This debate was perilous, but both were obliged to take risks in order to bounce back.
Valérie Pécresse and Éric Zemmour both entered the campaign with the ambition, the hope, even the certainty of playing in the final of the 2022 presidential election against Emmanuel Macron.
A month from the first round, they are reduced to fighting for a third, a fourth, if not a fifth place.
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Between an Emmanuel Macron more powerful than expected and a Marine Le Pen more resistant than imagined, Pécresse and Zemmour knew that to get back in the game, they had to bring down the other.
Their duel had to be violent and could not stop at first blood.
He was.
Especially since they knew that everything was decided in the first half hour broadcast on TF1 and watched by more than 5 million viewers.
This is why, like attack dogs, they immediately jumped at each other's throats and never let go.
Sometimes to great dismay...
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