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21 Things That Will Definitely Happen During The Election Campaign

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1. A minor party candidate will say something ridiculous and be forced to resign.

2. This will happen more than once.

3. Sales of hard hats will go through the roof.

4. While out campaigning, a senior politician will be photographed standing in front of a sign that makes them look very foolish.

5. Bill Shorten will have a very awkward conversation with a Regular Person.

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6. Leigh Sales will interview the prime minister and will immediately be accused of being a left-wing luvvie.

7. Shortly after that, she’ll be accused of being a right-wing hack.

8. A candidate will be caught out knowing nothing about his own party’s policy.

9. A random member of the public will confront the prime minister on live TV.

10. She'll become an overnight sensation.

11. Someone will make a dance version of her rant.

12. Then there'll be a Cranky Sue parody twitter account.

13. A politician will have a weird interaction with children.

14. A punter will follow a leader around in a chicken suit making some sort of vague point.

15. An actor appearing in a TV ad will turn out to have just been playing a character.

16. An MP will be forced to pose for a very awkward photo.

17. A politician will use a very dubious hashtag.

18. A senior politician, not realising there’s a microphone on, will be recorded insulting an angry member of the public.

19. There will be dank memes.

20. Waleed will nail it.

21. And finally, a female politician will make an important policy announcement and people will talk about her outfit.