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On Monday’s NBC Today, while reporting on the results of the first round of France’s presidential election, Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel made no secret of his distaste for one of the candidates as he accused her of running a “xenophobic” campaign that she was “modeling” on Donald Trump.
After noting at the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour that Sunday’s election reduced a field of 11 candidates down to two, Engel fretted that one of the contenders, Marine Le Pen, was “far-right, anti-immigration, she’s considered xenophobic, many have accused her of being racistly nationalistic.” Following that harsh description, he added: “She’s modeling her campaign on Donald Trump.”