Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes he can turn around dwindling support for his party with just three weeks until the election.
It comes as the latest Newshub Reid Research Poll revealed Labour has just 26.5 percent of support - putting the party at risk of losing major names.
But it wasn't all bad news as support for National and ACT had also tumbled while the Greens have had a surge in support.
National is on 39.1 percent, down 1.8 while ACT took a major tumble to 8.8 percent, down 1.3 and the Greens were the big winners - up to 14.2 percent, an increase of 1.9 points.
This means the left bloc of Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori would only get 54 seats well short of the 61 needed to form a government.
The right bloc of National and ACT only reach 60 seats so Christopher Luxon will need to call Winston Peters and ask for the six seats New Zealand First received if he wants to form a government.
While this latest poll is grim reading for Labour, just like most have been over the past few months, Hipkins is refusing to throw in the towel.
He pointed to the declining support for ACT and National when questioned on AM on Tuesday as a reason Labour supporters and MPs should remain hopeful.
He told AM co-host Ryan Bridge people should be worried about a National-ACT-NZ First government.
"I'm doing fine. The poll last night showed National and ACT are coming down. They've lost six seats since the last TV3 (Newshub Reid Research Poll) poll and I think New Zealanders are also a bit concerned about what a National-ACT-NZ First government would mean for the country," he said.
"I think everyone accepts it would be a coalition of absolute chaos and so my job in the next three weeks is to make sure we turn those numbers around for Labour."
When questioned if Kiwis were worried about a chaotic coalition with New Zealand First, then wouldn't they be better off giving their vote to National, Hipkins disagreed saying Kiwis should vote Labour.
He told AM he understands people might want change but urged them to consider what change could look like.
"The National Party are proposing a whole lot of cuts that they're not being upfront with New Zealanders about," he said.
"A goal in the next three weeks is to make sure New Zealanders understand the implications of change. I get that at the moment with things being as tough as they have been for Kiwi families it's natural to think about change in those circumstances, but actually change to what.
"Change to a party that wants to go back to all of the things that created so many of the problems that we are dealing with in the first place."
But when Bridge said to him that "no one is listening" to his messaging, Hipkins hit back.
"Look, no one has voted yet, no one has voted yet. A poll is just a poll," he said.
"Every single day matters in an election campaign, three weeks is a long time in politics."
Watch the full interview with Chris Hipkins in the video above.
