{"id":1256,"date":"2022-04-08T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T10:22:05","slug":"humiliation-for-macron-as-le-pen-takes-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/humiliation-for-macron-as-le-pen-takes-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMILIATION For Macron As Le Pen Takes Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marine Le Pen has narrowly taken the lead in the latest round of polls for the upcoming French presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest poll from Atlas Politico &#8211; a Brazillian pollster that was extremely accurate during the 2020 US Presidential Election &#8211; reports that Le Pen is the frontrunner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As election day looms closer, the race to be France&#8217;s next president is tightening according to opinion polls that show Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s initial popularity appears to have been dwindling in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Neil posted the new poll findings on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latest poll in notional second-round run off for French president:<br>Le Pen 50.5%<br>Macron 49.5%<br>Gulp <br>Caveat 1: it\u2019s by Atlas Politico, Brazilian pollster. But they did well in US 2020 election<br>Caveat 2: Could be rogue poll<br>But: Gulp nevertheless.<\/p>&mdash; Andrew Neil (@afneil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afneil\/status\/1512067395065589768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathieu Gallard, research director at polling firm Ipsos, said: \u201cLe Pen did a proximity campaign, visiting a lot of small towns and villages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her trips were not very much covered by the national press but had a big echo in local media. \u201cShe gave an impression of proximity, which is very important for French voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen has narrowly taken the lead in the latest round of polls for the upcoming French presidential election. The latest poll from Atlas Politico &#8211; a Brazillian pollster &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"HUMILIATION For Macron As Le Pen Takes Lead\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/humiliation-for-macron-as-le-pen-takes-lead\/#more-1256\" aria-label=\"More on HUMILIATION For Macron As Le Pen Takes Lead\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[66,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}