Pakatan Harapan's poor performance in the Malacca polls is a battle lost but it does not necessarily mean that the coalition will also lose the war, said DAP political education director Liew Chin Tong.

Liew (above) said Harapan needed a setback, similar to how it overcame the heavy defeats it suffered in the Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar by-elections in 2016.

"On June 18, 2016, Harapan lost badly in the Sungai Besar and...