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Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden Have Same Problem: Getting the Left to Vote

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Democrats looking ahead to November will be watching the French race closely over the next two weeks, to see if a centrist can fend off a surging right-wing challenge.

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Emmanuel Macron once held hands with Donald Trump. I just don’t see Joe Biden doing that.

Macron is 44. Biden will be 80 in November. Macron, a former finance minister and the son of a physician and a professor of neurology, studied philosophy and worked as an investment banker.

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