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What a difference six months can make.

It looks like not only has Lavscam soured voters in the lead up to the election, but the political scandal has turned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sour as well.

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Here’s a Canadian Press headline from last December: “Justin Trudeau tells Liberal donors that he’ll keep his 2019 campaign positive.”

The story explained that “(t)he prime minister told them he plans to run on a platform of positivity in the October 2019 election, despite what he described as the growing popularity of using division and fear for political gain.”

This message was supposed to be something of a trend. And the PM kept it up, at least for a few months.

“Keep it positive in a campaign year, Trudeau tells MPs,” was the headline from a month later.

That was then. This is now.

And by “this” we mean what happened on February 7 — the day Lavscam first broke.

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The PM has been far from positive the past couple of months. He initially claimed the whole Lavscam story was “false.” Then his proxies denounced it as a “witch hunt” and attempted to undermine the credibility of both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott.