Scott Simms ran in seven federal elections, winning six of them. And while he came to terms fairly easily with his 264-vote loss on September 20, the long-time Liberal MP is having a harder time accepting what he experienced on the campaign trail in his largely rural riding in central Newfoundland.
“There was a lot of anger out there for a lot of people. Frustration and anger,” Simms said in an interview airing Saturday on CBC’s The House.
“I think that over the past little while … all of our politics and public political discourse, whether it be on Facebook or through some or the radio
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