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Is Trump's campaign intended to help Clinton get elected?

Wednesday, 09 December 2015 7:42 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 10 December 2015 10:58 AM ]

Don DeBar told Press TV on Wednesday he has “questions about whether Trump’s role in this entire election is to get 'her' elected.”

It looks like that Republican candidate Donald Trump’s role in the US presidential election is to get Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton get elected, an American journalist and political commentator says.

Don DeBar made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a statement by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said on Tuesday that Clinton will win the general election if Trump is the Republican nominee.

Biden made his prediction a day after Trump called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

“I don’t know what his motive is, but I know what he’s preaching is a very, very dangerous brew for America,” Biden said of Trump during an interview with Bloomberg.

DeBar said he has “questions about whether Trump’s role in this entire election is to get 'her' elected.”

“Clinton as a Democratic nominee now loses, to the extent there is one, the left inside the Democratic Party electorate, and particularly with Bernie Sanders running, depending on what he tells his people to do at the end of the day, and to the extent they're ready to listen at that point,” he added.

“She needs the middle to win the presidential election, to the extent that it's the middle of the US electorate, which is pretty far to the right, and so does the Republican nominee” he stated.

“And Trump is scaring that middle away. It looks clearly intentional. They have focus groups. They have analysis of the electorate, I am certain available to them on a constant basis,” the analyst noted.

“So it seems designed to get Hillary Clinton get elected, to make her look like she is taking a progressive stand out there,” he pointed out.

“It’s sort of history repeats itself twice. First, it’s tragedy, then it’s farce. It’s like a farcical version of the United Front that was used against fascism in the thirties and forties and in the World War II particular,” the journalist said.

“The idea of Trump becoming president and implementing something so onerous and so offensive, makes people ready to line up behind whoever looks like the strongest opponent to that, the most likely to be elected, and that’s how Clinton will try to position herself,” he stated.

“So it looks to me like a dance between Trump and Clinton together, to get either Clinton or Trump, by the way, elected, because it may be some part of the elite here that would like to see such overt, fascistic policy implemented in the US,” DeBar concluded.

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