The influence and importance of Sarah Knafo is no secret, it is she who takes the light when the family of the polemicist prefers to stay in the shadows, the latter fiercely wanting to preserve his privacy. In the TF1 documentary series The Battle of the Elysee, Eric Zemmour agreed to film the preparation of one of his speeches alongside the young woman graduated from Sciences-Po, whose advice is carefully listened to. During his meeting in Villepinte, a large gathering organized just after the announcement of his candidacy, when Antoine Diers, deputy director of campaign strategy for Eric Zemmour and spokesperson for the Party Reconquest!, made a speech before the politician arrived, he asked that the room warmly applaud Sarah Knafo saying these words: there is the one who is at the origin of everything. (…) Brilliant, elegant, all the time thinking about the next move, with an absolutely bluffing capacity for work, I would like all of us to be able to applaud Sarah Knafo. Well done and thank you for everything Sarah. “
What measure the growing importance of his role with Eric Zemmour, she who knew him in his youth. It remains to be seen whether the concerns of some people around him will turn out to be true. Philippe de Villers had declared, according to the book The Radicalized by Etienne Girard: “They fascinate each other. It will end badly.” In The Express, a relative who has moved away from the successful essayist, Pierre Meurin, for his part declared: “Eric Zemmour does not manage his team at all, he delegates everything to Sarah Knafo, whom he expects to offer him the Elysee Palace. “