A French television news and entertainment show that has long delighted in poking fun at Marine Le Pen and her father has become a battleground in the far-right leader's election contest with President Emmanuel Macron.
After Le Pen said she is excluding reporters from the primetime program "Quotidien” from her press conferences, Macron stepped up his efforts to portray his challenger as a threat to France’s democracy and said she has shown "the real face of the extreme right,”
