian adults in a national Abacus Data survey conducted from …