Whereas Marine Le Pen has been greatly encouraged by the populist surge in the United States, the French electorate is not normally influenced by events across the Atlantic. Donald Trump has no champions in France — even those encouraged by his success routinely describe his performance in the US Republican primary as uncouth, and 75 per cent of the French electorate (according to, yes, another opinion poll) ‘dislike' him. Trump is sometimes described as ‘the modern Jean-Marie Le Pen' by voters who loathed Marine Le Pen's sulphurous father but might well vote for her.
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