The United States has just experienced “a blue wave”. The results of the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3 are very clear: the Democratic Party wins the majority in the Senate as well as in the House of Representatives, inflicting a major setback on Republican President Donald Trump. A victory made possible thanks to the swing of certain historic Republican strongholds, such as Iowa, Texas and Kansas.
Less than six months before the presidential election in France, the left and La France insoumise (LFI) see it as a sign of hope, in the face of an election that seems almost a foregone conclusion. In terms of voting intentions, the four-time presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, seems unassailable and a winner in all cases. It is given between 35 to 37% in the latest Ifop poll for LCI, published on November 3.
“In France, we will do it”
“After Bolsonaro's defeat in Brazil, here is Trump's electoral snub in the United States. Everywhere in the world, it is popular mobilization that makes it possible to push back the extreme right,” rejoices on X (ex-Twitter) Manuel Bompard, coordinator of the Insoumis party and very close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “In France too, we will do it,” he promises. In the Ifop study for LCI, the Insoumis leader maintains and strengthens his position as second favorite in the ballot, credited with 17.5% in three out of four configurations.
“These American elections mark the victory of democracy and decency,” welcomed the social democrat Raphaël Glucksmann. The PS candidate sees this as proof that “there is no inevitability in politics”. “Corruption established as a system and the politics of hatred experienced a stinging defeat last night,” he continues on the social network X.
In a long publication on Before expounding on all the bad things she thinks of the president elected two years ago: “His racism, his misogyny, his transphobia, his climate denialism, his stupidity, his incompetence, his vulgarity, his narcissism, his cruelty, his conspiracy, his greed and his pathological mythomania have finally collided with the wall of reality.” And prophesies: “If our country brings the RN to power next year, it will experience the same tragic fate as the United States.”
For Bardella, “we must respect the verdict”
On the right and in the center, where some are busy creating a primary to decide between candidates for punishment, reactions to the results across the Atlantic are becoming rarer. “This is not the end of our disagreements between EU-USA, nor of tensions over Ukraine, Hormuz or the climate,” recalled the president of the MoDem deputies in the Assembly, Marc Fesneau. “Today, the sky is clearing for those who refuse to let excess and brutality dictate the future of the world,” he wrote, not without ulterior motives on the French political situation.
In the nationalist camp, the victory of the Democrats leaves a bitter taste, to the point of eliciting almost no comment. Supporters of President Trump, several elected officials from the National Rally (RN) went to his inauguration ceremony in January 2025, including the vice-president of the Lepéniste party, Louis Aliot. Guest of RTL to promote his new book Govern (ed. Fayard), the president of the party, Jordan Bardella, adopted an evening reaction. “We must respect the verdict of the ballot boxes […] the voters are sovereign,” he assured. Before admitting: “The American intervention in Iran has very serious consequences. […] Most certainly, there is a link.” Before brushing aside the sign of any anti-nationalist wave: “We are in very different contexts”.
Reconquest MEP Sarah Knafo, also present at Trump's inauguration ceremony with Éric Zemmour, has refrained from reacting for the moment. The one who assumes to be inspired by Trumpism assured in January 2025: “There is a real convergence on the merits”.
