come at the moment, decided to quell protests by putting on a nationwide curfew from 6am 4pm, 4am on monday morning. emmanuel macron has held his first rally of the french election campaign just over a week before the first round of voting. he told around 30 thousand supporters in paris that he is fighting for social progress and to stop extremism in french politics. with just days before the first vote polls suggest president macron is leading the race ahead of far right rival marine le pen. 0ur correspondent hugh schofield is in paris for us. what more did he have to say? well, it was an important what more did he have to say? well, it was an important moment - what more did he have to say? -ii it was an important moment for the president because, as you were saying, it was his only valley ahead of round one in a week s time and it comes at a time when a lot of people are saying his campaign is never really taken up so this was a chance for him to energise the faithful and
factor work here even using the race card? i suppose this will be some degree of an impact. no doubt that oprah is popular. but i actually think that come next tuesday there s going to be a surprise. i don t know that republicans are going to hold on to the house. but i think they re going to do a lot better, particularly in the minority community than people are polling right now. you often hear of a hidden trump vote that could move the vote polls 3% to 5%. it s not just whites, you know, that are afraid to tell their pollster they re voting for donald trump. there s a reign of terror in minority precincts that punish people that you are supposed to vote democrat if you are black. laura: yes, people are afraid. jonathan, don t you agree it s not a good thing if people are afraid to wear a t-shirt supporting whether it s the
the next contests. we will compete everywhere. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. all right. let s take a closer look at the numbers in both states. you can see how tight this race was. it took awhile at cnn to make these calls. it was running as a three-man race for most of the evening. alabama, rick santorum 35% lead there. and more votes are coming in. but 98% reporting. mississippi calling later for rick santorum with 33% of the vote. there is no mistaking it. it is rick santorum s night. the candidate who began as a virtual unknown for many americans now can say his appeal stretches from middle america all the way down to the deep south. a big part of what we heard from his communications directo