Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price rejected she should wear any blame for the Coalition’s defeat

Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has furiously rejected she should wear any blame for the Coalition’s shocking election defeat.

Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has furiously rejected she should wear any blame for the Coalition’s shocking election defeat.

ABC election coverage co-host Sarah Ferguson opened an interview with Senator Price, the spokesman for Indigenous Affairs and the figure tapped to lead an Elon Musk-style government efficiency review, with a pearler.

“With your embrace of Donald Trump and Make Australia Great, are you part of that loss?” Ferguson asked.

A shocked Senator Price fired back: “That’s a big call, don’t you think?

“If you swing enough mud in an election, it sticks. We did see a prime minister who absolutely misled the Australian people all the way through and was rarely called out for his conduct. I think it is deceitful.”

When Ferguson suggested the prominent Coalition figure wasn’t taking the matter seriously, Senator Price hit back again.

“If you don’t think I’m addressing this seriously … I am addressing this deadly seriously.”

Senator Price repeatedly invoked the US president and some of his policies and even catch cries in recent times.

Photos emerged of her wearing a ‘Make American Great Again’ cap and she cheered “Make Australia Great Again” during a press conference, seconds after declaring the media was obsessed with Mr Trump.

When asked tonight what impact this might’ve had, given the backlash to Mr Trump and his tariff attacks on Australia, Senator Price muttered: “Oh my goodness.”

“There is a whole lot of mud you just slung right there,” she said.

“Can I just say, in terms of wanting this country to be great again, Donald Trump doesn’t own those four words.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price talking to locals. Picture: Richard Dobson / Newswire

“And because the media can go through your personal Facebook photos, and find a picture that was taken, in jest, at Christmas time, and then smear you with it, that is the problem. That is the issue.”

Of the mammoth defeat, Senator Price said unseating a first-term prime minister was never going to be easy.

“It’s only been done in 1931, the last time, obviously. But believe me you, this doesn’t mean that we give up or we back down. We will just go harder and we will learn from the mistakes we have made in terms of our campaign.”

She said Peter Dutton being turfed from his own seat was “a huge loss”.

“The Liberal Party will determine what the leadership looks like going forward, but we will absolutely learn.”