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Trump will win 2016 presidential election: Michael Moore

Thursday, 21 July 2016 10:50 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 21 July 2016 11:18 PM ]

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will win the November presidential election, according to American documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore.

Moore made the prediction at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, during a special edition of HBO’s program "Real Time with Bill Maher."

"I'm sorry to have to be the buzzkill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win,” he declared to gasps and boos from the progressive live audience. "Boo if you want."

The 62-year-old liberal filmmaker said Trump would exploit angry white voters in his favor, and Americans are likely to support him like British citizens voted in June to leave the European Union — known as Brexit.

"I live in Michigan. Let me tell you, it's going to be the Brexit strategy," Moore said.

"The middle of England is Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania," he said. "And Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. The total number of electoral votes in those states in the Rust Belt: 64. All [Trump] has to do is win those four states."

Earlier in the day, Moore told a press conference that Trump “knows how to manipulate a dumbed-down population.”

"The population of schools has been wrecked, and the news media is just insipid and stupid and doesn't give the people the facts about what's going on," he stated, adding that American voters are “easily manipulated."

He added that Trump is “not as stupid as he looks. You should take [him] very seriously.”

"He knows the manipulation that's going on here, and the use of propaganda and the way he's doing it is just brilliant in the way that he is succeeding and has succeeded,” he continued.

A new poll shows that Trump is only trailing his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, with one percentage point in the run-up to the November vote.

According to the NBC News/Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking poll released on Tuesday, the former secretary of state has 46 percent of the votes as compared to Trump's 45 percent, down from last week's version of the poll that showed Clinton on the lead by 3 percentage points.

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