ANC would have dropped to 40% if Ramaphosa didn't win at Nasrec: Mbalula.
"Should we have gone on with that we would have probably dropped to 40%," he said."They went for the president very hard and veering away from their own message, and they took a bad approach for them in this campaign," he said.With 62% of the election result complete on Thursday night, the ANC was on 56.7%. It was leading polls in all provinces besides the Western Cape.
"We are humbled by this because we came from a serious battering in the last elections where we almost lost," he said.
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