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How Marine Le Pen managed to gain ground with youth voters – and why her success isn't being replicated by the US right

  • Written by Kimberly Tower, PhD Candidate in International Relations and Comparative Politics, American University School of International Service
imageMarine Le Pen going down well with her young supporters.Chesnot/Getty Images

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen may have missed out on the French presidency, falling 17 pecentage points short of incumbent Emmanuel Macron in a runoff held April 24, 2022. But to characterize her campaign as a total loss would be missing an essential point: with nearly...

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