The campaign of Conservative MP and party leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre has released the number of new members it signed before the June 3 cut-off date, and it eclipses by far the total number of new members signed by all of the previous candidates in the 2020 leadership contest.
Poilievre adviser Jenni Byrne said on June 4 that 311,958 new members had signed up on the campaign website.
“Last night, Pierre’s campaign wrote CPC HQ asking it to publicly release the number of memberships sold through the http://pierre4pm.ca website. We encourage all campaigns to follow suit,” Byrne tweeted.
During the 2020 leadership race to replace Andrew Scheer, a total of 269,469 new members joined the Conservatives. The candidates at that time were former leader Erin O’Toole, former cabinet minister Peter MacKay, current MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis, and former MP and current leader of the Ontario Party Derek Sloan….