‘Congratulations Peter Dutton’: LNP Incorrectly Declares Leader Election debate winner before audience votes for anthony Albanian

Official Social Media Accounts for the Coalition Declared Peter Dutton The Winner of Tuesday Night’s Leaders’ Debate, Despite Anthony Albanian Winning the support of more undecided voters on the Sky News Panel.

Albanian won 44 Votes out of 100 at the Wentworthville Leagues Club in Western Sydney, Dutton won 35 and 21 people remained undecided. Neither Leader Made a Major Missing in the Sky News Forum and many Political Commentators describe the face-off as a spiritual draw.

But Multiple Social Media Accounts for the Liberal National Party and the nationals proclaimed dutton had won the debate, well before the official results were declared by Sky.

The debate finished at 8.30pm on Wednesday – The Same Time The Coalition Released The Long-Awaited Modeling On Its Gas Planwhich Dutton had until declined to discuss in detail. Just three minutes later at 8.33pm, about 40 minutes before sky announced the official results of the debate, the LNP Posted to its Facebook Account “Congratulations Peter Dutton”, with a photo of Dutton below with the Words “Sky News Debate Winner!”

The LNP – A distinct entity which operates in conjunction with, but separately from, the liberals and the nationals – Exists in Queensland, Dutton’s Home State.

The LNP Published the Same “Winner” Post and Graphic to its x account and also on Instagram.

The National Party of Australia, The Junior Coalition Partner, also Posted on its Facebook That Dutton was the “winner of the debate”.

It confused many.

“How was the victory decided? I thought more of the audience picked albo at the end?” One person on Instagram commented.

“This post was made before any media outlet reported a Dutton Victory,” said another.

“Sky News said Albo Won?” wrote a third.

Supporters on Facebook Praised Dutton’s Performance, with one person commenting “No one could dispute the win for Dutton. Albanian looked totally uncomfortable. Dutton was confident and precise.”

“Definitely the winner, Peter called out albo on his lies,” said another.

But one person also wrote “Sky News Literally Declared Albo the winner lol”.

The claim that Dutton won the debate was not published on official accounts for the Liberal Party.

After 9pm, Once the debate result was announced by Sky, Labor’s Official National Facebook Page Posted: “Breaking: Albo has won the first debate with Labor’s Plan to Build Australia’s Future”.

Labor’s Western Australian Facebook Page published At the same time a graphic stating “Albo Profit Leaders debate”.

Both major parties used the debate to Create Large Amounts of Social Media content. Labor and the Coalition Live tweeted the debate, sharing clips of their leader’s strongest lines, as well as graphics with statistics or policies they wanted to highlight.

The nationals created a bingo card for the debate, filled with criticisms of Albanian, including a central square with the word “groans”, and another saying “say he didn’t fall off stage” – a reference to a prominent talking point of the coalition, after albanese’s stomp at a union Rally Last Week, and a subsequent radio interview where he maintained “I stepped back one step, I didnnt fall off the stage”.

The Liberal Party Created Its Own Bingo Card, Accusing Albanian or “Lies” and also referencing the Stage Fall.

Labor Published a “Verdict from the first leaders” debate “, Contrasting Albanian Against Dutton as” Calm vs. Chaos “,” Experience vs Bad judgment “and” positive vs negative “.

On Tiktok, Labor Posted a Clip of the Leaders Discussing Health and Medicare Policy: The video was captioned “Omg … Albo Calls Out Dutton’s Record as Health Minister” followed by three fire emojis.

The Liberal Tiktok Account Posted a Video Captioned “Albanian Caught Lying … Again”, as well as a Simpsons meme accusing him of lying.