And the silence of Melenchon is deafening. I am disappointed in him. She is trying to catch the people that voted for him and he lets her do.
Melenchon seems to be stealth supporting le pen too
Well, I don't think that's true... At best, he's ambivalous on the matter, but he has always been a strong LePen opposition. The problem is, they want to keep their momentum for the following elections in june.
Even if it may be the moral thing to do, it's pretty much useless: among their voters, people that prefer Macron will say "it's sad he doesn't say clearly that we should vote for Macron", but they'll still support Macron.
People that they took from LePen won't vote for Macron because Mélenchon clearly rallies Macron. But they may loose them back to FN.
In short, an official support for Macron will probably do nothing for next week, but will probably have the consequences of MORE vote for FN (instead of Front de Gauche) in june's elections. Tha'ts both backfiring AND putting them in a worse shape in june.
See how it killed Bayrou in 2012 for expressing his mind clearly... I doubt he changed the mind of more than a handful of its voters, and he sure angered a LOT more of them, and lost their support basically forever.
Oh my, just saw snippets of Macron on stage during his Arras meeting. So bad, so different from the image he gives in discussions/negotiations.
He definitely needs some coaching for public speech. Maybe take a few theatre/singing lessons. Stop shouting, you don't have the voice nor the energy for it.
In a way it's just asking him to be better at fake stuff, but... well it's probably important in politics.
Shouting is a detail, but I don't have a doubt that he's not fit for presidency. He's mostly lucky that overall the others three promoted worse ideas or had worse ethics...
Trump Junior doesn't understand how anti-american Le Pen is. I swear these idiots are too dense to realize how disastrous a Le Pen win would be for the US.
Well, they may value the destruction of France and probably EU more than anything...
At the very least, they have some clue about what she would do...
I've looked into Macron's program, and there's basically NOTHING about foreign policies, except for Israël/Palestinia, Turkey/EU and Iran. Seeing how he's dealing with difficult questions, one expects a "nothing change / let's see how the wind is blowing", but who actually knows... I'm not even sure HE knows.
Like market, I don't think that foreign countries like big unknowns and speculations.
And Farage... well, that's Farage, and he has all the reasons wanting the EU to implode, and quickly. Noone will think there's ANYTHING related to what would be best for french people in his position. It's all about home turf.
