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It will be Hillary - Bush
24/09/2007 21:03 - (SA)
Washington - President George W Bush
believes Democrat Hillary Clinton will win her party's
presidential nomination, but that the Republican nominee will
beat her in the November 2008 election, a new book said.
"She's got a national presence, and this is becoming a
national primary," Bush said in an interview for The
Evangelical President, a book by a reporter for The Examiner
newspaper of Washington, Bill Sammon.
"And therefore the person with the national presence, who
has got the ability to raise enough money to sustain an effort
in a multiplicity of sites, has got a good chance to be
nominated," he said. 'Pundit in chief'
Bush, whose public approval rating is about 30%, has
generally kept out of the race to succeed him, saying he did
not want to become "pundit in chief".
But he told the book's author that he was convinced Clinton would be defeated by the Republican nominee.
Sammon wrote that other Bush officials were less certain
about a favourable Republican outcome.
"It's going to be a very close election," former top Bush
adviser Karl Rove said.
Vice-President Dick Cheney said the election "could go
either way".
- Reuters
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