Clinton and Bush will become final nominees of their parties: US journalist
The well-funded Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are most likely to become the nominees of the Democratic and Republican Parties respectively because in American politics money trumps all, even Donald Trump, the leading GOP candidate, an American journalist and political commentator says.
Don DeBar made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday while commenting on a latest poll which shows that Bush, who was the early frontrunner for the GOP nomination, has plummeted to the low single digits.
The Quinnipiac University survey released on Wednesday found Bush taking only 4 percent support, down from 10 percent in September.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Ben Carson continued to lead the crowded Republican field, with the New York billionaire gaining 24 percent support, followed by the retired neurosurgeon at 23 percent.
In a hypothetical general-election matchup, however, Carson defeated Clinton.
“It doesn’t surprise me that both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have been seeing hot and cold performances in the polling numbers, to the extent that they are even relevant this early; it’s a year away from the Election Day,” DeBar said.
“And, of course, in addition to that there’s always the actual validity of the poll, the techniques applied and such… but it would be expected that they would get rises because they are very well-funded, and they have excellent access to the media, very favorable treatment from the media generally,” he stated.
“My guess is that even though folks like Trump and Ben Carson are getting rise in the polls from time to time - and I am sorry to say even Bernie Sanders, although he may surprise us, because his limited message even is much closer to what people want to hear than they’re getting from either Clinton or Bush - Clinton and Bush both should end up ‘rising to the top,’ if you can call it that, and become the nominees of their respective parties, given that, in politics in the United States, money trumps even Trump,” the journalist concluded.
In the 2010 Citizens United case ruling, the US Supreme Court allowed unlimited independent spending by corporations in elections.
According to a study published by the New York Times, wealthy individuals and corporations have begun to replace powerless people as direct beneficiaries of the US political system and the Constitution.
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