When the National Rally compares, the party of Marine Le Pen is reassured.
“Victory is possible,” chants its interim president at each interview.
Jordan Bardella systematically cites the latest studies carried out by "virtually all polling institutes" to affirm that his candidate would be in a position to qualify for the second round of the presidential election in early April.
Emmanuel Macron may comfortably outdistance Marine Le Pen for the moment, in the first and second rounds, the well-rehearsed speech of Jordan Bardella aims above all to discredit the candidacy of another adversary, that of Éric Zemmour who "is fighting with Jean-Luc Mélenchon for fourth place”, he insists.
But looking at its internal turmoil, the RN could also be worried about a series of defections ranging from the media Gilbert Collard to the device man Jérôme Rivière.
Not content with having planted his aunt, Marine Le Pen, whom she will not support in this presidential election, Marion Maréchal is also considering joining the Zemmour clan.
In response, Jordan Bardella sounded the alarm.
“Voting for Éric Zemmour, who is now around 12% of the intention to vote, is to weaken the national camp,” he worries.
On the eve of the match between the meetings this Saturday, February 5, between Marine Le Pen in Reims and Éric Zemmour in Lille, the young MEP draws his main argument from the polls to counter the Zemmourian offensive.
Yet in October and November, when the polemicist - not yet a candidate - marked a dazzling breakthrough in opinion polls, Jordan Bardella openly expressed doubts about the methodology and the predictive nature of the polls.
“I am extremely careful with the polls”, he kept repeating then, calling for “humility” after the failure in the regional elections of the RN that polls gave winners in particular in PACA.
And to answer with constancy to the journalists questioning it on the plummeting poll of Marine Le Pen: “Do you still believe in the polls?
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But today that the curves have been reversed in favor of its candidate, Jordan Bardella, much less humble, seems to believe them again.