Trump, Clinton represent the wealthiest 1% in US: Analyst

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton are the two “most unpopular” candidates in US history who represent the wealthiest 1 percent of the country and not the average American, says a political analyst in Chicago.

The 2016 US presidential race is “featuring the two most unpopular candidates that has ever run for office,” said Joe Iosbaker, a member of the United National Antiwar Committee.

American voters must be “opposing the policies that both of these candidates represent, policies that benefit only the 1 percent, policies and plans that are an agenda for war and austerity,” Iosbaker told Press TV on Monday.

“I believe that Clinton will be the next president and with her administration will come new wars and a wave of austerity, of cutbacks and attacks on the safety net that supports the poor and working people and all of us have to prepare for struggle,” he added.

Trump is “not electable” because he lacks the support of Wall Street and is an “extreme racist” who has regularly expressed hatred for Muslims, immigrants and women,” Iosbaker said. He is “representing a rebellion of the most racist and most xenophobic section of the ruling elite in this country.”

“He’s made his campaign particularly a hate campaign against Muslim people and against immigrants and now of course, most recently, the full extent of his misogyny, his hatred of women and the abusive approach and attitude that he has towards women is now on display for the whole world,” he stated.

On Friday, The Washington Post released a 2005 video which contains lewd comments by Trump about women. He is heard making a conversation about trying to have sex with a married woman.

The next day, CNN released a new batch of audio recordings from Trump’s interviews with the Howard Stern’s radio show in which the celebrity businessman is engaged in crude and demeaning conversations about women, even commenting about his daughter’s physique.

CNN published 18 clips from appearances the celebrity businessman made on the radio show, which include explicit language boasting sexual harassment of women. From 1990s through the 2000s, Trump was a frequent guest on Stern’s show, where there were no barriers to how explicit the conversations could be.

The latest recordings have surfaced amid mounting criticism of Trump over the lewd remarks he made in the separate 2005 recording.

Trump’s apology for the remarks has failed to quell the unprecedented controversy over his comments, prompting growing demands by Republicans for him to quit the race.

Even his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, refused to defend the billionaire politician on Saturday, saying that he was “offended” by the obscene comments.

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