Le Pen Leads French Presidential Race; Polling Shows Her Far Ahead of Opponents

The Deep State is increasingly alarmed that French patriot Marine Le Pen will be her nation’s next president.

The three-time losing candidate and National Rally (NR) matriarch is polling at 35 percent, far ahead of her rivals. She promises to reverse the Great Replacement of Frenchmen by the Third World immigrants that have trashed Paris and staged terror attacks nationwide.

One top priority is shutting down mosques where Islamist radicals spread their poison among the immigrants who flock to them.

But mosques aren’t the only problem with which Le Pen must contend. Rampant Muslim crime is another.

European “Orthodoxies” Threatened

In a recent brief on Le Pen’s best shot after three tries at the French presidency, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) fretted that she “would be a significantly more formidable challenge to European orthodoxies than Giorgia Meloni is in Italy or Viktor Orban was in Hungary.”

A Le Pen victory would be the first time a “far-right” has ruled France since Marshal Petain ruled Vichy France from 1940-1944, the website observed.

“France is a highly centralised state, and its president wields executive power more akin to an American president than to counterparts in its European neighbours,” ECFR explained:

The country also remains a pivotal power in Europe as one of its two nuclear-armed countries and half of the Franco-German motor that long drove the European project.

News of an RN win would therefore send shockwaves around the continent, stunning the mainstream. It would also lift the spirits of much of Europe’s radical right after a difficult 2026 in which its pre-eminent governing leader, Orban, lost power and its links with [U.S. President Donald] Trump turned out to be liabilities. After all, the RN has been unapologetic in its support for fellow “patriots” across Europe. Le Pen campaigned for Orban, and [National Rally President Jordan] Bardella has engaged closely with Meloni and her government in Italy and Nigel Farage’s Reform in the UK.

Farther afield, the RN has been increasingly welcomed by fellow nationalists like Israel’s Likud government, which hosted Bardella and other far-right leaders in 2025. The Trump administration has professed its own commitment to supporting “patriotic parties” and would react favourably to an RN win. This is despite Bardella’s and Le Pen’s efforts to cool their party’s earlier enthusiasm for the US president.

One worry among Deep Staters is what Le Pen will do domestically, notably about crime and Third World immigrants, which are closely connected.

ECFR says her domestic program will consist of “countering cultural and industrial decline by pursuing ‘national preference.’” That means

harsher law-and-order measures (especially on migration and crime), efforts to reverse green policies in the hope of revitalising industry, and prioritising French nationals over foreigners in accessing welfare or public services. European partners should reckon on an RN presidency being most intransigent on EU matters related to those domestic priorities—and possibly being more open to negotiation in other areas.

Le Pen’s RN party is no big fan of NATO, either, another problem for the globalist elites.

Ahead in the Polls

Whatever her policy priorities, Le Pen is stomping her opponents in the polls.

A Verian survey in early July put Le Pen at 37 percent, a whopping 20 points ahead of her closest competitor, former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, a member of the Horizon Party.

An Elabe poll at the same time had her with 35 percent support among those polled, 18.5 points ahead of Philippe.

Two other polls put her at 35 and 36 percent.

The two-round election will be held on April 18 and May 2 next year.

Islamic/Migrant Crime

“Le Pen’s hard-right party has promised to shut down all extremist mosques if she is elected French president,” The Spectator explained:

It is undoubtedly one reason, among others, for Le Pen’s wide lead in the polls ten months before the vote.

True enough.

But lunatic imams are just one problem. Another is Muslim crime.

Last year, as The New American reported, a terrified young woman wrote on social media that the once-lovely city of Lyon is no longer safe for French women.

Immigration has turned one of the city’s nicest areas into a danger zone where criminals rule the streets.

“I am 26 years old, French, blonde with light eyes, and I have always lived in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, which is thought of as the poshest area in Lyon, and my daily life has become unbearable,” the distraught woman wrote:

I write this because, ten years ago, I could go out with my friends in the evening, at any hour, without being bothered, insulted, followed, or stabbed. 

I mention stabbing because, three years ago, my boyfriend, along with two of his friends, on their way home, were approached by a group of men. They surrounded them, stole one of their cell phones. They tried to fight back, and my boyfriend, in spite of being a strong rugbyman, got stabbed in the arm — while protecting his neck, which was the target. Someone tried to cut his throat. 

“Migrants” have followed, insulted, and spat on the woman because she turned down their perverted overtures. Drug dealers operate “day and night” in three fixed locations in the neighborhood. Their “watchmen” loiter around her apartment building and bother passersby, notably women.

Only Africans are culprits, she explained. “A white man has never behaved towards me the way they have.” She then asks:

Is it racist to call out what my daily life has become as a woman, because of immigration? Is my reality, my daily life, racist? Am I not as legitimate as any other person to call out traumatising acts of violence, just because they are done by foreigners or immigrants?

She keeps a taser, fake pistol, and pepper spray near the front door because of an attempted break-in. The door now has an extra lock. In her purse, she carries pepper spray and brass knuckles.

“I am afraid when I am alone at home,” she wrote:

I am afraid when outside. Now, I am always afraid. I do not want this future for my children.

More Horrific Crimes

Other “migrant” crimes include the following:

In 2022, a drunk or stoned “migrant” was harassing two young girls on a tram. When a pregnant woman stepped in to stop him, he kicked her three times in the stomach.

Also in 2022, when a French dad settled matters with a “migrant” who sexually assaulted his six-year-old daughter, he was charged with a crime. That same year, an illegal alien murdered a 12-year-old girl and stuffed her remains in a plastic box.

In 2020, a Tunisian “migrant” slashed a woman’s throat in the Catholic basilica in Nice.

The year prior, in 2019, an illegal alien detonated a bomb in Lyon.

In 2016, a Tunisian “migrant” drove a truck into a crowd of Bastille Day revelers in Nice.

Also in 2016, two Muslims murdered Catholic priest Jaques Hamel during Mass. They forced him to kneel at the foot of the altar and slit his throat.