Back in April, we called out White House chief of staff Ron Klain over this tweet cheering Emmanuel Macron’s victory in France with the message being that 2022 is not lost for Dems because both Macron and President Joe Biden are deeply unpopular but Macron was still able to win. Or something:
An interesting observation, just FYI.
President Macron appears to have secured a double-digit victory over LePen, at a time when his approval rating is 36%. Hmmm….https://t.co/N50u8He5gW
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) April 24, 2022
Klain’s dopey tweet left out the part where, in France, they hold parliamentary elections after the presidential election so there’s really no comparison to the U.S. at all:
Yeah the French electoral system is just like America's good analysis https://t.co/PzGQQLtyoA
— Dylan Housman (@Dylan_Housman) April 24, 2022
And, as this editor tweeted back in April, that made Klain’s tweet premature, at best:
https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1519031992138018817
Well, the results are in from said parliamentary election and it’s a disaster for Macron:
#BREAKING Macron set to lose parliamentary majority: projections pic.twitter.com/UbbVuzPwl5
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2022
WHOOPS!
#BREAKING Le Pen's far-right makes major gains in French parliament: projections pic.twitter.com/rrkVWBCGMD
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2022
From AFP: “French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday was set to lose his parliamentary majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and the far-right, in a stunning blow to his hopes of major reform in his second term”:
#UPDATE French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday was set to lose his parliamentary majority after major election gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and the far-right, in a stunning blow to his hopes of major reform in his second term https://t.co/rhJSZHrz8D pic.twitter.com/wHYi0JBsGI
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2022
Team Macron says these results are “far from what we hoped”:
#BREAKING French parliamentary election result 'far from what we hoped': Macron minister pic.twitter.com/0pHh6sgRBu
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2022
And it’s being called a Le Pen “tsunami”:
#BREAKING Le Pen party hails French election result as 'tsunami' pic.twitter.com/xZN6VTkCPs
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2022
Get ready for the GOP tsunami, Ron. It’s coming.
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