France’s Marine Le Pen Visits Trump Tower, Takes the Lead in Latest Poll

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Daily Stormer
January 13, 2017

Only here to taste the cuisine, of course.

With the French election coming in about three months, now is a good time to get some updates on the situation.

The only meaningful issue at stake here is Frexit.

And Marine Le Pen is the only strong anti-EU candidate, even if she’s been a disaster on virtually every other issue of significance, cucking on everything from the Jews to Islam to fags.

But Frexit is the issue, so she’s still our preferred candidate.

And she may just be homing in on a viable strategy for victory, even if she’s still the underdog.

Washington Post:

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front and a contender in the country’s upcoming presidential election, was seen at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday.

The details of Le Pen’s visit were not immediately [available]. According to a media pool report, she declined to say whether she would meet with Donald Trump while she was there.

Aides to the president-elect quickly insisted that she would not: Sean Spicer, Trump’s press secretary, subsequently retweeted a CNN report in which he had said that Le Pen would meet neither with Trump nor any members of his transition team.

“Trump tower is open to the public,” Spicer said.

Either way, this meeting needs to happen ASAP.

It’s actually possible, goofy as it might sound, that Le Pen didn’t meet anyone at Trump tower. Just having visited the place will be enough to stir up the media and elicit doubts in people’s minds.

Of course, it’s entirely in her interest to get the French public to think she’s very close to Donald Trump. Being close to the American president would lend her a high level of legitimacy, and would create the idea in people’s minds that she’s a part of some greater plan.

Normies love things that are planned.

What they don’t like is uncertainty. And while the French are probably eager for a Frexit, they’re likely to get cold feet if they’re afraid of the ensuing chaos. If there’s one thing that can give Le Pen an edge, it’s the idea, real or imagined, that her rule would involve a close economic alliance with America, as a cushion for the separation with the EU.

And yet Le Pen’s visit fits into a recurring pattern of the Trump transition period: a foreign populist leader somehow appearing at Trump’s headquarters before the president-elect has met with the actual leaders of the countries concerned.

Just three days after the U.S. election, Trump received Nigel Farage, the interim head of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the principal advocate of the “Brexit” campaign for Britain to leave the European Union.

Well done, Nigel. One down, 27 to go.

Furthermore, Le Pen has been among the most vocal foreign supporters of Trump since his election, heralding his victory as a democratic choice that could “bury the old order” and serve as a steppingstone to “building tomorrow’s world.

Associating herself with the surprise underdog victories of Trump and Brexit is also good PR.

She’s clearly trying to instill a notion of a “wave of change” across the world, and pose as one of the people riding that wave. This gives her victory an air of “inevitability.”

Let’s hope things work out that way.

On the eve of the French presidential election, ties between the formerly fringe National Front party and the president-elect of the United States immediately caused significant anxiety.

Thursday’s reports of Le Pen’s appearance at Trump Tower fanned fears that her platform — marked by hostility to immigrants, the desire to cozy up to Vladimir Putin’s Russia and a dogged insistence on taking France out of the European Union — could soon be legitimized.

For the moment, Le Pen is rising in opinion polls in advance of the French election. She appears likely to reach the second and final round of the vote.

Indeed, she’s just taken the lead in the first round, according to the latest poll.

The Independent:

Marine Le Pen has overtaken French presidential favourite François Fillon to become the frontrunner in the latest first round election poll.

The Front National leader is now polling at 26.5 per cent, a lead of 1.5 per cent over former Conservative Prime Minister Fillon.

However, Mr Fillon is still expected to beat the far-right leader in a second round runoff in May, with polls giving him 64 per cent over Ms Le Pen’s 36 per cent.

This presupposes, of course, that the second round will see Le Pen face off against the right-wing Fillon. The entire French left would, in that scenario, of course vote for Fillon to block the Front National.

But what if she took a larger share of the French right? Then the second second round would be one of right versus left. A totally different scenario, in which her chances of wining could potentially be much higher, if Fillon voters rally to her instead of voting for a commie.

The possibility for victory is still there. But the situation calls for bold moves. Let’s hope she has it in her to act accordingly.