Clinton won’t ‘automatically’ become president after nomination
If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and American billionaire Donald Trump are nominated by their parties, the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election would still be difficult to predict, says an analyst in Washington.
Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are fighting for the Democratic Party while Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are vying to be picked by the GOP for the November election.
“America is in the midst of one of the most tumultuous, exciting, and potentially important presidential races that she has experienced for quite some time,” said Patrick Basham, the founding member of Democracy Institute, in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
He described the race as being “unpredictable” and remaining so, particularly given how “competitive” the former first lady’s race has been to win her party’s nomination despite earlier assumptions.
The two Democratic contenders would need 2,383 delegates to be nominated. Currently, Sanders has won 975 while Clinton enjoys 1,243.
Basham predicted that Clinton and Trump would be nominated but still anticipating who will enter the White House is “difficult.”
On the Republican side, 1,237 delegates are needed for nomination, to which Trump remains the closest with 739, followed by Cruz with 465, and Ohio Governor John Kasich with 143.
It is already surprising that Trump has “not only survived but thrived,” Basham noted, adding, it would be a “mistake” to imagine a quick victory for Hillary.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier Tuesday that the US election “upsets people’s sense of equilibrium about our steadiness, about our reliability.”
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