What's The Difference?

After the last provincial election in Ontario, Andrea Horvath -- the leader of the NDP -- and Steven Del Ducca -- who led the Ontario Liberals -- resigned. During Ontario's municipal elections, Horvath was elected mayor of Hamilton and Del Ducca was elected mayor of Vaughn, north of Toronto. Donald Trump is still going madly about his country, claiming he won his election. Susan Delacourt writes:

Defeat of one kind or another is a constant possibility. In fact, simple arithmetic tells us there are far more losers than winners in every election. Losers, however, are often dispatched to the distant past, the land of “didn’t you used to be…?” All across Ontario this week, many failed municipal candidates — many more than winners — are collecting up their signs and fading back to obscurity and non-elected life.

Former Ontario New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath was elected mayor of her Hamilton hometown. Former Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca narrowly won the mayor’s job in Vaughan. Both of these leaders resigned on election night in June when they failed to stop Doug Ford from winning a majority.

Meanwhile, in Brampton, Patrick Brown held onto his mayor’s job, which he had been prepared to leave if he won the federal Conservative leadership race. Brown was ejected from the race during the summer (and fined $100,0000 by the party this week for alleged campaign violations).

It says something about all three of these politicians that they were unable to walk away from the business — that even as they were still licking the wounds of defeat, they decided to take another run at election.

So you have to ask the question, what's the difference between these politicians and Donald Trump?

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