58.5%, well done to them. on a slightly, slightly more serious note, yes, 40% for marine le pen. it is concerning that 40% of french population would back her. that said, the spread in this race, this would be considered an absolute blowout if we had a spread like this in a u.s. presidential election. so this is certainly still a substantial victory for macron and allies across the west and in washington breathe a sigh of relief. we are going to go live to paris in a moment. we have a lot of other news to cover this morning. i m curious how you got that exact number, joe. i mean, weeks before, with all our experts having all sorts of concerns either way. everybody was saying this is going to be a very close race. i didn t see that happening. this had happened before several years ago. le pen, we heard about le pen was going to keep this much tighter. i thought macron was less popular. did not see this getting within ten points. end of the day, i thought it d
boogieman that s coming to get france, and it never materializes. i think that s one of the reasons the bookies in the back of our very illegal otv practice at morning joe, that s why they put it at 58.5%. we re always hearing that le pen is we heard it leading up to the last presidential election, and she got absolutely crushed. there is no reason to believe this is going to be a 51% to 49% race. oh, my god, you nailed it. you literally nailed it. that was the first sound bite, april 12th. you predicted that number. that s not normal, joe. it s not normal. everybody was saying it was going to be close. of course, i talked to my bookies, and we who are your bookies, meatball? we spread them all across the left bank. tell them it s their responsibility to make contact with the very worst, the very worst of paris society, the
wins by 89 points. our offtrack morning joe betting site is putting the over/under, despite this propaganda from lamestream media that it is going to be a close race, our bookies, and you can count on our bookies, put it at macron, 58.5%. that s the over/under for betters. this is a sucker s bet, willie. it is not going to be as close as people say it is. again, morning joe s offtrack betting, let me, again, check that again. is this right? is this right, jay? jay? 58.5%. that is what the line is right now, macron winning easily once again over le pen. yeah. in the united states, people lie about supporting donald trump. they re ashamed to say that they support donald trump. but it seems to me that le pen is always painted as the
foot of the eiffel tower. there she goes. just to recap, so we are getting the projected victory figure now as being 58.5% for emmanuel macron, sojust nudging up and reversing pictures, as i m talking to you, of the motorcade coming towards you. what will be interesting will be the turn of his speech because he has won, it is a huge moment for him but he has won with a smaller percentage of the vote and it sounds as if marine le pen has put on several million more votes than last time. it will be interesting to hear how he calibrated. interesting to hear how he calibrated. . , ., ., , , calibrated. that will be a massive calculation calibrated. that will be a massive calculation for calibrated. that will be a massive calculation for emmanuel - calibrated. that will be a massive calculation for emmanuel macronj calibrated. that will be a massive - calculation for emmanuel macron this evening. he will be aware of the millions of votes he has garnered, not all of those will have been
she had gained just under 41.5% of the vote that s in contrast to the predicted win for emmanuel macron, with a vote share of 58.5%. with the latest from paris, here s our europe editor katya adler. emmanuel macron, one of europe s most powerful leaders, clearly reconfirmed tonight. the first french president to be re elected in two decades. his supporters, ecstatic and relieved. we feel safer for the next five years. because marine le pen is the worst we can have. so we re really happy to have macron again. i feel really relieved, - because it was a dangerous moment for france and for europe macron critics label him aloof, elitist. that is not how he