US: Civil war in the Republican Party continues - Rabobank

Michael Every, Head of Financial Markets Research at Rabobank, suggests that the civil war in the Republican Party continues ahead of the elections in US.

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“In effect, Donald Trump almost seems to be running as a de facto Independent, which is perhaps no less surprising than Hillary Clinton running as some fusion of Democrat and Republican. (Indeed, consider the Corn Laws political realignment analogy we mentioned in last week’s Ice Breakers.) Trump tweeted last night that “the shackles have been taken off me and I can fight for America the way I want to”; until now we have apparently seen the restrained version of Mr. Trump…Meanwhile, almost unmentioned, we got another swirl of alleged email leaks from Clinton’s past that might have been front-page news in any other campaign.”