The alt-right is going to post sad Pepe frogs today as France has embraced Macron instead of the extremist right-wing Marine Le Pen.
Jubilant @EmmanuelMacron supporters erupt in cheers in front of the Louvre as his victory is announced. https://t.co/pw1RN5Zbzz pic.twitter.com/zyUSiJRud2
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 7, 2017
Latest official results from French election (71.8% of polling stations reporting) https://t.co/naMjzzMTMr #Presidentielle2017 pic.twitter.com/EnsY8CAssU
— CNN (@CNN) May 7, 2017
More from NPR:
France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist who has never held elected office – has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most important French presidential race in decades, according to early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
In early returns, Macron had won an estimated 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s nearly 35 percent, according to the French Interior Ministry. Le Pen has already called to congratulate Macron and conceded defeat to a gathering of her supporters in Paris.
Sunday’s results mark a big defeat for Le Pen, a right-wing populist who had hoped to repeat the surprise victories of Donald Trump and the Brexit camp, which won last summer’s referendum to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union. Macron, a political newcomer, is set to become the youngest president in modern French history. His improbable path to victory has been extraordinary in that it included dispatching France’s two major political parties, the Socialists and the Republicans.
This means that France will stay in the EU, and keep on with globalist policies.
Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France. I look very much forward to working with him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2017
The alt-right were really hoping to have an ally in France:
TAKE MY HIGH ENERGY, LE PEN! #MAGA #trump pic.twitter.com/CEUKV16J7L
— USA Daily Herald (@usa_herald) May 7, 2017
Uh.. Hmm..
Pretty funny. pic.twitter.com/JpoYg5PLlF
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 24, 2017
Good historical reference, but it didn’t work.
French care more about being called racist than they do living under the day to day threat of Islamic terrorism.
They made their decision. https://t.co/MZrGRFIHLJ
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 7, 2017
Boo hoo.