Clinton won’t have 'cakewalk to the White House': US journalist

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will not have "a cakewalk to the White House" no matter how many powerful people are backing her, an American journalist and political analyst says.

Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on Clinton’s statement that no revelations from emails or foreign entities' ties to the Clinton Foundation are going to stop her from becoming president of the United States.

"I am sure, and I am sure because I have a very strong foundation of understanding about the foundation" and the charitable work it has done, Clinton said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday.

“Hillary Clinton shows an arrogance that comes with the job, I think. When you have the president of the United States, the head of the Justice Department, and head of the FBI, all presented with a fact pattern of multiple felonies, and actually a conspiracy that's RICO-style --Racketeer Influenced Criminal Organization style, all saying that she showed extreme carelessness but not indictable. You can feel pretty secure that you are not going to face the music for the things that you've done,” DeBar said.

“Nevertheless, the disclosures keep coming from WikiLeaks and elsewhere, the fact pattern gets further added to  with additional transgressions and illegalities, the nature of those are making it clear that the offense itself really is more blatant than the people thought previously, and one of the things that people are not paying attention to is if the Russians as Clinton claims were able to hack the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and the State Department email servers, certainly they know what’s going on the ground in terms of the pay-to-play process that Clinton has conducted from the State Department, because they talk to the people around the world that she was dealing with,” he stated.

On Wednesday, Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, said his organization planned to release more information linked to Clinton.

When asked if the data could be a game-changer in the November 8 presidential election, Assange told Fox News, “I think it’s significant. You know, it depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.”

Will Putin try to influence US election? 

The American analyst stated that if Russian President Vladimir Putin is “going to try to influence the presidential election as she claims he is doing then certainly that is come to come to light sooner or later, perhaps even with some audio recordings.”

“So we saw Clinton dip in the poll over the last week -- she and Trump nationally are now within the margin of error, something like 3 % apart in a four-way race and most telling is the fact is that more than 20 percent -- a solid 20 percent plus -- number of voters say they won’t vote for either of the candidate.  So it may be a three- or even a four-way race before it goes to the House of Representatives next year,” he noted.

“I am sure that Hillary Clinton will not have a cakewalk to the White House no matter how many influential people, secretaries of states, boards of election, State Department officials, and perhaps even Supreme Court members are 'with her,’” the journalist concluded. 

Clinton’s lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump has seen a sharp decrease, a new poll shows. 

According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Friday, Clinton is 5-percentage-point ahead of Trump in terms of national support, 41 percent to 36 percent.

This marks a 7-point drop from the poll’s Tuesday edition, which showed Clinton held a 12-point edge over the real estate mogul, 45 to 33.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.co.uk