Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots fails to pick up single lower house seat despite text spam and ad blitz

Minor party will not win a House of Representatives seat and its performance in the Senate is still unknown after spending millions on advertising

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What does spending tens of millions of dollars on advertising and bombarding people with unsolicited text messages get you? Nothing, if you're Clive Palmer - at least in the House of Representatives.

Trumpet of Patriots, Palmer's most recent political party, will not win a single lower house seat and, as of midday on Saturday, had only 1.85% of the national vote. Legalise Cannabis Australia, which spent just $6,200 on social media ads in the last 30 days and barely campaigned, has so far won 1.14% of the vote.

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