The Conservative Party’s 2025 federal campaign chief Jenni Byrne says not realizing sooner that leader Pierre Poilievre was in trouble in his riding remains one of her main regrets from the election.

“I do wish that we had seen what was happening in Pierre’s riding sooner than what we did,” Byrne said in an interview on the “Beyond a Ballot” podcast this week.

In the interview, Byrne’s first since the April election, she spoke about the campaign and what’s next for her following her time as one of Poilievre’s top advisers.

The longtime political strategist, who also served as an adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper during his years in government, told the podcast that despite her regret about not recognizing trouble in Poilievre’s riding, she isn’t sure they could have

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