Wentworth byelection: Dave Sharma and his battle to make voters forget Turnbull

The Liberal candidate says he has a ‘tough byelection to win’ against the high-profile independent Kerryn Phelps

For Dave Sharma, the Liberal candidate for Wentworth, the biggest challenge will be convincing voters that they should vote for a man they don’t know, who doesn’t live in their electorate, and who is running for a party that rejected their much-loved former member Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.

Worse still, Sharma is up against a celebrity independent and local doctor, Kerryn Phelps, who after a rocky start on how she planned to direct preferences, is now zeroing in on taking a chunk of disaffected Liberals.

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