BBM-Sara will further gain voter support

The UniTeam tandem of former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte will further gain voter support as the election campaign goes into the homestretch, Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor said today.

Defensor, who is UniTeam’s candidate for mayor in Quezon City, said the remaining days of the campaign “would see candidates lagging behind in the recent survey being marginalized as their followers shift their support to the leading aspirants.”

“It’s the natural occurrence in every election. As voting nears and the dominant candidates emerge, people switch to the survey leaders. They will naturally choose the candidates they think will win,” he said in a television interview.

He said such migration of voter support is already evident in Quezon City.

“Here is our city, Mayor Joy Belmonte has come out with posters professing support for Bongbong Marcos, when she has already allied herself with Vice President Leni Robredo. I don’t mind that because it helps our candidate, but it’s bad for her candidate. Mayor Joy is indulging in too much politics,” he added.

Defensor pointed out that the biggest beneficiaries in the shift in voter preference “will be BBM and Mayor Inday Sara, because of their insurmountable survey lead over their closest opponents.”

“They will gain more voters than the others, since they are the frontrunners,” he stressed.

Based on Pulse Asia’s tracking survey for March, Marcos Jr. and Mayor Sara scored an identical voter preference of 56 percent.

Robredo had 24 percent, while Senate President Vicente Sotto lll had 36 percent.

Defensor said it would be almost impossible for Robredo and Sotto to overcome the 32-percentage-point lead and 36-percent advantage of their respective opponents, with the May 9 polls almost just month away.

“Even if they gain 10 points in the homestretch, it would not be enough. The lead of the BBM-Sara tandem is too huge to surmount. I see Bongbong Marcos and Mayor Inday winning the elections,” he said.

He said there were no other candidates in the country’s recent history who had such a wide margin over their opponents.