NDP’s Singh drops ‘I’m running for prime minister’ messaging two weeks into the campaign [Video]

As Jagmeet Singh heads into his third week of campaigning, the NDP leader is dropping his assertive messaging that he is running to be prime minister. 

Singh is no longer explicitly repeating the line at news conferences.

On Wednesday and Friday, CBC News asked Singh if he was still running for the country’s top political job. 

Without directly answering, he invoked the past two minority Parliaments, where New Democrats used their position to push for things he said the Liberals otherwise would not do.

“Everything that the Liberals are pointing to, all the things they are saying that they achieved, literally would not have happened but for us,” Singh said. “These are all things that we forced them to do.”

Singh said his party pressured the Liberals to implement pharmacare, dental care, legislation banning replacement workers, and two weeks’ paid sick leave for workers in federally regulated workplaces.

He then …