The Democratic Progressive Party’s Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shizhong’s campaign headquarters was established on the 1st. Vice President Lai Qingde blurted out in his speech that “Taipei is the beginning of the epidemic”, which caused an uproar in the outside world. Therefore, a recent poll pointed out that for Lai Qingde’s gaffes in his speech, 89% of the people believed that “the votes of Chen Shizhong will be reduced even more”, and only 8% of the people believed that “it will not affect the election of Chen Shizhong”, which sparked discussions.
The YouTube channel “Mr. Taoyuan Sun” conducted an online poll on the 3rd on “Lai Qingde said on the platform of Chen Shizhong, “Taipei City is the beginning of the epidemic”. As of 23:00 on the 3rd, 11,000 people had voted, 89% of the people think “Lai Qingde’s blunders will reduce Chen Shizhong’s votes”, 8% of the people think “Lai Qingde speaks the facts, it will not affect Chen Shizhong’s election”, 2% of the people think “no opinion”, and 1% of the people think ” other conditions.”
Netizens who participated in the voting also left messages saying, “Lai Qingde’s blunder is only part of it, let’s be strict! The outbreak of the epidemic lies in the DPP and various members of the Executive Yuan!”, “Chen Shizhong is simply asking a ghost to get the medicine list, be safe! “, “I’m telling the Talu Ban!”, “There are no votes, so what’s the impact”, “It should be telling the truth, but Tsai Ing-wen will pick up the gun, and the variables will increase in 2024”, “Taipei If citizens agree that Taipei is the beginning of the epidemic, then vote for Chen Shizhong.”
