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At some point in 2019, Moffett founded a political party called the New NZ party (later renamed Real NZ). Journalist Alex Braae described the New NZ party in May 2019 as "a vehicle for David
Moffett which is at this stage is unregistered, and mainly appears to consist of aggressive social media
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