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In the presidential entourage, we are convinced that the LR candidate will lose herself by sparing the moderate and radical fringes of her electorate. And that the left is undervalued.
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While waiting for the candidate (it shouldn’t take too long), the entire Macronian and Elysian machine is actively campaigning. Evidenced by the hyper-vigilance of this presidential adviser for the slightest poll, opinion poll or study “qual”. “Plinths” voters and voting intentions dissected, approval rate on specific subjects peeled… For each question (politician, strategic or programmatic), an answer at least partly built on the basis of the analysis of the productions of the different institutes.
This is how this thinking head of the Castle establishes a priori surprising forecasts for the first round of the presidential election. “Pécresse will end up like Bellamy in the Europeans, I take the bet”, he asserts, in reference to the 8% of the LR list head at the time, after a campaign nevertheless appreciated by many on the right and considered successful, on a very conservative line. For this source, the candidate will lose herself by sparing both the moderate and radical fringes of her electorate: “Part of the right will let go. When the elastic is over-stretched…