Merz's Saxony-Anhalt damage control turned into a live demonstration of exactly the problem he was trying to talk his way around. Facing a CDU collapse to 17.2% — second place behind the AfD's 43.8% — #Merz reached for the one number he thought worked in his favor: 56% of voters didn't back the #AfD. What he skipped is that 83% didn't back his own party either, a gap even sympathetic German commentators aren't letting slide.

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