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Nationalist candidates have done pretty badly since Trump won. Wilders & Le Pen faded down the stretch run. Hofer underperformed in Austria.
Nationalist candidates have done pretty badly since Trump won. Wilders & Le Pen faded down the stretch run. Hofer underperformed in Austria.
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More Nationalist candidates have done pretty badly since Trump won... (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2017
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. Putin over played his hand
Kilgore
(1,819 posts)2. Have you seen the French election results?
Le Pen in in a runoff with a centrist.
I fail to see the fade.
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,700 posts)3. "Have you seen the French election results? "
"Have you seen the French election results? "
Her dad running on a similar nationalist platform, received approximately the same amount of the vote in 2002, made the run off , and was then crushed by Jacques Chirac by sixty points.
Polls project the same thing happening to Marine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017