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Act leader David Seymour says a social media post from his party's Dunedin candidate was a "very stupid thing to do". Tim Newman liked a comment...

ACT leader David Seymour says one of his candidates expressing support for a comment about "extremist Maori" was a "very stupid thing to do."

Just over a month out from the election, ACT's Taranaki King Country candidate has withdrawn.

OPINION: Spaceman Seymour's search for intelligent life to promote to political power.

If there was a change of Government the next Government could potentially be full of fundamentalist Christians, anti vaxers and all sorts of people whose view of Aotearoa is not conventional or reality based.

OPINION: Our editorial on troubling candidate disclosures this week.

Analysis - Commentators deliver similar verdicts on the latest poll, and its grim reading for Labour. The main parties continue to crank out policies, David Seymour's joke that no one thought was funny and a National MP is stood down.

ACT is in damage control after candidates were revealed to have made inflammatory posts on social media.