US elections rigged in favor of billionaires: Pundit
During the final US presidential debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night, Republican nominee Donald Trump declared that he might not accept the results of the November 8 presidential election if there is evidence it was rigged.
Press TV has asked two political analysts whether they thought the upcoming election in the US would be rigged as Trump has predicted.
Richard Becker, with the ANSWER Coalition from San Francisco, said the election system in the United States is not based on who wins the popular vote.
"It’s who wins the election in enough states to win the electoral votes of that state and the electoral votes are very unbalanced,” he said on Thursday night.
Becker agreed that the US elections are usually rigged, but thought that would happen in Trump's favor this time around.
“The elections are rigged but in his (Trump's) favor, in favor of the billionaires and the millionaires” or “those who could garner the support of billionaires and millionaires,” he said.
He also touched on the Republican nominee’s allegations about a biased media coverage of the election campaign in the United States.
“The mass media is supporting Clinton to a large degree now but it’s been estimated that at least two billion maybe as much as three billion dollars in free media coverage came Trump’s way," Becker said.
Brent Budowsky, a columnist at the top US political website The Hill, said he supports a direct election of the president by voters, and not the Electoral College.
Budowsky, however, ruled out the claim that the 2016 presidential race would be rigged, saying Trump was resorting to “conspiracy theory” to justify his defeat in the upcoming election.
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